Despite dominating National League Three since its inception in 2003, Bradford Dudley Hill Demons will make their first Grand Final appearance against Bramley Buffaloes at Halton Stadium tomorrow (11.45am).

The Demons were runaway minor

premiers in the competition's inaugural season but lost both play-off games and missed out on the final.

Last year's play-off campaign ended in similar disappointment and team manager Lee Collins feared the club might miss

out for a third time this year after they once again topped the table only to lose their qualifying final to a Buffaloes drop goal.

"It is a relief in some ways to have got there," said Collins. "You start to wonder, 'Are we going to choke'?

"But the lads have come through. We are just going to enjoy the occasion. It is a final and anything can happen so we are just going to enjoy the day and if we can hit peak form the result will hopefully take care of itself."

The Demons finally shook off their

play-off hoodoo with a rousing 63-10

hammering of St Albans in last week's final eliminator to book a return encounter with the Buffaloes.

The Demons hold a slight edge in meetings between the sides this season, having hammered their local rivals 76-0 and 56-8 during the early-season Northern Rail Cup.

But there has not been much to separate the sides recently, with the league clashes shared one apiece before the Buffaloes edged the Grand Final qualifier 19-18.

"We don't feel we did ourselves justice in the last game against them," said Collins.

"We were a little under par. But this is a cup final and the guys are going to be motivated.

"So hopefully we'll hit the heights that we did against St Albans in reaching the final when we just blew them away.

"A lot of people don't realise that since National Three started a lot of these

players have had the equivalent of five straight seasons without a break.

"So if one or two of them have appeared a bit tired at times it's quite logical to expect that they would." The Demons are likely to be unchanged from the side that thrashed St Albans, with promising young winger Neil Wall having failed to recover from a broken collarbone.

With no promotion and relegation between the fully amateur National League Three and semi-pro League Two, victory tomorrow would represent the pinnacle of achievement for the Bradford club, who famously tipped Keighley Cougars out of the Challenge Cup last season.

"It is massive for the club and hopefully it is good for Bradford as well," said Collins.

"For us it's the equivalent of the Grand Final the Bulls will hopefully make. We were led to believe in the beginning that eventually it might become some kind of a vehicle for becoming a professional club.

"But that would only be if you could meet the right criteria off the field as well as being able to match it on it. We are still some time off even approaching being a professional team.

"But we've got a quite a strong youth set- up and players are starting to come through.

"It looks really exciting for the future. Whatever happens tomorrow, we are

covered for the next few years."