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- ↑ 2009 Pacific Cup: Squads NRL.com, 10 October 2009
- ↑ PNG and Fiji finalise squads for Pacific Cup Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine NRL.com, 19 October 2009
- ↑ "Jone Wesele Profile". rleague.com. 2010-04-14. Retrieved 2010-04-14.