: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:16 pm  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

Sounds like they can fulfil most of the fixtures as they have until the 7th of September to leave, unless this ruling removes their right to work in the UK.

I would suspect a few emergency loan signings may be arranged from SL clubs to cover the losses.

Not allowed to work any more.

They have just lost half the team in one hit!

: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:18 pm  

TRB wrote:

What's really annoying is that one of the reasons they have ended up like this is due to the delays caused by their own system - coupled with the reliance on overseas players from being a new franchise.

Hard to start from scratch when you can't get players to move outside the M62 to earn a living, as Harlequins have found over the years....surely they can't be the only club which have players who haven't got the right paperwork?

: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:19 pm  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

I wonder if Brough will make his way to the departure lounge and wave van Dijk off?

I feel extremely sorry for the Celtic fans, who seem lovely and don't deserve this. But the club are a farce for allowing this to happen.

: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:19 pm  

TRB wrote:

Not allowed to work any more.

They have just lost half the team in one hit!

Damn.

I would hope the SL clubs will pull together and offer them some help with loaning of surplus players and youngsters.

: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:23 pm  

cas have to play them at home, cricket score

: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:27 pm  

is it just me who's thinking "Why didn't this get announced last week?"

on a serious note though, feel sorry for the fans!

: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:28 pm  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

I would hope the SL clubs will pull together and offer them some help with loaning of surplus players and youngsters.

Good idea - there's going to be a lot of knee-jerk reactions on this site (mainly from those who don't realise that 6 Celtic players were not the reason they got a franchise/licence and Widnes/Leigh did not), but for the good of the sport and it's future development, we must sport the venture in Wales as we must in London.

: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:29 pm  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

I wonder if Brough will make his way to the departure lounge and wave van Dijk off?

Wonder how they will cope until the end of the season, bad news for Celtic but allso bad news for super league as a whole.

: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:31 pm  

Just a scenario to ponder, Should Cas run up a cricket score against them in the last match of the season and pip some-one to 8th place on points diff purley as a result of that game, how would the team that lost out feel. and would there be any legal appeal?

: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:40 pm  

bazzo44 wrote:

cas have to play them at home, cricket score

Not necessarily - Cas might hold them out for a while