CAPTAIN Ed Gough hailed the “best Tenbury performance I have been involved with” and insisted it had been brewing for some time.

The hosts ran in 14 tries to trounce Five Ways Old Edwardians, who ply their trade in the division above, 83-13 in the RFU Midlands Junior Vase on Saturday.

Will Greenwood crossed the whitewash on four occasions with Callum Spires, Claude Celton, Greg Powell and Paddy Waite each bagging a brace. Charlie Greig and Greg Parkes scored tries with Celton kicking five conversions and a penalty.

“It had been a couple of years in the making and was certainly the best Tenbury performance I have been involved with,” said Gough.

“The club has been rebuilding for the past couple of seasons after going through a tough time three years ago.

“Last season saw us have quite a big overhaul with a lot of younger players and, now, we are a long way down the line in that respect.

“The average age of the side must be 21 or 22 so to put in that type of performance was really good.

“We kicked on in the second half after making sure our game plan was right. The lads executed it well and once we got going, their heads dropped.

“Maybe they were expecting to walk all over us but we went from strength to strength.”

And the skipper was keen to praise the punch of Tenbury’s pack as much as the men named on the score sheet.

“It was a real team effort,” he added. “I wouldn’t want to single out anyone because it was a complete display.

“The lads who scored were on the end of some phenomenal play, I can’t think of any of the tries being down to one person. They were all proper team tries.

“The big thing was having a 100 per cent record in the line-out and scrums. I don’t know how many teams can say that in a game of 80 minutes.

“It was the first outing together for our front five and it all worked very well. It was the platform for our success, the set pieces were critical.

“I have never played in front of a pack that won everything like that. I was at fly-half and got the ball so quickly and easily, it allowed us to move them around.

“We were in complete control, some of their boys looked like they had played a full match after about 20 minutes.

“It got a bit ridiculous in the last 20 and that was testament to our fitness. They tired because they had been defending for the whole game and it told.”