CAPTAIN Ben Parry says Pontypool’s goal now is simple – just keep on winning.

Pooler clinched the WRU Championship title last weekend with two games left this term.

It was the club’s first piece of silverware since their Division One triumph 17 years ago.

Hooker Parry will get his hands on the trophy this Saturday when the champions entertain Tata Steel at Pontypool Park.

They then travel to Bedlinog on the final day of the league campaign, hoping to round off what has been an exceptional season for the Gwent outfit.

The WRU’s decision to ring-fence the Principality Premiership means the top tier of Welsh club rugby is out of bounds to Pontypool for the time being.

With that in mind, there is only one thing Parry reckons he and his teammates can do.

“It’s disappointing we can’t go up but we’ve got to dominate the next few seasons to show the WRU we are capable of competing in the Premiership,” he said.

“That’s where we want to be – it’s where any player wants to be – so we’ve just got to keep winning.

“We have built a really good environment which will attract more youngsters and a batter calibre of player to help us do that.”

Parry crossed in Pooler’s 23-3 defeat of Glamorgan Wanderers on Saturday, as head coach Leighton Jones saw his men get over the line after the previous weekend’s loss.

Losing 30-22 to Cardiff Met scuppered Pooler’s hopes of winning every league game this season.

“Winning the league is brilliant for the club and the boys after all the hard work they have put in,” added Parry.

“I’ve been captain for three years and it’s great to bring a piece of silverware to the club after so long.

“I’m proud to be Pontypool captain and it’s a proud moment for me to win the league.”

He continued: “The town has got behind us this season, especially with the cup run, and they can see we’ve got a good side and play a good brand of rugby.

“We’ve managed to attract more supporters back to the club and it’s great we have won something for them.

“We need to keep this going next season, have another good cup run, and try and get that 100% record.

“First and foremost, we wanted to win the league, so we have done that, but we also wanted that 100% record.

“It would have been nice to do it because it was something Bargoed and Ebbw Vale couldn’t do.”

Parry also paid tribute to those who helped Pooler are the club nearly folded in 2012 on the back of a bitter legal battle with the WRU following their demotion from the Premiership.

“It’s a lot to do with Peter and Ben Jeffreys,” he said. “If they hadn’t come here there wouldn’t be a club.

“We owe a lot to those two men who saved the club from the situation it was in.

“On top of that, the coaches and players we’ve had over the last four years have also worked very hard.”