So from what i can make out from this is The governing body of the RFL now promote cheating as long as a player or team have gotten away with it once before roll on the backlash of there decision on this one

Anyone know what the clubs response to this is?

I hope its going to be very strong and also very soon.

Just imagine if they let drug cheats off, just because others had flown under the radar, or salary cap cheats. Where does it stop!

The Police don't let you off speeding just because your neighbour got away with it!

It's a plain disgrace and the RFL should hang their head in shame.

Our club, and others need an immediate and strong objection.

www.newsandstar.co.uk/sport/have ... -1.1158518 looks like others are fuming too.....

www.newsandstar.co.uk/sport/have ... -1.1158518 looks like others are fuming too.....

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

Even if our Chairman was the sort of person to fight for a bit of right (I don't think he is), what could he really do? The Cougars were not one of the clubs who the breached the rules. Ultimately the decision has been made and it shows the RFL in a very bad light. I agree with Len though, if we don't pick up the required number of points to survive, we don't deserve to. What angers me the most is that March thinks survival will be a great success. I don't agree and I have seen enough games this season and the indifferent performances to think all is not great. I hear various rumours, how true they are I don't know, but it all suggests that March is not a good leader. If we go down we can only blame ourselves, not Batley or the RFL. We've been involved in games where we should have picked up the points and if we had we would not be in this position now. Leigh, Batley, NWC to name a few. I want us to stay up don't get me wrong, but I also think people need to wake up and realise that the set-up of this club is poor and we will never truly move forward under the current leadership. That includes Chairman and Coach. If we survive this season, will we be in the same position again next year? I'm waiting for snipers to shoot me down, but this is just my opinion.

I Agree 100% with every word you have just said. I have been saying the same thing
Thia season and last season , sometimes rather vocally

Sorry I don't see any realistic alternative. Best make the most of it.

I take your point, but maybe thats the issue, we are not making the most/best of it. There may not be many people willing to invest money in the club, but if the Chairman would listen to the fans and maybe take on board some feedback it may allow the club to grow and move forward. I also believe we were wrong to give Marchy a two year contract in mid season when he have proved nothing. If we were at the top of the table I could of understood it, but we'd just beaten Sheffield and were not even nearly safe. These are the decisions which make me question his judgement.

Just to put this out there, how do we know investors are not keen in putting money in the club? Is it a case that Gary is the only one who is willing, or now unwilling to give it up?

I totally agree with you, it was wrong to renew March's contract mid season, that should have been postponed until the end of the season or at the very least conditional on us making the playoffs.

With regard to the Batley fiasco, I know a lot of supporters are upset with the RL but if we are relugated the main reason will be because we didn't sieze our opportunities, we have lost a lot of games that we should have won and that not the fault of the RL, that's on the team and the coach.

I totally agree 'KRLFC' but I believe that it is also the 'Dual Standards' that the RFL appears to apply that has caused so much criticism.

Let's face it; in how many other so-called 'professional sports' do the administrators appear to be so inept?

So how on earth can they enforce any similar Rules in the future?

They have painted themselves into a corner of future actions and potential litigation which, in my opinion, they will be unable to defend themselves against. How can they? They simply cannot have one Rule for Batley and Doncaster and another for other Clubs (including Keighley).

By the way, does anyone know which Clubs cheated previously and what effect it had on their league positions and central funding?

haven,York,town are said to be 3 of the 5 clubs who breached the regs last season,in playing DR players in the NRCup and playing players after deadline, we are suppose to have breached it with clough (in league and NR cup) but in both games we got tonked once by you and had no effect on league position,
Town said to have breached it with craven in the league(rumours he was on loan,but played for Widnes during that time so can't have been) and leulaui in the NR cup,not sure about York or two other clubs.
no club should be allow d to gain league position via playing noneligible players,that's why batley should have the game points removed

Batley played a player who scored and won them the game when he should NOT have been on the pitch. Do you think we would have got away with it given what happened with March?

I actually think we have done well this season in parts a do not deserve to go down when other teams play players that are not allowed on the pitch!