1.   And it must be difficult somewhat for you because since you do get a good side together, then perhaps other clubs come along poaching your players.

2.   News Corp. was worried that the rival Australian Rugby League would try to poach players, as it did earlier in the year, Harrison said.

3.   He said the union was increasingly concerned about how New Zealand was viewed as a rugby nursery by other countries, who have poached leading players in recent years.

4.   Australian Rugby League chairman Ken Arthurson warned his Super League adversaries Sunday that any renewed bid to poach ARL players would be foiled by the courts.

5.   The Auckland Rugby Football Union is investigating a club game in which players took the line-outs sitting down in a protest over the province poaching top players.