But can they afford to pay him twice.

What makes me laugh is when they say "Celtic Crusaders have appointed...." when it should read "The RFL have appointed......"

Nine point deduction then a la Doncaster.
But which season would it count for ?
We will see.

if there are any points deduction then it would be for the 2010 season as the 2009 has officially ended.

Its unlikely it will work in our favour. Widnes went pop at seasons end, 9 point penalty the following season, not moved down a division.

I wouldn't get any hopes up, if it had been any other club (bar Tolouse of course) then the RFL would let them go to the wall but as its them well....

Speaking as a Donny fan we have been told by the RFL we are in the last chance saloon !
It doesn't seem to be the same attitude for expansion teams.

Get the name of the team changed to Le Donny Hawaythelads Celtic, open a PObox in North Wales, have the Post Office redirect the mail to Doncaster, the RFL will never know, you may even be awarded monies to buy foreign players and keep them full time.

Knowing the RFL, they'll be docked 10 points, to be deducted equally over the next 10 seasons.

if they do go into admin, that officially should mean that their dream of the stupid league 2012 is over

this just shows what a farce last season was - Gateshead paying unsustainable wages to players, they stay up and then it all goes down the tube shortly thereafter.

Looks like the salary cap really works eh?

I feel sorry for the fans of the team that they have to go through this again - but have to ask where the club thought the amount of money required to keep the momentum up was going to come from....surely they would be better to grow slowly over 5 or 10 years rather than expand too quickly..

On the other hand I have no sympathy for the RFL, who once again are left with egg on their faces..

You're all just a bunch of flatcappers

I take that as a compliment..thank you very much..

Under the new regime at Donny we will be paying match terms only, building from the bottom and strengthening links with the local amateur scene. Maybe a lesson for Gateshead here. Or we culd just stick them in SL in two years instead !

special dispensation as they are a "development" area

bet my bottom dollar on it