THE Magpies' management duo of Mark Molyneaux and Wayne Goodison faced their old club for the first time since swopping Shawe View for Victory Park ten months ago and emerged triumphant from this much-publicised UniBond first division shoot-out.

But there was little of the tension predicted in a thoroughly one-sided contest.

Chorley were simply far too good for a frail Trafford team looking every bit the bottom-of-the-table side they are.

It was a mystery how half-time arrived with the scoresheet still blank as the visitors' goal enjoyed a charmed life.

The Magpies totally dominated midfield, where Joe Murray and Anthony Hogan were outstanding and Darren Emmett's intelligent probing and prompting a constant threat.

The breakthrough finally came three minutes after the interval, when Emmett's corner was superbly headed home by Hogan.

Five minutes later, another Emmett corner caused mayhem in the Trafford defence and Hogan scrambled in his second goal.

The visitors showed very little going forward and Chorley keeper Lee Bracey was a virtual spectator as the Magpies produced some delightful flowing moves.

On 73 minutes Chorley went three-up, when an Emmett free kick was hopelessly misjudged by keeper Ryan McMahon, leaving Danny Mills with a free header into an empty net.

The scoring was rounded off three minutes later, Emmett completing a quartet of assists.

A defender's attempt to clear his fierce low cross struck Murray and cannoned back into the unguarded net for a comical goal which summed up Trafford's troubled afternoon.

In the last minute Mills blazed a glorious chance to make it a nap-hand wildly over the bar but Chorley were by then home and dry with their play-offs aspirations rekindled.

CHORLEY...4 TRAFFORD...0