Former World Cup winner David Kirk and retired New Zealand High Court judge Barry Paterson are to conduct a review to decide where the 15th franchise in an expanded Super rugby competition from 2011 will be based.

The existing Super 14 competition will be reorganised along a conference system based in each of the three South Africa, Australia New Zealand Rugby partners with a bid from Melbourne and South Africa's Southern Kings seeking to be the fifth team in the Australian conference.

SANZAR were unable to come to an agreement last week on the successful bidder, forcing the move to binding arbitration.

Kirk, (pictured) who led the All Blacks to victory in the inaugural World Cup in 1987, and Paterson were appointed on Wednesday by SANZAR to review the bid documents and make a decision within two weeks, the ruling body said in a statement on Wednesday.