Sheppey United’s 10-goal weekend rout didn’t surprise their manager Ernie Batten.

He’s been predicting such a scoreline for his Southern Counties East, Premier Division side for several weeks.

Prior to their 10-0 win over Greenwich Borough they put five past Erith Town and scored six against Deal Town.

He felt they should have had double figures in the game before, against Deal, but they finally achieved it on Saturday.

Batten said: “It was just a perfect storm from us going forward, we were unstoppable. It was a result that had been coming.

“We have six or seven players capable of scoring goals and producing a bit of magic. We are getting goals from different areas and on our day, if we are playing well, nobody in the league can contain us.

“I’ve had a few seven or eights but I can’t remember a 10 before. In a few of the games we’ve had recently we’ve been looking like we could go on and reach that figure.”

Greenwich went bottom of the division after the result but were no whipping boys. They had the same defensive record as the Ites – sitting fourth - prior to the match.

They looked lively early on too, but a fourth minute opener from Harrison Carnegie and a goal from Sheppey goal-machine Dan Bradshaw soon after put Sheppey firmly in charge.

Greenwich had chances themselves at 2-0 down, missing a penalty and hitting the woodwork, but a goal from Danny Rumbol, two own goals, a second for Carnegie and a quickfire double from Danny Leonard put them eight ahead at the break.

“We attacked quickly and were just too much for them,” said the Ites boss.

“It was great to watch and I asked at the break if they could get 10.

“It’s hard to keep that intensity but we stepped up the gas in the latter stages and scored two more.”

Goals from Laurent Hamici and Frazier Osunkoya completed the rout.

Sheppey are now the league’s top scorers – with 50 from 14 games. Bearsted are the next best on 46 and the two sides meet tonight (Tuesday) in the SCEFL Challenge Cup. Kick off at the Bears’ Otham ground is 7.30pm.