I’ve just posted for the first time since THAT match. Easily the low point in my following of the Reds. The players looked like they’d never played a match before, didn’t care and hadn’t met each other before entering the pitch that day. A deserved defeat. I went a bit all superstitious due to the subsequent return of amazing form we saw for the rest of that season! It really was quite some turnaround. Anyone else care to share their own personal Reds following low point?!
I was there in the pissing rain on that crumbling open terrace and I'm so glad I was - every one of our many wins away from home after that, culminating in the two victories at Wembley, was made that little bit sweeter by looking back to where we were that day at Altrincham.
Hopefully not at 17:00 today. I remember Altrincham well, got piss wet through, it was a terrible experience, as for other lows it has to be the Wembley defeats.
Getting beat by Crawley town at home 1st game back in league one was embarrassing over 10.5k home fans expecting a victory and 1 nil flattered us. Mind numbing football. Also taking 3k fans away to donny on a saturday when we hadn't won away for 3 months. We played a bang average donny side failed to get a shot on target all game if we were still playing now we wouldnt have scored. Donny scored last minute won one nil all locals ringing praise and grumble on way home saying it's the worst barnsley side to play at the keepmoat and we were going down. And it was Baltic that day. Performance wise that was probley worst I've seen live we didnt put 3 passes together all game.
Oh yeah! Come to think of it, I also must have seen us get tonked 5-1 in the return fixture! Was a long way to go for that one! I honestly think I blanked it out of my mind, but I’ve definitely watched the reds at Crawley and we’ve only been once, so....!
Altrincham is my low-point, and I've been going since 1994. A disgusting abdication by the players, for which The Dwarf should have paid with his job.
Rhyl. December 1971. Had THREE cracks at em and ended up losing 2-0 on a freezing night in the vast cavern that was then Old Trafford. I was at all 3 games but that night, standing with about 3000 others in a 60000 capacity concrete canyon, will live with me forever.
I was at Altrincham too. Another low point I can remember was 91/92 lost 1-3 at home to Plymouth, and a striker called Dwight Marshall scored a hat trick
Altrincham was my low point in 35 years of attending. I remember a confused Isgrove being subbed on and looking like he’d never kicked a football in his life. Beyond that pretty much all of the disastrous 2003 (?) League One campaign up until the moment Isaiah Rankin scored the goal against Brentford to keep us up.
I'd agree with the others on this thread who mentioned Rhyl & Marine. I'd go with Marine, as not only did we deservedly get beat by a team well down in the footballing pyramid, but we were also bottom of the entire football league.
On the field, the 7-0 defeats at Reading and West Brom, both of which I attended. Off the field, the sale of Pinnock and then Moore last summer, which I believed would result in relegation. I wasn't far off. I cannot remember feeling so low about player sales, not even in January 2017.
Off the field administration, but more recent times definitely last summer selling pinnock for cheap selling lindsay and then 4 days before the window shut we sell moore.
Springfield Park - I think it was a League Cup game late 80’s. I know we lost - may be 2-1? Awful place, awful performance - makes you appreciate the good times!
I remember feeling pretty low back when Mad Mel was manager; I think it was the 89-90 season so back before instant media and we won our final home game of the season meaning we were in the play-offs. We left the ground after seeing the players celebrating in the TV gantry, discussing our chances in the play-offs. We found out just outside the ground that Dean b'stard Wilkins had scored a very late goal for Brighton meaning they were in the play-offs and we weren't.
