af linked this at the bottom of page 3

you dont read one page and look what happens

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Not sure anyone can blame the RFL over the Visas issue. They checked all visas in Dec & Jan and all were found to be valid AT THAT TIME.

As I understand it, their current visas were perfectly valid, but were based upon the fact that they had had valid visas in the past. It now appears that they did not for previous seasons (ie when Cru were in the NLs) as they had working holiday visas which the Borders Agency have since deemed as not good enough for semi-professional sporting purposes. Therefore, their current visas have been cancelled with immediate effect. It is possible to appeal this decision, but only from outside the country!

What is less clear is the involvement of the Club in helping these players obtain visas. Did they deliberately mislead the Borders Agency or were they working on the erroneous assumption that they could play with working holiday visas?

There have been a lot of cases in the lower divisions where players had been playing on working holiday visas.

The "work" you undertake is supposed to be incidental to your time in the UK, and not the reason you are here - at most NL clubs this wasn't much of a problem because they are part time and a couple of training sessions a week and a match during the season could easily fall within the criteria.

A lot of NL clubs had problems getting Aussies in at the start of this season due to some tightening up of the rules, it wouldn't surprise me if some follow up from that has led to what has happened to the Celtic players.

It's good to see the UK Borders Agency doing everything they can to keep these people out of the country. They were a threat to society and the british way of life. I mean calling flip flops thongs today mass murder tomorrow!

To be fair serves us right for imposing our convicts on the aborigines hundreds of years ago. Karma and all that