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.
Town's 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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