Whats the worst Pools performance you've ever seen?

Portsmouth Poolie · **Posted:** Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:04 pm

townendtimmy wrote:

gravedisorder wrote:

Was it a nightmare I had or did we once lose 4-0 at darlo in the early nineties

This game keeps popping into my head too did Macphail score an own goal

Think so then didn't we go back and beat them there in the cup a couple of weeks later??

3Quid · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:11 pm **Posts:** 1791

3 'performances' stick in my mind....

The 6-0 home defeat by Donny was the most gutless performance ever by a Pools team.Doncaster weren't even that good themselves, the team just had no confidence or spirit whatsoever.Whenever Pools put in a bad game nowadays, i look back to that match and think just how bad we were and how far we have come since then.

The sit-down protest that day was more than justified.

The 4-0 defeat at Darlo in 1991 was bad as well.I fooked off at half-time and was back in the boilermakers club before the match finished :evil:

The worst one for me, in our period of success under IOR, must be the Wrexham match when we got beat 6-4.The only plus point that day was our attackers.Dimi, the defence and the midfield put in a terrible performance that day, it was that bad it was comical to watch.Juan Ugarte has never been the same since that game though :laugh:

And didn't we sign Chris Llewellyn on the back of his showing in that game?

Mute Witness · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:10 am **Posts:** 3572

Kolley Kibber wrote:

http://www.inthemadcrowd.co.uk/cgi-bin/itmc_view_match.asp?oid=4017

I'm only young so I don't remember the bad old days but this game narked me enough that I still remember it. An awful, awful game in which Macclesfied sucker punched us twice late on. I remember Easter getting a lot of stick off the crowd that day.

I remember that well.

Easter missed one or two open nets that day, didn't he?

Hangem · **Posted:** Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:15 pm

Seen some bad games in my time but this one stands out

http://www.inthemadcrowd.co.uk/cgi-bin/itmc_view_match.asp?oid=3303

Rob moverley and Rob McKinnion in a car crash on the way to the ground and then we got thrashed 6-0 of cambridge united

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:27 am

I've been trying to track down a really bad performance that I thought I remembered, via ITMC.
I thought it was a 4-0 home defeat by Workington the season they were relegated.
But on checking the nearest I can find is a 2-0 home defeat by them, when they finished bottom in 75/76. They were relegated the next season, when they finished bottom again.
We had just lost away to Cambridge 4-0 and Northampton 5-2 on successive days, and then the Workington defeat another 3 days later, probably around the Easter weekend.
The match would have been my first for almost a year, I had just got back from 9 months in Oman, serving my Queen & Country, lying on a beach every afternoon, and forgetting just how bad we were then.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22629

parmopooly wrote:

that Brighton away match was a fix, we had no chance, and all done with the Football League's approval.
And they can fu-cking sue me if they like, but they can't win because my statement is true.
Not proud of it but I slapped a Southampton fan after the match in a Hove pub, after he said that it's great that a "shiit northern team like Hartlepool" will go down instead of Brighton.

I'm proud of you clappp

Compo · **Posted:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:51 pm

when we got beat 8-1 by plymouth at home i think dalton got a hattrick and shilton was the manager what season was that if anyone remembers as i was only a nipper

townendtimmy · **Posted:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:12 pm

Abingdon_Poolie wrote:

when we got beat 8-1 by plymouth at home i think dalton got a hattrick and shilton was the manager what season was that if anyone remembers as i was only a nipper

im sure that was the last game of that season, good riddance to it too.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36939

Worst perfromance for me was... 1908 to 1999...... :laugh:

Hawklord · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:27 pm **Posts:** 3115

Snowy wrote:

Worst perfromance for me was... 1908 to 1999...... :laugh:

Come on Snowy, what about 1967 /68 & 1990 / 91 - mind you the rest was pretty dire. sadx

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:36 pm

It certainly speaks volumes for our past shiteness when so many different games get a mention :laugh:

Not many clubs would have have suffered as many absolute paggerings as Pools rolf

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:54 pm

chip fireball wrote:

cant recall who the opposition were but it could have been swansea who beat us 4-0 and 8-0 in the same season.

My mates Dad Graeme Richardson was in goal for Pools the day we lost 8-0 at the Vetch, he said they were a very good side that season. Still we lost 8-0 and Graeme was named man of the match for Pools :shock:

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

I dont know what game in what but one image I have of the bad days was when Peter Billing got sent off at the rink end and sat behind the goal to watch the resultant penalty being scored and then trudged off with his head down.

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:41 pm

Tree_With_Hamster wrote:

I dont know what game in what but one image I have of the bad days was when Peter Billing got sent off at the rink end and sat behind the goal to watch the resultant penalty being scored and then trudged off with his head down.

Could that be this game Tree?

http://www.inthemadcrowd.co.uk/cgi-bin/ ... p?oid=3655

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6471

chip fireball wrote:

BillinghamPoolie wrote:

I've been trying to track down a really bad performance that I thought I remembered, via ITMC.
I thought it was a 4-0 home defeat by Workington the season they were relegated.
But on checking the nearest I can find is a 2-0 home defeat by them, when they finished bottom in 75/76. They were relegated the next season, when they finished bottom again.

what you are probably thinking of is a 4-0 defeat when we had workingtons goalkeeper gordon livesy making his debut on loan mr billingham.

livesy was man of the match pulling off a string of fine saves including one from the penalty spot.

we were absolutely abject and could have conceeded double figures.

cant recall who the opposition were but it could have been swansea who beat us 4-0 and 8-0 in the same season.

it was as bad as the doncaster 6-0 game.

Looks like you are right about it being Swansea Chip. He played 6 times and the results were

York (a) 0-1
Darlington (h) 2-1
Swansea (h) 0-4
Watford (a) 0-1
Huddersfield (h)3-2
Aldershot (a) 0-3

Spender · **Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 8:47 am

About three weeks before that Plymouth 1-8 game, we played at Rotherham and lost 7-0 as well. I walked into the pub as the results came up (in the days of afternoon lock-ins) and faced a barrage of abuse.

Goalden Gordon from Ripping Yarns was popular watching at the time and I was taking '7-0 against Rotherham?? A team of pensioners!!' for the rest of the evening. I was not amused.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36939

Hawklord wrote:

Snowy wrote:

Worst perfromance for me was... 1908 to 1999...... :laugh:

Come on Snowy, what about 1967 /68 & 1990 / 91 - mind you the rest was pretty dire. sadx

I was gonna include them actually... then I thought about it

.... and just had to dismiss them as faint heartbeats on the flat line of their life support unit. sadx

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