CHERRIES completed a third home win on the bounce with a rampaging 6-1 victory over a Hull City side left utterly shell shocked by their opponents’ relentlessly aggressive, powerful football.

Despite being pegged back when Ryan Mason’s deflected effort just past the half-hour equalised Charlie Daniels’ fifth minute goal, the hosts’ authority was never undermined.

Steve Cook restored Cherries lead four minutes before the break, and any remaining anxiety was chased out of town by an air of jubilation when Junior Stanislas scored a penalty on the stroke of half-time. The rampant Stanislas, provider of the first two goals, struck his second and his team’s fourth on 65 minutes.

Callum Wilson completed his team’s nap hand with seven minutes to play. And the final coat of varnish was applied by substitute Dan Gosling’s sweet 18-yard finish on 88 minutes.

Cherries, as is their wont, swarmed all over their visitors from the first whistle. Jordon Ibe was first to show, driving at the heart of Hull’s defence. On arriving in the box the winger ran into a forest of bodies, before screwing a shot that ran for Daniels. The left back’s first time effort was blocked by Ahmed Elmohamady – but Daniels wouldn’t have to wait long to experience success in front of goal.

Jack Wilshere had seen a rather hopeful penalty shout dismissed by Lee Mason after being dealt with heavy-handedly in the box by Jake Livermore, when the referee had an altogether easier decision to make.

The raiding Adam Smith was cut off at the pass by a combination of Mason and Andrew Robertson, presenting Stanislas with a free-kick opportunity 25 yards from goal. The winger’s strike bounced back out off the meat of David Marshall’s left-hand post and sat up invitingly for Daniels, who displayed exquisite technique to get over the ball and fire sweetly beyond Curtis Davies’s desperate lunge and into middle of net.

Eddie Howe spoke glowingly in his programme notes of the tempo and intensity his side brought to their previous home game against Everton. Here was a repeat performance. Hull couldn’t handle Cherries’ chasing and harrying, the away team routinely surrendering possession in the face of the whirling dervishes in red and black.

Wilson brought a routine save from Marshall on the 20 minute mark after the ball ran loose following Ibe’s latest incisive run.

All that was missing from the hosts’ dominant display was a second goal. It nearly arrived on 24 minutes. Daniels released Ibe in space down the left. With time to pick his pass, the attacker rolled the ball back for Wilson, whose drive clattered back off the bar. Wilshere, on the follow up, was denied by Shaun Maloney’s block.

And back Cherries came for more. Daniels went left to right, via Wilson, to find Stanislas, whose shot looped up off Robertson and beyond the far post.

Ibe then shimmied his way free of Sam Clucas to send a rasping 25-yard drive high of goal When the travelling contingent from East Yorskhire first made their voices heard on the half-hour mark it was to roar their appreciation for centre half Harry Maguire thundering into a tackle that left Ibe face down on the turf.

But the away fans soon had something more tangible to cheer. Cook’s wayward pass from defence landed at the feet of Robert Snodrgass. The Scot shifted play inside for Livermore who, in turn, found Mason. The midfielder let-fly with a shot that took a wicked deflection off the crestfallen Cook, leaving Artur Boruc utterly helpless as the ball wormed its way agonisingly inside the keeper’s right-hand post.

Cherries promptly sought to restore their advantage, but another Stanislas free-kick – this one after Arter was crudely upended by Snodgrass - was comfortably held by Hull No 1 Marshall.

Stanislas’s dead ball prowess was swiftly being utilised to more valuable effect, however. Mason was penalised for raising his foot in a challenge with Wilson, enabling Stanislas to send a wicked set-piece into the box. Cook, on his 200th Cherries appearance, did the rest, the defender advancing onto his team-mate’s delivery to get the better of Elmohamady and plant his header into the right corner of goal.

The away team tried to hit back through Maloney’s curled effort which narrowly cleared Boruc’s bar.

But Hull’s minds – regardless of their earlier leveller – were unquestionably scrambled. For evidence, witness Snodgrass’s inexplicable lunge on Wilson in the penalty area. The Hull man’s foot was high and the award of the spot kick inevitable. The excellent Stanislas rifled into the roof of the net from 12 yards.

Cherries continued in exactly the same vein after the restart. Ibe’s shot thudded into Maguire, before Marshall had to tip over when Cook met Stanislas’s right-wing corner with a firm header.

Maguire was the defender putting his body on the line, once more, when Simon Francis’s gallop forward from the back led to Wilshere taking aim.

Tom Huddlestone’s 55th minute introduction in place of Maloney brought a measure of control to Hull’s passing.

The briefly emboldened visitors would have considered their luck to be out, however, when earlier scorer Mason appeared to be tripped in the box by Francis. Referee Mason, to the audible ire of the away support, declined to award his second penalty of the day.

Ibe’s last act before being substituted for the eighth time in eight games was to twist Huddlestone this way and that before dragging an effort wide of the post.

And Ibe’s replacement, Joshua King, - just as he did at Watford a fortnight ago – had an instant impact on proceedings.

The attacker slipped a return pass to the overlapping Smith, who cut the ball to the far post, where Stanislas made the task of rolling home a first time right-footed finish – for his third goal this season - look rather easier than was the case.

An underworked Boruc smothered at Tigers sub Adama Diomande’s feet. Nevertheless this was largely one-way traffic. King and Wilshere combined to feed Wilson for a strike that stung Marshall’s palms.

Yet Wilson wasn’t going to miss out on the fun. King was the supplier, collecting a short corner from Smith to send in a deep cross from the right that a completely unmark’s Wilson leapt to guide over Clucas’s head on the line and into the top left corner.

Boruc had to save low from Huddlestone’s crisp strike. And when the game had its seventh goal it came for the cock-a-hoop Cherries.

Daniels strode deep into Tigers’ territory completely unhindered. The left back’s poke at the edge of the box found a similarly unencumbered Gosling. The midfielder, on for Wilshere, swung his left foot at the ball, steering it high, past Marshall’s extended right glove.

Cherries declared there, having hit their stunned opponents for six. This was Howe’s team operating at its maximum. It would have been too much for better teams than Hull City.

MATCH STATS

Cherries (4-4-1-1): Boruc; Smith, Francis, Cook, Daniels; Stanislas, Surman, Arter, Ibe (King 62); Wilshere (Gosling 79); Wilson (Afobe 86).

Unused subs: Mings, Ake, Fraser, Federici (g/k).

Hull City (4-1-4-1): Marshall; Elmohamady, Maguire, Davies, Robertson (Diomande 63); Clucas; Snodgrass, Livermore, Mason (Meyler 78), Maloney (Huddlestone 55); Keane.

Unused subs: Hernandez, Weir, Henriksen, Jakupovic (g/k).

Bookings: Clucas, Snodgrass, Robertson.

Referee: Lee Mason (Greater Manchester).

Attendance: 11,029.