Least favourite away day

[Every Saturday]

Christmas 1977 at Swindon - Argyle ran on the pitch wearing primrose yellow shirts and then proceeded to play in a similar manner (lost 3-1)

Christmas 1985 away at Bristol City - the match after "that" match at Reading. Argyle seemed "shell shocked" and lost 2-0 - I thought it was all over for that season (but how wrong I was)

Christmas 1992 at Exeter and the worst of the lot - we lost 2-0 and Exeter had at least 2 disallowed. We were an expensively assembled team but played with no heart. Terrible ...

Or maybe it was too much Christmas pudding?

 

[Mork]

Wigan 1986, Argyle on a great run near the end of the season away to one of our promotion rivals, huge away support with great expectations, got hammered 3.0 whilst standing on a muddy grass bank behind one of the goals (easily the worst away end anywhere anytime), Argyle fans fighting in the home stand, and ripping up parts of there 'granstand', it was complete misery. :sad:

 

[janner67]

Two memories for me, burnley away and getting relegated ..... what a journey home.

Bristol rovers away at twerton park circa 1992, lost 5-0 and we ended up singing their songs with them as Carl Saunders tore us apart ..... in a crap ground.

 

[Steve_Barrie]

I was thinking Macclesfield where we were cheering Jon Beswetherick for getting the first shot on target in the 84th minute but then I thought of Cowburn and that game at Oldham.

 

[Knarf Reprah]

Millwall coach smashed, attacked on train station, still 2 1 ruining millwall's attempt at a record. Hooligans were all forty something dockers was a young lad and poo myself

 

[IJN]

Exeter for me, all of them.

I know we are in bad times when we have to stand in that joke of an end.

 

[Cobi Budge.]

I remember the escort out of Millwall when we lost 3 0, things thrown at the coaches, people lining the streets shouting abuse (it wasn't Mick taking or celebrations, it was really nasty stuff, you'd think we had just relegated them), I doubt some of them even went to the match, just locals coming out to tell us to p*ss off.

Police did a great job mind.

 

[Topboy]

Wigan 1986, Argyle on a great run near the end of the season away to one of our promotion rivals, huge away support with great expectations, got hammered 3.0 whilst standing on a muddy grass bank behind one of the goals (easily the worst away end anywhere anytime), Argyle fans fighting in the home stand, and ripping up parts of there 'granstand', it was complete misery. :sad:

Weird - I have a strange fondness for that day. A bit macabre really! Great atmosphere from the Argyle fans. Playing footie on the muddy bank. Getting pee wet through. Almost laughing my way through the day. Courtesy of an RS2000 I was back in Plympton with a pint in hand by about 8.30pm!

Reading, however, was a killer.

And IJN - couldn't agree more - we can take the poo players that aren't good enough (God knows we've had to!) but players not trying and a distinct lack of effort is totally unacceptable.

 

[Emu]

I remember the escort out of Millwall when we lost 3 0, things thrown at the coaches, people lining the streets shouting abuse (it wasn't Mick taking or celebrations, it was really nasty stuff, you'd think we had just relegated them), I doubt some of them even went to the match, just locals coming out to tell us to p*ss off.

Police did a great job mind.

They get that every home game, regardless of the opposition.

 

[neilbet79]

Well, yes I guess it would.. people can't help being under 20 and only been going to way games for a few seasons..

Don't these threads just turn into a "if you are 20 or under, what is the worst game of the past 2 seasons"

Brentford away under Shilton (0-7)
Burnley away when we were relegated (by them).

Proper humiliation

 

[Ellacombe Green]

Exeter, any game any year. Horrible atmosphere (if any), horrible ground. But like lancing a boil, you know it's horrible and may well hurt, but you have to go.

^
This.

 

[third earl of jean]

There's been worse defeats and far worse performances but I have never fealt even half as gutted as after that Burnley relegation game. All we needed was one goal.

The completely classless way their fans behaved afterwards has left them being by far and away my least favourite club out of the 92.

 

[Lundan Cabbie]

I remember the escort out of Millwall when we lost 3 0, things thrown at the coaches, people lining the streets shouting abuse (it wasn't Mick taking or celebrations, it was really nasty stuff, you'd think we had just relegated them), I doubt some of them even went to the match, just locals coming out to tell us to p*ss off.

Police did a great job mind.

Millwall is a doddle these days. You should have tried the old Den when you had to go through the "Bunny Hole" under the railway to get back to the station. If you wore your teams colours you just didn't get through unscathed and coppers would just look at you as if to say "well what did you expect?"

 

[L G]

There's been worse defeats and far worse performances but I have never fealt even half as gutted as after that Burnley relegation game. All we needed was one goal.

The completely classless way their fans behaved afterwards has left them being by far and away my least favourite club out of the 92.

But I can still raise a smile when I think back to the police horse mowing down a fat, topless skinhead after the match.

 

[NorfolkGreen]

Staggered we've got to 30 odd posts and Reading away (85/86) hasn't come up. Sitting 2nd in the table behind Reading, 3-0 up with 25 minutes to go and coasting, Nisbet gets sent off and we somehow contrive to lose 4-3. Still hurts nearly 30 years on.

Oxford away was fairly traumatic the season before last, Simon Walton pulled it back to 1-1 just after half time and it looked like we may just about get away with fielding the worst X1 ever to gain a football league point. Oxford finally dawned just how poor we were and we were in the end lucky to only get beat 5-1. I seem to remember the bench was quite decent (Romain, Fletch at least)

I was at that Reading game, it was just a sense of pure disbelief standing watching it unfold.

As for least favourite away day, Newport County or Cardiff, actually anywhere in Wales.