NEWQUAY completed their worst week of the season with a five-goal hammering at mid-table Bradford Town on Saturday.

Fresh, or perhaps not, from their midweek exit from the Cornwall Senior Cup following a 4-2 extra time defeat at Camelford, the Peppermints produced arguably their poorest 90 minutes of their inaugural season at Step Five.

Shaun Middleton’s promotion play-off hopefuls have had such a good season so far that this defeat – or rather the scale of it – came as a major surprise.

Middleton said: “It was a really bad performance from us yesterday.

“We got dominated throughout against a strong side in Bradford, which was disappointing.

“Unfortunately there were not many positives to take from the game, but we’ll move on.

“Hopefully we’ll get a reaction and the boys will show some fighting spirit next week when hopefully we get some key players back.”

Jensen Wakefield was the thorn in the Peppermints’ side as the young striker helped himself to four of Bradford’s goals.

His scoring started in the 13th minute after he had spurned two earlier chances, and when he hit his second goal in first half injury-time it was no more than Bradford deserved.

Newquay needed a big improvement in the second half but it never happened and when Wakefield completed his hat-trick just before the hour the game was gone.

Substitute Charlie Maddison took advantage of some sloppy defending to increase Bradford’s lead to 4-0 in the 73rd minute and Wakefield rounded off the scoring four minutes later.

Newquay visit Oldland Abbotonians on Saturday (3pm).

NEWQUAY: Brodie Cole; Jamie Edlin, Ollie Butterworth, Harry Downing (capt), Tom Moxham; Lucas Potts, Harry Richards (Callam McOnie, 60); Jacob Grange, Phil Lowry (Al Ahmed, 70; Ross Fallens, 80), Rhys Simmonds; Louis Price. Subs not used: Ethan Elwell (gk), Shaun Middleton.

Peppermints’ man-of-the-match: Callam McOnie.