RFL have now issued a statement saying err err...............................





that they are not saying anything, but they don't check players eligability to work in this country.

Yep did a good job this year:



1) Getting everyone here

2) Getting a great standard of player here



Didnt get the beers in this year (yet) but 2 out of 3 aint bad.

You must have been to the toilet then, definately 3 out of 3 for Steve.

Not true.



The employer has to be guilty of 'knowingly employing' an illegal immigrant for them to be prosecuted. If an employee has lied on their form, fooled the Border Agency and thus been accepted for employment, the only responsible party is the employee. Only if the employer is found to have known about the deception and continued with the employment is the employer also held responsible.



Or so I have just today been advised.

Shame they can't deport any of our players!

WHAT!!! What a disgrace, team morale will be at a all time low now i missed the beer run, shocking



































dont worry steve i forgive you.

Hey , wasn't he the Guy who spent three seasons trying to trace kevin Mcguinness Irish Ancestry

It was the one and only Steve Simms, it didn't take three years at all though and Buddha left the country with the visa that he arrived with, the correct one.

I don't claim to be an expert in the law on this matter but I have been employed at several levels and have been asked to provide proof of elegibility to work in this country (in my case a passport becasue I am English). I can't believe that a super league club and the RFL would not require the same (especially since there were issues at the start of the season with the same players). If it was not checked then, why? Because they don't care or that they knew? Either way Celtic and RFL are in the wrong.



Also if they were not eleigible to work in this country they can't have been paying tax either.



My feeling is that this will get swept under the carpet and there will be no punnishment for celtic at all becasue that would jeopordise their attempts to spread the game to Wales. Attempts that woould be better aimed at Cumbria who are currently occupying the top two places in the championship - but that's another debate.

Could the Celtic club have employed them this way to get around the National League salary cap? . . and could the RFL have turned a blind eye to it because they ultimately wanted a Welsh team in Superleague?



It would appear that something untowards has gone on here!

this season they became fulltime professionals and therefore their status changed, meaning they had not played enough NRL games to qualify.



I have it on good authority the Players Union (GMB) normally checked the paperwork for the players as a when of getting them to join the players union. Maybe the official in South Wales didn't check hard enough what the qualifying criteria was.

According to the BBC there are 13 other clubs whose players were/are playing on the same visas, so get ready for some boat rocking. I assume no points deduction because of the number of clubs and how it would mess up the leagues. It may even be said we might have been doing it but no clubs are named.