COUGARS chairman Gary Fawcett has confirmed the club’s fight against their relegation from the Kingstone Press Championship is now in the hands of solicitors.
As the Telegraph & Argus revealed, Fawcett met with leading sports lawyer Richard Cramer last week with a view to a potential legal challenge into the dual registration controversy that has surrounded the club’s climax of the season.
Fawcett has now confirmed that Cougars will reluctantly go down that path and has informed the governing body of the club’s proposed action.
The Cougar Park boss estimates that relegation will cost the club over £250,000 next season and is aggrieved that Batley and Doncaster were both reinstated the three points they were initially deducted for fielding ineligible dual registration players in July.
Fawcett feels that there is a very strong case to declare the appeal panel’s decision null and void and reinstate the punishment – under the RFL’s own operational rules.
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