WILL Croker hopes Bournemouth’s latest expansive, free-scoring performance will encourage crowds to come flocking to Chapel Gate.

Wyn Roberts scored four tries as the Lions beat Cleve 42-12, Lions' third victory on the bounce after they had opened their campaign with successive defeats.

Bournemouth bounced back from conceding an early try to their Bristol-based opponents on Saturday to chalk up 30 unanswered points before half-time.

Roberts crossed twice, with Sam Hardcastle also touching down and Adam Davies scoring the Lions’ first drop goal in two seasons. All the while Grant Hancox’s trusty boot kept the scoreboard ticking over.

Roberts completed his personally prolific day after the break to help his side above the 40-point mark for the second home game in a row.

“We’re desperately keen to increase the numbers coming to watch us,” head coach Croker told the Daily Echo.

“If we keep playing games like we did on Saturday and scoring that number of points then that will happen, because people want to see a team that’s scoring 40 points a game.

“We’ve got a responsibility to keep providing a spectacle, to keep providing an attractive game for people to come and watch.”

The Lions have employed marketing company Mobile Media to promote the club in the town. And anybody tempted down to Chapel Gate will see a side that possesses a burning ambition to win promotion from National Three South West this term.

To that end, Croker agreed last weekend’s ruthless display carried extra gravity, coming as it did one week on from his side’s gritty, hard-won 17-3 victory at Lydney.

He said: “Momentum is a huge part of this league. Sides are potentially evenly matched in terms of skillset, so it comes down to mental approach.

“We do always fancy ourselves at home, we have a good record there and we like playing on the big pitch. It gave us an opportunity to go out and express ourselves. So when you marry the pragmatism and the mental fortitude of the previous week with the flair and the ability to open up a defence that we demonstrated on Saturday, it shows we can be contenders."

Next on the agenda for Bournemouth is a trip to Bristol to play Dings Crusaders, who sit one spot lower in the table than the fourth-placed Lions.

“It’s not the prettiest of grounds, to put it politely.” added Croker. “It can be quite an intimidating place. We’re expecting them to be nuggety, hard and uncompromising.

“So much of being successful is having belief, that knowledge you will win. Not just hoping you will, or thinking you will… but knowing you will. We want our guys to look around the changing room, look at their team-mates and see that same attribute looking back at them.

"Then it’s how you deal with that pressure and expectation among each other. We apply a positive pressure to ourselves, to be as good as we can be.

“But we have to get it right, so that pressure doesn’t become suffocating. We want it to invigorate people, for it to be something they can thrive on."