Worse Away Game Attended

Quoted from mike502

28th October 2008 - Dagenham & Redbridge beat us 4-0.  It was freezing cold and if I remember rightly, sleeting.

I was at that match.
Dire performance
I had to pay for my train ticket twice due to mix up with credit cards and a jobsworth ticket man
We played like a bunch of donkeys with no interest
First snow in October in London for 74 years and on an open terrace.
Soaking wet, freezing and fed up along with about 50 other brave souls.
Got back to Doncaster and my van had a parking ticket on it.
You couldn’t make it up!
This match confirmed to me that we were doomed for non league!

Oldham, although at least it was free.

Apart from the obvious one at Burton, 3 stick in the mind for me.

Barnsley, just before Christmas 1991. Lost 4-1. drunk down with rain on the open away end at Oakwell. 4 nil down with 10 minutes to go. Only time I have ever left a game early. Got back to the car and local radio was reporting that we'd scored a consolation and it was an own goal by Barnley's Mark Smith. Just so happened we had a Mark Smith playing that day and it was him who had scored.

Carlisle late 80's. Got stuck in a massive traffic jam on the A1 on the way there. John Cockerill scored for us after 20 seconds but we didn't get there til 5 minutes late. Dumped the car where we could. We ended up losing the game 2-1. Got back to the car and it had a parking ticket, then on the way home the car broke down and we ended up coming home on the back of an AA truck.

Reading Boxing Day 1990. Some bright spark decided that the game would kick off at 11am meaning that we had to leave about 6am. We lost 2-0, drunk it down the entire first half. At half-time a steward there took pity on the 200 or so drenched Town fans and decided to put us in the under cover side stand seats until some old twit of a Reading fan complained that he'd paid a quid extra to sit under cover and didn't want scores of Town fans sat with him so they left us in the open away end for the rest of the game when  the rain got heavier. We were bloody awful that game and it didn't make it any better having to travel all the way home soaked to the skin.

One of the worse for me was Barnet last season, we all turn up for a nothing match, but kick up an atmosphere ready for the start of Slade bilgeball, absolute let down after the effort fans had put in to get the band etc. Players and especially the manager should of being ashamed. Along with Cheltenham around the same time was the warning of what to expect this season, hence on my list of awful trips.

Burton away 2010, for obvious reasons.

Quoted from friskneymariner

York away in cup replay we lost 1-0  and had Paul Raven playing as center forward.Jan 2002

I remember that one, a good example of the phrase “we never turned up”

Oldham, Hartlepool were pretty grim but Tranmere that season was the worst. Still remember Nicky Laws and half the town players sprinting down the tunnel at the end. We took around 4,000 but they couldn't wait to get off the pitch. Watched the highlights for the first time recently and it was exactly as I remembered. We should never have gone down that season but we were completely mismanaged from top to bottom. Still not been back to that level.

The other one that stands out for me was Scunny when we lost 2-0 in 2004. You could tell that they were on the up and we were sinking below them. Getting forced into the ground hours before kick off and town fans chants towards Laws just rounded off an awful day.

Thinking about it the 4 games I've mentioned were within a year of each other.

An honourable mention for Tamworth in our first seaon in The Conference.

About our 3rd or 4th away game and the first time it really dawned on me just how far we'd fallen, stood on that desolate away terrace watching us get beat 2-1.

I must admit the Braintree 5-0 was a close second to the Luton 6-0,

BUT

At least I was dry and was back home in 40 minutes,

A very bad night to be a mariner.

Quoted from Mariner_09

. The one for me that sticks out was that defeat at Chasetown in the FA trophy, welcome to non league everybody.

Kerching !!

Absolutely without a doubt.