The Otago Rugby Football Union board is still looking into Otago's disappointing season, in which it finished last in the ITM Cup.
The board announced the review straight after the final game on October 23 but, more than a month later, no end is in sight.
Board deputy chairman Laurie Mains could not put a date on when it would be completed but said it could not be hurried through.
"It is just continuing and I can't say when it will be completed. But if we were not as thorough as we are being, then there would be no point doing it at all," Mains said.
"It is not something that can be rushed."
Mains would not be drawn on specifics of what the board was looking at but said it was a thorough and extensive review of all facets of the team.
He declined to comment on the future of coach Phil Mooney. Mooney's future has been under a cloud after the last-place finish, although he still has one year left on his contract.
One of the themes that emerged from the disappointing season was that Otago was too slow to get organised before the season began and needed to be prepared earlier.
Chairman Wayne Graham said as much last month and said the side had to be better prepared.
But as the review continues, that leads to the question of whether the length of the review will stymie Otago's ability to perform next year.
But Mains rejected that, saying there was plenty of time to organise the side.
"Six months is plenty of time to prepare, provided everybody knows where they are heading. There is plenty of time."
He said the work that had to be done, and that needed to be done before Christmas in terms of getting players into conditioning programmes, was carrying on under "the good staff at Carisbrook".
Mains is in charge of player recruitment for next year. He said it was progressing well and there was likely to be an announcement in a couple of weeks.
The domestic competition is more condensed next year. It will begin in early July and be played over a tight eight-week window, finishing in the first week of September before the World Cup starts.
Otago faces a tough draw in its crossover games, playing three of this year's semifinalists in champion Canterbury, Auckland and Wellington. It will also play Southland at home in its other crossover game.
