21.   ARL officials were also trying to talk test halfback Ricky Stuart out of joining News Limited as the league continued to counteract the super league threat.

22.   Australian rugby league club Penrith have signed South African rugby union international centre Pieter Muller for the launch of the super league season next year.

23.   Brisbane, Canberra, Canterbury, Auckland, Cronulla, North Queensland, Western Reds and Penrith split from the ARL to form the core of the super league.

24.   Both Carden and Lindsay announced earlier on Thursday the English and New Zealand Rugby Leagues had reached agreements to play international matches exclusively against Australian super league teams.

25.   Brisbane -- seen by some as the super league ringleader -- said it had not received any document from the ARL as did Canberra, Parramatta and Penrith.

26.   Consortia will bid for the rights of a super league and UEFA will be powerless.

27.   Dwyer is concerned that reports linking star players to the super league will distract Australia from their defence of their World Cup title next month.

28.   Those clubs not in the super league would make up a new first division, which would include a team from Wales.

29.   Michel Verschueren wants to set up a super league containing the best eight sides from each country.

30.   Murdoch is already embroiled in a global row over the setting up of a rugby league super league.