SWINDON College Old Boys director of rugby Martin Lloyd says he couldn’t have dreamed of where his side currently sit in the Berks/Bucks & Oxon Premier table at the start of the season.

College go into the Christmas break with a perfect record from their opening 10 games and boast a 17-point cushion at the summit, having clocked up 49 points from a possible 50.

There was no let up from Lloyd’s troops at the weekend either as they demolished Slough with ease, running out 82-7 winners.

Tucker Blinkhorn led the way with five tries for the Old Boys, while Charlie Grabe and Florin Palcau bagged a brace apiece, with Bobby Tilling, Simon Addis and Gareth Davies also going over the whitewash to complete the 12-try rout.

As well as their sizeable superior points difference in the league, College, who have scored 476 points and only conceded 116, have a Southern Counties Senior Vase clash away to Slough awaiting in the new year.

“If you had said at the start of the season that is where we would be, with the points difference we have got, the bonus points we are getting, the number of points for and against, we’d have bitten your hand off and been more than surprised,” said Lloyd.

“We’ve already won the Dorset and Wilts Vase and we’ve got the further cup run to consider.

“We know when we go to face Slough in the cup, it will be a completely different side and we’ll have to be at our best.

“As poor as we were the previous week against Risborough, we were the complete opposite at the weekend.

“It was the best rugby that we have played this season so far.

“We were outstanding, one to 15, all the way across the park and when the substitutes came on, they did their business as well.

“What is good about it now is, we are getting a consistency at training and there is quality throughout the second team.

“Last season, when we were in the Southern Counties, we didn’t have that strength in depth but we do this time and that is why we are consistently getting good results.”

Meanwhile, Supermarine slipped to second from bottom in the Dorset & Wilts One North table following a 25-5 defeat away to Frome 2nd.