GREAT Harwood Town suffered a Christmas hangover with a 5-0 drubbing at
Holker Old Boys.
The Barrow side scored three times in ten first half minutes as Town failed
to reproduce the form that saw them inflict a Boxing Day defeat on NWCL
Division Two high-fliers Padiham.
Manager John Hughes said: We were a disgrace and an embarrassment from
start to finish only Jim Thompson and John Eastham could really emerge
from the game with any credit.
There was no organisation, no effort, it amazes me how we can go from being
outstanding to woeful in the space of a few days.
A Joe Murphy penalty put Holker in front on 26 minutes and was quickly
followed by a Paul Southwood brace both goals coming from balls played
through the centre of the Robins defence.
Towns only chances of note in the entire match fell to Chris Heslop who
failed to hit the target both with a header and when forced to shoot from an
acute angle having rounded the keeper.
The visitors performed marginally better in the second period, however goals
from Dixon and Swarbrick in the final ten minutes completed the rout.
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