The top 50 prospects under 23 years of age currently plying their trade in New Zealand features three capped All Blacks already.
Without All Blacks playing in the Mitre 10 Cup, the competition will lose plenty of its stardust over the coming weeks, and the impact of their departures will differ for each province.
RugbyPass rounds up all of the 2019/20 Gallagher Premiership player ins and outs where 10 of the teams will be chasing down Saracens and Exeter Chiefs at the top of the table.
It's been a difficult few years for Blues supporters, but can the addition of a new head coach, who has the capacity to instil a strong set of values in his squad, be enough to get them back in the play-offs?
With three exceptions, the Blues has looked to its own provincial unions and development programme to complete the line-up for the 2019 Investec Super Rugby Championship.
There remain many more questions than answers when evaluating the chances of the Blues in Super Rugby 2018.
The All Blacks have five games left in 2017, but that hasn't stopped the New Zealand teams getting themselves geared up for next year's Super Rugby season already. Here's the squads named today: