The Chiefs' quarter-final victory over the Stormers was slightly less convincing than what they managed against the same opposition at the same stage last season.
But that's perfectly fine as far as coach Dave Rennie and his players are concerned - repeating their steps from 12 months earlier is an outcome these Chiefs are striving their utmost to avoid.
Instead, if they wish to reach their first Super Rugby final since 2013, Rennie's men must amend whatever mistakes they made after their 61-20 victory against the Stormers in 2016, when they followed that thumping by barely firing a shot in their semifinal defeat against the Hurricanes.
This time around, after the Chiefs needed Shaun Stevenson's late try to put away the Stormers yesterday morning, it's the Crusaders who will be lying in wait. And unless the Chiefs prove they have learned their lesson, Rennie's tenure at the franchise will soon end on a losing note.
"When you don't win, you start looking at everything you did," the coach said of last year's semifinal disappointment. "Did we make the guys sluggish by doing too much practise and so on?