@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.
You have been proved wrong with stats and results.
Also Forsyth Barr is not warm. It may not be wet. But the stadium is not warm. If it is 4c outside during an evening game. It is 4c inside the stadium. Only time it can be is when the team plays afternoon games and it gets the glasshouse effect. Not many of those though.
Also, they get one training session there per game week. Every other session is run at Logan Park. Outside. Potentially in the rain and wind.
Then players who aren't in match day squads. Head off to their clubs for training nights. Off to shitty Shark Park, Hancock, down to Port Chalmers. About 200 minutes of stadium time, give or take a week. Isn't the deciding factor.
Fluffybunny thread.