Plenty of them but one of my earliest and worst. I believe it was 18 October 1975. Exeter City 3 Pools 1 on the Saturday afternoon. On the evening went with a handful of Poolies on the terraces at Plainmoor to watch Darlo beat The Gulls 4-2. Torquay fans very surprised to see us with them chanting against the scum. Dossed overnight at some guesthouse owned by a Pools fan and a very long journey hungover up the motorway on Sunday morning.

Same answer as last time!

1976. Man City 6 Pools 0, FA Cup 3rd Round. George Potter sent off on a stretcher (you after laugh) after being head butted by Geordie gobshite Dennis Tueart.

Rearranged fixture on a Friday night in 1994 at Swansea. Our season was heading towards relegation. Four of us travelled there in one car and ended up being the only four on the Vetch's massive away terrace. Think we were 100% of the away contingent. We had got free tickets by going to the players entrance and claiming to be Keith Houchens relatives. I remember bantering crazy Roger Freestone in the Swansea goal. We went one nil down but pulled it back 1-1 through Paul Thompson. That's the way it finished. Bloody long way back.

Thanks guys. Wasn't at the Swansea game but 1972 and and the league liner with disco on board (which wasn't) and bricked and bottled by Cardiff rugby fans after losing 0-1 and Barry Watling saving yet another penalty. The Man City game yes. It started off great pulling into a service station with about 12 Pools buses and two plastic Man U (Peterborough Reds etc) and then got progressively worse as you say. Escorted down Coronation Street style back streets and abused and stoned and then obliterated by the Mancunians. In our defence that day our midfield of Kev Johnston and Mick Spelman were both injured and didn't play. A different story if they had. Pools away form up to then was pretty good. The second reason Pools lost that day so heavily was they wore those fucking awful Norwich City reject yellow and green strips. Remember those stupid paper hats they issued?

Aldershot away, November, 1989. Got whalloped 6-1. I was in the main stand and was so embarrassed I went and hid in one of the tea rooms!!

I don't know where to start with this.

Losing 3-1 at Yeovil about 10 years ago was shite. No roof on the away end so got piss wet through, absolutely shocking referee, and a massive diversion to the M5 home because of a road closure.

Losing 4-3 at Mansfield when winning 3-1 after 84 minutes takes some beating.

Huddersfield on my birthday about 10 years ago, fuccking freezing November night and we played like absolute fannies.

Losing 2-0 to Rochdale the day we could have won the title. Thousands of Pools fans there to see it all go to ratshit.

Drawing 1-1 at Rushden when we needed a win to lift the title. Billy Bastad Turley in goal for them.

Losing 4-0 at Scunny and getting promoted at the same time. In the middle of that run which saw us piss away that huge lead at the top.

Conceding late on at Forest about 10 years ago to lose 2-1.

Conceding a late penalty at Hillsborough in yhe second Cooper season to lose 1-0.

I think the play-off final tops the lot though. The only game in which I allowed meself to dream that we would actually do it.

Cardiff Play off final.

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Promotion / trouncing on the same day at Scunthorpe - no contest.

Bloody hell, there are dozens, and luckily for me , some of the worst ones I missed. In the space of 6 months I remember us winning 1-0 at Exeter and 2-1 Cardiff with a minute to go , and losing both 2-1 and 3-2. That was hard to stomach. 3-0 down at half time at Brighton , lost 4-2 , drenched in an open end. 3-0 down at Southend at half time, lost 3-0, travelled on train from Swindon and never spoke to a soul all day, only 30 poolies down, most exiles, none of whom I knew at the time. 5-1 hammering at Barnet, 4-1 hammering at Stockport on opening day of 84/85 season. 4-1 defeat at Hereford, when I took a mate from work , telling him how good we were, only to find us 4 down after 18 minutes.

Like I say, managed to avoid the 8-0, 7-1 6-0, 6-1 maulings.

There have been many but an FA Cup 2-0 defeat at Wigan in the early 90s sticks in the mind. It was at their old ground and what a dump it was - the game was terrible as was the weather. When i got back home, despite the motorway being closed due to snow, the fence had blown down as well...

Yeah, that was the one, late August 1989.

Was told at Swindon that day, that because of weather couldn't go to Wigan via Cheltenham, so would have to go via Euston.

Couldn't get out of Euston because of the weather.. Had a day on the lash in London instead and went down to Swindon Railway Station the following day and got a full refund. Another reason to like railway nationalisation.

Doncaster away in some 3 team round of some cup when all we had to do was score even if we lost a million - one we still went through. Gibson put the whole team up for transfer that afternoon before the game. We didn't score.

You couldn't make it up. It is true.

Only supporting Pools could it happen.

Or Lincoln on a Tuesday evening when the fog was so cold I shivered from start to finish. Heard them go ahead on the car radio as I approached the ground. Lincoln is effin' miles from anywhere. Watched 85 minutes of shite serenaded by a air raid warning thing. It was the only time I wanted Pools to not score so it didn't go to extra time coz I would of died of hypothermia.
We didn't score.

So many to choose from! Worst was probably 4-0 at Hull in 1999 when we had Beardsley playing. Hull bottom of the league and we were 4 down at half time plus it was pissing down! Didn't enjoy port Vale in the fa cup around 94, 6-0 and Joe allon got hattick if I remember correctly!

Pools 0-3 Barnet a few weeks ago, Bristol in the playoffs, getting beat off Blyth sucked as well!

Boston 1971 FA Cup. Disaster, with comedy moments.

Orient. This season. A team with six youth team players in the starting XI, lost every home game in 2017 and they came from behind to beat us - of course they fucking did.

I went to Northampton a couple of seasons ago, on my own, Tuesday night. We lost 5-0. Stuart Parnaby was disgraceful and directly culpable for 4 of the goals. I got a Speeding Fine going down in the temporary 50mph zone of the M1 for averaging 53mph.

About 4 or 5 year ago.. Travelling down to Preston on a freezing cold Tuesday night to watch us get battered 5-0. It was absolutely minging.

1 April 1978. The Vetch Field. Allan Curtis beat us by himself. 8 - 0.

And they'd beaten us 4 - 0 at home on New Year's Eve!

late 70,s or early 80,s being hammered 6 nil by bloody stockport county. chased by a few of their loons back to my car where i got my big male rottweiler out. stopped in their tracks and nearly made up for 90 mins. of shite.

I disagree, it was a fantastic experience until the 82nd minute. I'd much rather be in that situation again than away at fooking Fylde or Solihull Moors...

I was there too, With the Manchester scum trying to smack people on the way back to the coaches.
Very little segregation those days, Made the games very interesting on the terraces.

Remember it well, Nicky Sharkey scored for us, Then one of our lot managed to get in the home end
And got a good kicking for his trouble.
And they tried to ambush our coach, But the never bargained on us all getting off the coach and
sorting them out.
Happy Days

Mummy why are your hands so soft?...https://youtu.be/kht-2Caqk-o

A cold foggy frosty December tea time, back to the coach whose only window intact was the windscreen. It was a cold ride back.

That was mine too, followed by Cardiff.

I went to Suffolk at half term with the kids, we stayed in a lodge type job with a communal pool, it was fuckin dreadful, had a glass roof and was like swimming in a greenhouse

Crewe 8 Pools 0, in 1995 (cup game) although we did have 2 goals disallowed !

Anyone go to Rhyl ? that must of been a bit of an embarrassment?

Loads to choose from obviously but the 2-0 defeat at Macclesfield in the FA Cup in about 1993 we were in League One that were in the Conference stands out. It was bitterly cold and pissing down on an the open terrace at Moss Rose. 2-0 flattered us massively. The highlight was pitch invaders from the away end with 'Gibson Out' bedsheet!

Rotherham. No particular match, just Rotherham. Especially Millmoor.

I liked Millmoor, proper footballer ground with good acoustics. Not sure I ever saw us win there mind!

Macclesfield Town v Hartlepool United, 13 November 1993.
it started to piss down. we didnt get started!!!

There was the Gibson out protest at halftime fulltime, someone had nicked a bed sheet, to spray paint 'Gibson' out on.

As the rain got worse and worse some people had golf sized umbrellas up, this resulted in a restricted view for some people.

This then resulted in a heated row between pools supporters, when Macclesfield scored and some pools fans missed this goal!!!

Pools fans arguing after they missed us going behind, that's how bad it was, I was still wet when I got back to Hartlepool!!!

Not many have, a very bad ground for us, never more so than in 1994 when we got tonked 7-0

My first ever Pools game was there (0-4!!) in 1988.

LDV as was, Steve Jones the unfortunate goalie, we took ineptitude to new levels - the only highlights for me were meeting up with some people from the Wirral (who'd started supporting us out of sympathy in the 70s) that I then used to meet up with at games round the North-West, and the fact that I didn't have too far to get home (having moved to Merseyside a few weeks before). I actually lost track of the score....

Another dishonourable mention...

March 1994 - getting dicked 5-0 at Stockport County, Kevin "Goliath" Francis netted three of them, I swear to this day most of them were offside, I was staying with a Uni mate and County fan to boot....

Hoi Derwent I remember my Dad and Uncle going to that too..I'm sure they stopped Iver somewhere too.

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I've got a mate who is a Swansea fan, and this was the first ever match he went to. Followed us out of sympathy ever since.

Should add that hammering at Plymouth the season before last. If it wasn't for the atmosphere in the pubs and ground with stormtroopers everywhere. On the pitch they never turned up. A complete and utter embarrassment that day.

Inclined to agree there Chip, they beat us 4-0 at home as well that season. Watford finished top, so it could be argued they were the better side, though we ran them close in both games that season. I think with Swansea it was their firepower, James and Curtis were 2nd division quality and Toshack could of still hacked it in the 1st Division.

Best side in bottom 2 divisions imo were Reading in 93/94, were beating us 4-0 down there at half time, a great footballing side . I reckon if they had wanted they could of broken our record defeat by Barrow of 10-1, but they came out second half and eased off the gas and just showboated for the rest of the game, the easiest 4-0 win any team could of had.

You're probably correct. as they finished third , 15pts behind Watford. You would of thought a team with that forward line would got more than 56 pts , had they played together all season. Following season ian Callaghan, Tommy Smith and Phil Boersma signed for them, all playing at the highest level for Liverpool and Middlesbrough only months before.

Alan Waddle also played for them, enough said about him

I saw Sunderland play at the Vetch Field in September 81, got beat 2-0 Swansea went top that day
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The QPR team with Paul Furlong were the best team I've seen us play in the league. They were on another planet.

Good Shout ! Their back 4 were huge and Furlong and Gallen up front made it look easy.

Subbuteo stand, it was crap to stand in as well.

don,t forget the smell from the toilets either. think that,s why they were called bogs after going down those steps to em. then there was the walk of shame up that allyway back to the main road with the locals baying insults at us. that,s after they beat us, god knows what it would have beeb like if they had lost. there must be something good about rotherham but have never or seen owt good though.

Rotherham away 1994 seven nil, great day on the lash, piss, piss poor on the pitch

I reckon I saw most of the next seasons away matches, along with Monkey Harris, Gillingham being a stand out due to the bust up between fatty Horne and Houchen, which resulted in Horne being subbed at half time for Steve Jones, absolutely desperate times as a 'Pools fan, on a par with the past few seasons

Doncaster Rovers away in 97, they were on a par with Orients team this season just gone, but we managed to scrape a draw, Prince Moncrieffe, an absolute spud, we made him look like Messi that day

Hereford in the FA cup away in 1999, drove down with Monkey Harris after night on the piss, I had a stinking hangover, horrible drive there and back, freezing cold, played shite with the added bonus of being live on the telly

Cheltenham away in the play-offs, got the train across from London and stayed overnight in a shitehole of a hotel, jammed with loads of their fans celebrating, absolute spunk trumpet of a day

My worst ever was my short trip to Crewe in the Mickey mouse cup.

I persuaded a mate of mine to come with me to the game.
He was not a football fan but I told him its a night out and you will see goals.

How right I was,I never saw another Poolie and lost 8 nil.

He never went another game ever again.

Stoke Branch.