Right 'Ammerings

[Tom_CUFC]

The 7-0 at Luton last season was by far the most emphatic, as Laker mentioned we also got thumped for 7 by Sunderland in 2002, the year they finished bottom of the Prem with 12 points, but they put in an absolute masterclass.

We got done by 5 three times in 01/02, Port Vale (5-0), Tranmere (6-1) and Wrexham (5-0), and also subsequently got done 5-0 at Wrexham the season after too. Wrexham played Blur's Song 2 after every goal, so hearing that 10 times in less than a year put me right off it.

Nothing is as bad as the 5-0 at Histon though, stuff football nightmares are made of.

 

[Andy Proctor]

Two that stand out for me in my time following Tranmere.

Plymouth 6-0 Tranmere 2003/04 to be fair Plymouth ran riot that season and won league one with ease smashing everyone. If memory serves me right they bettered that result a game or two later by beating Chesterfield 7-0.

Hull 6-1 Tranmere 2004/05. A top of the table clash involving two promotion hopefuls. Luton were top but it was a fight between hull and us for 2nd and a win would of seen us leapfrog them. Score line slightly skewed by events though. They injured both our first choice and backup goalkeeper in the first half. We had a midfielder in goal after halftime with score line only 1-0.

Plymouth beat chesterfield at home 8 nil vale away 5 1 and shef wed away 3 1 in the space of 2 weeks they walked the league.

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

My first ever Saturday Crewe game was a 6-1 home thrashing by Coventry in the Championship. I still haven't forgot it to this day.

Watching us get pumped 6-0 at Colchester on iFollow the other day was bad. Particularly as we always used to win against Colchester home and away. But they were very good I'll give them that.

Ones I've actually been to though. Losing 5-0 to Swindon was the worst 5 years ago. An absolutely gutless performance, the first of many under Davis in the next 3 and a half years. I've never seen a Crewe side be as gutless as they were that day.

Losing 5-3 to Accrington (it was 5-1 until very very late) and 4-1 to Macclesfield were both horrendous days for us though in our first season back in League Two in 2009-10. They were days when it hit home we were back in League Two after being spoiled with Championship and League One football for many years.

Honourable mention goes to the 5-0 thumping we got from Carlisle at home last year. I found that game pretty funny in fairness and didn't leave the ground angry at all. Just a comedy of errors from ourselves from start to finish which Carlisle punished us ruthlessly for.

 

[Pablosammy]

Losing 5-0 at Sunderland just after they moved into their new stadium sticks in my mind as a particularly joyless away game. I'm also fairly certain we've never conceded less than 5 playing bloody Peterborough too...

 

[Amber Nectar]

1995/96 season we played Preston away and lost 6-0, with a hat trick for our former player Steve Wilkinson.

Next match we played Bury at home and lost 1-5, this time Wilkinsons strike partner at the stags, Phil Stant, scored a hat trick for Bury. What a player and character psycho was.

Happy days!

 

[RLC]

Millwall 5 Tranmere 0, when we were four down after eighteen minutes. The worst Tranmere performance I have ever seen, and I was also at York and Cheltenham under Mickey Adams.

In fact, it is still the worst performance I have ever seen by any professional football team. We were that bad under John Barnes.

Barnesy did not survive the week.

 

[UTS]

From my time watching since 2003/04..

2006/07: Bury 0-4 Wycombe - Wycombe around the top of the league in winter iirc, Tommy Mooney pulling strings as we got our arses handed to us.

2007/08: Bury 1-5 MK Dons - Chris Casper had just been sacked leaving Chris Brass in charge, MKD were top of the league and had a quality squad at the time featuring the likes of McLeod and Lewington. We pulled one back late on through Bishop I think. First time and only time I’ve seen us concede 5 at home.

2011/12: Sheffield United 4-0 Bury - a real ‘welcome to league one’ game early on in our first season back at L1 level, Ched Evans et al. tore us apart coupled with a terrible performance by our then GK Cameron Belford.

2011/12: Bury 0-3 Sheffield United - Same as above but at home this time. 3,800 Blades fans at Gigg Lane, Sheff U had James Beattie on the bench who at the time was on more than our starting XI combined. How Sheff U didn’t go up that season is beyond me.

2013/14: Chesterfield 4-0 Bury - January 2014, we’d been around the bottom of the league all season but under new manager Flitcroft we’d just started to get a little run together, beating York 2-1 then and impressive 3-0 away victory at Hartlepool. So confidence came crawling back only to be dashed by the eventual champions Chesterfield. Second best all game and a real lesson in football. Mayor also got sent off for us to compound our misery. I remember thinking at coming away from the game that I was envious of Chesterfields team and infrastructure, how times change eh.

2014/15: Shrewsbury 5-0 Bury - November 2014 and it’s a top of the table clash, we’d just dispatched Tranmere 2-0 at home. No one saw this result coming, Jean Louis Akpa-Akpro scored a hat trick against us, despite never netting for us in 10 loan appearances, just one of those nights. It really showed Flitcrofts managerial weaknesses though as he shat himself after the result and started tinkering with tactics, we were then 10th by December.

2015/16: Coventry 6-0 Bury - Worst performance I’ve genuinely ever seen from a Bury side. It was 4-0 at HT and could have been 15. The writing on the wall for Flitcroft at this point.

2016/17: Wimbledon 5-0 Bury AND Wimbledon 5-1 Bury (in the space of 4 days).

A 5-0 FA Cup repay defeat and a 5-1 league defeat in the space of 4 days, same opposition same ground. The FA Cup replay, bearing in mind we’d drawn with them in the tie only a few weeks earlier was absolutely disgusting. The goals were just taking the piss. Flitcroft lost his job after the FA Cup replay on the Tuesday, Brass in charge caretaker manager for the same game on the Saturday, 4-0 down after 30 mins second time around although we did nick a goal.

We got even worse in 17/18 so won’t go on.. been genuinely awful supporting us in the last 3 years, the last 2 alone contain a 12 game losing streak (16/17) and the clubs lowest ever points tally (17/18). Dark times.

 

[The Alex]

1995/96 season we played Preston away and lost 6-0, with a hat trick for our former player Steve Wilkinson.

Next match we played Bury at home and lost 1-5, this time Wilkinsons strike partner at the stags, Phil Stant, scored a hat trick for Bury. What a player and character psycho was.

Happy days!

How about the season we played you 4 times beating you 5-0, 4-0, 3-0 and 2-0. That's a right hammering. 14-0 on aggregate.

 

[Back in the DHSS]

Heaviest defeat I’ve witnessed was a 6-0 at Scunthorpe’s Old Show ground back in 1987. Frank Worthington had just been sacked as manager along with his assistant and chief scout as cost cutting measures as the club found itself entering into administration.
For me though, more humiliating than this was a 4-1 defeat at Woking in our 1st season in non league as there was no segregation between fans and we got verbally ripped to pieces by the home support.

 

[King Kev]

Heaviest defeat I’ve witnessed was a 6-0 at Scunthorpe’s Old Show ground back in 1987. Frank Worthington had just been sacked as manager along with his assistant and chief scout as cost cutting measures as the club found itself entering into administration.
For me though, more humiliating than this was a 4-1 defeat at Woking in our 1st season in non league as there was no segregation between fans and we got verbally ripped to pieces by the home support.

Try having an expensively assembled league one squad, their 'minimum' aim is the playoffs, as declared by the chairman to the national press, then to find yourself bottom four come November. Then said players facing Woking at home in an FA Cup replay and being played off the park and losing 0-3. A scoreline that could have been much worse.

 

[King Kev]

How about the season we played you 4 times beating you 5-0, 4-0, 3-0 and 2-0. That's a right hammering. 14-0 on aggregate.

Didn't you also beat Port Vale three times out of four that season? Albeit not by such heavy scorelines.

 

[northstandexile]

How about the season we played you 4 times beating you 5-0, 4-0, 3-0 and 2-0. That's a right hammering. 14-0 on aggregate.

Yes but we were getting better as the season went along

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

Didn't you also beat Port Vale three times out of four that season? Albeit not by such heavy scorelines.

Won all three at Vale Park in the League and both cups.

Drew at home though in the league. But we were absolutely phenomenal that season away from home. Only lost 5 times in all competitions away that season. 3-2 loss to Premier League Manchester City in the League Cup, narrow defeats to the other two promoted sides Cardiff and Wigan (though we should've won at Ninian Park) and our annual defeat at our bogey ground Prenton Park against an in-form Tranmere. The only blemish was a 4-2 humiliation in the LDV Vans Trophy at bottom of the football league Shrewsbury where Ryan Lowe tore us apart in a 4-2 defeat. We'd end up being three leagues apart the following season...

 

[GTFCfish]

We managed to lose 8-1 at Hartlepool and 6-0 at Oldham in the same awful season and still somehow go into the last game of the season with our fate in our own hands.

If we won at Tranmere we stayed up, and even a draw or defeat would be ok as long as Chesterfield didn’t beat Luton.

We lost 2-1 at Tranmere whilst Chesterfield got an 88th minute winner v Luton to relegate us.

Marvellous.

 

[valefan16]

We managed to lose 8-1 at Hartlepool and 6-0 at Oldham in the same awful season and still somehow go into the last game of the season with our fate in our own hands.

If we won at Tranmere we stayed up, and even a draw or defeat would be ok as long as Chesterfield didn’t beat Luton.

We lost 2-1 at Tranmere whilst Chesterfield got an 88th minute winner v Luton to relegate us.

Marvellous.

Think we hammered you 5-1 that season too? Bridge-Wilkinson tore you apart if I recall.

 

[les.gtfc]

Think we hammered you 5-1 that season too? Bridge-Wilkinson tore you apart if I recall.

You did. That was actually the away game before the Oldham 6-0 match. We lost 3-1 at home to Wrexham in the game inbetween!!

 

[Back in the DHSS]

Try having an expensively assembled league one squad, their 'minimum' aim is the playoffs, as declared by the chairman to the national press, then to find yourself bottom four come November. Then said players facing Woking at home in an FA Cup replay and being played off the park and losing 0-3. A scoreline that could have been much worse.

Your Chairman is Stewart Day though. Don’t think anyone has taken him seriously for a while now.
Tranmere’s first league fixture at Woking was our first unsegregated league fixture since 1980, My point was that getting mullered whilst having the oppo fans stood around you adds salt to the wounds.
Can remember seeing Bury’s own Craig Madden scoring 8 past us one season.

 

[King Kev]

Won all three at Vale Park in the League and both cups.

Drew at home though in the league. But we were absolutely phenomenal that season away from home. Only lost 5 times in all competitions away that season. 3-2 loss to Premier League Manchester City in the League Cup, narrow defeats to the other two promoted sides Cardiff and Wigan (though we should've won at Ninian Park) and our annual defeat at our bogey ground Prenton Park against an in-form Tranmere. The only blemish was a 4-2 humiliation in the LDV Vans Trophy at bottom of the football league Shrewsbury where Ryan Lowe tore us apart in a 4-2 defeat. We'd end up being three leagues apart the following season...

I was at that 3-2 game at Maine Rd, went with a City supporting mate and was sat in the North Stand next to the Crewe fans. The next night I was at the Reebok watching Bury beat Bolton so had a cracking couple of days.
Shrewsbury were not bottom at that point, their capitulation kind of came out of nowhere that season.

 

[King Kev]

Your Chairman is Stewart Day though. Don’t think anyone has taken him seriously for a while now.
Tranmere’s first league fixture at Woking was our first unsegregated league fixture since 1980, My point was that getting mullered whilst having the oppo fans stood around you adds salt to the wounds.
Can remember seeing Bury’s own Craig Madden scoring 8 past us one season.

Cheers for the update, I had not realised who our chairman is. I think he learned his lesson after last season and seems to have shut the **** up thus far.

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

I was at that 3-2 game at Maine Rd, went with a City supporting mate and was sat in the North Stand next to the Crewe fans. The next night I was at the Reebok watching Bury beat Bolton so had a cracking couple of days.
Shrewsbury were not bottom at that point, their capitulation kind of came out of nowhere that season.

My memory of League Two is very limited pre-2009 when we were relegated there. But I do remember them getting tonked an awful lot with that woeful defence they had that season. For some reason, we later thought it was a good idea to sign their RB Darren Moss to play Championship football for a sizable fee, just as we thought it was a good idea to sign Stockport's LB Anthony Tonkin for a sizable fee too despite being a key component in one of the worst defensive records in the country over two years. No wonder we went into decline when that was the calibre of defender we were signing.

Best own goal I've ever seen from a player happened in that City-Crewe game, Richard Walker backheel over Clayton Ince's head.

 

[King Kev]

My memory of League Two is very limited pre-2009 when we were relegated there. But I do remember them getting tonked an awful lot with that woeful defence they had that season. For some reason, we later thought it was a good idea to sign their RB Darren Moss to play Championship football for a sizable fee, just as we thought it was a good idea to sign Stockport's LB Anthony Tonkin for a sizable fee too despite being a key component in one of the worst defensive records in the country over two years. No wonder we went into decline when that was the calibre of defender we were signing.

Best own goal I've ever seen from a player happened in that City-Crewe game, Richard Walker backheel over Clayton Ince's head.

Was that the winner? I recall Crewe scoring early and really frustrating a strong City side, Berkovic equalised around the hour and then Huckerby scored late on, but Crewe took the ko went down field and made it 2-2 only for CIty to bag a 3rd right after.

 

[GTFCfish]

Best own goal I've ever seen from a player happened in that City-Crewe game, Richard Walker backheel over Clayton Ince's head.

Was it better than this one?

Or this?

 

[Simpo]

Always been partial to this one...

 

[Brooksy]

Ironically Wayne Hatswell is now County's Assistant Manager. One of the best own goals of all time. Always makes me chuckle.

 

[Brooksy]

This thread cheered me up no end. In fact what with all these tales of woe, our victory at Tranmere on Saturday and Cardiff shipping five goals at home to Man. City, the Yeovil game is fading like a bad dream. As suspected, we have all got mullered at home. Thanks for the free therapy

 

[Andy Proctor]

Ironically Wayne Hatswell is now County's Assistant Manager. One of the best own goals of all time. Always makes me chuckle.

Wayne hatswell scored a great goal against vale for kiddiminster a free kick i think it was around 2005.

 

[Dan_Macclad]

Remember when we lost 8-0 at West Ham.

That was hilarious.....

 

[Krazy8]

7-0 at Bolton, 7-2 at Everton, 7-0 at Newcastle.

Saturdays performance against Bury ranks as one of the worst displays I can remember - even the Flitcroft crap from last season.

Probably loads more but at my age the old memories are fading.

The 5-0 defeat to Cheltenham in the FA Cup springs to my mind. Also there was a 7-1 defeat by Nottingham Forest in the 2000s that I’m still recovering from.

 

[les.gtfc]

Remember when we lost 8-0 at West Ham.

That was hilarious.....

Did you go Dan?

Must have been an awful night for you if you did, not even a consolation goal to cheer.

 

[Dan_Macclad]

Did you go Dan?

Must have been an awful night for you if you did, not even a consolation goal to cheer.

Possibly the longest trip home of any away game ever.