| And for balance..... Worst ever seasons.... 21:09 - Feb 3 with 1632 views | ITFC_Forever |
2018-19 for obvious reasons, likewise 1994-95.
The worst thing is, most of the other candidates are from the last decade too. The final year of Royle was a pretty low ebb as well.
The dirge of the Duncan years wasn’t great, although there were some performances that stood out amongst it, Dalian vs ‘Boro the obvious one. |  |
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| And for balance..... Worst ever seasons.... on 21:19 - Feb 3 with 1586 views | patrickswell |
2001-02 - both for how it played out and its subsequent impact. That team and that manager gave us some unbelievable memories and highlights over the previous 3-4 seasons, but their performance especially from the Liverpool home game onwards is something we’ve never recovered from. |  | | |
| And for balance..... Worst ever seasons.... on 21:28 - Feb 3 with 1574 views | DinnernotTea |
2001 - 2002 by a mile. It still makes me sick now, I just cannot get my head around how perfect it was only 5 minutes before that. No words to describe how it was the worst ever time to go down (ITV collapse etc).
Sad as it sounds still brings a tear to my eye. |  |
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| And for balance..... Worst ever seasons.... on 21:33 - Feb 3 with 1552 views | gainsboroughblue |
1985-86 for me. We'd been toying with relegation for a few years and finally gave in. I don't particularly remember too many hammerings though, we just couldn't score goals. There was a crazy amount of 0-1 defeats.
We all believed in salvation with that comeback win against Oxford (my pitch invasion debut) and safety was actually in our own hands.
Even more so when we led at 3rd place West Ham on a Tuesday night but a late penalty saw us condemned to defeat again. Forward wind to the Saturday at Hillsborough and Terry Butcher was in tears following yet another 0-1 reverse.
Then, the next day on Sunday afternoon, after everyone else had played, Oxford tanked an Arsenal reserve side to stay up. There would be an uproar if that happened now.
To add insult to injury, I sprained my ankle falling down the North Stand steps that afternoon at what I presume was someone's testimonial match (possibly Ron Gray?) and spent the rest of the Bank Holiday weekend feet up watching Joe Johnson win at the Crucible. [Post edited 3 Feb 2020 21:34]
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| And for balance..... Worst ever seasons.... on 22:09 - Feb 3 with 1482 views | ITFC_Forever |
| And for balance..... Worst ever seasons.... on 21:19 - Feb 3 by patrickswell |
2001-02 - both for how it played out and its subsequent impact. That team and that manager gave us some unbelievable memories and highlights over the previous 3-4 seasons, but their performance especially from the Liverpool home game onwards is something we’ve never recovered from. |
That’s very true, we’ve never recovered from that season and the 1-4 defeat away to Bolton in early April.
But as a season as a whole, it had plenty of high points.... the European tour (including seeing OUR team playing at the San Siro, the Inter home match and the Helsingborg away game).
Then there was the win at Spurs, beating them again a month or two later, the Sunderland home game including of our best goals in living memory and winning at Everton.
Indeed, by mid-March, we thought we thought were as likely to get back in Europe as we were go down. But then we plummeted to a relegation that still haunts us 18 years later. | |
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| And for balance..... Worst ever seasons.... on 00:03 - Feb 4 with 1420 views | The_Last_Baron |
2018-19, 1994-95 the two stand outs.
Most of 2008 to present have been crap. |  |
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| And for balance..... Worst ever seasons.... on 00:25 - Feb 4 with 1396 views | Illinoisblue |
| And for balance..... Worst ever seasons.... on 21:28 - Feb 3 by DinnernotTea |
2001 - 2002 by a mile. It still makes me sick now, I just cannot get my head around how perfect it was only 5 minutes before that. No words to describe how it was the worst ever time to go down (ITV collapse etc).
Sad as it sounds still brings a tear to my eye. |
Getting into Europe pretty much fooked us |  |
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| And for balance..... Worst ever seasons.... on 00:26 - Feb 4 with 1391 views | Mach_foreignBlue |
| And for balance..... Worst ever seasons.... on 22:09 - Feb 3 by ITFC_Forever |
That’s very true, we’ve never recovered from that season and the 1-4 defeat away to Bolton in early April.
But as a season as a whole, it had plenty of high points.... the European tour (including seeing OUR team playing at the San Siro, the Inter home match and the Helsingborg away game).
Then there was the win at Spurs, beating them again a month or two later, the Sunderland home game including of our best goals in living memory and winning at Everton.
Indeed, by mid-March, we thought we thought were as likely to get back in Europe as we were go down. But then we plummeted to a relegation that still haunts us 18 years later. |
Marsden's run and goal for Southampton at Portman Road summed us up that season. |  | | |
| And for balance..... Worst ever seasons.... on 01:22 - Feb 4 with 1376 views | Swansea_Blue |
Anything over the last c. 8-10 years for me. A downward spiral of utter sh*te. Even the PO season was thoroughly depressing after about mid-December. |  |
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| And for balance..... Worst ever seasons.... on 06:44 - Feb 4 with 1293 views | ITFC_Forever |
| And for balance..... Worst ever seasons.... on 00:25 - Feb 4 by Illinoisblue |
Getting into Europe pretty much fooked us |
But we then got (fairly) comfortably clear.... it was the decline from the Liverpool home game that did for us. The European run had nothing to do with our collapse at the end of the season. [Post edited 4 Feb 2020 6:44]
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| And for balance..... Worst ever seasons.... on 07:20 - Feb 4 with 1245 views | BlueBadger |
| And for balance..... Worst ever seasons.... on 06:44 - Feb 4 by ITFC_Forever |
But we then got (fairly) comfortably clear.... it was the decline from the Liverpool home game that did for us. The European run had nothing to do with our collapse at the end of the season. [Post edited 4 Feb 2020 6:44]
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I could have forgiven us for Liverpool at home that season, as they were exceptional at that point. Comfortably the best opposition team I have ever seen at PR, the feeble loss to Southampton was the one though. I still have nightmares about the whole team standing off Chris bloody Marsden. |  |
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| And for balance..... Worst ever seasons.... on 07:35 - Feb 4 with 1215 views | patrickswell |
| And for balance..... Worst ever seasons.... on 06:44 - Feb 4 by ITFC_Forever |
But we then got (fairly) comfortably clear.... it was the decline from the Liverpool home game that did for us. The European run had nothing to do with our collapse at the end of the season. [Post edited 4 Feb 2020 6:44]
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Our league form/performances seemed to go in 3 stages:
1) Desperately unlucky not to have some more points before Christmas - remember Stewart’s stoppage time “winner” being disallowed against Blackburn? Counago hitting the post late on at Middlesbrough? Chelsea’s stoppage time winner? Juan Pablo Angel’s outrageous deflection to beat us at Villa etc?
2) The good run - 24 points from 27 between December 22 and Feb 2.
3) Falling apart over the last 3 months - just as in 1985-86, a terrible return of points in the first third of the season meant we had no buffer when our form went south again at the business end of the campaign.
Certainly the performance against Bolton in April can be seen as the genesis of underperformance in important games. | | | |
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