Their efforts earned them a one-point lead over the Crusaders and left the Chiefs in charge of their finals fate. The jostling for final positioning will begin in Brisbane next weekend, before the Chiefs round out the regular season with a potentially defining trip to Dunedin. "There's no doubt we love playing the Crusaders," Rennie said. "We spent the last month tidying up that part of our game - we've done a hell of a lot on individual tackle technique," Rennie said. After Damian McKenzie subsequently split the uprights in the last act of the evening, pushing the margin out to 10, the previously table-topping Crusaders took nothing from their trip to Suva while the Chiefs took control of the competition with two rounds remaining.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 02, 2016 04:30 UTC