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Catalans Dragons. This was followed by a National Conference Grand Final at Mount Pleasant against Oulton, unfortunately losing the game. The game hit the head lines for all the wrong reasons with crowd trouble in the main stand prior to the trophy presentations. The club was handed a £1,000 fine for this and suffered a 4-point deduction at the start of the 2006–07 league season. Former Super League star Paul March took over as head coach immediately after the Grand Final defeat. In 2007, the club played Strela Kazan, Russian side in the Carnegie Challenge Cup. The game was staged in Overthrope Park with a crowd of over 1,500 present. When Paul March left to become coach at York City Knights, player Scott Dyson took the helm as player / coach. Under Dyson the club pulled off some battling performances to hang onto their Conference Premier Division status, however having avoided relegation, a 76–0 hammering at Leigh Miners on the last day of the 2007/08 season was the beginning of the end.
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