COUGARS chairman Gary Fawcett has written to all clubs to request an extraordinary general meeting where he will put forward proposals for power within the game to be held by its members.

Fawcett has been left furious after Keighley were relegated due to rivals Batley not being docked points for fielding an ineligible player during a win over Sheffield in July.

The Cougar Park boss has threatened legal action against the Rugby Football League and believes the club's case is strengthened by information contained in the minutes of the disciplinary and appeals panel which led to Batley and Doncaster having their points reinstated.

Fawcett received the minutes on Wednesday and has now contacted all clubs in Super League, the Championships, BARLA, Universities and Armed Forces with a five-point plan.

The motion also proposes that the Batley and Doncaster points penalty should be reinstated – which would see the Cougars restored to the Championship.

Fawcett claimed that, in the absence of a solution from Red Hall, the RFL's member clubs were fully entitled to take control of the issue themselves.

He said: "Some people may not know but the Rugby Football League is owned by the member clubs. The directors are appointed to serve the RFL for the betterment and protection of the sport.

"Sometimes it may become necessary for the members to exert their fundamental rights to control when problems become too complex or problematic.

"I believe that this is a valid scenario for the members to empower themselves to decide on the solutions to a number of problems the sport faces."

As a result, Fawcett has written to all member clubs requesting a meeting to vote on five proposed resolutions as follows:

1: Request members to record a vote of no confidence in the compliance to the operational rules;

2: A seven-member working party to be formed to review the governance of the game and propose recommended changes to a subsequent meeting of the members;

3: Members to consider prohibiting the RFL board from spending monies in defending a legal action taken by member clubs against the RFL unless the expenditure is expressly sanctioned by a majority of members;

4: The members to vote to overturn the decision of the appeals panel that returned the points to Doncaster and Batley;

5: The members to require the board to come forward with detailed proposals of how the problem of Sheffield and Keighley can be solved. The members to vote on the best solution to solve this issue.

Fawcett said: "The five resolutions I have proposed above are ones that obviously have a direct relationship with the issue facing Keighley Cougars.

"As I have said to the members in a covering e-mail, 'You may not think this request applies to your club. However, if next season, or the season after, you have to bear the brunt of what you feel is an unfair situation, and have no remedy but litigation, then the opportunity available now to change the process will be lost to you'.

"This is an opportunity to change our much-loved sport for future success,so I hope the members respond positively to my request."