1.   Product of York and North Yorkshire Schools representative teams, he has signed on profesional terms and has played in the reserves.

2.   TOP rugby coach Mostyn Richards has made a plea for all clubs to back fully the Mid-Wales District representative team.

3.   Both Florida and Colorado fielded representative teams during their first season.

4.   The arrangement, as announced in public statements by the leagues, was that players who had signed with Super League would not be considered for representative teams.

5.   The ARL has said that players who have signed for the new league will not be eligible to play for any representative team, including the Australian national team.

6.   The South Africans have repeatedly struggled against leg spin and were exposed badly even when playing against representative teams in their pre-tournament warm up matches.

7.   Former team manager Matt Williams has been appointed coach of the New South Wales rugby union representative team for next season, the NSW Rugby Union announced Friday.

8.   Her comments followed her recent visit to China and came just ahead of a visit to Beijing by a US Trade Representative team to monitor the situation.

9.   At the end of a hearing lasting nine days a New South Wales court ruled their exclusion from representative teams was unfair and an unreasonable restraint of trade.