Halifax Panthers coach Simon Grix's 1895 Cup final reaction

Coach Simon Grix gives his thoughts on Halifax Panthers' win over Batley Bulldogs in the 1895 Cup final at Wembley.

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00:00 You were in control for 65 minutes and then some little bit hairy towards the end?

00:07 Yeah, look, battler are always going to have their say but you're right, 65, probably very

00:12 dominant but I still thought we were in control even though it was capped on our line. We

00:16 defended with a really good attitude and energy and, you know, turning up for each other I

00:21 suppose. That's where the team-ship and mateship counts, I thought we had it in spades today.

00:26 Got up coming back, I thought they were brilliant. We had that grind, we just set for set for

00:31 long periods and they were good and they did what battler always do, they were hanging

00:35 there and they came up with a brilliant try, it must be brilliant to watch on TV and in

00:38 between that I thought we'd come up with a really good game to advertise the championship

00:41 and they hopefully dragged a few more fans along to watch those games but, you know,

00:46 had we lost it or even drawn it, I thought at the end, I thought it would have been,

00:49 I might sound a bit harsh to battler fans but I thought it would have been criminal,

00:53 they absolutely dominated the game but, you know, fortunately they did score a great shot

00:58 and made them score on the last blade of grass in the corner which made a really difficult

01:01 kick for Luke Cooley. I don't know, it's a standing game and he'll probably go away a

01:05 little bit sour on the kick but, you know, on the whole I thought we deserved winners

01:09 but it was a really good game, wasn't it?

01:10 Did you watch the kick?

01:11 The kick?

01:12 Yeah.

01:13 Yeah, I watched it and it was silent. It had been quite noisy before then, it went really

01:16 quiet and obviously a lot of fans were behind them so I was thinking it had gone straight

01:20 through but it was a difficult kick, difficult circumstances and unfortunately when the right

01:26 side hit right's first.

01:27 It was one of those days where you did what you needed to do to win.

01:31 Yeah, I thought we were good. We probably didn't challenge them quite enough, we were

01:33 happy just turning the ball over, I thought we needed to just push a little bit more and

01:36 I think there were more points in that for us because it took a lot of energy away from

01:39 us, our control of the ball and the territory we had so, yeah, it's a final look whether

01:44 it's one point, ten points, thirty points, no one cares at the end of the day, the name

01:47 on the trophy will be on the back of the fans' list.