Agreed ! here here
I would welcome a level playing field, a fair competition were we all abide by the same rules and the game is allowed some dignity, while i do not want fans to be upset or upset them, being that we all love Rugby League. Gateshead should be allowed to develop naturally, ultimately the paying public will decide if they want RL. Good luck to the RL fans in the North East, it has to be the most impressive match day drive if you go past the Angel and along the Tyne. But... fast tracking sides, subsidising and allowing them individual quotas grates with me and always will, if the tables were turned these new clubs would not be happy at all. So unfortunately I shall remain at deep odds with RFL and the soliciting of our once dignified sport.

Just been posted on Leigh board Steve McCormac has quit at Gateshead.

McCormack to be new Barrow coach then

Personally I am sad to see this news, why wont they learn!

Hope they pull through.

Oh no. What will Lewis do now that Gateshead can't be shoe-ins for super league? He's gonna have splinters in his fingers from scratching his head to think of a way round it. Good luck dickiel

Oh Nooooooooooo

Gateshead are going nowhere. They'll just wind up the current company and clear the debts or transfer the debts to the 'new' company that takes ownership.

In talks with RFL over being saved. It's a lot like the RFL did for donny and other such clubs. Oh. Hang on........

Well, it'll take someone with deep pockets to get the game started up there. Again, they're just not interested in RL. If after thirty years of trying in London we produce a three thousand and odd average crowd for a SL club then that tells you how difficult it is to plant the game in an area where there's no interest. The NFL (with all their $squillions) couldn't launch their game here - with the blaze of publicity for the London Monarchs. That worked didn't it? As did the NRL's attempt in Perth - and it's that country's national sport for God's sake.

The RFL just aren't getting it. Yes, it would be lovely to spread the game but it's nigh on impossible to do so. The more these clubs go to the wall, the more potential backers will be put off. The only hope is for a Rugby Union club to go bust and be bought out by a League franchise - but even they've got more money than sense, so i can't see that happening.

rlGateshead holding company to be wound uprl

Leigh may yet be spared.....still! Pinched from the Donny boardhttps://forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?t

Gateshead CEO Rod Findlay previously worked at RFL headquarters.Why would you give up a job at RFL headquarters to move to a club that is struggling financially unless you know something the rest of us can easily guess at-the RFL won't let Gateshead go to the wall

So what do people think plan B is?