The Town's Under-18s continued their good pre-season form by making it 13 goals in their last two friendly games with a comprehensive and impressive 3-0 victory against Norwich City on Tuesday.
The Canaries started the quicker and only a smart save from Lewis Kidd, diving low to his right, kept the scores level.
Town replied in the best possible way when Alex Lacey delivered a pin-point ball down the side of the Norwich centre backs which found Jordan Patrick. The striker drove into the box and skilfully lifted the ball over the helpless goalkeeper to put the visitors ahead.
Martin Prickett's side slipped into their counter attacking game plan with comfort and managed to keep Norwich at arms length for much of the first half and should have furthered the lead when Jean-Philipe Yamfam slid the ball into Patrick who this time missed the target when he was one-on-one with the goalkeeper.
As half-time approached Norwich came within a whisker of finding a leveller when their lively striker crashed a shot against the post minutes before the break.
The Town started the second half much as they ended the first, allowing Norwich to have possession in safe areas and catching their Championship rivals on the break.
And this is how Town's lead was extended further. Patrick picked up the ball in the inside left channel, drove around the outside of the Norwich full back and squared the ball for Liam Toomey to tap home.
Norwich had no answer for the disciplined defensive display of Town and further chances fell to Toomey but wayward finishing and a smart save from the City goalkeeper kept the score at 2-0.
However, not be outdone, Toomey made amends for his earlier misses when laying on the Hatters' third and final goal.
Latching onto a pass from Lacey, he rounded the goalkeeper and then, rather than shooting from a tight angle, back heeled the ball into the path of Ryan Dasilva who cheekily dinked the ball over the goalkeeper.
The ball was in the Canaries net for a fourth time late on, however, Matt Harriott had strayed offside when tapping home a Toomey square pass and the goal was chalked off.
A delighted Prickett said was full of praise for his team following another morale boosting success.
He said: "Norwich weren't at full strength today so we were always favourites to win this game, however, I thought the way we went about our win was fantastic.
"Many of the lads played 65 minutes in an in-house trialist game on Monday so to play back-to-back with such energy and enthusiasm is a real credit to them.
"We got our game plan spot on and executed it to perfection. All of the tactical work we have been doing in pre-season is really starting to show in games and they are starting to put in really effective performances.
"There were so many good performances today, Jordan Patrick and Liam Toomey keep capturing the headlines with their goals, but today was a real team effort and that only bodes well for the sterner tests that lie ahead this season."
Squad: Kidd, James, Lacey, Deeney, Carney, McAdams, Blake, Mirzai, Dasilva, Kaddu, Patrick, Toomey, Yamfam, Tavernier, Harriott.
