And so it goes to the last week. Since early February, the potential of a finale of Scunthorpe Vs Hinckley on the last Saturday for the title is something which has sat in the back of everyone's minds, and with bonus point wins for both teams this weekend, it has become the reality.

Hinckley head the table by 4 points. A win or a draw in Scunthorpe hands the title to the Leicestershire outfit, a defeat will see it going to Lincolnshire IF the home side win by 4 or more league points, with the deciding factor being if the table is tied on points games won, which would tip the balance to the home side.

Following this performance however, Hinckley will head north full of confidence, having delivered close to their best performance of the season in most areas of the game, and with a clean bill of health, allowing the selection committee to select from the full squad for the first time this season. Hinckley scored 4 tries in each half, combining forward power with some excellent attacking play, something which is the mark of improvement on last year's team who lost out to Sandal in the 14/15 play-off.

The first points of the day came early, with Joe Glover converting a simple penalty, the first try 10 minutes in, with Luke Coltman scoring from short range, converted by Glover. The second try was delivered very soon after, with Josh Smith cutting an excellent line through the defence to finish on the left hand side.

Sandbach at this point had dropped to 14 following a yellow card, but on their return to 15 the home dominance continued. After Coltman was judged to have knocked on in the process of scoring, the Hinckley pack lead by the excellent Steve Harvey pushed the visitors off their own ball and back over their own line, with captain Alex Salt touching down. Before half time Smith was then in again securing the bonus point, and a 25 - 0 lead at the interval.

Sandbach started the second half positively with Hinckley this time suffering from a yellow card to Tom Morris, and they scored through Tim Oakes during this period, however straight from the restart, a handling error was capitalised on by Tom Hilyer who kicked through and just grounded the ball before the dead ball line with Glover adding the conversion.

Benny Elliott scored a second try for Sandbach but it Hinckley then scored three more tries as the game went on to go past 50 points. The first came from Mitch Lamb who ran an excellent support line off Glover, who converted the score. The 7th of the day came from Hilyer, now at scrum half who ran in from 35 metres and the final one went to top try scorer Callum Dacey following an excellent piece of skill from Smith - Mark Lord converted both the 7th and 8th tries.