rightfully so

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......Gateshead asked to go down.........

There never going to see top flight rugby in Leigh again, so may as well give them some sort of consolation.

That's quite possibly true and is very very sad.

No team that plays in a league that has relegation should be relegated at the cost of another ,If the RFL want to give a team like Toulouse exemption to relegation and they finish in a relegation position the team who finishes above them should not be relegated there should be no promotion .
Widnes shouldn't have been relegated when they were that was a disgrace as well.
Wigan should have been relegated and Cas reinstated when they were caught cheating the cap to avoid relegation imo !