11.   Some clubs have threatened to form a breakaway super league unless UEFA agrees to back the venture.

12.   Super League rugby league officials said Friday that troubled Euro League club Paris St. Germain will take part in the next round of the World Club Championship.

13.   When the meeting was set up, there was heavy speculation that the clubs would consider a move away from their domestic competitions and forming a super league.

14.   Wiseman also said a super league was destined for failure.

15.   He proposes setting up a super league containing the best eight sides from each country.

16.   However, he said a rationalisation of some of the Sydney clubs would happen -- but not in a super league.

17.   Although detractors say playing talent will be too thinly spread in the new premiership and the bigger, richer clubs will inevitably form their own super league.

18.   ARL chairman and international league chief Ken Arthurson said the super league issue was now dead after the clubs unanimously voted to make no changes.

19.   Arthurson said the ARL had taken legal advice before telling clubs that negotiations on the super league should be done through the ARL not on an individual basis.