Spinout,
I agree with the first part of your post but a promise was made to interview, if it wasn't I agree we had no right to expect ANYTHING, but a promise was made, and some people on this forum believe we were given priority into the other regionals, THIS IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE and that is the point I wanted to make.
with reference to the integration thing this actually occured later, after the promises had been broken but at least one bloke benifited as the regional tryed to get the integration up.