HEAD coach Ryan Aldridge urged his Swindon Wildcats side to put on a show for their home fans and his orders were executed to the letter as his team rattled ten goals past a hapless Bracknell Bees at the Link Centre tonight.

The Wildcats were in irresistible form in front of their own supporters as they mercilessly put their near neighbours to the sword, with nine different players following two-goal Aaron Nell onto the scoresheet.

Tomasz Malasinski, Jan Kostal, Alex Symonds, Stevie Whitfield, Adam Finslinson, Sam Bullas, Tomas Kana and Floyd Taylor all also found the net and Aldridge was left purring at his team’s relentless display.

“We wanted to come out flying. We wanted a reaction like that," said Aldridge.

“We haven’t been playing great at home lately. We wanted to give the fans something to cheer about and I think the boys applied that tonight.

“It’s tough because you don’t want to go too hard on teams, embarrass teams, but for us, we need to start figuring that out and start killing games off, and I think we did that well tonight.

“We got a chance for all the young guys to jump in and some guys scored goals and were part of big goals, so it’s good to see the boys being that relentless.

“Our team defence was good - we raised our game when (Michael Crisp) came in. When you see a back-up going in and he’s cold, you raise your game and Bracknell did that but I thought the guys did a great job in front of him.

“At this point in the year, we need to start having that killer instinct, so we wanted to kill it off tonight.

“The crowd were shouting for ten and I said to the boys ‘I want ten as well’.”

Aldridge also thought that his team’s impressive victory would help build confidence ahead of next Thursday’s crucial Challenge Cup semi-final second leg clash with Manchester Phoenix.

The Wildcats chief added: “The first two goals tonight were absolute snipes. The two guys that scored them (Nell and Malasinski) are going to have to play big games in the next couple of games.

“It’s good for confidence all round I think.”

Aldridge confirmed that import forward Malasinski, who was pestered by a niggle this evening, will be rested for tomorrow’s English Premier League trip to Manchester (face-off 5.30pm) with a view to Thursday’s cup semi.

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