After absorbing a lot of pressure in the first 20 minutes the Roos slipped in to top gear, led 22-0 at the turn and didn’t let up during a dominant final session.

Champion No.8 Lee Toohey best summed up the performance on Saturday at No.1 Oval when the Roos cemented their second place on the ladder behind unbeaten Narromine Gorillas.

“One of our main focuses this season has been on support play and I think you saw the fruits of our labour here today,” he said.

“When you keep popping up balls time and time again and you find two or three Dubbo players there wanting to take it forward, eventually you will break them down (the opposition).

“They will eventually run out of players and when you’re in an attacking position you can score tries.

“Because of that support play today we’ve put eight tries on them.

“The other good thing was that we had to soak up a lot of pressure early. We know we have to weather the storm in the first 15 minutes, let them run out of gas and starting scoring tries.”

So torrid was the first 22 minutes - and the respect that Forbes had earned - at this first opportunity Roos captain Geoff Koerstz called up Matt Burnie for a long range penalty attempt at the 22 minutes mark.

He was on target and the side never looked back.

Six minutes later Mal Donald scored the first try and then the Roos punished Forbes when five-eighth Simon Murphy (a former Roos player) knocked on in front of his own line and from the ensuing scrum win his opposite Damien Tegart dummied and was over untouched.

That gave the home side a 17-0 lead and the Roos spectators had few worries from then on.

Enjoying a 22 point advantage at the break, coaches Koerstz and Daly kept the talk simple: “Keep up the intensity and work on their continued ill discipline - and we want to be the first to score,” Koerstz said.