How any club can be allowed to keep points from a game where they played  an illegible player is laughable as it has a clear effect on the league.But this is not the fault of Batley but again the RFL failing to get things right first time.Any punishment for the offence should have been backed up by removing points from the offending game ,but as they failed to do this and batley basically keep 3 points earned illegally in the rules of the game.As for us if we did breach rules with clough and I have yet to see any official statement that says so(even though rumours suggest 5 clubs breached them last season).Then we should have been punished last season(yet the rfl were not aware if any clubs breach until this week !!!!! .As we were safe before clough played in these alleged games and we were tonked in both then they had no effect on our league position unlike batleys game.What a  mess this and many other reasons are why I never attend CC final GF final or international games,I refuse to give money directly to the idiots that run our game

Will some people please step back from the keyboard.
Stop the threats.
Lets stop the name calling. Lets cut out using #@$ that sort of thing to try and disguise words.
We all want whats best for the club.
We just have different views on how it should be done.

A bit dramatic there GW, I don't recall seeing any threats, just annoyed and anguished fans seeing their club throw it all away and blow off steam against each other. But you are right, it ends up going too far. I'm pretty good at pushing the boundaries myself sometimes

To be fair some fans do go on a bit about the coach and chairman but they do have a right to do that, in the same way that others can argue they think they are wrong.

I think Burley had a point about the playing surface, it is poop.

The rules have been on the RFL website for anyone to see all year,. Dewsbury, who were also investigated, certainly knew about the 3 games/£20k rule and indeed checked up with both Bradford and the RFL before playing the player concerned - they even kept this quiet so as not to embarrass their neighbours at Batley who hadn't even bothered to check what the rules on DR were! Their original defence of 'we didn't know the rules' is, quite frankly, laughable and shambolic for a supposedly professional outfit.

Those in the relevent positions at any club HAVE to be held to account for their mistakes. It matters not whether they are volunteers or full time staff.