That's what's great about the RL family. Most of the stuff on this thread is smug-I-told-you-so-flat-capper type speak. Unless of course we want the game here to revert to semi-pro, and Oz and NZ be the only 2 teams that can beat each other.
Trying to give this game a bigger profile is hard enough. Celtic have battled hard to try and do it, and maybe they were not ready for SL. But does the knife have to go in and twist to much right now.
The club have maybe wronged here, but how has it taken 3 years in some cases to find this out. The immigration people are well out of order, allowing it to take this long.

But at the end of the day, the fans and the game in Wales are the losers, and I believe the game in general in Europe is too.
Bringing young kids in may look good on paper, but if they aren't ready, it's futile. However if there is enough experience around to get those kids thro', then it may prove to be very interesting.

Didnt immigration rules change in Nov 2008?

Thus resulting in your current predicament, meaning that when these guys came over their visas were all in order. Is it a fact that these new rules applied retrospectively have resulted in this almighty b***s up we are currently witnessing?

Can any one in the know shed some light on this.

Chin up Celtic fans!

aye, and so were all the NL clubs that played against them last year by a club fielding a team containing illegal immigrants!!

Read the previous post to yours. That may be significant.

Pilchard me old chum how dare you bring logic and reason in to the narrow minded and ignorant flat cappers witch hunt.

p.s cheers for the pint on sunday good to see you again will repay you next year when your down

They have been playing over here on student visa's getting paid by the clubs chairman in clear contravention of the salary cap rules for the 2 previous years

In those 2 years several other clubs have been affected adversly because of this

I do sympathise with the fans,but lets have a level playing field.celtic cheated,and the consequence should be expulsion/demotion.celtic are in this position through incompitent management supported by red hall.

breaking the salary cap. wigan saints have consistantly broke it amongst others...does that mean they should be demoted??

Either that or a clear indication of how expansion clubs will operate under different rules at all levels from now on

Celtic are bottom of SL , they have had little effect on where other clubs in SL are going to finish this year

For the last 2 years though they have had a massive effect on the clubs they have played

That must never be allowed to happen again

I see the Fev, Widnes & Leigh Flatcappers are jumping on the Bandwagon again. Take a step back and consider that the paperwork was incorrect.

Come on get real - the RFL dont go over past Immigration papers when they are trying to sort out the club. Give them a break.

CC are not cheats - these players have been with them since the start.

Compare what is happening with the Blood capsule situation in RU =- now THAT is cheating.

Absolutely gutted, thanks for all the support folks and as for all the 'hang 'em high' brigade good luck in whatever your team does and hope that you'll get a bit more sympathy as a fan than we'll get if your team ever fall foul of the rules.

What bollox.

Read the BBC story again. You will notice that it is the PLAYERS who are being held responsible. As yet, no decision has been made by the Borders Agency as to whether the club knowingly employed illegal immigrants. The club could be entirely innocent in all of this yet with the childish rantings of idiot fans from other clubs anyone would think the owner and staff had committed mass murder.

I haven't witnessed such a load of childish, pathetic rubbish since I was a kid on the school playground. You lot from other clubs, [iyou[/i are the embarrassment to rugby league.