Super Rugby Pacific: All Blacks jersey surely beckons for Timoci Tavatavanawai, despite Highlanders' failures
THREE KEY FACTS
Barring the world as we know it changing, the Chiefs will host the final of Super Rugby Pasifika in three weeks' time in Hamilton.
Any doubts about the men from the Tron were surely dispelled as they dealt with a gutsy Highlanders side,
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