WELLINGTON – WELLINGTON, New ZealandThe Dunedin-based Highlanders are hoping 20,000 fans will attend Saturday’s Super Rugby Aoteroa match against the Chiefs, the first major rugby match to be played in front of fans since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.Super Rugby Aotearoa is the first major rugby union tournament to resume since the COVID-19 outbreak and one of the first major sports events in the world at which there will be no limitation on crowd size.The Auckland-based Blues expect as many as 35,000 to attend Sunday’s match against the Wellington-based Hurricanes because of the large number of national team All Blacks involved.The decision of the New Zealand government on Monday to drop all restrictions on the size of public.