Bradford Park Avenue manager Gary Brook warned his players about former Hull City striker Gary Bradshaw. The best striker in the UniBond Premier League, he said.

What an understatement!

Bradshaw tore Avenue apart in one of the most humiliating experiences ever suffered by an Avenue side.

North Ferriby's little number ten scored a hat-trick and ran Brook's men ragged, along with his equally im-pressive partner Leon Wain-man.

True, there were some awful decisions made by the referee and linesmen - and some of the home side's tackling was dubious to say the least - but, make no mistake, Avenue were appalling. They lost their shape - and the plot. By half-time they were 5-0 down, and and it could have been more.

The first goal came after 12 minutes when Bradshaw took advantage of slack defending to turn and fire in a deflected shot which sent Richard Siddall the wrong way.

Then Phil Hadland, Avenue's goal hero of last Saturday, was brought down on the edge of the North Ferriby penalty area by an appalling challenge from home keeper Paul Sharp - a man whose actions bordered on the bizarre. Somehow he only got ticked off and Greg Challender sent the free-kick soaring over the bar.

With almost the next attack, Avenue were two down. This time Wainman was on hand to side-foot home after latching on to a rebound off Sid-dall.

That was on 19 minutes and it was the end for Avenue two minutes later when Graham Hockless took advantage of Avenue's disarray at the back to fire low past Siddall.

Avenue were at sixes and sevens, and after 42 minutes Bradshaw hit the fourth from a left-wing cross.

He completed his hat-trick just before half-time with the most ridiculous goal of the game. He found himself with the ball and no one else to beat but the keeper. He toe-poked the ball one way, rounded the keeper the other way, and then calmly slotted the ball into an empty net. It was the sort of goal you would score on Blackpool beach.

Avenue were missing many of their first-choice players. Wayne Benn and Tom Agus were injured from Saturday and Steve Oleksewycz had not recovered in time to play. In came Paul Ryan, Liam Brom-pton and Paddy Mumbly.

The loyal travelling supporters feared the worst for the second half. A record drubbing was on the cards.

But Brook must have got through to his troops because they came out a different side, grabbing two goals back through Challender.

Alex Nesovic began to play and Danny Walsh was causing panic with his crosses.

If Avenue can take their second-half performance to Mat-lock on Saturday, they might get something.