Dreadful Clarets Performances : Which Stand Out?

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 12:57 pm

paulus the woodgnome wrote:23 Mar 1996 - Oxford United v Burnley. Took the nipper. Lost 5 - 0. Ex-Fareham Town striker, Paul Moody, came off the bench and scored a hattrick. Bl00dy sh1te we were.

My 40th birthday what a lovely present from my beloved team

CoolClaret · Post by **CoolClaret** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 12:58 pm

Burnley 0-2 Scunthorpe in one of Laws' last games was awful.

Sheffield United 3-0 Burnley (around 2000/2001 - my first ever away game) with gazza pinging balls straight to the opposition was one to forget as well...

paulus the woodgnome · Post by **paulus the woodgnome** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 1:04 pm

Steve1956 wrote:My 40th birthday what a lovely present from my beloved team

And it was probably an 11th birthday treat for the offspring. Some "treat"

BroadIslandClaret · Post by **BroadIslandClaret** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 1:10 pm

Torquay away in the play-offs (my car broke down)
WAtford away in the FA cup
Gillingham home in the league 5-0?
but...

Rochdale at home in the league in possibly 1990. We lost 1-0 in the pouring rain against 9 men.

p.s. Gillingham away in 93????? A Tuesday evening match. Think we lost 3-0 (Hasenthaler player/manager) and to top it off the coach broke down when we got back to Crawshawbooth around 2am.

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 1:20 pm

Steve1956 wrote:I'm sure it was 6-1, I gave up like KM did after 4

You're right, it was.

I must've blanked one out of my mind

I remember some fans singing 5 nil and you've effed it up at City when we got the one back.

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 1:28 pm

CoolClaret wrote:Burnley 0-2 Scunthorpe in one of Laws' last games was awful.

Sheffield United 3-0 Burnley (around 2000/2001 - my first ever away game) with gazza pinging balls straight to the opposition was one to forget as well...

Laws left the next day, some of the players that day should have been ashamed of themselves, in particular Bikey. It was a performance that said we want the manager sacked. We'd just won at Barnsley too.

smudge · Post by **smudge** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:02 pm

RidgeClaret wrote:Bury away Boxing Day 99 lost 4 - 2 but we were 4 - 0 down at half time after having Steve Davies sent off early on.

Only Burnley game I have ever come off at half time. Scored twice late on. To cap it all Colin had taken over from Stan at Bury and Preece scored 2.

Forget lots' of games but do remember that Boxing day,always look forward to games around Christmas,but looking back it seems like a nightmare.
It was so cold and wet as well.
What an awful day that was.

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:23 pm

NottsClaret wrote:Good shouts there, Huddersfield away 2012

Do you mean 2013 when Duff was sent off?

That one was dreadful, it really was 4th Division stuff from us and I can't believe that I stayed for the entire match.

TheFamilyCat · Post by **TheFamilyCat** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:39 pm

CoolClaret wrote:Burnley 0-2 Scunthorpe in one of Laws' last games was awful.

Sheffield United 3-0 Burnley (around 2000/2001 - my first ever away game) with gazza pinging balls straight to the opposition was one to forget as well...

I have a slightly different recollection of Gazza that day. I seem to recall him stumbling about and simply allowing the Shef Utd players to take it from him.

I will accept that my memory may be inaccurate; I was the only person in the ground that day who was more ****** than Gazza.

Mondsley · Post by **Mondsley** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:41 pm

Remember the Cambridge game in 1987 as it was the first time my son, aged 6 at the time, came with me. He now lives in Guildford so the last time we attended a game together was our no show at Palace in January! I'd forgotten how dire some of the games under Stan were. Was it Doncaster who beat us 1 0 on the day he sacked 3 players live on Radio Blackburn?

Dark Cloud · Post by **Dark Cloud** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:50 pm

Cheltenham away in the cup immediately springs to mind! We stayed for the week end and had a brilliant time UNTIL the footy started!! Lots of Clarets turned up and it was completely embarrassing to be made fun of by bloody Cheltenham fans! (Who???)

Paranoid · Post by **Paranoid** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 3:09 pm

Boxing day 1984 York City away lost 4 -0 was the 'John Benson' season, have followed our great club home and away for over 45 years and this must rate as the worst I have seen! Luckily we went for the day out in fancy dress with copious sherberts on the way, that helped mask the fact we had Les Lawrence upfront!!

NottsClaret · Post by **NottsClaret** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 4:59 pm

Bin Ont Turf wrote:Do you mean 2013 when Duff was sent off?

That one was dreadful, it really was 4th Division stuff from us and I can't believe that I stayed for the entire match.

I saw one under Howe in 2012, when Rhodes was playing for them. That was worse. Then the one under Dyche that you mentioned when Duff got sent off. Weird one that, we were crap in the first half but if it wasn't for their penalty when the ball hit Duff in the ribs two yards outside the box we'd have somehow got a point. I think Edgar may have made his last appearance in midfield there. It certainly should have been anyway.

Athletico mtoto · Post by **Athletico mtoto** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:03 pm

Sheffield Wednesday away 1983 fa cup quarter final replay.
Lost 5-0

box_of_frogs · Post by **box_of_frogs** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:06 pm

Herts Clarets wrote:6-1 away at Ipswich around 2003. The company I worked for had a box at Portman Rd and I got half a dozen tickets, including for a couple of people from this site. We played with no centre halves as they were all sick, so had Lee Roche there. It was 0-0 until 25 mins, once they scored then every time they went forward they scored. 5-0 at half time. And to make it worse, every time Ipswich scored all the fans in front looked in through the window to watch the replays on the TV.

Agreed. I had just got home from Iraq. Drove down from Burnley with 1 mate and met up with a few others down there. What a welcome home that was......

expoultryboy · Post by **expoultryboy** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:30 pm

Hull away under john bond . Not only a terrible performance , but I got hit by a brick getting off the train .

Longside4evr · Post by **Longside4evr** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 6:39 pm

Forest away 2000/1 season lost 5-0 midweek match, about 300 away following terrible performance to say the least

Blackrod · Post by **Blackrod** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 6:46 pm

Some really depressing performances and results looking back.
These stick in the mind:
Burnley 0 Hereford 6
Blackburn 5 Burnley 0
Burnley 1 Man City 6
And the 0-5 and 0-6 v Gillingham and Man City

THEWELLERNUT70 · Post by **THEWELLERNUT70** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 6:56 pm

Torquay 2-0 Burnley

Play Off Semi Final 1st leg

(Complete with a seemingly p!ssed up Frank Casper on the touchline.)

Inept/clueless/spineless

MrTopTier · Post by **MrTopTier** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 7:05 pm

Peterborough away 1987 5-0 only positive about the whole day was my mate Neil won £50 on a slot machine. Also the season after we got a battered 3-0 and the following season 4-1. Peterborough ffs.
Wolves away 1987 3-0 two out of the five of us in the car got arrested, before the game, not sure who got the worse deal.
Stockport away 1988 2-0 thumping on a Friday evening and a whack on the way back, sneaky bastards at Stockport.
Wolves Sherpa van final maybe the performance wasn't bad, because Wolves were so good, but one of the worst feelings after any football match watching Burnley.
Lincoln beat us 4-1 in the 88/89 season, truly awful season, that had started quite well. Scarborough home and away got beat, and an end of season away thumping at Crewe, notable mentions for a battering away at Exeter and Orient.

Going for a lie down now, thankfully it does get better from here on in, at least we started getting batterings from better sides.

claret wizard · Post by **claret wizard** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 7:13 pm

70 posts and no mention of Grimsby 6 - 5 Burnley. We scored 5 goals and it was still the most shocking performance I've seen....

MDWat · Post by **MDWat** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 7:26 pm

claptrappers_union wrote:I think there was a 0-0 draw at home to Luton. It was towards to the end of the famous 19 game winless run under Cotterill. I've seen some dreadful one-off performances watching Burnley, even recently under Dyche but that match in particular was culmination of poor performances, poor results, poor atmosphere, poor tactics, no ambition, no future, no clue.

Worst game and worst performance I’ve ever been at. Absolute joke that game.

JohnDearyMe · Post by **JohnDearyMe** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:02 pm

ClaretTony wrote:He gave Brass the job of marking Ronnie Whelan at Southend later that season - that didn't work either.

Had Kendall just taken over at Notts County?

Yes. Think Devon White might have scored a hat trick. I've got a vague memory of Andy Saville making his debut but i could be wrong on that

Herts Clarets · Post by **Herts Clarets** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:08 pm

Paranoid wrote:Boxing day 1984 York City away lost 4 -0 was the 'John Benson' season, have followed our great club home and away for over 45 years and this must rate as the worst I have seen! Luckily we went for the day out in fancy dress with copious sherberts on the way, that helped mask the fact we had Les Lawrence upfront!!

That was the first time i got thrown out of a ground. It was kicking off with police all afternoon. There were some seats damaged in the stand down the side and i had an air horn which was seen to be inciting trouble. I was forcibly dragged out by 2 coppers and into a cell. I spotted a coach through the door and blagged that it was the one i had travelled on and i could get on it and save them some trouble. Fortunately they bought it and kicked me out.

Cornwallclaret · Post by **Cornwallclaret** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:11 pm

wilks_bfc wrote:Any of our Premier League trips to WBA

So far..we'll put that right in 2 weeks

Dark Cloud · Post by **Dark Cloud** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:14 pm

Orient away losing 3-0 circa 1989 when that great lump of a centre forward made his debut (name?) He was useless and it was an absolutely awful performance.

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:16 pm

NottsClaret wrote:I saw one under Howe in 2012, when Rhodes was playing for them. That was worse. Then the one under Dyche that you mentioned when Duff got sent off. Weird one that, we were crap in the first half but if it wasn't for their penalty when the ball hit Duff in the ribs two yards outside the box we'd have somehow got a point. I think Edgar may have made his last appearance in midfield there. It certainly should have been anyway.

Aye that's the one. It was weird because we were utterly crap (HOOOOOOOF) and yet we could have got something.

Edgar in midfield (shudder), we've come a long way.

BabylonClaret · Post by **BabylonClaret** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:17 pm

Fa cup quarter final v Watford. Really disappointing end to a buoyant cup run. We just didnt turn up

Sarum · Post by **Sarum** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:17 pm

Tottenham 7 Burnley 0 1968

No further comment.

Dark Cloud · Post by **Dark Cloud** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:21 pm

Bin Ont Turf wrote:Aye that's the one. It was weird because we were utterly crap (HOOOOOOOF) and yet we could have got something.

Edgar in midfield (shudder), we've come a long way.

At 2-0 we had a Vokes goal controversially disallowed and then Ings did pull one back with quite a bit left on the clock. We put them under some pressure. Not a great day, especially in terms of what we've become used under SD, but nowhere near the "worst performance ever top 20 compilation" I'd suggest.

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:29 pm

Dark Cloud wrote:At 2-0 we had a Vokes goal controversially disallowed and then Ings did pull one back with quite a bit left on the clock. We put them under some pressure. Not a great day, especially in terms of what we've become used under SD, but nowhere near the "worst performance ever top 20 compilation" I'd suggest.

Like Notts said you would be spoilt for choice if you were picking from the 80's, so I chose a recent one.

Luckily for us we only really throw one of them sorts of performances per season (West Brom last season, Swansea this).

Another recent-ish one was Doncaster away in Coyle's season. Grezza's worst ever game for us, I don't think he completed a pass all through the first half.

I left at half time.

Cornwallclaret · Post by **Cornwallclaret** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:40 pm

Torquay away..1985 I think..lost 2-0.. We were awful...Tommy Cassidy was playing for us( abysmally I might add) he got a volley of abuse from a younger me for lack of effort ,not fit to wear the shirt etc..when he came near the stand I was sat in with the old chaps in the home end...they thought it was funny...the game was dire but chatting to them at the end they thought it was a good game..... Living down south I fell out of love with Burnley for a while...it came back towards the end of the '87 season when it dawned on me I could lose them forever

ŽižkovClaret · Post by **ŽižkovClaret** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:45 pm

I wasn't there but, Grimsby 6-5 Burnley

How do you score 5 goals and not get a point?

steve1264b · Post by **steve1264b** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:57 pm

A rarely mentioned game. Scunthorpe away in the Orient season. Tuesday night at their old stadium. Think Malley put us 1 up until the capitulation.

Dad and me didnt speak all the way home. We knew then we were in mission impossible!

jdrobbo · Post by **jdrobbo** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 9:03 pm

Some terrible away performances in 93/94, despite being almost unbeatable at home...Hartlepool and Exeter away!

Burnley 0-5 Gillingham, Burnley 0-6 Man City and Burnley 0-1 PNE...a terrible seven days.

Burnley 0-3 Rotherham (FA Cup replay)

Burnley 0-3 Gillingham in 2000

Blackburn 5-0 Burnley 2001/02

5-2, 6-5, 6-2, 7-4 and 7-2 defeats to Reading, Grimsby, Rotherham, Watford and Sheffield Wednesday, respectively, in the 'Throw one in' season!

Burnley 0-0 Luton

Burnley 0-0 Middlesbrough
Burnley 0-1 Huddersfield
Leeds 1-0 Burnley
Blackpool 4-0 Burnley

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 11:45 pm

Bin Ont Turf wrote:Like Notts said you would be spoilt for choice if you were picking from the 80's, so I chose a recent one.

Luckily for us we only really throw one of them sorts of performances per season (West Brom last season, Swansea this).

Another recent-ish one was Doncaster away in Coyle's season. Grezza's worst ever game for us, I don't think he completed a pass all through the first half.

I left at half time.

Was that Doncaster away over Christmas when Clark Carlisle played liked he'd had a right good sup the previous evening?

piston broke · Post by **piston broke** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 11:57 pm

Clarke Carlisle against Portsmouth after he'd been on Countdown.
I realise it was probably recorded months before but the publicity must have gone to his head.
He was atrocious.

Commy · Post by **Commy** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 4:00 am

Telford 3 Burnley 0 in the FA Cup.

RammyClaret61 · Post by **RammyClaret61** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 4:23 am

Peterborough 5 Burnley 1,
I think it was. But most of those 4th Division seasons were dreadful.

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 4:58 am

BroadIslandClaret wrote:Torquay away in the play-offs (my car broke down)
WAtford away in the FA cup
Gillingham home in the league 5-0?
but...

Rochdale at home in the league in possibly 1990. We lost 1-0 in the pouring rain against 9 men.

p.s. Gillingham away in 93????? A Tuesday evening match. Think we lost 3-0 (Hasenthaler player/manager) and to top it off the coach broke down when we got back to Crawshawbooth around 2am.

Was that the Dale game they had Williams on loan from us in goal ?

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 5:24 am

Hereford at home
Crewe away
Chester away when they opened their new "stadium"

all woeful

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 7:23 am

Vegas Claret wrote:Was that the Dale game they had Williams on loan from us in goal ?

No. Williams was in goal in the 1991-92 defeat to Rochdale... the season we went up as Champions!

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 7:29 am

Vegas Claret wrote:Hereford at home
Crewe away
Chester away when they opened their new "stadium"

all woeful

I remember going to Crewe during the title winning season of 91-92, and we lost 1-0. I don't remember that much about the actual game, but my abiding memory is of a neanderthal 'man' punching a woman at the front of the terrace, for challenging him about urinating next to where she was stood.

I was at that Chester game too. Paul Comstive scored for them, if I remember rightly

Top Claret · Post by **Top Claret** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 7:43 am

Carlisle away. January 96 was a bad one, got beat 5-0 in the auto glass.
The future looked bleak with Teesdale and his cronies running the club

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:13 am

Paranoid wrote:Boxing day 1984 York City away lost 4 -0 was the 'John Benson' season, have followed our great club home and away for over 45 years and this must rate as the worst I have seen! Luckily we went for the day out in fancy dress with copious sherberts on the way, that helped mask the fact we had Les Lawrence upfront!!

That day at York I was given a ticket outside by Keith McNee from the Lancashire Evening Telegraph but it was in the press box and I sat between him and the Burnley Express reporter. That should have been Granville Shackleton but he was unwell and had been replaced by Jimmy McIlroy. It is the only time I have ever sat next to Jimmy Mac at a match and I can confirm he never said a word all afternoon, he just shook his head and tut tutted at the abysmal mess in front of him.

If that was bad, we went to Bristol Rovers towards the end of the season and lost 4-0. That was even worse, a horrible performance. I wouldn't say Benson had lost the plot by then, I don't think he ever had it.

Bordeauxclaret · Post by **Bordeauxclaret** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:24 am

jdrobbo wrote:Some terrible away performances in 93/94, despite being almost unbeatable at home...Hartlepool and Exeter away!

Burnley 0-5 Gillingham, Burnley 0-6 Man City and Burnley 0-1 PNE...a terrible seven days.

Certainly agree with them. The games however were over a two week period not 7 days.
We were due to play Wigan on the Saturday after Gillingham but it was postponed. City was the Tues after that. I don’t think they were that good then so we might have got away with a 3 or 4 nil defeat.

Grumps · Post by **Grumps** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:25 am

Burnley 0 Wimbledon 1.....didnt get over that one for weeks, thank goodness there was no message boards or twitter in those days.

1968claret · Post by **1968claret** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:28 am

Tall Paul wrote:The two consecutive home games against Gillingham and Man City that we lost 5-0 and 6-0.

Those immediately sprang to my mind. The second of those games was the only game where I have left before the final whistle!

The other that springs to mind was a 3-0 reverse at Exeter in the pouring rain. Made worse by the fact it was a rearranged game after the original was postponed just as we arrived at the ground!

ashtonlongsider · Post by **ashtonlongsider** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:38 am

A lot of the performances mentioned above still give me nightmares but in the context of how far we have come in recent years I was very underwhelmed by the cup defeat to Lincoln last season.

Holtyclaret · Post by **Holtyclaret** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:46 am

I remember that oxford game, it was a shocker. Sure it was billy whitehurst that came off the bench after we’d been goading him but my memories not the best!