Good luck to Keighley next season. As probably the biggest club in Championship 1, you should expect to come straight back up.
In terms of the dual registration fiasco, you need to place the blame firmly at the RFL's door. Did anyone really expect Batley not to appeal when there was a whole raft of unpunished precedent? It's unfortunate that the bungling of the RFL has impacted so badly on your club, but Kevin Nicholas was absolutely right to protect the interests of his club when he discovered that others had previously been allowed to break the rules.
If I was the Keighley chairman, I'd be sueing Nigel and chums for all I could get.

I tell you exactly what cost you that game, the stadium announcer; yes the stadium announcer he kept reading out the batley Donny score then stopped last 25 mins. had he kept announcing the score and the players new Donny were getting hammered Rovers wouldn't of been so desperate

That isn't true.

Our ground is owned by the Co-op and has been for a number of years.

If I understand it correctly, the rfl acted as middleman when the lease was due for renewal to make sure the co- op actually did renew the lease rather than building retail on the site.

whilst its no consolation now i just read an interesting post on the fev forum where someone stated that if keighley had purposely given fev a penalty in that last set in front of the sticks just before they scored, fev would have definately taken the shot at goal and the game would have ended in a draw as 2 point was all that fev needed and whitehaven would be down.
i guess hindsight is a wonderful thing but also i would assume experienced players such marchy or handforth would have worked that out...

I did wonder if 2 points was enough for Fev when they were on the hunt in our 20yd. Fancy that, March not giving a penalty away when necessary. I guess most players don't factor in draws in that situation, being quite rare. Just shows how close everything was, so many variables to how the season would end for top and bottom teams. Predictably we came off worst! Just about coming to terms with it now. Could be worse, we could be cheats

yes in the end they did not need to win and two points (draw) would have been enough for both teams and a fair result. when you think about it you would have expected that someone on your coaching staff would have been aware of all the possible scenarios as they would have known other scores and acted accordingly. like you say marchy has a penalty or two in him