: Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:15 pm  

i think there is a much bigger point to all this, all the players that are named in the first post were in the promotion winning team last year, so how did they get away with that, were it not for those players maybe halifax leigh or even widnes would have come up instead of having a team that will need to be constantly bailed out by the RL until they will almost certainly cease to be, i reckon give it another 2 years and say another million £ down the tubes and there will be no SL team in wales

: Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:16 pm  

poppys mum wrote:

We play them in a couple of weeks.
Anyone think we might win this one comfortably.

no dont be silly its a home game

: Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:20 pm  

tigerman10 wrote:

i think there is a much bigger point to all this, all the players that are named in the first post were in the promotion winning team last year, so how did they get away with that, were it not for those players maybe halifax leigh or even widnes would have come up instead of having a team that will need to be constantly bailed out by the RL until they will almost certainly cease to be, i reckon give it another 2 years and say another million £ down the tubes and there will be no SL team in wales

I think everything was fine then (last year) but then they went home in the off season and it was when they wanted to come back that the visa's were originally refused. This was around the time that the UK border agency tightened up on everything.

: Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:27 pm  

poppys mum wrote:

We play them in a couple of weeks.
Anyone think we might win this one comfortably.

Not if it rains

Hope you do the decent thing and play your academy

: Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:59 pm  

and then thr rfl wonder why some section of the media dont bother with our game

: Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:08 pm  

chissitt wrote:

Not if it rains

Hope you do the decent thing and play your academy

Looks like we'll play their academy, anyway..

TBH I don't see what all the outrage is about. These players were playing for them perfectly legally in NL1, their only crime was to want to spend xmas with their families. Even then IIRC they were checked and allowed back in to play... so what's changed now?

I appreciate it's not the populist bandwagon view given that everyone in this poxy country seems to live their lives according to Daily Mail scaremongering, but frankly if anything stinks it's these new immigration laws.

[tb]

: Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:59 pm  

Disco wrote: Looks like we'll play their academy, anyway.. TBH I don't see what all the outrage is about. These players were playing for them perfectly legally in NL1, their only crime was to want to spend xmas with their families. Even then IIRC they were checked and allowed back in to play... so what's changed now? I appreciate it's not the populist bandwagon view given that everyone in this poxy country seems to live their lives according to Daily Mail scaremongering, but frankly if anything stinks it's these new immigration laws. Unfortunately, that's where the doubt appears to come in Crusaders website wrote: The investigation found discrepancies in the visa applications of the six players in seasons prior to 2009. “Celtic Crusaders have co-operated fully with the UK Border Agency’s investigation and we will abide by their findings,” said Crusaders’ Chief Executive Mike Turner. full story tigerman10 wrote: ink there is a much bigger point to all this, all the players that are named in the first post were in the promotion winning team last year, What promotion winning team? There was no promotion. Crusaders, like us and everybody else, are in SL because of a franchise application – not because of what they did in the 2008 GF.

Disco wrote: Looks like we'll play their academy, anyway.. TBH I don't see what all the outrage is about. These players were playing for them perfectly legally in NL1, their only crime was to want to spend xmas with their families. Even then IIRC they were checked and allowed back in to play... so what's changed now? I appreciate it's not the populist bandwagon view given that everyone in this poxy country seems to live their lives according to Daily Mail scaremongering, but frankly if anything stinks it's these new immigration laws. Unfortunately, that's where the doubt appears to come in Crusaders website wrote: The investigation found discrepancies in the visa applications of the six players in seasons prior to 2009. “Celtic Crusaders have co-operated fully with the UK Border Agency’s investigation and we will abide by their findings,” said Crusaders’ Chief Executive Mike Turner. full story tigerman10 wrote: ink there is a much bigger point to all this, all the players that are named in the first post were in the promotion winning team last year, What promotion winning team? There was no promotion. Crusaders, like us and everybody else, are in SL because of a franchise application – not because of what they did in the 2008 GF.

: Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:53 pm  

tigerman10 wrote:

i think there is a much bigger point to all this, all the players that are named in the first post were in the promotion winning team last year, so how did they get away with that, were it not for those players maybe halifax leigh or even widnes would have come up instead of having a team that will need to be constantly bailed out by the RL until they will almost certainly cease to be, i reckon give it another 2 years and say another million £ down the tubes and there will be no SL team in wales

I reckon some Cas fans could do with remembering that the only reason they are in Superleague this season is the franchise system. It saved your asses from another relegation experience so how you can suggest that Fax and all that lot would have been in had it not been for Celtic when you yourselves would have been relegated had it not been for the franchise system, I really don't know.

: Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:00 pm  

well the franchise came in with lots of games left last year so thats unfair to say really? took alot of pressure of the lads thou knowing we were safe nothing to play for thou

: Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:29 pm  

fantastic news for us we might get our points diffrence back to normal in 3 matchs i hope.