Gary has just asked me to post the news that he & CEO Neil Cullen will this afternoon meet with the Club's Solicitor to discuss the Clubs intial moves in their fight to keep the Club in the Championship .

Things moving already !

Press coverage is national which can only be a good thing www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/s ... ampionship Good luck to all involved. I think we will be going down still, I think to reverse that will be considered impossible by the RFL. It is unfair and Batley, whilst they may not consider it cheating, have broken the rules and remain unpunished and have avoided relegation. To take this to the high court will cost tens of thousands. Arbitration is a matter of hundreds but the RFL need to agree to it i think. Which of course they wont

Press coverage is national which can only be a good thing www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/s ... ampionship Good luck to all involved. I think we will be going down still, I think to reverse that will be considered impossible by the RFL. It is unfair and Batley, whilst they may not consider it cheating, have broken the rules and remain unpunished and have avoided relegation. To take this to the high court will cost tens of thousands. Arbitration is a matter of hundreds but the RFL need to agree to it i think. Which of course they wont

Glad to see the club are fighting, however I feel no matter how far we push the RFL theres little chance of anything (maybe a pittance of compo money) and we will be playing Coventry, Hemel, Gateshead, South Wales in front of 600-700 crowds instead of playing Leigh, Fev, Fax and B*lls infront of alot bigger crowds.

I was 13 when we lost out on super league, I've got 8 year old twin boys now and I thought they were gonna get the chance to see us play a competative match v B*lls. Not a lot seems to have changed at the RFL in the last 20 years.

Still gutted

Good news Rach, fingers crossed!!!

By the way, STOP THAT SINGING

Hey look at it this way we will do in 2016 - Well go back up and the Bulls will be still in the Championship - They think they will have it easy, remember they will have to overcome at least 1 current SL team and in my opinion I do think it will be Wakey, Widnes, Cas and one of the Hull clubs in that bottom 4 next year, they will be no push overs, London already look stronger for next year than they have all this season and lets not forget there are still some good champ teams Leigh especially. And if the clubs don't go back up at first attempt I can see some of those bigger name players not sticking, many have been signed on 1 year deals anyway

good luck with the appeal the RFL are a shower not fit for purpose, only they could think its ok for a club to keep 3 league points gained fielding an illegal player, feel for you guys

Good luck with the appeal, it's about time the RFL were taken to task on this blatant cheating.

Good luck on the appeal. Its the second time this has happened to you guys.

Fingers crossed for some positive outcome of legal action. Very nice to see support from other clubs. Let's hope the RFL really recognise what a huge mistake they've made with their "justice" system.

Why did the club not start this process after the points were returned to Donny and Batley?

We should do this jointly with Sheffield as they also dropped a place due to Donny being given 3 points back.

I agree that the advice and action should really have been taken prior to the game on Sunday. Whilst I feel we have a strong case and agree we should be fighting this, after the game it can, to the outsider, all appear as sour grapes because we got relegated. I understand that it has impacted on us the most now, but would have preferred some communication before the game.

Anyone thinking that the decision will be reversed are kidding themselves. Batley will not be relegated and will be involved in the play offs. That much I am certain of. I'm not a lawyer so don't know all the loopholes and RFL's policies etc, but as a layman I feel we must have a strong case. The best we can hope for is the RFL to accept they got the DR wrong through poor administration and due to that they make a concession that Keighley stay in the Champ. That to me is the best we can hope for. Knowing the RFL and the costs involved if the RFL want to play hard ball we will struggle to take matters further due to costs.

Respect to the club for fighting it and thanks to the fans from other clubs who have come out in support. We need that support as strength in numbers is what will make the RFL sit up and take note.

Fingers crossed, but in truth I expect very little.

Maybe they were gobacked that The RFL had allowed Batley and
Doncaster to go unpunished for Cheating.

I might be wrong, but i think the club did start.
They asked the rfl to clarify the situation.

They probably didn't expect Donny to throw the game against Batley

Just what the club needed to do, it wouldn't send out a good message to fans, players and most importantly sponsors if they were seen to just take it on the chin. I will be very shocked if the rfl hand out punishment or even let us stay up. I think the best thing we can do is push for compensation on the grounds of lost revenue in gates, players we might have kept if stayed up, loss of sponsors if any etc. At least next season if successful in getting compensation the bank account would look good and set us up for the season ready to push on.

The rfl just seem to turn up on a daily basis and must think right what rule can we come up with today.

The way I imagine them is like a chimps' tea party, although having said that chimps are intelligent animals.

Haven't Whitehaven also missed out on playing in the Playoffs because of the points fiasco? and of course less money because of league position!

I think they are just relieved that you didn't hold on for the last two minutes. I look forward to your swift return

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It could be swifter than you might think from what I have heard!

Awwwwww Halifaxcougar ya can't do that to us ......do tell !!!!!!!!

Good man. Cheers for that.

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