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A post on another thread got me thinking - what are our worst matches since been down here ?

Bury away seems to be the one from last year but there were loads last season - Shrewsbury home, Crewe away,

Going back further losing to Fleetwood at home, Crawley at home spring to mind.

Incidentally the pre match view from Adkins before Crewe away last year was when he lost me - talking up a shit side and how good they were when they'd not won in ages and were bottom.

Wilder is disappointed when we don't win clown Adkins and clough before set up not to lose.
 



LS26BLADE said:
A post on another thread got me thinking - what are our worst matches since been down here ?

Bury away seems to be the one from last year but there were loads last season - Shrewsbury home, Crewe away,

Going back further losing to Fleetwood at home, Crawley at home spring to mind.

Incidentally the pre match view from Adkins before Crewe away last year was when he lost me - talking up a shit side and how good they were when they'd not won in ages and were bottom.

Wilder is disappointed when we don't win clown Adkins and clough before set up not to lose.
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Fleetwood at home. Fucking hell that was bleak.
 
The utter capitulation against Shrewsbury pissed me off as much as any performance I have ever seen at the Lane.

Sammon and Hammond scoring in the same match also made question everything that I thought I ever knew or understood o_O
 
0-2 versus Crawley at home just before Wilson got the sack was quite bad
 
Shrewsbury at home last season was truly awful, as was Southend at home this season.

Perhaps a bit leftfield but I went to Stevenage to watch us get thumped 4-0. Some forward of theirs who I had never heard of played us off the park and got a hat trick. That was bleak.
 
Back to back home defeats to Crewe and Fleetwood foreshadowed the utter shite that was to come and kickstarted a bleak period courtesy of Brians lad.
 
Any game under Weir. That period was the worst I'm old enough to remember, utterly dreadful. There were worse results in that era but for some reason the 1-1 draw at home to Walsall (Marlon King equalised) sticks out in my mind as a low point....bear in mind I didn't attend the JPT game against Hartlepool....or Shrewsbury at home last season.

The only other time I can remember us playing that badly was in a 3-1 home defeat to Port Vale years earlier. I recall it was the game that cost Adrian Heath his job.
 
JohnDenver said:
Burton at home. A degree of apathy and cluelessness I've never seen before.
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Yup, mine too, the worst I have ever seen. It wasn't even that we were bad, we were just non existant.

It may have been yourself actually who said on here post match that there was 'just a massive hole where a football team should have been'. Stuck with me as it was the perfect discrription of that performance.
 



As well as all those mentioned, honourable mention to the Yeovil game that we lost two nil at the lane under Wilson when Long fucked up trying to dribble round Paddy Madden . Don't think we had a shot on goal in 90 minutes.
 
Bladepicker said:
Yup, mine too, the worst I have ever seen. It wasn't even that we were bad, we were just non existant.

It may have been yourself actually who said on here post match that there was 'just a massive hole where a football team should have been'. Stuck with me as it was the perfect discrription of that performance.
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A team can be totally clueless but still put the odd boot in, or pump long balls into the box in the last minute. We just played the match out like we needed a narrow defeat. And what made it worse was Burton were happy to play it out for a narrow victory.

It wasn't even recognisable as a football match.
 
gavtheblade said:
Sheff utd 1-port Vale 3.
The end of heath. A truly awful utd display.
Step forward Colin Wanker. The rest is history.
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Awful display as I remember and one that I will never forget. Adrian Heath was an absolute crap manager of the highest order as his managerial CV since leaving the lane proves.
 
For me Bury away last season saw us sink to a new all time low since we have been down here. Those there will never forget it it and the sheer anger a vitriol directed at Adkins was immense. Never mind efforts on goal, we barely ventured anywhere near Burys penalty area and if it wasn't for George Long we would have comfortably lost 4 or 5 nil and that's no exaggeration. We looked like 11 schoolchildren who had been sent out to play in the rain at break time and who didn't want to get wet. At the final whistle in the pissing down rain and when the team and manager had disappeared I honestly thought we were further away from the championship than we had ever been. Thank the lord for Chris Wilder
 
Seen a few, but Shrewsbury - 1 nil up early doors - Shrewsbury proceeded to scored 4.

That was absolute despair for me.

I suppose there might be worse, but that one sticks in my mind. We were clueless.

UTB
 
The awful times at the Lane are truly truly truly abysmal.
Nobody ever does it quite as bad as United

Everybody else's good periods are always better than Uniteds supposed good periods as well

It really is fucking awful supporting this club to be honest, God knows why so many still do.
Quite amazing really
 
I remember playing Doncaster a few years ago. Possibly the most boring match I've ever been to, don't think any side had a shot on target.

Also a special mention to those of us that travelled to Yeovil on a Tuesday night for a dire 1-0 defeat a couple of years ago as well
 
I remember losing at home to Hartlepool under Wilson (I think) when they were bottom of the league. It just sticks out for some reason as although we were quite near the top at the time, I came out absolutely gutted and embarrassed. Little did I know we were in for many more, and many worse where that came from.
 
JJBlade said:
Everybody else's good periods are always better than Uniteds supposed good periods as well
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No they aren't.
JJBlade said:
It really is fucking awful supporting this club to be honest, God knows why so many still do.
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It isn't and loads still support us because they understand the highs only come with the lows and whilst we haven't won anything for a long time we've had some cracking days out, it's what life is all about.
 
wizadry said:
No they aren't.

It isn't and loads still support us because they understand the highs only come with the lows and whilst we haven't won anything for a long time we've had some cracking days out, it's what life is all about.
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I could make a list of perhaps 30 clubs of similar size and smaller who have:
Either won a trophy
Qualified for Europe
Beaten us to the signature of quality players countless times even when we have been revelling our so called good times
Or spent more time in the Premier League/First Division over the last 40 years

I'd say that means that our supposed good times are never as good as other similar sized clubs


I could also quote a whole list of perhaps 30 clubs of similar size and smaller who have:
Signed all of our best players even when they have been no great shakes themselves
Not been in Division Four
And not struggled in Division Three for six seasons

I'd say that means our bad times have been considerably worse than other clubs of similar size
 
JJBlade said:
The awful times at the Lane are truly truly truly abysmal.
Nobody ever does it quite as bad as United

Everybody else's good periods are always better than Uniteds supposed good periods as well

It really is fucking awful supporting this club to be honest, God knows why so many still do.
Quite amazing really
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Pack it in then. Beats trying to be the forums Sylvia Plath.
 



JJBlade said:
I could make a list of perhaps 30 clubs of similar size and smaller who have:
Either won a trophy
Qualified for Europe
Beaten us to the signature of quality players countless times even when we have been revelling our so called good times
Or spent more time in the Premier League/First Division over the last 40 years

I'd say that means that our supposed good times are never as good as other similar sized clubs


I could also quote a whole list of perhaps 30 clubs of similar size and smaller who have:
Signed all of our best players even when they have been no great shakes themselves
Not been in Division Four
And not struggled in Division Three for six seasons

I'd say that means our bad times have been considerably worse than other clubs of similar size
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So you've changed your view from your original post from 'Everybody' to 'some clubs'?
 
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