Parish coach Khari Sharrieff must be having nightmares after seeing his side dominate possession and goalmouth chances and yet leak six goals against Southampton Rangers last night.

After lecturing his side on the need to be ruthless in front of goal following their 4-1 league loss to Devonshire Colts on Sunday, a game in which they squandered chance after chance, he must have been tearing his hair out following last night?s Friendship Trophy showing.

To not put too fine a point on it, Parish fired more blanks than a waiting room full of patients at an impotency clinic. What?s more they were made to pay in the most devastating fashion by opponents who gave them a lesson in just how to find the back of the net.

Rohaan Simons grabbed a hat-trick, Meshach Wade a pair and evergreen Herbie Dillas a solo effort to extinguish Hot Peppers? fire and restore some pride in the Rangers camp after they had let slip a 3-0 lead at the weekend to Devonshire Cougars.

The only plus point for Parish was David Signor?s long-range thunderbolt that briefly gave his side hope just after the break.

Parish could have gone ahead as early as the fifth minute but Rangers? keeper, Dwayne (Streaker) Adams got down well to narrow the angle and make the save as Yusef Pitt ran in on goal.

Irvine Burgess then had a chance to opening the scoring, but leant back as he went for goal and the ball went over.

Neil Robinson then saw his free-kick go wide of the upright after it took a deflection and Burgess then saw another effort catch a Rangers player and go out for a corner.

After a Robinson shot was parried by Adams, Rangers hit Parish with a sucker punch in the 26th minute and at the fifth time of asking. In a bizarre chain of events, Rangers fired in five shots, one of which was cleared off the line, three struck the despairing limbs of defenders and the final one was rifled into the net by Wade.

It was 2-0 11 minutes later when a terrific run by Otis Steede saw him unselfishly cross for Simons to volley into an open goal.

Parish then suffered another blow when ?keeper Jeremy Fray was substituted in the 38th minute and replaced by Dwayne Astwood.

But they kept plugging away and Clevon Hill found himself on the end of another excellent chance only to shoot wide.

Once again Rangers made their rivals pay.

From a corner, the ball drifted out towards Wade on the edge of the box and showing patience, he measured the distance to goal and then let fly with a rocket of a shot that fair ripped the far corner of the net.

No doubt the Parish dressing room was the scene of some heated comment at the break and they came out fired-up afterwards, Signor reducing the arrears within seconds of the restart with a 30 yard effort that came back off the underside of the bar, hit the line and was on its way out before striking Adams and entering the goal.

Lorenzo Simmons and Burgess could have made it even tighter but neither could connect with Pitt?s cross-cum-shot and then Adams was called on to make two fine saves in 60 seconds, one a one-handed clearance, the second an authoritative two-fisted punch under pressure.

Pitt then opted to shoot from an acute angle when he should have crossed and again Rangers exacted maximum punishment, Simons sidefooting home after a cross from right to make it 4-1.

Wade then hit the foot of the post with another long-range effort as he went for his hat-trick but where he failed Simons did not, Rangers? star man executing a perfect penalty after Steede was adjudged to have been fouled in the area with six minutes remaining.

Parish were reduced to ten men when, having used all their substitutes, Ernest Signor was forced off with injury and Rangers added insult to that predicament in the dying seconds, Dillas knocking the ball into the net to complete the rout.

Afterwards, hero Simons was magnanimous in victory, both towards his team-mates and his side?s opponents.

?My team-mates had a great game today, I was just able to cap it off,? he said referring to his third goal. ?It was basically a matter of time. With the calibre of players that we have it was only a matter of time before we clicked and gelled as a unit.

?But take nothing away from Hot Peppers, these guys are a great team, it was just unfortunate they had some slack finishing.?

?Slack? being the understatement of the week.