Sitting on top of the ladder, the Gungahlin Bulls were already pretty handy.
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But the addition of a couple of fiery young Bulls to their forward pack is only going to make them better.
Joshua Allen and Jackson Owen played their first games of the season and they slotted seamlessly into a physical pack that led the visitors to an emphatic 46-10 victory over the Woden Valley Rams at Phillip on Saturday.
It was set up with a 16-minute blitzkrieg at the start of the game, scoring four unanswered tries to blow the Rams out of the water.
The home side were able to wrestle back some momentum to trail 24-8 at half-time, before the Bulls returned to their dominant ways in the second stanza.
Gungahlin winger Lucas Thomson not only scored two tries, but kicked seven from eight conversions as well.
"We had two big bodies in Josh Allen and Jackson Owen back for us today and when we put them on that sort of changed the game a little bit too," Bulls coach Neil Bijorac said.
"It was good to have that strike coming off the bench."
It was a tough outing for a young Rams outfit, although there was at least one shining light.
Prop Bradley Prior came off the bench to spark the Rams' into action in the lead-up to half-time.
Rams coach Ken Nagas was happy with Prior's efforts, just wanted more to help him carry the load.
"He gives us a bit of size, a bit of punch, in the middle there just to get us going a bit," Nagas said.
"But everybody needs to buy in and chip in, and everybody has to spread the workload.
"He added a lot of punch, but he couldn't do it by himself."
AT A GLANCE
GUNGAHLIN BULLS 46 bt WODEN VALLEY RAMS 18
WEST BELCONNEN WARRIORS 18 bt GOULBURN BULLDOGS 10
QUEANBEYAN KANGAROOS 20 bt TUGGERANONG BUSHRANGERS 14
QUEANBEYAN BLUES 30 bt BELCONNEN UNITED SHARKS 24