81.   There are no rugby league players good enough to switch back to the All Blacks, New Zealand coach Laurie Mains said on Monday.

82.   They played solidly without displaying the skills that made them the best three rugby league players in the world only two years ago.

83.   Making rugby union professional is the only way to stop rugby league recruiting players, Manu Samoa coach Sua Peter Schuster said Monday.

84.   Meanwhile, Australian rugby league chairman Ken Arthurson said he did not expect any professional league players to switch codes as a result of the IRFB decision.

85.   Overseas rugby union players and league players recruited from emerging RL nations will be exempt.

86.   Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a rugby league player who died here Friday after injuries received in a game on Wednesday.

87.   Police will interview rugby league players and journalists here Thursday in an investigation into allegations of match fixing in the Australian club premiership.

88.   Pugh said in an interview that the current blanket ban on league players returning to rugby union appeared to conflict with Australian and New Zealand laws.

89.   Sleightholme would be the first high-profile union player to play league during the summer following the rush of league players to play union in the winter.

90.   South African rugby league player Jamie Bloem, banned for two years for taking drugs, is to appeal against the severity of the suspension here on Thursday.