Warnings about the competition began to beep louder this week as leading players Daniel Carter, James Horwill and Adam Ashley-Cooper revealed their intentions to play offshore after next year's World Cup.
Steve Hansen, the first All Blacks coach to be appointed beyond a World Cup, hopes he has set a trend.
The Crusaders' proposal to hold a home game against the Hurricanes in Fiji next season has been signed off by the franchise's board, but it has yet to convince the New Zealand Players' Association, which remains concerned about the fixture.
You're probably asking yourself, as I am, what the hell is a copy of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead doing sitting on the kitchen bench inside the breezeblock bowels of the Blues HQ?
After a strong season in which they retained their No 1 world ranking, the All Blacks unsurprisingly dominate the 2014 Steinlager Rugby Awards nominations.
Ihad a terrible dream this week. It involved endless shuttle runs and wind sprints and down ups and tractor tyres and resistance bands and stocky men with shaved legs carrying stop watches and clip boards.
Some of our biggest sporting stars brought some much-needed Christmas cheer to Kidz First Hospital patients on Saturday afternoon.
After barely seeing the Kiwis over the past decade, local fans should have the chance to see their team again in six months following the three-game stint during the Four Nations tournament.
Takapuna Rugby Club will have special reason to cheer on the All Blacks on Sunday morning.
For Blues hooker James Parsons, the waiting has finally paid off.
It doesn't take long to realise why the All Blacks had their eye on Nathan Harris long before anyone else did.
Successful sports teams always tinker and work on their next ideas. The All Blacks are top of the world ratings and continue to unpick and remodel their strategies.
Leadership, locks and the staff have had a makeover at the Blues.
New Zealand's five Super Rugby teams will announce their squads for the 2015 season this morning. Join us for live updates as the teams are rolled out.
There exists a catch-22 surrounding the potential success of the Japanese Super Rugby side.
There appears to be more problems than solutions to Japan's Super Rugby bid and Sanzar bosses are collecting way more questions than answers in their attempts to fix things.
Sanzar has informed the Japan Rugby Football Union that it is the preferred candidate for Super Rugby's 18th team when the competition expands in 2016.
Successful Waratahs mentor Michael Cheika is set to be announced as the new Wallabies coach.
The Queensland Reds have signed a former All Blacks flanker for the 2015 Super Rugby season.
George Moala has played every minute of every game for Auckland this season, and the team's ironman has also just inked a new Super Rugby deal with the Blues as reward for his solid 2014 ITM Cup.
A concession by the Japanese bid to play a number of 'home' games in Singapore and Hong Kong is believed to have won them the 18th place in the new Super Rugby competition.