I thought we had heard the last of all this

Interesting! But will the reformed club still be playing in the Championship? How far will the RFL be prepared to bend over. I am sure they will come up with yet another crass decision.

But this is more fact than rumour...isn't it?

We all know the RFL will bend over backwards to help them out and keep their expansion dream alive



Another CC example of clubs running before they can walk so they can enter the mythical paradise of SL

Looks like posturing from Gartside to me.

May be RFL can clone Noble and stick him in Gateshead as well to save face

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

well that was a stipulation put on the next round of 'bids' we shall see

Even if Gateshead went bust they wouldn't put us back in Championship. Better to leave it as a 10-10 setup than create an 11-9. I do think though at some point we will have to merge the two leagues into one of say 16 teams. I fear a couple of clubs will go to the wall sooner than later.

Considering we were relegated on points difference behind Gateshead, if it is proven they were incurring debts which they were not in a position to honour in their financial position then they should not be allowed to remain in the Championship.
Should it be the case that they enter administration then they MUST be relegated - and the directors prosecuted for wrongful trading.
Whilst we cut our cloth according to our means they were manipulating the rules to stay up.

Technically the RFL were/are and will continue to manipulate the rules

It looks to me that an agreement between the shareholders has been reneged on. I dont think they have over spent but the person who was supposed to part fund the club has got cold feet or has a money problem his or her self had not divulged. Your man is right to be tetchy about carrying on because I bet other shareholders in the club are getting cold feet. How can you sit in a ground with hardly anyone in there and think you are going to the top , even if you are winning? It looks to me that his co sharehlders dont share his dream of SL supremacy. It would be a pity because I think the north is the place to expand our game more. I dont want Gateshead to go belly up because I love a weekend up there.