Gary McIntyre has threatened a legal challenge to the validity of the Canterbury Leagues Club election result as another controversial character has been forced to stand down from the board after his past caught up with him.

Threatening legal action: Gary McIntyre.

The fallout from the bitter battle at the ballot box continues after McIntyre – the man at the centre of the Bulldogs salary cap scandal – missed out on a seat on the nine-member board.

McIntyre polled 469 votes, but it wasn’t enough to return to the corridors of power.

McIntyre told a punter, who filmed him leaving the leagues club after the numbers were tallied, that his faction has ‘‘got the control of the club’’.