I have to disagree about Sutcliffe - if a player who's played for Fax for years and has helped us to get to the final gets replaced by a player with one game on loan then don't think that would do a lot for team moral. A few players surprised me on Sunday in what was our best performance of the season, and did enough to support making only minimal changes to rhe team on Saturday - even if the "talismanic" Keyes was fit - which he won't be. Even though I think Inman will be great for us in future, I'd play Brandon but start with O'brien as Moore was much more effective coming of the bench. Fairbank for Larroyer and McComb for Crooks would be my only changes.

A very long day in many respects and really happy for the team as I feel it’s just rewards for the club as a whole . Like huddshay said it was more of a grind them down performance with not many clean breaks from either side , not too dissimilar to the London away game in the semi final . We controlled large parts of the games but Batley as they do never went away and scored some great tries . The last five minutes was ridiculous in terms of nerves but in the end the luck pendulum swung our way . Regardless of opinions and of what happens for the rest of the season I feel it’s been a successful spell for Grix , two third place finishes, a challenge cup semi final, the 1895 cup and nominated for coach of the year two consecutive years . It’s the first time I’ve been to Wembley and thought the arenas atmosphere when I first arrived was brilliant, not gonna lie I was disappointed with the food and drinks side both in quality and price. Overall a great day and hopefully we can string a few results together which is still a tough run in for the playoffs.

A great defensive performance, we rightfully closed shop when we got 2 scores ahead (learning from the mistakes of not doing so at Sheffield) and ironically Batley got back into it when Lannon tried to keep the ball alive in our own half.

Hats off to Batley, they certainly live up to their nickname Bulldogs and have a fair amount of quality, James Meadows in particular.

We could have been out of sight in the first half ...... Kav DEFINITELY grounded the ball, the ref was about to give it but the touchie appeared to shake his head.

Anyway, well done Fax, excellent effort and agree with Joufret being the MOM.

We won. That’s all that matters. Sore head

Firstly i hope anyone who was involved in the crash on the m1 is ok. As for the day it was one hell of a long one, it took me just short of 7 hours to get there which in the grand scheme of things is not important but i was starting to think i was going to miss the kick off only to find out the Leigh Hull kr game had gone to golden point luckily for me. And like as been said it was a similar performance to the semi win, strong defence from both sides and concentrating on high completion rates. When it got to about the hour mark i thought we was going to pull clear but we got a bit over excited, Lannons offload without looking woody kicking out on the full and Louis going for a short kick on the last when in our own half gave a Batley a way back in which they are too good to not take advantage of, There last try was a belter but thankfully for us Hooley missed the kick. It was a good advertisement for the championship and a great day to be a Panthers fan.

Panthers TV full match coverage. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fsLg0waNNL8

Panthers TV full match coverage. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fsLg0waNNL8