Bournemouth head coach Will Croker has warned his players the rest of the division would be taking notice of his side.
Croker's side have begun the South West Premier campaign with three consecutive bonus-point wins and racked up nearly half a century at Weston with a 49-25 success.
But the Chapel Gate men are not the only team with a 100 per cent perfect start with Ivybridge sharing an identical record with them.
Croker said: "Teams are absolutely going to be looking at us now, and I think that we are aware of that.
"We came here with Weston coming off the back of two tight losses - and they had only narrowly lost both of their games and I'm sure they were looking at this game as an opportunity to try to get something on the board.

"So we knew they were going to come out hard and they did and they have got some good players.
"But we are going to get looked at now by teams and they are going to identify things and I'm sure when we go to Bracknell next week, they will be having a huge week of preparation knowing that we are coming to town."
After falling 20-16 down at half-time, Bournemouth came flying out of the blocks at the start of the second period with three tries in nine minutes to turn the game on its head.
But Croker said some strong words to the players from the coaching staff helped inspire The Lions to pull back and record their third straight win.

Croker added: "The players got a bit of a roasting from me at half-time for the first time in ages actually.
"I felt in the first half that we absorbed a bit too much - whether that was in the maul, the tackle or the breakdown - we did not really run any patterns that I really recognised as ours and we were lucky to be just four points back.
"I said to them at half-time that the next score has to be ours and it was obviously unusual to get it straight from the kick off but the whole thing was about us and they were always going to be difficult to breakdown at home.
"But we made it easier for them with the high penalty count, and just not playing with any real shape and too many unforced errors in the strike zone like individual errors like knocking on when we shouldn't have done.
"We gave them soft possession so in the second half I just said to them 'we have got to come out with a little bit more purpose and a bit more direction' and play a little bit more combative - we are a better team then that gave credit for - and obviously ran out 49-25 winners - and that is another good win on the road."

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