NZ Kiwis' Rugby League World Cup quarter-final match-up against Fiji isn't about revenge, with coach Michael Maguire asserting the 2017 upset has played no part in their preparations.
At the 2017 tournament hosted by New Zealand and Australia, the Kiwis were stunned 4-2 in Wellington at the same stage, dumping them out of the tournament in humiliating fashion.
Five years later, a much different Kiwis side will square off against Fiji again, hoping to advance to the final four.
There are few scars in the Kiwis' squad from that defeat, with just five players - Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, Jordan Rapana, Joseph Tapine, Nelson Asofa-Solomona and Isaac Liu - returning for Sunday morning's rematch.
Coach Michael Maguire joined the Kiwis in the wake of that loss, and has been building the side to compete at this World Cup, held in the UK.
And despite it's standing as one of New Zealand rugby league's darkest days, Maguire says the loss to Fiji is no weight on the class of 2022's shoulders.
"It's a completely different team," Maguire said. "I don't know what happened back then, I didn't really look into it.
"All I'm concerned about is what we need to do this weekend. The boys have been very focussed this weekend on what we've been growing since we came together.
"But especially now that we're in camp here, the bond that the boys have built over the last four or five weeks, we've got to make sure we use that now.
"It's a pretty tight group - as I've said many times - but it's about the style in which we want to play.
"That's the big focus."
Sunday's quarter-final will also see the Kiwis challenged to find their attacking mojo, after at times appearing to lack fluency at this World Cup.
Victories against Lebanon (34-12), Jamaica (68-6) and Ireland (48-10) have seen the Kiwis not yet reach their best.
But now with his spine fit and firing, Maguire expects to see an improved display from arguably the best attacking quartet in the tournament.
"From an attack point of view, there's a lot of upside in improving what we're doing," he continued.
"Off the back of attack, you put the opposition in certain field positions so you can go and defend.
"I'm comfortable with the defence, the way they're going about things. We've had a few areas that we've sort of focussed on to help each other defensively. That's what defence is about.
"If we tidy up a few things with our attack - obviously having Jahrome [Hughes], Dylan [Brown], Joey [Joseph Manu] at the back, and the Cheese [Brandon Smith] at dummy half - the cohesion those guys have when they play together is very important.
"We were able to achieve that last week."
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