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Out of the last five Super Rugby matches between the Blues and the Reds the Queensland Reds team have won four and the Blues one...

The Melbourne Rebels and the Sharks have only played each other twice since the Melbourne franchise joined Super Rugby in 2011...

Out of the last five Super Rugby matches between the Crusaders and the Brumbies the Crusaders have won four and the Brumbies just one...

Out of the last five Super Rugby matches between the Chiefs and the Lions the Chiefs have won four and the Lions have won one...

Out of the last five Super Rugby matches between the Waratahs and the Hurricanes the Waratahs have won three and the Hurricanes two....

Out of the last five matches between the Stormers and the Highlanders the Cape Town based Stormers have won all five matches....

Out of the last five matches between the Bulls and the Cheetahs the Pretoria based Bulls have won four matches and the Cheetahs have won one....

Head coach Jamie Joseph has named an almost unchanged Highlanders team to play the Stormers Newlands Stadium in Cape Town on Saturday....

Super Rugby champions the Chiefs have made fourteen changes to the side that lost to the Brumbies last week for this week's clash against the Lions in Hamilton. ...

Crusaders coach Todd Blaackadder has named a team with five changes to the side that beat the Chiefs two weeks ago for the Brumbies this weekend with Richie McCaw returning to the starting side. ...

Auckland Blues fly half Chris Noakes has signed a two year Super Rugby deal with Aviva Premiership Rugby club London Irish....

Brumbies centre Andrew Smith has agreed to join Heineken Cup Semi-finalists Munster for the 2014/15 on a one-year contract....

Super Rugby will expand from it's 15 team three conference format to a four conference 18 team format with three extra franchises from 2016. ...

Out of the last five Super Rugby matches between the Blues and the Reds the Queensland Reds team have won four and the Blues one. ...

Lions head coach Johan Ackermann has named Elton Jantjies to start at flyhalf against Super Rugby Champions the Chiefs in Hamilton with Marnitz Boshoff on the replacements bench. ...

The Reds have named their team to play the Blues at Eden Park in Auckland on Friday with Quade Cooper set to earn his 100th cap for Queensland....

SANZAR's proposed model for Super Rugby from 2016 has been slammed by fans across the board and one official in Australia has called it "bizarre, complicated & convoluted". ...

The Hurricanes will field the same starting team that beat the Reds in Wellington last week for this week's Super Rugby match against the Waratahs in Sydney. ...

Crusaders captain Kieran Read will miss his team's Super Rugby match against the Brumbies in Christchurch after he was forced to withdraw from the squad due to concussion. ...

Rebels head coach Tony McGahan has named Wallaby scrumhalf Luke Burgess in the starting line up to play the Sharks at AAMI Park on Friday....