Wales pay Australia £750,000 for 'autumn' Test Lydiate and Roberts have it written into their contracts that they are permitted to play in one game per season outside the windows (there is also a June window for summer tours), so would both choose Australia rather than a summer match against, say, the Barbarians. North is a more complicated issue. It is Premier Rugby Ltd's long-held stance that it will not permit non-English players to play for their countries outside the IRB window, although English players can do so, of course, as was agreed for an eight-year period between the RFU and PRL in 2007. Last weekend's England match against Australia was actually outside the window, as it usually falls on the second, third and fourth weekends of November. But it is thought that North has a clause in his contract allowing release. Jim Mallinder, Northampton's director of rugby, has said: "I would not talk about individual players" contracts, but we want all our players to play international rugby and we support them in their quest to do that." Northampton travel to Worcester in the Aviva Premiership on Nov 30, and interestingly when they played and beat Saracens at home on Oct 26 without England internationals Dylan Hartley, Alex Corbisiero, Courtney Lawes, Lee Dickson and Tom Wood, they also rested North. They were duty bound to rest the England players, but not North. "Saints have been really good in talking to the WRU," said North, "It's between me and the coaches, we've got to talk about the games." When asked whether he would be playing against Australia, he said: "I think so, yeah."