Champions!

Saturday's championship decider brought together the league's top two sides to battle it out for the title and was played out in front of more than 300 people.

And the Finstall Park side can now look forward to playing Midlands One rugby next season, the highest level the club has ever played at.

Director of Coaching David Stout said: "I am obviously delighted - it has been a long hard season.

"We have never been able to relax and to come through at the last hurdle is enormously satisfying. People have taken a lot of pleasure and there are a lot of reasons to feel proud.

"You don't win leagues without being consistent and set a standard no-one else can reach but at the end of the day we have to perform."

Such has been the strength of Bromsgrove's play this season, they have only lost one game in 22 league fixtures and have massed an incredible 894 points, including a 116-9 drubbing of Newport, in the process.

And Stout was quick to praise the supporters for their efforts this season, especially as more than 100 journeyed to Rugby for Saturday's gamed.

"The club recognises these things do not happen very much," Stout said. "A lot of the Bromsgrove members and supporters realised the one thing we could not do is give Laurentians an advantage and it lifted the players."

But Stout also realises the club cannot rest on their laurels although they have every right to savour their success.

"We want to go forward from here," he said. "But if we sit back on achievements we will go nowhere and get overtaken.

"We all know every time you step up a league you increase the standard of play but we have beaten sides above us before so we have that ability - we have to have a good squad and we cannot rely on individuals.

"We have proved we have a good playing depth in the club, which is important for the coming seasons.

"We don't go in with any fears but we have to recognise that it won't happen unless we make it happen."