But like most, this one has to be greeted with plenty of caution and scepticism.
Last week, there was a suggestion the competition was looking to expand and get into new markets with the United States suggested as one frontier the game should enter.
Yesterday, a report out of Welsh media suggested South African sides the Sharks, Stormers and Lions were all looking at joining the Pro 14 league in the northern hemisphere.
This league involves teams from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Italy and this season two sides from the South Africa - the Cheetahs and the Kings.
The shorter travelling time and the same time period were said
to be advantages for the South African sides.
With the broadcasting deal involving the Sanzaar nations coming to an end after 2020, there is plenty of speculation about what the rugby landscape will look like in 2021.
But Sanzaar went on the front foot yesterday after the Welsh report came out.
It issued a statement saying it was in the middle of a detailed strategic review driven by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Argentina.
``Sanzaar is currently engaged in a detailed strategic planning process that has the ultimate and very important aim of producing a road map for the competition's future formats up to and including 2030, and in the shorter term the delivery to market of competitions for the next iteration of Sanzaar's broadcasting rights,'' Sanzaar chief executive Andy Marinos said.
``Any talk of a change to the stakeholder relationship and partners withdrawing, creation of new teams in new markets and transtasman competitions is unsubstantiated speculation and simply wrong.
``The desired outcome is the delivery of competitive, innovative, engaging and financially sustainable competitions to ensure the continued success of the member unions and the Super Rugby clubs/franchises''
Marinos said everything was on the table and much detailed analysis was being carried out.
``Therefore it is very disappointing that various aspects of the initial work in terms of potential tournament formats have been taken out of context and aired in public.''
Sanzaar was also mindful it was coming out of a period of a reduction in teams so any talk of expansion would have to meet an established set of criteria.
Highlanders chief executive Roger Clark also downplayed any talk of expansion.
He said people were just throwing ideas around and it was just talk at the moment. The South Africans were committed to 2020 and there was no talk of them leaving after that.
He questioned whether South Africa would want to leave a competition which prepares its players for international rugby and involved playing against the world's best players. It was hard to see why players would want to leave the Sanzaar structure to go and play in an inferior competition.
South African teams had featured in the finals of Super Rugby for the past two years and were competitive sides in the overall competition.
Like most things, any deal will come down to money and it is hard to see how moving to play in Europe would be beneficial for cash-strapped South African clubs.
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This rumour has been going around for a while. Good on the South Africans for acting fast to quash it. They ll get better competition out of playing NZ teams than they will in the North and probably better crowds for a game v the Canes or Highlanders than they will v the Northern sides.