Former Otago assistant coach David Latta and former Otago B coach Mike Moeahu will not have representative coaching jobs this season.
Carisbrook could be in line to host the Super 15 final but it is going to have to rely on a few results falling the right way and fighting off the competition of other cities.
The Highlanders never looked likely against the Waratahs - too many mistakes, too many tired players, and just too few chances.
Never in his wildest dreams when Eben Joubert first arrived in New Zealand did he ever think he would one day be Otago captain.
Neill Baker has been on the sideline at Otago Boys' High School rugby matches for more than three decades. Rugby writer Steve Hepburn talks to the former teacher who is now enjoying retirement.
There are 14 new players in the Otago squad named for the ITM Cup but the coaches have acknowledged they may have to go outside those selected for the forthcoming competition.
Otago Boys' High School first XV captain Michael Collins is being wooed by the one of the most successful league clubs in the business - and it seems talented young South Island, rugby players are becoming a target of aggressive Australian league clubs.
The New Zealand under-21 men's team had a disappointing end to the series against its Malaysian counterpart with the visiting side winning 2-1 at the McMillan Hockey Turf in Dunedin yesterday.
The Highlanders are still in the Super 15 playoff picture but will need a major form reversal and then hope other results go their way.
The Taieri seven-a-side tournament will bring up its 50th birthday tomorrow. Rugby writer Steve Hepburn looks back at a tournament, how it got started and who keeps it going.
Many of the Highlanders are mentally tired and feeling the effects of a long season, coach Jamie Joseph says.
The Fijian team to play in Dunedin next month will be subject to the same ban which has applied to other Fijian teams travelling to New Zealand since the last coup there in 2006.
Among all the drama of the new Highlanders playing strip this week, the fact has been somewhat overlooked that they will farewell Carisbrook tonight. Rugby writer Steve Hepburn looks back at five memorable games played by the franchise at the old ground.
If ever there was a match for which motivation should not be lacking, then this is the one for the Highlanders.
Endorsements probably do not come any bigger.
IRB chief executive Mike Miller says Fiji will be at this year's Rugby World Cup and discussions are continuing with all parties.
Highlanders captain Jamie Mackintosh has labelled his team's new green strip "snazzy" and the way professional sport is evolving, but the franchise's fan base is emphatic blue, gold and maroon should remain.
One hundred days from the kick-off of the Rugby World Cup, organisers say they are on track with tournament preparations.
Siale Piutau.
Highlanders winger Siale Piutau is free to play this Friday night after it was decided there were "exceptional circumstances" which led to his punching Lions flanker Michael Rhodes in a Super 15 match at Carisbrook on Saturday.
Livewire australian flanker David Pocock will be hoping his visit to Carisbrook this Friday is better than the last time he visited the ground.