Opinion The Belmore Curse

[BlackJackBulldog]

I don’t know where to start mate and can’t find anything positive about the place apart from nostalgia.

The facilities are horrible, especially those kindergarten seats and 42” plasma screen.

Thats not the TV they have been taking to training all pre season?

 

[GoTheDoggies]

The “curse” is just confirmation bias - has way more to do with us just generally being shit for the past 5 years + 1 or 2 outlier results.

Just like people saying “we have lost x% of games under this ref”… we’ve lost majority of games at the majority of venues under the majority of refs since 2017.

Solution is to just…stop being shit?

Facts brother.

Haha we’ve been spoon battlers for about 4 seasons every place is cursed by that logic.

Pretty sure we lost to the Raiders reserve grade team while fielding our first team at ANZ stadium when Pay was coach.

 

[GoTheDoggies]

I don't think Belmore is the problem. I think the problem is we suck.

A voice of reason in this tread Flanagun.

 

[Natboy]

What’s our winning percentage at belmore since we returned playing there in comparison to our other “home” grounds?

Anyone?

 

[ElMagicElMasri]

Anyone?

20% (2/10) @ Belmore since 2015
42% (35/84) @ 'Home' games (minus Belmore) since 2015

10 games is a tiny sample size:
3 x Melbourne
2x Canberra
1x Sharks
1x Cowboys
1x Gold Coast
1x Dragons
1x Newcastle

Realistically we would have been favourites in under half of them

 

[Natboy]

20% (2/10) @ Belmore since 2015
42% (35/84) @ 'Home' games (minus Belmore) since 2015

10 games is a tiny sample size:
3 x Melbourne
2x Canberra
1x Sharks
1x Cowboys
1x Gold Coast
1x Dragons
1x Newcastle

Realistically we would have been favourites in under half of them

Thanks mate. Hardly a fortress unfortunately and a pretty bad record even with 10 games. 11% winning record if you take out the 2015 game where it was a massive novelty returning there after 17 years. We were never losing that one