Dandy Town 10
Hamilton Parish 3

A league season curtain call between a team that had already won the title and a side doomed for the First Division always threatened to be a painfully one-sided affair.

And so it proved as Dandy Town Hornets — fielding three teenage debutants — crushed a Hamilton Parish side that offered very little fight and showed even less pride in their woefully dismal performance.

Angelo Simmons struck six goals in the demolition job, Jahnazae Swan bagged a brace while Dashun Butterfield and Jahtino Richardson-Martin also got their names on the scoresheet.

It was midfielder Butterfield who started the goal blitz with a neat finish in the first minute before Angelo Simmons, the Town captain, scored the first of his six goals in the eighth minute after sliding the ball past Benjamin Furqan, the Parish goalkeeper.

Richardson-Martin added a third in the sixteenth minute as Hornets began to run riot, scoring again five minutes later when Simmons added his second with a well-executed effort.

Finding themselves four goals down within the opening 20 minutes, Parish looked largely disinterested, conceding again when Simmons completed his hat-trick after waltzing his way into the area and side-footing past Furqan in the 39th minute.

The second half started with Mikkail Crockwell, the Town goalkeeper, taking a shot from the centre circle — which summed up the game as a meaningful encounter — his effort drifting harmlessly wide.

Moments later Parish registered their first meaningful effort on goal through striker Donovan Thompson, who fired wide with a left-footed effort with just Crockwell to beat.

Hornets were always in full control, however, with the wasteful Tomiko Goater forcing a save from Furqan with a low shot, and Swan then scoring his first after slamming home into the roof of the net in the 55th minute.

Emphasising the mess that Parish have degenerated into since Kieshon Smith departed for Somerset Trojans in the summer, they were forced into introducing Ernest Lathan, their assistant coach, midway through the half having travelled to St John’s Field with just 11 players.

The home side scored their seventh when the irrepressible Simmons grabbed his fourth in the 59th minute only to concede their first goal when Patrick Richardson, the Parish midfielder, found the net from distance.

Thompson then made it 7-2 with a well-taken strike, lifting the ball over Crockwell, but it mattered little as Hornets restored their six-goal advantage when Simmons struck a fifth after taking advantage of some more non-existent Parish defending.

Micah Clemons scored a third for Parish as Hornets slacked off in the 80th minute but the home side fired back with further goals from Simmons in the 85th and Swan in the 89th — scoring his team’s 59th goal for the league season.

“We had to show the right mentality and didn’t want to switch off because we had already won the title,” Wilkinson said.

TEAMS

Scorers

Dandy Town (Butterfield 1, Simmons 8, 21, 39, 59, 74, 85, Richardson-Martin 16, Swan 55, 890

Hamilton Parish (Richardson 60, Thompson 72, Clemons 80)

Dandy Town (3-5-2): M Crockwell — A Moore (sub: H Butterfield, 76), J Amory, J Richardson-Martin — K Tucker, D Bascome (sub K Lathan, 78), E Blankendal, J Swan, D Butterfield (sub: D Hart, 61) — A Simmons, T Goater. Substitutes not used: L Tucker, D Ming.

Hamilton Parish (4-4-2): B Furqan — I Creighton, E Parson, A Smith, B Swainson — M Clemons, P Richardson, T Webb, K Fox (sub: E Lathan, 61) — R Tyrell, D Thompson.

Referee: W Woodley.