After addressing their defensive deficiencies at training, Dungog came at keen to impress their local crowd with some physical defence to start the game.

The first 10 minutes of the game saw both sides battling for field position. Eventually Dungog was able to score through a damaging 30 metre burst from Terry Drinkwater.

On the back of a penalty and an unlucky bounce Budgewoi were able to level the scores. There was no question though this was Dungog’s day as they continued to play at high level with several well structured attacking raids ending with sweeping back lines.

A feature of the warriors attack was the amount of ball movement, the bodies in motion and the support play right across the board.

On the back of sustained pressure Brad Johnson and Lee Nevin were able to cross and give Dungog a healthy lead. The next section of the game was quite remarkable as rookie Jackson Bell scored three consecutive tries to seemingly break Budgewoi’s back going into half time. The score at half time was 34 - 6.

The first 40 minutes of the match was arguably Dungog’s best of the season and after grinding it out for the first 10 in the second half, Dungog continued to pour on the tries.

Travis Crouch crossed out wide, Lee Nevin grabbed his second from dummy half, Chris Evans punched through, Dan Rumbel scored off a nice short ball and Fletcher Celand finished the scoring to leave the final score at 60 - 6.

I don’t want to throw too many superlatives out there, but this was a very complete performance from the Warriors which can only make coach Henderson happy five games into the season.

In fact Dave’s record speaks for itself as both the Warriors and the under 9s, which he also coaches, have started the season with five consecutive wins.

Best on the day for Dungog in a complete team performance were Fletcher Celand who looked natural in the 7 and formed a dangerous combination with Dave Taylor.