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SWINTON Lions threw down the gauntlet to what is expected to be a fiercely contested First Division by outplaying the title favourites Keighley at Gigg Lane yesterday.
It was hardly the morale-booster the Cougars needed before their visit to Wigan in next Sunday's Challenge Cup fourth round. They only escaped a drubbing thanks to a string of try-saving tackles by the full-back Matthew Foster.
Swinton, on yesterday's evidence, have done a smart piece of business with Paul Barrow, whom they sold to Warrington for pounds 60,000 in December 1995 and...