A major meeting to discuss the future of the lower levels in rugby league is taking place in Doncaster tomorrow.

Championship and League One officials will hear plans mapped out for the future of the game below Super League level.

It could be explosive too, with one suggestion that League One could be deregulated to become virtually an amateur competition.

Whitehaven and Workington Town will be represented at the meeting which follows a weekend in which both were involved in the opening fixtures of the new League One season.

The suggestion of deregulation to amateur status would certainly cause dismay among the senior member clubs.

But steps have already been taken to devalue League One with match commissioners at that level set to be discontinued after this weekend.

Only three games in the third round of the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup will be covered by match commissioners – coincidentally all of them involving Cumbrian clubs: Hunslet Club Parkside v Workington Town; Coventry v Distington, and Askam v York City Knights.

It is also being mooted that another way of deregulating League One would be to do away with the rule that each club has to have a doctor attending games.

It might mean clubs having to provide their own medical cover – as amateur clubs do.

At the weekend, the opening game between West Wales and Newcastle Thunder was postponed because of a problem with the matchday medical equipment.

The medication and equipment list was checked in the days leading up to the match, but it wasn’t noticed that one item was out of date.

Newcastle Thunder had stayed overnight, too, so West Wales face a fine over the postponement.

But without a match commissioner, or a club doctor, that game would have gone ahead, with one important listed drug out of date.

Whitehaven chairman Tommy Todd said: “I’m not sure what to expect tomorrow but it seems as though there could be some controversial proposals.”