Wests sent a warning to the rest of the competition with a seven try demolition of competition leaders and defending premiers Brothers.

Wests scored four unanswered tries in the first half, despite losing centre David Vaihu to a red card after he mistimed a tackle midway through the first half.

But everything else went to plan, with hooker Ethan Dobbins even running 80 metres to score an intercept try and help his side to a 24-point half time lead.

“Wests were really good,” Brothers coach Ben McCormack said on Monday.

“We had a lot of changes going into the game but we were still really confident with the team that we put on the park and we thought we’d be more than competitive.