Huddersfield Town 5 Bournemouth 1: Vaughan’s hot streak paying off £1m investment by Town

Vaughan scored his hat-trick inside 21 minutes either side of the break and now has seven goals in five matches after signing a £1m permanent deal with the club in the summer following a season-long loan spell from Norwich.

Robins, a former Canaries striker himself, said: “As a striker I can empathise with how he’s feeling.

“He is loving it right now and deserves all the success. He is working very hard and concentrating on his game and he is getting his due rewards.

“We have beaten a good team. I know it is easy to say that but Bournemouth play good football and caused us problems,” continued the Town chief.

“Eddie (Howe) is a bright young manager and Bournemouth were a threat. It was a good day for us.”

Robins has changed how the Terriers play and his new passing style is starting to win over the doubters.

“It’s interesting to listen to the fans,” said Robins. “At times they need to be patient but they can see what we are trying to do.”

Adam Hammill started the rout with the opening goal, an individual effort which went in off the post.

He then chipped into the area for Vaughan to plant a flying header into the far corner before Martin Paterson sent the striker racing free to slot home to make it 3-0 before half-time.

Vaughan slammed in a penalty for his treble after Jake Carroll was tripped by Simon Francis before substitute Marc Pugh grabbed a Bournemouth consolation.

Adam Clayton then smashed home a 25-yard effort to leave Bournemouth reeling.

Howe is determined to stand by his footballing philosophy despite seeing his team slip to a second successive heavy away defeat.

The Cherries lost 6-1 at Watford a fortnight ago and after this defeat at the John Smith’s Stadium Howe refused to press the panic button, saying: “We like to play good football and there will be no change whether we win, lose or draw.

“This style suits the players we have and this is the only way we want to play. We just have to be better at what we do.

“We showed last season we could get results and keep clean sheets away from home and that’s what we must do. We were just unlucky to come up against a striker as lethal as James Vaughan is at the moment.”

Huddersfield Town: Smithies, Lynch, Clarke, Gerrard (Woods 76), Hammill, Clayton, Norwood, Hogg, Carroll, Vaughan (Stead 80), Paterson (Scannell 80). Unused substitutes: Gobern, Ward, Bennett, Hunt.

Bournemouth: Allsop, Francis, Elphick, Cook, Harte, Fraser, MacDonald, Arter, Surman (O’Kane 46), Grabban, Pitman (Pugh 59), O’Kane (Hughes 62). Unused substitutes: Daniels, Thomas, Addison, Flahavan.

Referee: D Bond (Lancashire).

Man of the match: James Vaughan.