TOWN scored two cracking goals to maintain their 100% start to the Pontin's League season.
Junior Mendes and Adnan Ahmed were on target in spectacular style at Valley Parade - but Town should have won by several more.
John McAliskey, in particular, missed a hatful of chances as Town's strong line-up dominated from the off against a youthful Bradford side.
Manager Peter Jackson gave Town a pep talk on the pitch before kick-off and it certainly seemed to work.
But as chance after chance slipped by, he had to wait until the 49th minute for Town to take the lead.
When it came, the goal was well worth waiting for.
Ahmed - still feeling some effects from his persistent knee problem - won a crunching tackle 10 yards into the Bradford half and played the ball wide left to Mendes, who seemed to be well covered by defenders.
In similar style to his sensational strike for the first team at Luton last season, however, Mendes - who will be 29 a week tomorrow - cut inside and unleashed an unstoppable right-foot drive.
Bradford keeper Ben Saynor dived full length to his left, but the ball fizzed past him before his feet had left the ground.
Even the Bradford faithful gasped at the ferocity of the Mendes drive and it was fitting he should have a touch in Town's second as well.
Lee Fowler - playing wide right in midfield - was the creator with a clever ball forward and when Mendes got his head to the ball, Ahmed reacted first to place a side-foot volley over the keeper from just inside the box.
It was a smashing finish from the battling 21-year-old, especially as he must be the most frustrated player on the books at the moment because of the niggling injury which is holding him back.
Colleagues Chris Brandon, who lives in Bradford, and Michael Collins watched from the stands as Town, with Mark Hudson and Tony Carss playing in central midfield, continued to boss the contest.
The clean sheet would have been lost, however, but for a goalline clearance from John McCombe on 63 minutes as Darren Thornton (for once) got the better of Phil Senior.
Town's keeper also dived bravely at the feet of substitute Steven Mitchell to foil a 79th-minute raid but, in truth, Bradford were soundly beaten on the night.
McAliskey will wonder how he didn't have a hat trick at least.
He hit a post from a Mendes cross on four minutes and, two minutes later, tested the keeper from a fine delivery by the impressive Matthew Young at right-back.
Ahmed, Mendes and McAliskey all went close again before Fowler had a goal ruled out for offside, while McAliskey missed again from four yards out on 39 minutes when Young's cross made it easier to score.
Town - Senior, Young (Racchi 87), Lloyd, Fowler, McCombe, Hardy, Ahmed (Hand 87), Carss, McAliskey, Mendes (Biddle 87), Hudson. Subs not used: Eastwood, Wilson.
