Tigers, unbeaten this season, won the competition in 20000 when the beat the Bank of England and they produced a powerful second-half display today to take the trophy for the second time.

The Yorkshire side began brightly, wingman Matt Walker using his pace to score twice in the first nine minutes, but Solihull stayed in touch with a brace of penalties from full-back Jim Quantrill.

Tigers then lost their momentum and Solihull went ahead when hooker Jeff Large burst over after a break by scrum-half Barry Cole and Quantrill converted to leave the Yorkshiremen 13-10 adrift at the interval.

The balance of power then shifted permanently in the first minute of the second-half when wingman Wayne Warren burst through the middle to score at the posts, fly-half Eugene Martin converting.

Tigers then continued to dominate territorially and a brace of penalties from Martin put then in the driving seat.

Solihull were unable to impose themselves on the game as they had in the first-half and the final word went to centre Jonathan Storey, who burst onto a Martin pass to score and leave the fly-half with a simple conversion.

“It was an absolutely marvelous performance,” said coach Richard Selkirk. “We probably flattered to deceive by scoring those two early tries and maybe we stepped off the gas.

“Solihull came back at us well using their big forwards, but I always felt we had enough in the tank to come back in the second-half.”

Said centre Storey, who scored the final try and celebrated with an extravagant ‘arms out’ gallop: “I felt sure I was going to score today and the style of the celebration was inspired by Brian Glover in Kes when he scored his goal.

“It was a dream come true today and an experience I’ll never forget.”

“I was obviously a bit disappointed at the way we played.” Said Solihull captain Barry Cole. “We could have played a bit better, but having said that, it’s a big old pitch and they were a big old team and they took it out of us in the early stages. We played well towards the end of the first-half and I though we might be able to turn it round a bit more, but they scored early on and it was always going to be tough from there.”