NZ Kiwis are relishing the pressure that comes with finally entering the knockout stages of the Rugby League World Cup.
Their first major match after the formality of the group stages comes in the form of a quarter-final clash with Fiji at Hull on Sunday morning.
By their own admittance, the reality of 'win or go home' has brought an extra edge to camp this week.
"Definitely yeah, you feel it," coach Michael Maguire told Newshub at York.
"When you've got experience of stepping into finals, there is another level that you go to and a lot of players have experienced that."
Players such as Panthers stars Moses Leota, James Fisher-Harris and Scott Sorenson have won back-to-back NRL premierships, as well as veterans like brothers Jesse and Kenny Bromwich, and Nelson Asofa-Solomona who have been there and done it all with Melbourne Storm.
Maguire will hope these players can guide the side to the next round, with Australia waiting for the victors, after they dispatched Lebanon 48-4.
"It's something I can feel around the team," Maguire says. "A number of these guys, they're dual premiership winners back home.
"A lot of them have been in finals or big semi finals. It's about how to step up through these periods.
"I'm very confident with the boys and how they're going about things, and they know they've got a job to do tomorrow."
The side feel they're building into the tournament nicely, after big wins, but at times disjointed performances saw them top their group. They know they'll have to step things up a notch to progress into the semis and beyond.
"If you're not on, anything can happen at this stage of the tournament, so that's been shown in the past and it will be no different now," halfback Kieran Foran told Newshub.
"I felt like it got better as each game wore on, but it will have to be even better tomorrow night."
Of course, one defeat against Fiji in particular still stings many Kiwis fans.
Their 2017 World Cup quarter-final defeat to the Bati at Wellington marked a major low for the side, prompting an independent review at NZ Rugby League, but this is a different team, with a fresh approach and a new era of players coming through.
Maguire insists they're firmly looking forward.
"People are aware of that, but we are a different group," he said. "We're a completely different group to where that may have been and I don't know what that was.
"This group now is a team moving forward."
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