According to the BBC 6 of them are here illegally and will have to go, news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 207827.stm This means that they were ineligible to play all season so i wonder if they will have their winning games reversed by the RFL. But this story will take the heat of the Ra Ras "fake blood" story. also normally an employer is fined £10,000 per illegal employee.

According to the BBC 6 of them are here illegally and will have to go, news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 207827.stm This means that they were ineligible to play all season so i wonder if they will have their winning games reversed by the RFL. But this story will take the heat of the Ra Ras "fake blood" story. also normally an employer is fined £10,000 per illegal employee.

Van Dyke is their main man isnt he? Wasnt Duggan their useful Fullback but he has been out injured?

They'll probably go on the run and never get deported or found like all the other frigin immigrates in this country

DISGRACE TO RUGBY LEAGUE

Joke club.

Silver Lining-Salford slighty more safe for next franchice

How are we slightly more safe?

No need for the casual racism, is there?

It'll be interesting to see what action the RFL take, mind.

Have a bit of sympathy for them.

All sounds that the paperwork was duff. They have been a credit to CC and the game and we shouldnt wallow in their misfortune.

When I see these lads being deported yet they would still be eligible to FIGHT & many of their ancestors will have done just that - for this country - just tell me how many ***** would fight for us if a War broke out between GB & ******an - makes my blood boil how this Country is behaving and is being run.

The six players in question were all with the Celtic club prior to this year. What I don't understand is why it's taken so long for the UK Border Agency to enforce this?

Surely these players were registered for paying tax so wouldn't you think the Inland Revenue would have picked it up from a government computer database and notified the Border Agency immediately ?

It's also interesting to see the Rugby Football League have declined to comment on this matter (BBC). Either they are embarrassed and hope the story will go away quickly or they're planning to severely discipline the club for bringing the game into disrepute?

It will be interesting to see what action the RFL take!

richard lewis as completely f'''ked up putting celtic in sl and ruined any hope of rugby league being big in wales.. they should of never of been given the franchise it was to soon imo
cant get the gates what they where expecting
not even got a there own stadium
players getting aborted
jst a team full of ozzies instead of home grown talent
it as jst all back fired in lewis face be interested to see if it is the 1st n last season we ever see celtic in the sl

The RFL will find a bucket of sand and bury their collective empty heads in it



Imagine if it had been us, Franchise removed and relegated to the third division.

I know a certain person on here who used to be married to a foreign national who came to live in this country and was given the incorrect visa by the government, and yet still flew in and out of the country 5 times on those documents without any trouble and when the 'error' came to light the people in the consulate simply said these mistakes happen.

Feel sorry for the players as I doubt if they are culpable in this in the slightest yet have had their livelyhoods taken away from them, let us hope that this isnt the end of the club down there.

The r.f.l. will not comment????????????????????????????????????????


Why,they are too embarrased obviously,any other club would be thown out of the league,rightly or wrong,but the R.F.L. will do all it can to prove they were right to lat them in,

Should be Widnes to replace them

I think it's still too early to speculate that the RFL will throw them out as the Crusaders will already have had plans in place for next year and I dare say that some of those players named may well have been released? If anything, it might even accelerate any plans they have to get some more local Welsh players playing our great game and up to Super League standard (and we know only too well here at the Willows what quality Welsh players have brought to our game in the past).

If indeed the decision is that their licence is revoked then Widnes may well be a strong contender but I would also suspect that the winner of the Championship GF would also be a strong candidate too in a rather long list of hopefuls!

Sad thing is the RFL are letting same thing happen @ Gateshead!

What a disgrace the people who run the game are if they had any balls they would kick them out now, although it will still be Salford that get kicked out come next franchise



Wouldn’t surprise me if the rugby league deducted points of them even thought there’s no relegation! Disgrace

they'll probably go to France and play for the Catalan Dragons

In my opinion Celtic Crusaders should be kick out of the Super League and replaced by Widnes Vikings....

The RFL want a big kick up the rear for allowing any club to get into this sort of a mess, but knowing the RFL they will try if they can to cover things up just like they have always done in the past.

Rugby League in South Wales was a load of .

years ago I used to work for the Jobcentre as a part time auditor (proper job section manager) but the number of errors that were made resulting in overpayments was just astounding and that was the same excuse, "these mistakes happen," of the claims i checked 60% had errors on them. These people are still in employment with the Jobcentre costing us millions because they are incapable of doing the job and their employment rights means the jobcentres are incapable of sacking them.

Totally agree with Early Baths comments.
Aussies have stood shoulder to shoulder with us through 2 world wars.
All this fuss about a few bits of paper.
There must be hundreds of thousands of REAL undesirables living in this country.

Why?

The club hasn't been found guilty of anything yet. It's just the players. If we assume that the club is innocent in all of this, why should the fans suffer for six players who didn't fill out their forms correctly?

Because as an employer it is your legal duty to ensure that those you employ are eligible to work in this country. There is no room for doubt - the Home Office website shows exactly what the qualifying criteria are - I don't think there can be any doubt at all - the club are guilty.

are we surprised our scouse readers don't understand the world of work

Its all a big fuss over nothing. The RFL will throw more money at them so they survive. There is no way they will let them fail.

Of course there is room for doubt. There is always room for doubt.

If the players lied on their forms, that alone creates room for doubt. We do not know what they did to attract the punishment they have been given.