YORK City's new manager Steve Watson looked on as a home side, consisting purely of senior professionals, defeated Redcar Athletic 6-1.

Goals from Jon Parkin, Kallum Griffiths, Joe Tait, Liam Agnew, Macaulay Langstaff and Alex Kempster eased the Minstermen into the semi-finals of the North Riding Senior Cup, with Stuart Browne getting the Northern League second division side's consolation.

Ex-Gateshead chief Watson watched the first 75 minutes of the match from the directors' box, before joining his assistant Micky Cummins in the dugout for the remainder of the match, where he witnessed a red card for on-loan Harrogate midfielder Agnew for supposed dangerous play.

Earlier, Wes York made a bright start for the hosts, firing wide from 25 yards in the second minute.

After Tait had sliced a clearance from Gary Wood’s left-wing cross narrowly wide of Adam Bartlett’s goal, York then lifted a ball in from the right that saw Parkin open the scoring on seven minutes with a header that looped over Redcar keeper Will Lawrence.

Within a minute, the Minstermen had doubled their advantage when Kempster cleverly lifted the ball into the path of a rampaging Griffiths, who drilled a firm diagonal drive into Lawrence’s bottom-right corner.

York went on to call Lawrence into action from an acute angle, while the away keeper also pushed Langstaff’s edge-of-the-box effort around his near post.

On 24 minutes, Kempster could not get enough purchase on Griffiths’ cross to extend Lawrence, before Sam Calvert headed the visitors’ only chance of the half over from ten yards.

Kempster, meanwhile, cleared the goal from point-blank range after meeting Sean Newton’s corner in the air, but Griffiths went closer when he thumped the crossbar from a 25-yard free kick.

City continued to create openings with Newton’s 20-yard attempt gathered by Lawrence, who subsequently threw up an arm to deny Parkin as he bore down on the away goal.

Tait added a third, though, on 42 minutes when he collected the loose ball following a blocked York shot and turned to find the roof of the net in confident fashion from eight yards.

The half finished with Parkin aiming a free kick too high, following a foul on Langstaff.

Half-time sub Agnew made it 4-0 from the first attack of the second period, firing an emphatic 20-yard shot past Lawrence following Langstaff's lay-off on 49 minutes.

But the visitors reduced the deficit two minutes later with their first on-target attempt as poor City defending saw Gary Redman seize on a bouncing ball in the box with Browne then reacting sharpest to crash an eight-yard effort in off the bar.

Within seconds, Adam Preston might have added a second, but headed straight at skipper-for-the-night Bartlett.

At the other end, Langstaff left Matthew Crossman on his backside but drove his 15-yard effort straight at Lawrence, before Hamza Bencherif's header from a Newton free kick was also routinely gathered.

Newton curled another free kick narrowly wide from 30 yards, but centre-back Browne might have grabbed his second goal of the night moments later when he was given a free header from Joe Bennett's corner, but cleared the crossbar.

On 82 minutes, City were then delivered a blow when Agnew was red carded despite appearing to win the ball following a strong challenge on Redman, who had been afforded far too much space down the City right channel throughout the second period.

Away sub Lance Skelton went on to head over from another corner, before Langstaff capitalised on a mistake to charge through on goal and finish firmly into Lawrence's bottom-left corner on 88 minutes.

The rout was then completed in the first minute of stoppage time when Kempster exchanged passes with Parkin through the left channel and found an empty net after deftly lifting the ball over an advancing Lawrence.

City: Bartlett, Griffiths (Law, 46), Parslow (Bencherif, 46), Tait, Newton, York, Harris, Moke (Agnew, 46), Kempster, Parkin, Langstaff. Subs not used: Wright, Ferguson.

Attendance: 352