Sekope Kepu says he and fellow prop Ben Alexander and hooker Stephen Moore have been plotting the All Blacks' demise (AAP)
Australia's hungry front-row club say the buck stops with them and they must deliver if the Wallabies are to topple the All Blacks in Sunday night's Rugby World Cup semi-final in Auckland.
Sekope Kepu says he and fellow prop Ben Alexander and hooker Stephen Moore have been plotting the All Blacks' demise while downing chicken burgers to maintain strength ahead of the biggest match of their lives.
"Stephen Moore owns a Nando chicken restaurant in Canberra, so he's teed up some free Nandos vouchers so we always get together as a front row, as a tight five to some extent, and go out to Nandos," Kepu said.
"We've leaked some second-rowers in, but they have to push in the scrums first."
Kepu said that's the bottom line for the Wallabies, meeting the All Blacks head on at the set piece and coming out on top to ensure Will Genia and Quade Cooper are able to spark Australia's potent backline into action at Eden Park.
"For many of the boys, this is the biggest game of our careers. It can't get any bigger than this," Kepu said.
"It's do or die and there's a lot on the line and we've just got to muscle up and bar up and turn up this week and everything else should take care of itself.
"Last week against the Springboks, I think we held our weight.
"But we need to up the ante this week. The All Blacks are pretty much the pack to beat and we've prepared well this week."
Kepu, who hasn't missed a Test this year, said the absence of the ailing Moore and injured flanker David Pocock against Ireland contributed "to some extent" to Australia's shock pool loss a month ago at the Wallabies' Eden Park graveyard.
"Maybe we didn't adjust enough to the situation. In saying that, Ireland came out and gave it to us," he said.
"But, in some respects, that's been a blessing in disguise and a wake-up call for us and, ever since then, we've had to turn the screws and the boys have been performing pretty well."
Kepu agreed the breakdown battle, not just Pocock versus Richie McCaw, would be "massive".
"Richie is back and he's there so it will be up to us in the engine room to actually provide the platform and the front-foot ball for our backs," he said.
Moore said it was imperative that the Wallabies gained the early physical ascendancy against the Cup favourites.
"The physical battle, the breakdown, those contests are going to be crucial to the outcome of the game," Moore said.
"They're going to come out all guns blazing and we wouldn't expect anything less."
The Wallabies lineout was a shambles in the hard-fought 11-9 quarter-final win over the Springboks and Australia's thrower admitted it needed to improve on Sunday night.
"We certainly weren't happy with how it functioned against South Africa," Moore said.
"They put a lot of pressure on our ball and we've worked accordingly on that this week."
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