FINALLY, Warrington Wolves can officially plan for life at the top of women’s rugby league.

Given their general dominance of Betfred Women’s Super League’s second tier, that planning may well have been going on for a while but this was the emphatic rubber-stamp they were looking for.

Ask anybody who has followed their games during this all-conquering year and they will tell you most of their victories have come in the kind of manner rugby league purists would love – win the arm wrestle and earn the right to be expansive.

Nobody could deny The Wire’s willingness to work hard for each other here as they were unmoved by a slightly sticky start.

The noises coming out of the camp this week were that they were expecting an early blitz from Featherstone and a physical slugfest in general.

The latter was certainly true as bone-crunching hits went in left, right and centre and after opening the scoring with their first look at the Wire line, the Yorkshirewomen may well have fancied their chances.

Rather than knock them off their stride, however, that early blow only served to fire the Warrington players up and once they had grabbed command of the game, they never looked like surrendering it.

Dani Bound was at the centre of everything with a lively display from hooker, but second rower Katie-May Williams and winger Sammi Simpson were also among some stand-out individual displays.

As many predicted pre-match, the second half became a case of how many they would win by and it is on that front where we find perhaps the only minor concern about the performance.

If they are to make a dent in the established order at the top of the women’s game, they will need to be a little bit cleaner and more clinical with the ball.

Given the amount of possession they were handed by a tiring Featherstone side in the second half, they will have wanted to make more of it than the two tries they managed but it has to be said Rovers’ commitment to defending their line was impressive.

The step up to the top level is a big one in pretty much every facet, but one thing that does stand out about Warrington - as well as their willingness to go to the deepest depths for each other - is the intensity of their belief that they can manage it.

For now, though, it is only right that they celebrate what has been a magnificent season.

They have brought light to what has been a pretty grim season for the men’s team and have captured the imagination of everybody that has come on the journey with them.

It is boom time right now for women’s rugby league and indeed women’s sport in general, and now Warrington has come to the party.