Queensland's bid to break Australian rugby's Super Rugby finals hoodoo has fallen flat, with the Reds eliminated from the title race by superstar playmaker Damien McKenzie's Chiefs.
The woeful record by Australian teams in the play-offs in New Zealand stretched to 0-22 after the fifth-ranked Reds fell to the No.2 seeds 46-24 in Hamilton on Saturday night.
Despite the loss skipper Fraser McReight, who was among his team's best, hailed the fight from his players, who were still in the game until midway through the second half.
"Yeah, definitely tough one - the Chiefs are a great outfit and we put up a great shift there and went in at halftime full of confidence," the Wallabies flanker told Stan Sport.
"Credit to them, they were able to probably execute a lot better than we were.
