Worst Brewers Performance

[sinfinbovril]

Sorry, I couldn't resist it...

I cant decide between two that were about three weeks apart. Although Gary Rowett changed the fortunes of this football club, he was in charge for both games.

Burton 1 Barnet 4, followed a couple of weeks later by the final game of the season, thank goodness.
Burton 0 Aldershot 4. Gary Rowett to be made our permanent manager? NO THANK YOU!!!!!

Ben knows what he's doing. Me, I haven't got a clue; just a keyboard.

[anthony41]

A lot of the final 13 games of Pesch's reign as manager were bad but the one that stands out for me and as a whole experience in general was the 2-0 defeat away to Swindon on a Tuesday night.

Wooden seats, shite overpriced ticket food and ale, a bloody great pillar in the way, we had one shot on goal in the whole game and that was Jimmy Phillips shanking one out for a throw in, the supporters coach took the wrong exit off the island at J11A on the way home and we went south on the M5 for a bit as opposed to north and then the M5 further up was shut so we got diverted through the back of beyond. Should've got home just gone Midnight but it was after 2am and I had work at 6. We got 3 points out of a possible 39 on that run and only managed to score 7 goals.

Also Burton 1 Torquay 4 that season was atrocious. Rene Howe ripped us to pieces.

The two 7-1 defeats under Rowett are up there as well.

[surreybrewer]

I can still remember the 10 nil defeat to Barnet in I think, 1974. Fortunately did not see it!

[otep]

I was at that Bristol Rovers 7-1 defeat. I have not watched it again since. It felt like on the day that everything they hit went in. I also recall that it was played on a surface that cows would have refused to graze in. I have dug the game up from You Tube and my recollections seem to have been true.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=diCmNqKUM2c

As for the Port Vale 7-1, that is the only Brewers game that has made me leave before the final whistle. I left when the 5th went in I think. I think I would have stayed until the end had L** H***** not been scoring.

[superbrewer]

Like you Surreybrewer , I too remember that 10 - 0 defeat .This was long before we had commentary on the radio , and I remember watching the scores come through on the BBC Teleprinter , the score came through Barnet 10 (TEN)-Burton Albion 0.The fact that they even put the 10 in letters as well just made it even worse .

[surreybrewer]

We're 3, or arguably 4, levels higher now, (no Conference/National League back then), but we don't lose 10 nil anymore at any level we have played at since. Seems we have improved a touch in 45 years!

[broomo]

I rarely dwell on poor performances so don't really remember many.

I wasn't watching under Peach or Rowett and rarely watching (although keeping a closer eye) under JFH.

I can't unsee the Hull game.

I honestly thought Nigel may walk as it looked to me as though the players had packed up for the season.

Even if one of them had been booked of sent off it would have at least shown some fight. I know some Championship clubs simply had too much quality for is but the Hull game was the first time I felt embarrassed by how we'd played.

Gillingham and Oxford away last year came close.

[sinfinbovril]

Mar 25, 2020 15:48:28 GMT anthony41 said:

A lot of the final 13 games of Pesch's reign as manager were bad but the one that stands out for me and as a whole experience in general was the 2-0 defeat away to Swindon on a Tuesday night.

Wooden seats, shite overpriced ticket food and ale, a bloody great pillar in the way, we had one shot on goal in the whole game and that was Jimmy Phillips shanking one out for a throw in, the supporters coach took the wrong exit off the island at J11A on the way home and we went south on the M5 for a bit as opposed to north and then the M5 further up was shut so we got diverted through the back of beyond. Should've got home just gone Midnight but it was after 2am and I had work at 6. We got 3 points out of a possible 39 on that run and only managed to score 7 goals.

Also Burton 1 Torquay 4 that season was atrocious. Rene Howe ripped us to pieces.

The two 7-1 defeats under Rowett are up there as well.

I'm not disagreeing but I don't remember the Torquay game being so bad - I think I'd got used to it by that point.
What I DO remember is Justin Richards having a penalty at 4-1 down, missing it and then just shrugging his shoulders.

Never mind Pesch, I was ready to run on the pitch and lay him out flat. That's not how you behave at the Pirelli in a yellow shirt. Look, I've got all hot and angry again. Git.

[fergo]

Can only comment on games I was at but apart from the 7-1 at Port Vale one that sticks out was a 3-0 defeat at Crawley in league 2. 300 mile round trip and bloody freezing too (but the tickets were a fiver that day!).

[bennyboy]

That final away game at Doncaster to clinch promotion to the championship it was a god awful game to watch, both teams finding it difficult to actually play football.
You know the rest....

I always remember going down to watch them play Clevedon. It always sticks in the mind the game should've been called off, no way could you kick a ball a on that surface.
It wasn't the team's fault but talk about a poor pitch being a great leveller, ankle deep mud after monsoon like rain.

[A38]

Mar 25, 2020 22:31:05 GMT broomo said:

I rarely dwell on poor performances so don't really remember many.

I wasn't watching under Peach or Rowett and rarely watching (although keeping a closer eye) under JFH.

I can't unsee the Hull game.

I honestly thought Nigel may walk as it looked to me as though the players had packed up for the season.

Even if one of them had been booked of sent off it would have at least shown some fight. I know some Championship clubs simply had too much quality for is but the Hull game was the first time I felt embarrassed by how we'd played.

Gillingham and Oxford away last year came close.

I remember there was a big Champions League game on that night and at 0-2 in the first half britty was adamant that if they got a third before halftime we were going back to the SSC to watch that instead!

[trevor1946]

One game that sticks in my memory as the worst match Doncaster Rovers, needing a draw to make history and the unbelievable . actually playing in the Championship
The pressure and tension that was in the game, watching them having a man sent of, and still failing to take control, then two men,and still the nerves jangled and still could not score a goal, A match that brought all emotions together in 90 plus minutes

[Deleted]

Getting tonked 4-7 by Telford when Lee Camp made his debut for us was a bad one.
Slightly out of context though was making the trip down to Crawley on a wet Saturday only to have the game called off just as we arrived. Eight hours on the bus for nothing.

[colstoncrawford]

Mar 25, 2020 19:30:14 GMT otep said:

I was at that Bristol Rovers 7-1 defeat. I have not watched it again since. It felt like on the day that everything they hit went in. I also recall that it was played on a surface that cows would have refused to graze in. I have dug the game up from You Tube and my recollections seem to have been true.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=diCmNqKUM2c

As for the Port Vale 7-1, that is the only Brewers game that has made me leave before the final whistle. I left when the 5th went in I think. I think I would have stayed until the end had L** H***** not been scoring.

Completely agree about that Bristol game. They weren't six goals better than us, it was an outrageous fluke of a result.

[WestEnder]

Bristol Rovers and Port Vale for me, although Fulham away was also very grim.

[jackbrewer]

Game at whitby torrential rain, kick off delayed the ref wanted to call it off but both managers wanted to play it. It was more like water polo. I think we won 1-0.

[phil]

For me it was an end of season game in the Warnock era 83-84 away at Barrow.
A long 330 mile round trip to stand and watch us put little effort in and loose 5 nil.

[superbrewer]

Mar 27, 2020 13:42:00 GMT jackbrewer said:

Game at whitby torrential rain, kick off delayed the ref wanted to call it off but both managers wanted to play it. It was more like water polo. I think we won 1-0.

Game at Whitby finished 1-1 we equalized in the 97th minute .Seem to remember looking from one of the corner flags to the edge of the area was a lake .Plenty of puddles all over the pitch , unbelievable conditions .

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Mar 27, 2020 16:05:38 GMT superbrewer said:

Mar 27, 2020 13:42:00 GMT jackbrewer said:

Game at whitby torrential rain, kick off delayed the ref wanted to call it off but both managers wanted to play it. It was more like water polo. I think we won 1-0.

Game at Whitby finished 1-1 we equalized in the 97th minute .Seem to remember looking from one of the corner flags to the edge of the area was a lake .Plenty of puddles all over the pitch , unbelievable conditions .

I remember that one, the bar was absolutely rammed before the game, Whitby wanted the game on as it would be a bumper attendance which wouldn't have happened for a rearranged game on a Tuesday night and Brewers being part time didn't want a trip up on a Tuesday night either.
As you say unbelievable conditions. As I remember Whitby started with 11 players and none on the bench as some of the team were delayed by snow on the moors (may have been a car crash). I think they lost a player to injury early on and played most of the game with 10 men. I think it was Paul Talbot who equalised.

[A38]

Mar 27, 2020 15:26:23 GMT phil said:

For me it was an end of season game in the Warnock era 83-84 away at Barrow.
A long 330 mile round trip to stand and watch us put little effort in and loose 5 nil.

Sounds a cracking game though, defences must have been pretty bad!