ROYAL Wootton Bassett Town boss Rich Hunter praised his attacking players after they turned in a five-star performance to crush Premier Division bottom side Burnham 5-1.

Dale Richards fired Bassett ahead early on at the Gerard Buxton Sports Ground before Steve Olphert made it 2-0 at the break.

Henry Spalding restarted the charge in the second half before Steve Robertson made it 4-0.

Cheyenne Cripps then gave Burnham’s hopes a shot in the arm when he reduced the deficit, although a comeback never looked on the cards as Lewis Thompson finished off the rout for the hosts late on.

Having crushed Oxford City Nomads 4-0 seven days earlier, Bassett took their goals tally to nine in two games and Hunter reckons they are firing on all cylinders in the final third.

“I’m very pleased. It was a very good performance,” said Hunter.

“We planned for a tough game as we didn’t know what sort of team they would bring and they actually played some good football and played the ball around quite nicely, but we were good going forwards and we took our chances.

“We were pretty ruthless with our chances actually as it was five goals and five different scorers, which is nice. Overall, I am pretty happy.

“All of those front four players, the two strikers and two wingers, all played excellent football.

“We got our goals and they all created for each other too, which is not the first time they’ve done it either. They have been pretty consistent this season.”

Although he was over the moon with how is side fared in attack, Hunter conceded it was not the perfect performance from Bassett as he would have liked to have finished with a second consecutive clean sheet to go alongside the three points.

“I was disappointed that we conceded as it would have been nice to keep a clean sheet,” said Hunter.

“I thought we would do that so I was a little bit disappointed with the lack of concentration to concede but going forwards, we were very good and we took our chances really well to finish with an excellent win.”

Elsewhere, Ryan Stanners got the only goal of the game in the first half as Highworth Town edged out Brackley Town Saints 1-0 at the Elms.