Worst town away day!

After yesterday's result and appalling venue, weather etc. I'm curious to know from our 'older' posters on here and everyone as a whole, what your worst away day was. Whether it was the ground, result, weather or other.

For me the one that will always stick out is Braintree away in August 2011, poor ground and even poorer result, with a long trip back on the coach at night.  

Away to Coventry in 1973, lost to a dubious last minute penalty, I was 9 and cried most of the way home

Burton away

Apart from Burton, one of two for me.

Luton away 81/82 in the old Division Two, lost 6-0, drunk it down all game, got drenched or Reading away (old Elm Park ground) on Boxing Day in the promotion season 90/91. For some reason it was an 11am kick off so we had to leave Gy at stupid o'clock. Again it drunk it down all game, at half time the stewards took pity on the soaked through Town fans and were going to put us in the end of Reading's side stand but some old git Reading fan complained so we had to stay in the rain all game. Worst we played all season and lost 2-0. To make matters worse some twit ran into the back of us on the way home and we ended up getting home on the back of an AA truck,

One thst sticks in my mind was a 4.0 hammering at Dagenham and Redbridge in the late noughties. It snowed, Town were beyond crap and we had to take a detour off the A1 on the way home due to roadworks. Got home at 4.00 a.m. and up for a train to Donny at 6.30

Macclesfield, Boxing Day 2014. Open terrace, totally exposed to the elements, was absolutely freezing and drunk it down for the entire match. We won 1-0 but the game was pretty rubbish. It then snowed on the drive back which meant it took an absolute age to get home.

Yesterday wasn't that bad. Pleasant drive up the A1(M). Free parking right outside the ground. Got in as a student for £8. Knew the weather was going to be cold and windy so dressed accordingly, unlike the casual firm 'hard' lads who resorted to huddling round a hand dryer.

Halifax 0-4.

Oldham away  Grovsey close to sack,  players gave up and think we lost 5 nil and it was free!

Quoted from Mariner Ronnie

After yesterday's result and appalling venue, weather etc. I'm curious to know from our 'older' posters on here and everyone as a whole, what your worst away day was. Whether it was the ground, result, weather or other.

For me the one that will always stick out is Braintree away in August 2011, poor ground and even poorer result, with a long trip back on the coach at night.  

Braintree away this year was non too clever.

Bristol City away April 1999 Lee Ashcroft scored an early goal,then we got hammered 4-1.

Oldham away finished 6-0 !
We was 5-0 down at half time and the police wouldn't let us leave, We was going mad for them to open the gates and let us urine off home.
During the second half a Town fan was abusing an Asian steward and the police came and arrested him, while they was escorting him out someone shouted out "Make him stay"  

The first one that came to mind for me was the 6-0 defeat at Luton but Les has already mentioned that one; the weather, the performance and the result all cr@p

Another one that disappointed me probably more though was losing 1-0 at QPR in the 80/81 season whilst riding high near the top of the old 2nd Division

A bit like yesterday's game we had a great following and were still hoping for an automatic promotion spot but we just didn't do ourselves justice that day and we tailed off then for the rest of the season.

So near yet so far....hope that's not the story of this season too  

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Halifax 0-4.

This. The only game I've ever left early.

4-4 away draw at Chesterfield, the season we went down last day at Tranmere, drew to a 90+ min penalty seconds after Manseram trying to hold the ball up on their corner flag

Deffo Braintree August 2011, that was when it sunk in with me just how far we'd fell, and that all our proud history counted for nothing  

Braintree away for the 5-0 loss, rushden away when we lost 4-1, we were flipping awful that day. And Gateshead away in the Play offs was probably the worst i'd ever felt at a football match

worst town away day Has to be the 7-1 thrashing away to Sheff Weds in the FA cup 1997... the only highlight of that day has to go to Super Jonny Oster with his Screamer of a goal  that he scored

Too many to mention but they make the good one even better.

Hartlepool away twice, once for the complete and utter drubbing and once for just a regular defeat but with sleet and snow thrown in. I've been cold at games but that took the biscuit. Didn't thaw out 'til York.

Having bricks and bottles raining down on us at Maine Road was no fun either.

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Oldham away finished 6-0 !
We was 5-0 down at half time and the police wouldn't let us leave, We was going mad for them to open the gates and let us urine off home.
During the second half a Town fan was abusing an Asian steward and the police came and arrested him, while they was escorting him out someone shouted out "Make him stay"  

Apart from Burton the Oldham game was awful, think it was 5 - 0 at half time and it was freezing, well at least we did not pay as it was free due to their fans taking control of the club or something like that.

Is last years PO Final an away day? If so that is right up there for the feeling afterwards..............  

Wembley last season, didn't want to go-hate the place-talked into it by the kids miserable trip home knowing we went out due to a horrendous reffing decision. Wont be bothering this season

Away at Darlington, just arriving at Darlington to see the team bus heading back down the A1 as they had not put covers on and ground was frozen

Nuneaton away 2013 the Tuesday before we played Wrexham in the trophy final. Freezing cold, the players may as well not even turned up IMO and Richard Brodie was so eager to get on that he spent the whole game talking to someone in the stands, I have seen better football matches down at the park on a Sunday morning.

The play-off final 2015 was the closest I have been to turning my back on football altogether, the feeling that the footballing gods are totally against us was horrible and even worse than that was the realisation that we had another season in the conference ahead of us. I have no idea how I went from hating football to then buying my first ever season ticket a few weeks later

5-0 away at Lincoln and Slade's infamous half time team talk on the pitch was pretty shite. Gateshead in the play offs was a very bad day too. Last year I enjoyed the play off final except for the result which was the first time I've ever felt like crying at a football match.

tranmere sticks out for me as I was devastated that day and I've never felt that way before about football, that was the day I realised how much gtfc mean to me. I just hope we go up because somerset will have one very happy mariner and the whole of taunton will know about it if it happens !!!

Worst away day for me would be Newport in the playoffs. Had a work thing in Cardiff that Friday night and they said they had got me an open return so was just going to go and stay with a mate. By the time I found out they hadn't got me an open ticket I was desperate to go so forked out on a ridiculously expensive train ticket to see such a limp and effortless display with no even fleeting moment of joy.

Gateshead will always be my worst place to visit though, last year when we enjoyed the 6-1 win I got the train up to Sunderland to stay with my family. Started chatting to 2 Sunderland fans who were now in London travelling to see them play Man U the next day and that really brought home that I have gone from seeing Town at the Stadium of Light, to seeing us at an athletics stadium. When my Mum tried to cheer me up after the playoff final by joking that she knew a good place to stay for the Gateshead match that was what pushed me over the edge from being devestated to being angry and distraught over still being at this level.

Burton.

Horrible day awful performance that put us out the football league, could it get any worse than that ?

Tranmere when we got relegated.

Cheltenham - League 2 play off final.

Gateshead play off game 2014.

Burton.

Never do I ever want to relive those days.

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Oldham away  Grovsey close to sack,  players gave up and think we lost 5 nil and it was free!

That memory has just sent a shiver down my spine...It was SIX and we were three down in about 10 minutes.

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Too many to mention but they make the good one even better.

Hartlepool away twice, once for the complete and utter drubbing and once for just a regular defeat but with sleet and snow thrown in. I've been cold at games but that took the biscuit. Didn't thaw out 'til York.

Having bricks and bottles raining down on us at Maine Road was no fun either.

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..

I can't remember what year it was but at a guess I'd say 06/07. It was Barnet away and I went down a bit earlier than usual because my mate from uni is a Barnet fan and we were going to have a few pre-match pints. I got to Barnet tube, and as soon as I saw my mate he said those fateful words, "game's off".

A similar thing happened to me on the way down to Southport away from Edinburgh one year. Got the train down on the Friday evening and the game was called off while I was en route. Morecambe at home in the Football League Trophy was also called off just as I came out of the terminal when I flew back from France.

Days where I actually got to see some football would be Hartlepool away under Buckley part III when they won the league. We lost 2-0 it was bloody freezing and Hartlepool is a long way from Skeg.

Peterborough away in Div 2/League 1. 0-0, if I remember rightly, it was Baltic and neither team looked particularly likely to score. I also saw a Town fan in the crowd that day with a swastika shave into the back of his head which didn't make me particularly proud to be a Mariner or from Lincolnshire.

QPR away when we were in Div 1. We lost 1-0 from a penalty which the ref clearly gave to level it up as Clare had missed an earlier one for Town which was fairly dubious. I'd travelled down from Skeg with two QPR fans and said practically nothing all the way home.

I was also at Braintree away in 2011. I took a day off work, travelled down on the train and was then laughed at on the Braintree highlights as I left after about 50 minutes. I then proceeded to have an foul mouthed rant in the Braintree car park with a bloke and his daughter who were also Town fans leaving early.

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One thst sticks in my mind was a 4.0 hammering at Dagenham and Redbridge in the late noughties. It snowed, Town were beyond crap and we had to take a detour off the A1 on the way home due to roadworks. Got home at 4.00 a.m. and up for a train to Donny at 6.30

I was at that match. I had to pay twice for my rail ticket due to a mix up with my credit card.
I then got soaked in the sleet and snow. First snow London had seen in October for 75 years or something.

The got back to Doncaster station to pick up my car which had a parking ticket on it!

It was the worst performance I had ever seen by Grimsby Town and I knew from that moment that we were destined to go out of the league.
A sad and miserable day! Polar opposite of the two wins at Wembley!

Quoted from friskneymariner

Away at Darlington, just arriving at Darlington to see the team bus heading back down the A1 as they had not put covers on and ground was frozen

That puts a whole different subject matter up for discussion!! Cancelled away games...

Bristol City away in 1981-called off as we got to the car park outside Ashton Gate (The game was played on the Tuesday in worse conditions!)

Rochdale away circa 2006/07(?) abandoned at half time on New Years Day..

Barnet around 2009 called off when we got to the Barnet turn off on the A1

Quoted from barralad

That puts a whole different subject matter up for discussion!! Cancelled away games...

Bristol City away in 1981-called off as we got to the car park outside Ashton Gate (The game was played on the Tuesday in worse conditions!)

Rochdale away circa 2006/07(?) abandoned at half time on New Years Day..

Barnet around 2009 called off when we got to the Barnet turn off on the A1

Luckily or unluckily lol. This was the only casualty that's happened to me. In this day in age now though situations like this should not happen now.

Quoted from barralad

Barnet around 2009 called off when we got to the Barnet turn off on the A1

I was already at Barnet,So went to Japanese Koi at Henlow spent £200.00 on a Showa that my missus took a shine to.Still got it (the Showa not the wife).

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.

Halifax 4-0. Enough said.

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Halifax 4-0. Enough said.

I left that one early too. Then the M62 was shut on the way back!

The 70 min spanking at Hartlepool was so far bad it came out the other side and was quite funny by the end.... so for me....

Chasetown.....i thought the club had hit an all time low before that day.....to arrive in a non descript midlands unheard of dead end town...where the locals weren't even interested in their local team.....walking into the ground and seeing  Lee Peacock, Peter Bore et all warming up on a patch of grass behind a burger van.....and then lose.....WTF !?!?!

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

Quoted from Paris Mariner

I left that one early too. Then the M62 was shut on the way back!

I can only wonder how the hell I stayed for the full 90 minutes, must have been so I could vent my frustrations towards the players and hurst. Forgot all about the M62 being shut too. We got redirected through a farmers field down a dirt track by the police only to be left to find our own way back to the motorway  from the middle of nowhere!

I remember Barnet away being called off, ended up watching scunny at Watford and seeing some town fans in the Watford end taunton scunny was brilliant

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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.

UTM

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.

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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!!!

UTM

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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

The last couple of times at Wembley haven't been great, freezing against Wrexham and we lost and of course last year Bristol Rovers , with a bloody terrible ending

The Macclesfield game a couple of years ago that was postponed because town's bus was stuck on a motorway somewhere

5-1 defeat at Port Vale, 2004.

Tranmere. Plus West Ham being frozen off when I was already down there for the weekend. Mind you, the eventual home leg made up for it!

Quoted from Les Brechin

Apart from Burton, one of two for me.

Luton away 81/82 in the old Division Two, lost 6-0, drunk it down all game, got drenched or Reading away (old Elm Park ground) on Boxing Day in the promotion season 90/91. For some reason it was an 11am kick off so we had to leave Gy at stupid o'clock. Again it drunk it down all game, at half time the stewards took pity on the soaked through Town fans and were going to put us in the end of Reading's side stand but some old git Reading fan complained so we had to stay in the rain all game. Worst we played all season and lost 2-0. To make matters worse some twit ran into the back of us on the way home and we ended up getting home on the back of an AA truck,

I remember that Reading game. Was furcking cold. Rain/sleet. Took a non-football watching mate. He was diagnosed with pneumonia about a week later.

They must have taken agin you Les because there were plenty of other fans near us who they let in to the side stand.

Been relatively lucky with my away days - mostly down south so didn't have far to travel so less opportunity for bad journeys. Despite seeing Town lose 5-0 a couple of times at Palace.

That said, Play-off Final at Cardiff. Damp squibb of an atmosphere and damp squibb of a performance. Delays on the M4 going home added 2 hours to the journey. Only positive note was my son who was about 8 at the time never moaned once in the car and it didn't put him off Town.

Wembley in 2013. Shite deafening PA system. No atmosphere. The result (it seemed almost inevitable from the kick off yet somehow the agony was drawn out for 2 hours). Coldest I've ever been watching Town. Histon temperature may have been lower but at least you could move around and there was some good cheer.

Football wise it has to be Braintree in 2011.


Corinthian Casuals away at Whyteleafe in winter 05-06. Must have been about -5 and the snow which fell before the game was froze. My mates finance had just arrived in Britain for the first time from Brazil and had never seen snow before.

Coldest I've ever experience it at football was Corinthian Casuals away at Whyteleafe in winter 05-06.
My mate persuaded me to drive him and his fiancé (she was a Corinthiana from Sao Paolo, hence the interest in obscure non-league football). She had just had just arrived in Britain for the first time from Brazil and had never seen snow before.

Proper heavy snow fall on the way over there (south of Croydon). Very rare down here. Must have been about -5 and the snow which fell before the game froze. If you think you've seen some crap games, imagine football 3 tiers below the Conference played in those conditions.

This thread could end up an 100 pager  

Bristol hurt, Bristol really hurt. I've still not watched the highlights (other than the 'fish' chant). It was just the sense that it genuinely was our time and the whole town had almost rallied around us. 1-0 Up after minutes was this the day that was going to see us back?!?! No.
Burton wasn't nice, but it was inevitable. If that squad stayed up it would have been daylight robbery. Obviously off the field antics really put a damper on that game.
Few different ones in recent years losing to Braintree 2-0 on a Tuesday night, we was never going to win Christ knows why I went. Dartford on a Thursday when Hursty to opted to field a team weaker than most division 6 Sunday league teams. Wrexham and Macclesfield which both got called off. 4 of the first 5 non league away games - just seemed to cement the fact we was becoming non-league nothing-ness.

Ah well, the bad days make the good days even better (I hope...)

Gateshead on Saturday. I'm still in Sunderland Royal Hospital and the food's gopping. Grrr

There's been about 31 games mentioned and i've done 17 of them!
just to throw a couple more into the mix - gillingham away in the dying days of buckley, if i remember correctly. simon fatboy heslop stood out in only bad ways ,and i knew we were in trouble. pompey and palace were also routine away trips which never ended well

Tranmere away was horrible but I think I felt more anger than anything else at that sides demise/surrender.

At Burton I was distraught. Without doubt the worst experience ever in football.

Coldest I can think of Buxton away a couple of seasons ago, temp on car said -1 as we headed up the hills out of Leek, by the end of the game we literally had frost on our hats. Also boxing day at Macc, icy rain at open end all game, turned to snow as we left, roads ok while in Cheshire but soon as we hit outskirts of The Potteries (Staffs CC) several inches of snow on all main roads. Last five miles across the city took twice as long as the 15 miles through Cheshire on country roads. Felt sorry for anyone who had to get back to Grimsby that evening

Going on the coldest away day on this feed. Mine has to be an FA CUP 3rd rnd tie away at Huddersfield (leeds road)can't remember da year 1990ish...

Braintree away when we lost 5-0

Hartlepool 8-1, Oldham 6-0, Barnsely 4-1 on Boxing Day, Sheff Wed 7-1, Scunny 2-0 when they seemed to take over our mantle. Tranmere was my worst though, half the team couldn't wait to get off the pitch at the end.

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Hartlepool 8-1, Oldham 6-0, Barnsely 4-1 on Boxing Day, Sheff Wed 7-1, Scunny 2-0 when they seemed to take over our mantle. Tranmere was my worst though, half the team couldn't wait to get off the pitch at the end.

That was a real horror too! I was married to a Barnsley lass at the time and most of her family were big Tykes fans. There was a queue of them to take the p*ss that day. I think we equalised but then just fell apart

January 2014  floodlight failure at Village green rovers, Terrible weather absolutely lashing it down and match abandoned,what a wasted journey.

Another west(ish) country game that happened at was Swindon in the mid-90s. Ffffreezing, tempted to stay in the pub, icey pitch, 1-0 down early on and Town player (Livvo?) got sent off. Heading to one of the worst away days. Then we were saved by the ref abandoning the game.

Another horrible awayday was Leyton Orient in Alan Buckley's first season. It was April Fools Day and we lost 5-0. A young Kevin Campbell, on-loan from Arsenal got a hat-trick.

We got our revenge a couple of seasons later though when we won 2-0 there, 2 Garry Birtles goals I think, a couple of games before we beat Exeter at home to clinch promotion to the 2nd tier.

Quoted from Les Brechin

Another horrible awayday was Leyton Orient in Alan Buckley's first season. It was April Fools Day and we lost 5-0. A young Kevin Campbell, on-loan from Arsenal got a hat-trick.

We got our revenge a couple of seasons later though when we won 2-0 there, 2 Garry Birtles goals I think, a couple of games before we beat Exeter at home to clinch promotion to the 2nd tier.

Oh Gawd! That's reminded me of another...Last match of the 80/81 season away at Cambridge. Lost 5-0 and we'd parked our minibus in a field near the ground which was to say the least a bit boggy. Of course we had to push the bloody thing out and guess who had to push in the line of the spinning back wheels?

I've been trying to think of something that hasn't already been mentioned.  Goes without saying that Burton is the worst and the League 2 play off final in Cardiff was pretty desperate. Others that spring to mind, the Bristol City game before the one mentioned earlier where we were 3 nil down in 10 minutes, might have been Burnett's first game.  Another horror show was Leyton Orient in the league cup in something like 1999, it was two legs at that stage and we were 4-0 up from the first leg.  I took my then girlfriend and her mate who were local and I paid for them all.  Got spat at from one of the tower blocks on the way there and we lost 1-0 in an absolutely desperate game.

Burton as mentioned was horrid.

I remember a Walsall game (0-0?) on a Monday night that was possibly the most boring game I've sat through.

Away games at bath city were never joyful either except for the people I made the journey with.

Worst for weather was a cup game at Hartlepool where it constantly pi55ed it down. About 30 town fans stuck in an open corner and futch nearly scoring

Stoke 91.

All that way for 70 minutes of sh1te football, and two pitch invasions. Horrible place, horrible club, horrible fans. To be honest, I was an idiot for expecting anything else given what had happened at BP previously.

Cheltenham at Cardiff 2006

Never, ever felt as gutted as I did that day. Burton was inevitable. This wasn't.

Strangely, I can't remember anything about Tranmere. I was there, but that's about all I know.

Quoted from Les Brechin

Another horrible awayday was Leyton Orient in Alan Buckley's first season. It was April Fools Day and we lost 5-0. A young Kevin Campbell, on-loan from Arsenal got a hat-trick.

We got our revenge a couple of seasons later though when we won 2-0 there, 2 Garry Birtles goals I think, a couple of games before we beat Exeter at home to clinch promotion to the 2nd tier.

At least the sun was shining that day Les....the football on offer was poor but at least we weren't freezing our nuts off and got a bit of colour from standing on their terrace

Talking of brass monkeys,  Barnsley away on NYD 1983. P*ssed down, was sooooo cold and we got stuffed 4-0

That season (82-83) was a weird one actually...we were in 4th place in February but ended the season 4th from bottom  

Along the way there were another couple of miserable 4-0 away defeats, notably at Newcastle on Easter Saturday when Keegan ran the show.

I remember missing the coach, getting a lift to Donny, getting the train to Newcastle, standing again in the open when there was a blizzard blowing and on the way home, having got on the coach, our driver got pulled up on the A1 and was issued with a ticket by the cops. Happy days!  

Quoted from FishOutOfWater

At least the sun was shining that day Les....the football on offer was poor but at least we weren't freezing our nuts off and got a bit of colour from standing on their terrace

Talking of brass monkeys,  Barnsley away on NYD 1983. P*ssed down, was sooooo cold and we got stuffed 4-0

That season (82-83) was a weird one actually...we were in 4th place in February but ended the season 4th from bottom  

Along the way there were another couple of miserable 4-0 away defeats, notably at Newcastle on Easter Saturday when Keegan ran the show.

I remember missing the coach, getting a lift to Donny, getting the train to Newcastle, standing again in the open when there was a blizzard blowing and on the way home, having got on the coach, our driver got pulled up on the A1 and was issued with a ticket by the cops. Happy days!  

As it was raining we went in their end, and there was always the thought what should we do when we score, cheer, get beat up, or keep our hands in our pockets.

We didn't have to worry, our hands kept warm in our pockets.

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Halifax 0-4.

The only amusing thing that day for me was the look on a proud Yorkie female stewards face after a rendition of "In your Yorkshire slums..."

Definitely Burton. I have never been so stressed out at a match. Their stewards caused problems and I had a right go at them. How the hell I didn't get arrested god only knows

Quoted from Richard Cranium

Definitely Burton. I have never been so stressed out at a match. Their stewards caused problems and I had a right go at them. How the hell I didn't get arrested god only knows

Wasn't it a mix of ours and derby's?

Quoted from Mariner Ronnie

Wasn't it a mix of ours and derby's?

You are correct. It was both. However our stewards were okay. A lady town fan asked them to move as they were blocking her view from the front row of the seats. 4 times she asked. Our stewards moved. The Derby stewards did also but then moved back deliberately so I responded as no doubt certain people will tell you Ronnie

Quoted from Richard Cranium

You are correct. It was both. However our stewards were okay. A lady town fan asked them to move as they were blocking her view from the front row of the seats. 4 times she asked. Our stewards moved. The Derby stewards did also but then moved back deliberately so I responded as no doubt certain people will tell you Ronnie

That sort of thing really gets my goat. People using their position to deliberately make things worse for other people when there isn't even any benefit to them. It'd be more understandable if they were asking for backhanders to move out of the way, but just for the "fun" of it?!

Rotherham in 2008. Lost 4-1 in that awful athletics stadium in Sheffield they rented for a bit. Everybody, home and away fans housed on the same side of the ground. Probably great to watch Kris Akabusi run around a track there but not football. A real misery day at the end of Stuart Watkiss's caretaker period, think we might have had Tony Ameobi up front. The only time I've ever left a game early and even then had to do a walk of shame across the top of a few empty stands to get out whilst they knocked in their fourth. Thank god Mike Newell was in the stands watching on and about to save us all  

Quoted from Manchester Mariner

Rotherham in 2008. Lost 4-1 in that awful athletics stadium in Sheffield they rented for a bit. Everybody, home and away fans housed on the same side of the ground. Probably great to watch Kris Akabusi run around a track there but not football. A real misery day at the end of Stuart Watkiss's caretaker period, think we might have had Tony Ameobi up front. The only time I've ever left a game early and even then had to do a walk of shame across the top of a few empty stands to get out whilst they knocked in their fourth. Thank god Mike Newell was in the stands watching on and about to save us all  

Sure I was at that one. Didn't we go 1-0 up with a cracker ??

Don Valley. A proper shithole.

To make it worse, I stayed behind and went to watch James Blunt at the Arena next door

Quoted from Civvy at last

Sure I was at that one. Didn't we go 1-0 up with a cracker ??

Don Valley. A proper shithole.

Yeah, Danny Boshell with a trademark 25 yarder right into the top corner.

Think it was liam trotter who gave us the lead actually!

Quoted from Hagrid

Think it was liam trotter who gave us the lead actually!

He was sh1t. What happened to him?  

Playing for the Trotters now oddly enough - obviously a shirt selling scheme. Spent a lot of his career in the Championship/League One.

Quoted from LH

Playing for the Trotters now oddly enough - obviously a shirt selling scheme. Spent a lot of his career in the Championship/League One.

Yeah, i remember him being a very good young talent but i can still hear the meatheads in the Pontoon giving him stick. 'Get stuck in you fooking poofter' being one that springs to mind.

Definitely bosh who gave us the lead
I remember the Rotherham fans shouting for hand ball and my missus said how can they tell from here

Quoted from The_Laughing_Mariner

Definitely bosh who gave us the lead
I remember the Rotherham fans shouting for hand ball and my missus said how can they tell from here

Here you go.....evidence if it were needed  

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_3/7639352.stm

And who knew, Mark Hudson and Micky Cummins scored f't' Millers

Quoted from FishOutOfWater

Here you go.....evidence if it were needed  

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_3/7639352.stm

And who knew, Mark Hudson and Micky Cummins scored f't' Millers

Some right town rejects in that Rotherham team lol!