It's typical, Richard Lewis and the RFL have their favourites and so they cast aside a good traditional club like Gateshead for one of these fancy Dan expansion sides like Leigh. It's a farce!

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Quote Fatboys Limb="Fatboys Limb"As Mystic Pev predicted, the Leythers are back in the big time! news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 354939.stm [i(assuming you refer to the Championship as 'the big time'?!) [/i'" just doesn't seem to work for the lottery

Not getting ' twitchy ' are you

to be fair all the clubs below us 'pushing' for a franchise are helping salfords application by, being relegated, no visa's, former directors being done for fraud etc

True , true

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