21.   Several other All Blacks, including Fijian-born Waisake Sotutu and Jonah Lomu, also are considering offers to play professional rugby league.

22.   Star All Black wing Jonah Lomu still is undecided whether to continue playing rugby union or switch to professional rugby league, his agent said Thursday.

23.   The advent of professional rugby league, as well as the popularity of the recent World Cup, made it inevitable that more professionalism would enter rugby union.

24.   The advent of professional rugby league, as well as the popularity of the recent World Cup made it inevitable that more professionalism would enter rugby union.

25.   This week, however, the battle would be on the rugby field and Conway, who said he was starved to see live professional rugby, was thrilled.

26.   He combines professional rugby with job as marketing consultant.

27.   He also claimed Lapasset had yet to come up with any clear proposals for how France was going to adapt to the new era of professional rugby.

28.   His comments followed a claim by Welsh Rugby Union chairman Vernon Pugh that a professional rugby union would sound the death knell for the league code.

29.   A proposed professional rugby Super Union is not aimed at hijacking the game, former All Black coach John Hart said here on Wednesday.

30.   And he added that vacillating over the rights and wrongs of amateurism may precipitate an opening for a professional rugby circus.