A quartet of former players – Jason Gough, Keith Gray, Khameel Spence and Steve Hipkiss – have all returned to a Wakes side who are without a league win since the opening day of the season.

Gough and Gray both left the club last season following the change of management while Spence had already moved onto pastures new with Lincoln Moorlands and Hipkiss had hardly featured this term.

However, they have all now returned to the fray as Bourne look to stop a losing streak which has seen them win just once in 11 league outings so far this season.

Their latest setback came on Tuesday when they went down to a 4-1 home defeat against Boston.

Two goals in the final five minutes gave the Poachers victory by a flattering margin after a battling Bourne display.

Boston had begun well with former Bourne marksman Miles Mason getting in behind the Wakes defence only for home goalkeeper Aaron Bellairs to come quickly off his line and smother.

Matt Kennedy clipped a chance wide before the Wakes rocked their high-flying visitors with the opening goal after 16 minutes.

Sam Kirton produced a great run down the left before his cross was powered home by the head of Daniel Bent.

Bent could have doubled Bourne's lead two minutes later when he turned the ball goalwards following a scramble only for the Boston defence to get back and clear his effort off the line.

However, that was to be the striker's last involvement in the contest as his lively display was ended after 26 minutes when he was forced off with a reoccurence of the groin injury that had kept him sidelined since the opening day of the season.

Boston regained control and Bellairs produced a save out of the top drawer to claw away a curling free-kick from Paul Goodhand.

The Poachers finally broke Bourne's resistance three minutes before half-time when Spence went to intercept Kennedy's cross only to divert the ball into the roof of his own net.

Bourne fell behind 11 minutes into the second period when Goodhand's curling free-kick from the left eluded the entire Bourne defence and crept into the far corner of the home goal.

The Wakes had to push more men forward and Lewis Cook was a regular raider into the Boston box and he poked a shot just wide.

Boston began to exploit the gaps at the back and they sealed the match in the 85th minute when Matt Price's ball from defence released Mason who lobbed the advancing Bellairs.

The gloss was then taken off a decent Bourne effort when Kennedy breezed through the Wakes defence a minute later and, although Bellairs blocked his first effort, Goodhand was set up to sweep home Boston's fourth goal.

Wakes: Bellairs, Kirton, Gough, Edwards, Ridout, Spence (Glover), Richardson (Currall), Cook, Bent (Hipkiss), Toyne, Gray.