DELIGHTED Dave Webb was left purring as his Swindon Supermarine side produced their irresistible best in their 5-2 demolition of Sholing tonight.

Five different players got their names on the Marine scoresheet as Webb’s men beat the Boatmen at the Webb’s Wood Stadium, and all after trailing 2-1 at half-time.

Luke Hopper fired home to cancel out Nick Watts’ early opener but the Sholing man pounced on a loose throw from home goalie Sam Warrell to tee up Byron Mason, who restored the visitors’ lead.

But Bradley Gray levelled things up in the first minute of the second period before Josh Morse put Marine in front with a fine individual effort, half-time substitute Joe Shepherd volleyed home and Ryan Stanners netted number five.

Sholing’s Jack Smith was shown a straight red card with 66 minutes gone and Corey King went close to extending the hosts’ lead after coming off the bench but he shot wide after being played through on goal.

“It was a really good performance. I’ve spoke to the players before about going out there and expressing themselves and that’s exactly what they did,” said boss Webb.

“It was great to see us playing well and scoring lots of goals, with five different goalscorers.

“We conceded a goal early on and after equalising through Luke Hopper, we gave the ball away and let them score again – that was one of the only negatives.

“The only other disappointment is losing Chrissy Taylor to injury at half-time. He did start the game but he has a knee injury and it flared up.

“I don’t want to speculate on it until the physio’s had a look but hopefully we only lose him for a week or so because he’s been inspirational for us.”

Tonight's triumph was only Marine’s third home win of the season but manager Webb thinks that his team’s form is in a lot ruder health than the Evo-Stik League Southern Division One South and West table suggests.

He added: “We haven’t been playing badly at all. That’s two in a row at home and we didn’t play badly at all against Taunton (Marine lost 2-1 last weekend).

“Hopefully we can build on this win and try and get the three points when we go to Yate next weekend.”

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