Top 10-ranked rugby nations Scotland and Fiji will not make another tour of NZ until at least the next decade.

All Black greats Sid Going and Dave Loveridge would reinstall Jimmy Cowan as halfback for the June tests.

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.

All Black sides have often had a player with x-factor heading into a World Cup but as Gregor Paul reports, there doesn't seem to be one this time around.

Wynne Gray looks at possible replacements for the injured Sitiveni Sivivatu.