@brodean said in Did the new Dunedin stadium make the Highlanders/Otago soft?:

@Kiwiwomble said in Did the new Dunedin stadium make the Highlanders/Otago soft?:

@brodean said in Did the new Dunedin stadium make the Highlanders/Otago soft?:

@gt12 said in Did the new Dunedin stadium make the Highlanders/Otago soft?:

@brodean said in Did the new Dunedin stadium make the Highlanders/Otago soft?:

@gt12 said in Did the new Dunedin stadium make the Highlanders/Otago soft?:

@brodean said in Did the new Dunedin stadium make the Highlanders/Otago soft?:

@gt12

Where are the results for the last 8 years?

Linked above, but since you asked, they aren't actually that bad at home.

This year sucked (as did 2022) but before that they were still a better chance to win at home than not.

2025: 2/5 (29%)
2024: 4/3 (57%)
2023: 4/3 (57%)
2022: 2/5 (29%)
2021: 3/0 (100%)
2020: 2/2 (50%)
2019: 4/1/3 (50%)

BTW, your premise is:

Carisbrook was known as the house of pain and it was tough to win down there.
The new stadium doesn't have the same rep.

Not that bad but not that good either.

Yes. I don't think the new stadium has the same reputation as Carisbrook as being a place tough to win at. Do you disagree with that?

Yeah, it's a shit take.

Carisbrook was a shithole and teams hated playing there, but that wasn't necessarily because of the quality of the Landers teams and whether they could get a win or not. It was just a freezing shithole.

That's my point that the freezing shithole gave them an edge and made them tougher. It may have been a freezing shithole but it was their freezing shithole.

The current crop of players don't have the same kind of edge. You show some great results in the mid 10's but a bunch of those players were probably forged at Carisbrook.

but there is no evidence to support that...if anything we've see the results are better at forsyth barr on average

40% at the brook and 62% at Forsyth Barr on average

Yeah look I see where you're coming from but reputations don't have a lot to do with stats. They're usually based on legend, myth, and aura.

but thats not what your original post said

@brodean said in Did the new Dunedin stadium make the Highlanders/Otago soft?:

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The current Highlanders team don't fight tooth and nail as much as the Otago teams of old.

Will the new stadium in Christchurch make the Crusaders/Canterbury soft?

we can see they seem to fight harder if results are how we're gauging it and if its not results then im not sure how youre measuring it

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