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Wed 04 Apr 2007Sanzar back Six Nations stanceNews round-up: Newcastle will today announce they have signed the New Zealand prop Carl Hayman, indisputably the leading tighthead in the world, in a move which will further alarm the major southern hemisphere unions, who yesterday issued a strongly worded statement backing the Six Nations unions in their battle with French and English clubs over the Heineken European Cup.At the age of 27, the 35-cap Hayman is in his prime and, although the majority of southern hemisphere players who have moved to England and France in the professional era have done so at the end of their international careers, the Sanzar unions are concerned that players are being targeted at a younger age.