John McGlashan College are not getting ahead of themselves despite notching yet another dominant win in Otago Secondary Schools First XV rugby today.
This week it was King's High School who felt their power, as the competition leaders ran out to a 65-0 win at home.
"We don't take any games lightly, we just take it week by week," team director Mike Idour said.
That is a good way to be too and must have been a catalyst for their fast start, which saw them shoot out to a 20-0 lead within 10 minutes.
It was a dominant display, as John McGlashan tore the King's defence to pieces, scoring several long-range tries via the use of ball runners and decoys.
"We used our runners a little bit wider than we normally do today," Idour said.
"We used some of our better runners as decoys, which seemed to work effectively.
"It put other people into lots of holes, certainly in the first few minutes."
A team that boasts several exceptionally good ball runners, John McGlashan looked to play a direct game, opening up space through the middle and scoring out wide.
"We try and take the contact first, because we find the offloading thing doesn't always work, especially early on in a game," he said.
"So we try for the contact and take one or two men out, that's what happened today.
"Some of our big runners, rather than running themselves, they took the ball, passed and two people went to them and it left a gap for someone to slice through."
He believed that made it hard for King's to stop them.
After shooting out to a 41-0 lead at halftime, John McGlashan made some changes, although Idour said the lower second half score had as much to do with King's improvements.
"I think their [King's] defence was better in the second half," he said.
"We cleared our bench, but that doesn't necessarily mean we're any weaker because we've got a pretty strong bench."
The win sees John McGlashan continue in their rich vein of form and remain unbeaten at the top of the competition table.
"We're pretty happy," Idour said.
"We've accumulated a huge number of points in the last five or six weeks, with very few against.
"But we don't take anything for granted, we know where we came from, so we're just enjoying it."
In other games St Kevin's College upset South Otago High School 33-25 in Oamaru. Dunstan High School beat Taieri 55-0, Otago Boys' High School 2nd XV claimed a 68-7 win over Mount Aspiring College, while Waitaki Boys' High School thrashed Kavanagh College 85-5.
