Saw a post on another forum which claimed that we had a 7 year curse ie 1982, 1989, 1996 and 2003 were all really bad seasons for us.
Is this correct?
If so, is it just a stats thing or something odd behind all this?
Should we fear season 2010?
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Thread: Do we have a 7 year curse?
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22-04-2008, 03:52 AM #1
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Do we have a 7 year curse?
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22-04-2008, 09:05 AM #2
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Re: Do we have a 7 year curse?
Doesn't explain some bad years in between eg 2004
We made finals in 75 too.
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22-04-2008, 09:16 AM #3
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Re: Do we have a 7 year curse?
Look I'm an incredibly superstitious bastard when it comes to watching the Dogs, but this is ridiculous. At the moment if anything we've got a 53 year curse and it's time to break it.
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22-04-2008, 10:06 AM #4
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Re: Do we have a 7 year curse?
There is no such curse. People look for anything to explain our lack of success on. The fact is we have a great window of opportunity over the next two or three years.
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22-04-2008, 10:34 AM #5
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Re: Do we have a 7 year curse?
You are so, so wrong GVGjr.
Of course there's a 7 year curse. It's an absolute fact. Every sane, rational, even headed person is aware of it. It is solid concrete irrefutable cold hard fact. We're all doomed......... DOOMED!!!!!!
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22-04-2008, 11:35 AM #6
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Re: Do we have a 7 year curse?
They were all very bad years, no question.
Originally Posted by Dry Rot
You can take the sequence back a bit further:
1954 - PREMIERS
1961 - runners up (losing a grand final started the sequence?)
1968 - 3rd last with 5 wins
1975 - Neil Sachse - our worst year ever by a long, long way.
1982 - Last with 3 wins
1989 - 2nd Last with 6 1/2 wins
1996 - 2nd last with 5 1/2 wins
2003 - Last with 3 1/2 wins
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22-04-2008, 01:49 PM #7
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Re: Do we have a 7 year curse?
Hope The No1 pick in 2011 is a ripper.
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22-04-2008, 02:19 PM #8
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Re: Do we have a 7 year curse?
We made the finals in '74 and '76, not '75. I too have pondered the 7 year curse but then bad memories of '80, '81 and '04 shake me out of it.
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22-04-2008, 03:55 PM #9
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Re: Do we have a 7 year curse?
I used to be superstitious too, but it brought me too much bad luck, so I gave it up. Originally Posted by The Underdog
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22-04-2008, 07:35 PM #10
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Re: Do we have a 7 year curse?
The 7 year curse is fake we have had plenty of bad seasons in between. Even though lately we seem to have a very bad season every 7 years I think it is just another excuse to explain mediocrity.
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22-04-2008, 09:57 PM #11
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Re: Do we have a 7 year curse?
Originally Posted by Sockeye Salmon
Maybe we are cursed in the years that we have draws i.e. 2007
and gulp 2008.
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