Afternoon matey

FWIW I think it's a damned shame what's happened and hope the club aren't going to be completely crucified for this. Sadly, you can expect abuse from the small-minded flatcappers, I just hope you realise that proper fans of TGG (i.e. game first club second, not the other way round like the flatcappers) will still support the Welsh venture and not want it to die because of this.

From a fellow pariah (aka a Wigan fan), welcome to the club

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

what like your beloved wigan purposly over spending on the salary cap year in year out knowing that the fine will come into play next season?

now thats an emabarassment...also how about wigan spending ludicrous amounts of cash on australian has beens whilst releasing top young players such as briscoe,robinson etc etc etc...another embarrasment in my eyes..

i for one wouldt feel sorry for the cherry and whites if this was to happen to them, infact id love it..

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.