DANNY COLLINS was at his rampaging best as he scored two tries as free-running Rossendale ran in five touchdowns.

On a day where fast flowing rugby, and not defence or kicking was the order of the day, Dale and Waterloo shared a total of eight tries.

Dale could have been 30 points by half time and totally in the clear as they dominated every aspect of the game against a side yet to win.

The forwards were far heavier and more power-ful than their counter-parts in the scrums, lineouts and collision areas.

Dale scored first thro-ugh Andy Dauncy from some outstanding for-ward play and in particular Paddy Pole, Matt Mackenzie and Collins.

Waterloo got their first points on the board with a penalty soon after the restart to cut the gap to 5-3 then took the lead with a try in the corner.

But Dale took control and held the ball through phase after phase and finally scored a well worked try for Collins, who was outstanding in every area of his game, to score under the posts.

James Bramhall conve-rted to make it 12- 8 at half time.

Dale started the second half as they did the first and it didn’t take long before Collins scored his second of the game thro-ugh a well worked back row move.

It what was proving to be a topsy, turvy battle, Waterloo again replied with a try down the blind side to make it `17-15.

Dale touched down from some neat work from Jamie Albinson and finished from Jonny Appleton to earn the first bonus point of the sea-son from scoring four tries in a match.

But Waterloo weren’t done and they were moving the ball at every opportunity.

And it looked liked the Merseyside outfit could be on for their first win of the season when they scored a third try to make the score 22-20.

But big Paddy Pole capped a fine individual display to calm Dale jitters with a fifth try to wrap up the victory and make it three wins out of four for the Marl Pits side.