Worst town away day!

Quoted from mariner83

Seen a few but One that sticks in my mind for some reason is Walsall around 2000(?) lost 4-0.

Possibly the only time I've ever thought the whole team was guilty of not trying...terrible game!

Quoted from tintowner

I can handle any bad away day as a football league team.  Being in this league and going to places like Hayes, Histon and Chasetown is difficult.

Understand what you mean but Hayes & yeading  was ok. We were 1-0 up by the time I got there, had a nice beer at half time in the club bar and had another beer after the game watching the players have lasagne with everyone else. And Histonn was also ok (result helped). I think a lot of us have enjoyed the chance to see some of these quaint places and grounds.

The problem is, it has now become the norm, rather than something a bit 'cute'. And that is the worrying thing.

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I remember going to Colchester in the late 80's on a Friday night and the game was called off 20 minutes before kick-off.

Quoted from barralad

If it's the one I'm thinking of it was the Saturday after we'd dubbed Darlington 7-2 at home. The weather was terrible on the way up with heavy snow but it was just rain on the coast with a howling gale off the North Sea. The stand we were put in had a big sliding door at the back of it and the stewards opened it up fully...Until Wembley 2013 the coldest I'd ever been at a Town game..

Now my old mind is getting fuzzy and i may well be mixing up my matches but the game i had in my head that was baltic was the 4-2 defeat in DEC 89 but I'm now questioning myself because your mention of the door being open rang a bell. I think my memory problems may well have started at Hartlepool when my frontal lobe froze for 90 mins. The one you mention is when we scored 12 goals in two home games against Bradford and Darlington and went up there full of beans expecting to roll them over. Snow turned to sleet then to rain and the upshot was that it was very wet and very cold. It was probably just as cold and wintery for both games.

The other game i mention is without any doubt the 8-1 drubbing which i will remember 'til i croak.

Maybe I have been lucky or chosen well. I have mostly had good days (beer almost certainly helps). I have had some scary days - port vale, Sheffield Utd, Derby (baseball ground) and some depressing ones, Bradford 0-0 year we went down to non league (bloody cold, horrible place and sh8t place to put a ground), Wycombe (see Bradford), Reading (again same as others although a bit warmer, but we were dreadful) and coventry when we lost 3-0 in the second leg of league cup as tony rees had a mental and decided to kick their player after about 5 mins. Someone has already mentioned sheff wed 7-1. The result was terrible but that stewards that day were absolute scum. If you stood up in your seat then you were out. Massive bell8nds each  and everyone of them.

Overall though, probably Ivanovo gate was the worst. Luton is a sh8t hole full stop. The ground is in a sh8t hole where you have to climb over 20 gardens to get to, then lose 3-2 followed by the throwing of chicken/sandwiches by mr laws (allegedly). That was probably a low point.

Losing to Cheltenham at the millennium was also sh8t. Because we were sh8t.

Try and look at the positives though. Far more good days than bad. Highlights (in no particular order), Northampton and Bournmouth at Wembley, Preston (Neil woods best day I a town shirt  - also his first), port vale (again) when we won and stayed up (and they went down), crystal palace, Aston villa, Hayes and yeading, Histon, Barnet last year, chesterfield, Southend (Andy tillson was awesome), Ipswich, Huddersfield (Leeds road, Gary childs screamer) and Rotherham when super Clive took them apart in a 4-1 thrashing.

Good, good times. We can have them again - I hope!!!

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Quoted from ginnywings

Now my old mind is getting fuzzy and i may well be mixing up my matches but the game i had in my head that was baltic was the 4-2 defeat in DEC 89 but I'm now questioning myself because your mention of the door being open rang a bell. I think my memory problems may well have started at Hartlepool when my frontal lobe froze for 90 mins. The one you mention is when we scored 12 goals in two home games against Bradford and Darlington and went up there full of beans expecting to roll them over. Snow turned to sleet then to rain and the upshot was that it was very wet and very cold. It was probably just as cold and wintery for both games.

The other game i mention is without any doubt the 8-1 drubbing which i will remember 'til i croak.

I think the coldest I have ever been at a game was at Halifax in 87 at an FA Cup replay. We'd drawn 1 all at home, and I remember The Pontoon being temporarily evacuated because of a small fire under the stand. When we went to The Shay for the replay you could literally watch the pitch turning white as the game went on. How it finished I'm not sure as the pitch was white over on 90 minutes. We were bloody awful that night too and lost 2-0.

Quoted from barralad

Possibly the only time I've ever thought the whole team was guilty of not trying...terrible game!

Bit like port vale away 09/10 season were boshell seemed to get recklessly sent off!

We lost 4-0, Matthew heywood never played again thank god!

Coldest I've ever been was Buxton away

Arsenal away in 1931. We lost 9-1

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Quoted from Davec

Coldest I've ever been was Buxton away

Has to be Histon on New Years Day when we won 6-0