The Mount Maunganui College rugby programme has made a dramatic statement of intent ahead of the coming season by dismantling Katikati College, John Paul College and Western Heights High School in an abbreviated format at Blake Park.
The Mount side, who were relegated to Division Two of the Bay of Plenty schoolboy competition following a string of poor results last season, are a different beast entirely in the second year under head coach James Woodford.
They ran out comfortable 24-7 winners against Katikati in the final of the 10-a-side tournament yesterday - mixing flair with some seriously big cattle - and look likely to run riot with the likes of touch representative Xavier Kaweroa and Daniel Pushart pulling the strings.
The school now has a colts programme in place and look at least 30-40 points better than they did last season, and with Bethlehem College and Otumoetai College in rebuilding mode will be very frisky in the second half of the season.
The Katikati school was brave and won the mullet count comfortably, but the four-tries-to-one scoreline perhaps flattered them.