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.