Bottle this, keep it and give us more.
Playing with buckets of passion and accuracy, the Highlanders simply blew away the Bulls at Palmerston North on Saturday night.
It was a great night from a team that had shown some promise in recent weeks and finally put it all together against a previously unbeaten Bulls outfit.
The forwards totally dominated their opponents, pilfering endless ball at the breakdown, while the backs ran hard, picked the angles to run and tackled like demons.
The Bulls were out-bullied by the Highlanders and the South African side waved the white flag when it substituted key men Fourie du Preez and Bakkies Botha with 15 minutes left.
The Highlanders played with passion but they also used brains along with the brawn.
They sensibly played most of the game out of their own territory, kept hold of the ball and never let up in their intensity.
The players grew in belief as the game went on and showed they have the skills to compete at this level.
Even when the Bulls scored halfway through the second half, the Highlanders stayed composed and kept outmuscling their opponents.
The Highlanders' scrum was rock solid, the line-out worked a treat and the work at the breakdown could not be faulted.
Time and again the Highlanders nabbed Bulls ball at the breakdown, breaking up any Bulls continuity, and launching their own raids.
Up 21-5 at half-time, the Highlanders kept up the pressure in the second half and when Mathew Berquist went over just eight minutes into the spell the match was all but wrapped up.
The visitors did not let off and fullback Israel Dagg scored the final try of the match, barging over in a ruck with time all but up.
The Highlanders, if anything, could have won by more.
They went within a whisker of scoring another couple of five-pointers, with players just pushed out in the corner.
Centre Jason Shoemark got the first try for the Highlanders after a good run from captain Jimmy Cowan.
The forwards moved the ball on and Shoemark brushed off a couple of ineffective tackles to score.
Just past halfway through the first stanza, Daniel Bowden was over after running a great angle off a Cowan pass.
This was a feature of the match, the Highlanders cleverly running at angles to get in behind a tightly bunched Bulls outfit.
Cowan then scored as the forwards again attacked the line after a clever Dagg kick and regather.
Cowan led from the front all day and he put on a gutsy 70m run from the base of the scrum midway through the second stanza only to be run down just short of the line.
The Highlanders eventually took a penalty from Berquist to extend their lead.
Flankers Adam Thomson and Alando Soakai totally overshadowed their opponents and spoiled the Bulls' game plan.
Lock Tom Donnelly showed he is warming to his task after a disrupted start to the season, while prop Jamie Mackintosh got round the paddock and almost got on the scoring sheet.
Bowden ran well out the back and was not outmuscled by his bigger opponents, while Dagg continued to look good in both attack and defence.
The Bulls looked tired and off the pace although second five-eighth Wynand Olivier ran hard and No 8 Pierre Spies was all energy around the ruck.
Highlanders 36 (Jason Shoemark, Daniel Bowden, Jimmy Cowan, Mathew Berquist, Israel Dagg tries, Berquist penalty goal, four conversions), Bulls 12 (Gerhard van der Heever, Morne Steyn tries; Steyn conversion)
Half-time: Highlanders 21-5.
Crowd: About 9400.
