"While our mission is to be the best A team in Europe, to achieve that continuity is important This gives the players an opportunity to express themselves. It also enables us to measure their worth in a different environment than at their clubs; to assess whether they're capable of improving."For someone whose playing career was fashioned on the virtue of hard work, Wells will have had a quiet word with his forwards about the need to come to terms first with a very experienced Wales A pack, before they can begin to think about unleashing the pace and invention of Noon, Robinson, Sampson and the rehabilitated David Rees.If England get off to a winning start, they can expect no eulogy from Wells. Just a brief reminder that with four games to go, the job has only been 20 per cent completed. Enough said.* Barry Irving has withdrawn from the Scotland A replacements for tomorrow's game against France A in Blois. The Glasgow Caledonians player has a wrist injury and is replaced by Edinburgh Reivers' Graham Shiel.. Australian Rugby Union officials are pushing for top European nations to be included in an expanded Tri-Nations tournament andteams from North and South America, Japan and the Pacific to be involved in an expanded Super 12 competition.

Australian Rugby Union officials are pushing for top European nations to be included in an expanded Tri-Nations tournament andteams from North and South America, Japan and the Pacific to be involved in an expanded Super 12 competition. ARU chief executive John O'Neill reportedly wants the Super 12, the southern hemisphere's premier provincial rugby competition, to evolve into a Super 20 tournament.The Tri-Nations, a home-and-away international series involving world champion Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, could also be widened to include the No 1 and No. 2 place teams in the European Six Nations tournament, the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported today."The possibility always exists for the Tri-Nations to turn into a Five Nations tournament," O'Neill was quoted as saying. "France and England would obviously be the two major contenders."The Super 12 currently includes five New Zealand provinces, plus four South African franchises and three Australian provinces. Most speculation of expansion in recent months has centered around the inclusion of a fourth Australian team.O'Neill's proposal was for a Super 20 format to contain five teams each from Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, plus club or provincial champions from Argentina, Canada, the United States and Japan and a combined Pacific team selected from nations including Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.O'Neill said the global competitions could provide more lucrative TV contracts and a wider audience appeal for rugby union. He said the Super 20 could potentially draw attention on a scale similar to England's Premier League soccer championship."We could go to a Super 13 next year - no problem But let's be a bit adventurous and think more globally.

A Super 20 would be a serious global tournament," O'Neill told the newspaper.Members of SANZAR, the umbrella organization for the South Africa, New Zealand and Australian Rugby Football Unions, will consider O'Neill's proposals during a telephone hookup next week.The biggest existing rugby union tournament is the quadrennial World Cup. The 1999 World Cup in Wales was expanded from 16 to 20 nations. The 2003 World Cup in Australia will also include 20 nations plus qualifying tournaments.. With the Super Bowl commanding most of the attention, Jennifer Capriati was able to enjoy a quiet family reunion when she arrived home in Florida from Australia last Sunday bearing her first Grand Slam singles title. With the Super Bowl commanding most of the attention, Jennifer Capriati was able to enjoy a quiet family reunion when she arrived home in Florida from Australia last Sunday bearing her first Grand Slam singles title. Her mother, Denise, was there to meet Jennifer and her father, Stefano, who is also her coach, at Tampa airport. "When I saw mom, we just hugged for a long time," said the 24-year-old Capriati, whose parents divorced during the traumas of her years as a tennis prodigy."I was happy, she was happy - even my dad and my mom hugged, they were so happy It was a nice quiet moment. Then, on the ride back home, we talked about everything." But, even then, Jennifer found it difficult to put her "amazing feelings" into words, having overcome her troubled past and the world's leading players, Martina Hingis and Lindsay Davenport."I can't describe how happy I was and how satisfied I felt," she said.