Worst Away Day following BFC

Mine as got to be either Crawley last season or Huddersfield season before

 

Grimsby away under Gudjon.

 

Coventry a few years ago when Carl Baker ran us ragged on his debut and was freezing cold and Leicester with those **** seats when Leon Knight made his debut a number of years ago now (possibly the same season as the Cov game).

If its a good day out, it lessens the blow of Barnsley losing. Coventry and Leicester were both **** days out plus we got comfortably beat both games.

 

Bradford P A winning 2 1 at h t lost 7 2 Kevin Hector got 5.

 

Reading away back when Clarkey was manager, 1980 or summat like that. Lost 7-0 and it was a bitter cold and wet tuesday night.

 

Watford under Keith Hill. I think he said afterwards that even he had wanted to leave at half time.

 

Shrewsbury in 85 and 86. Lost 0-2 and 0-3 against a shiit team in a **** ground in a **** town.

 

I thought that was a Saturday match between Xmas and New Year ! Bloody horrible day out that !

 

Crawley wasnt bad. It was only 48 minutes worth...

 

Deffo was a satdi - went on 'speshal' - them were days

 

Huddersfield is a very good shout. Never left a match nevermind an away game before at around 4:20 in the afternoon. Couldn't have been more different than our last match there.

Losing to Cardiff City at Wembley is up there too. If only Odejayi had scored his one on one. The long day going to Wembley there and back is. That we lost just like we did at the old Wembley. That we didn't have a goal to celebrate. 2 games away from seeing us win a cup and having european football.

 

you're probably right. All i remember was it being dark and cold and an absolutely terrible match. Wasn't that Clarkeys last competative match as well?

 

1979/1980 Sat 29 Dec Reading 7 - 0 Barnsley Third Division

 

Walsall away last season never felt as disheartened in all my time as a Barnsley fan. Sat on train home I was that pissed off I could have cried was a good day out up until match though.

 

Grimsby away and Plymouth when we lost 2.0

 

Hard to decide really given in my short time of support I've witnessed some absolute abortions on the pitch but had a good day out nonetheless due to drink/location/atmosphere in the ground. To be honest the worst ones have been local derbies where I've chosen to drive, thus not been able to look around the town/city we're at or have a drink. So Donny 11/12 (lost 2-0), Huddersfield 13/14 (left after Hammill made it 4-0). But I've not really counted them as away days as such as they're 30-40 minutes in the car.

Worst one where I've spent the day there was Coventry 11/12. We never got anything at the Ricoh but they were rock bottom and had conceded for fun that season where-as we were comfortably mid-table, so surely we'd be able to get something there right? Right? Nope. Took me ages to get there via train (only came from Nottingham as well), town centre was a shithole, Ricoh is obviously miles away so had to get a bus with the local mutants, both teams were unspeakably awful making for an eye gouging spectacle even before Clive Platt bundled one over the line in the 91st minute for them. In a quarter full, echoey stadium. In Coventry. Then I had to spend an hour in Birmingham afterwards as my train back to Notts was cancelled. The horror, the horror.

 

Not only Clarkey. Around 3 or 4 never played for us again after that game and another few only played 2 or 3 more games. Without checking I'm thinking of Flavell, Collins, Springett, Pugh, Millar, Graham. That game was really the catalyst to take us up to the next level. Out went some of the faces that had got us promoted from the fourth and who we had stayed loyal to, whilst in came the players who would take us up to the second the next season. I think Evans, Parker and Cooper all joined soon after.

Oh, and whilst Reading was the end for a lot of players, it was the debut of Joe Joyce!

 

Doncaster away last season has to rank as one of the worst football matches of all time. Absolutely rubbish from both teams, more so us as they won. We didn't have a shot that I can recall in 90 mins.

Huddersfield away when Ian Woan made his debut on the right wing and Chris Barker put in a shocker of a performance.

I've tried my hardest to erase the rest.

 

Attended both of those and we were deffo ***** on both occasions...but their ground was not that much shittier than Oakwell at that time...and Shrewsbury a **** town??? Seriously???

Bromsgrove in the cup for me...utterly abject performance, embarrassed that we fluked the win and our fans invading the pitch to "celebrate" was utterly cringe-worthy.

 

6-1? Aye, same.