Richard Kahui and Mils Muliaina are the latest casualties in a list of players unable to front for New Zealand's first test of the season.

NZ must not get hung up on the performance of the All Blacks or they could miss out on the opportunity from hosting the World Cup, warns Martin Snedden.

PM John Key says an apology to Maori rugby players excluded from All Blacks tours to South Africa is a matter between unions.

More medical issues emerged around All Blacks test rugby candidates today.

New Zealand players Byron Kelleher and Xavier Rush will run out for the Barbarians on the invitation London club's 2010 summer tour.

Situation vacant: All Black second five-eighths. Applicants please apply pronto.

The All Blacks' international playing schedule should see fewer fixtures from 2012, NZRU chief executive Steve Tew said today.

Rugby officials hope their apology will consign a sorry chapter in New Zealand-South African relations to the history books.

Pita Sharples has criticised the NZRU's Maori appointees for advising against the union's apology today for past treatment of Maori players.

Two prominent Maori former All Blacks have welcomed NZRU's apology to Maori players, but one player from the 60s says the scars will never heal.

NZ teams are in danger of missing out on the Super rugby semis but two former All Blacks have rubbished the idea this could harm the national side.