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Former Wallabies Stephen Hoiles and Justin Harrison are tipping the Brumbies to make past by toppling the Chiefs connected Saturday to beforehand to the Super Rugby Pacific final.

Incredibly, nary Australian squad has won a Super Rugby playoff crippled successful New Zealand since the contention launched successful 1996.

The Waratahs and Reds were the latest clubs to travel up abbreviated connected Kiwi ungraded erstwhile they mislaid to the Blues and Chiefs respectively successful past weekend's quarter-finals.

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But Queensland - who bushed the Chiefs successful New Plymouth during the regular play - astatine slightest gave the insignificant premiers a scare successful its 29-20 decision successful Hamilton.

"Based connected the weekend's show - the Reds astir got them, they played truly well," Hoiles, a erstwhile Brumbies player, said connected Stan Sport's Between Two Posts.

"I'm really going to spell with the Brums connected this one. Unless the Chiefs tin find the signifier that we saw a fewer weeks ago, oregon midway done the season, I'm going the Brums successful a large upset here."

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Harrison, besides a erstwhile Brumbies man, concurred.

"I'm the same, I'm going with the Brums. I'm large connected this conception that teams look to bash good against different teams historically and repeatedly," Harrison said.

"We cognize the Brumbies fell implicit against the Chiefs at location precocious but historically the Brumbies person someway ever been capable to outperform the Chiefs erstwhile it mattered. And gee dad, it matters."

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The Brumbies besides bushed the Hurricanes astatine location successful past year's quarters earlier a heartbreaking 20-19 semi-final nonaccomplishment to the Blues successful Auckland.

Rather than adding much unwanted intelligence scars, Brumbies fastener Tom Hooper spun that Eden Park symptom into a positive.

Hooper, a imaginable Wallabies bolter successful 2023, added that the club's science manager had been adjuvant successful creating a winning mindset against Kiwi teams.

Tom Hooper of the Brumbies successful enactment against the Chiefs. (Getty)

"We're ever learning, we're ever evolving," Hooper told reporters.

"We're not a water conscionable sitting determination stagnant. We're a stream conscionable ever trying to travel and carve a caller way and find ways that we tin get better.

"Whether that's small betterment ways, small ways disconnected the field, flexibility. We've got a psych manager in - each small item that we tin bash conscionable to effort and get amended due to the fact that astatine the extremity of the day, let's beryllium real, the New Zealand teams getting amended and amended each year. So bash we, and we've got to lucifer them."

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Hooper was past asked to grow connected what enactment the science manager had been doing.

"It's benignant of an idiosyncratic happening but conscionable making definite that we're each connected the aforesaid leafage and we each person that content wrong ourselves," helium said.

"And past spell and execute immoderate we person been visualizing."

Damien McKenzie of the Chiefs offloads astatine GIO Stadium. (Getty)

The statistic bash springiness the Brumbies immoderate hope.

The Chiefs clasp a 6-5 all-time vantage successful Hamilton, including the 27-22 triumph successful the 2013 last erstwhile Dave Rennie was successful charge.

The Brumbies person beaten the Chiefs doubly successful New Zealand successful their past six attempts.

The Brumbies aft the 2013 Super Rugby last successful Hamilton. (Getty)

"I saw a stat connected the tele that nary Australian squad had won successful 14 (finals) games (now 15) successful New Zealand and we decidedly privation to enactment an extremity to that," Hooper said.

"Someone's got to beryllium the first. So wherefore can't it beryllium us? The 2013 expansive last radical came down and watched our Chiefs crippled a fewer weeks ago.

"We evidently didn't get the effect connected that night, but a batch of those boys spoke astir however peculiar that squad was and however they went an inch of winning the expansive last successful 2013. So we've got guys similar that who are a driving unit and they talk astir however choky knit that radical was. We request to marque definite we're doing the aforesaid and putting successful our champion show due to the fact that let's beryllium honest, thing but our champion is going to triumph this game."

SUPER RUGBY PACIFIC SEMI-FINALS

Friday, 5.05pm kick-off AEST: Crusaders (2) vs Blues (3) successful Christchurch

Saturday, 5.05pm kick-off AEST: Chiefs (1) vs Brumbies (4) successful Hamilton

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