Which teams from your era did you hate seeing us play against?

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Sun May 27, 2018 2:54 pm

For me, certainly within the last 13-14 years I hated playing against Wolves, always thought they would beat us each time. Same with Reading until recently. Preston of course is another that stands out.

Blackrod · Post by **Blackrod** » Sun May 27, 2018 2:57 pm

In Division 4 Wolves and for a while Peterborough. More recently Swansea and Cardiff now we have won at WBA.

CoolClaret · Post by **CoolClaret** » Sun May 27, 2018 3:00 pm

Ipswich away till the Dyche era, can't recall us ever getting a result there!

Buxtonclaret · Post by **Buxtonclaret** » Sun May 27, 2018 3:02 pm

Never liked playing Wolves so much either.
And hated playing Derby in the 70s.

Cubanclaret · Post by **Cubanclaret** » Sun May 27, 2018 3:04 pm

Blackburn - until Sean Dyche arrived

Cubanclaret · Post by **Cubanclaret** » Sun May 27, 2018 3:05 pm

And sheffield United away - until we beat them under Owen Coyle.

ŽižkovClaret · Post by **ŽižkovClaret** » Sun May 27, 2018 3:10 pm

Bristol City. That team with Goodridge on the wing feeding Shaun Goater just seemed to tear us apart every time

DCWat · Post by **DCWat** » Sun May 27, 2018 3:28 pm

Bolton when they had John McGinlay.

tiger76 · Post by **tiger76** » Sun May 27, 2018 4:26 pm

Stockport in the nineties just knew we wouldn't get a result,or a refereeing decision in our favour,no matter how many fouls the dirty **** committed,Kevin Francis was the worst culprit.

bfcjg · Post by **bfcjg** » Sun May 27, 2018 4:59 pm

When we were in the fourth it was Rochdale as it made you realise just how far we had plummeted. Consistently thereafter Wolves.

Diesel · Post by **Diesel** » Sun May 27, 2018 5:03 pm

Peterborough always gave us a tonking.

gawthorpe_view · Post by **gawthorpe_view** » Sun May 27, 2018 5:11 pm

Scunthorpe, in the Div 4 days, rarely seemed to beat 'em away.

BFCmaj · Post by **BFCmaj** » Sun May 27, 2018 5:16 pm

Bolton and wolves in the 4th division.

JimmyRobbo · Post by **JimmyRobbo** » Sun May 27, 2018 5:33 pm

Quite a few of you have mentioned Peterborough in our Div4 days. Back then, I near as damn hated playing everyone, they all gave us a spanking.

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Sun May 27, 2018 6:09 pm

Leeds till we battered them 5...1 and Arsenal I've seen us beat them once in the league 1...0 between 69/71 but it could have been a dream.

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Sun May 27, 2018 6:54 pm

Leeds

If it be your will · Post by **If it be your will** » Sun May 27, 2018 7:02 pm

bob-the-scutter · Post by **bob-the-scutter** » Sun May 27, 2018 7:11 pm

Definitely dirty Leeds in the very short era that they were actually "Mighty" even though we beat them quite a few times.

claretabroad · Post by **claretabroad** » Sun May 27, 2018 7:21 pm

Rotherham away sticks in my head, particularly when Imre Varadi was playing for them. He always seemed score against us.

Quickenthetempo · Post by **Quickenthetempo** » Sun May 27, 2018 7:27 pm

Wycombe away or Man City for the real spanking.

UpTheClaretsFCBK · Post by **UpTheClaretsFCBK** » Sun May 27, 2018 9:35 pm

Any of the 300,000 clubs that Brett Angel played for.

Steve-Harpers-perm · Post by **Steve-Harpers-perm** » Sun May 27, 2018 9:37 pm

Stockport, Rotherham and Scunthorpe.

Dark Cloud · Post by **Dark Cloud** » Sun May 27, 2018 10:04 pm

Scarborough.

Claretmatt4 · Post by **Claretmatt4** » Sun May 27, 2018 10:13 pm

Leeds for me. We always had a habit of tearing them to bits but not winning. Until Dyche rocked up at Gawthorpe one day

jdrobbo · Post by **jdrobbo** » Sun May 27, 2018 10:50 pm

Any team that contained Shaun Goater!

bfccrazy · Post by **bfccrazy** » Sun May 27, 2018 11:01 pm

Portsmouth for some reason.

Always hated playing Rotherham whilst Campbell Rice was there - and any team Helgurson played for (Watford, Pompey etc) - and hated playing against David Nugent.

BertFreemansShirt · Post by **BertFreemansShirt** » Sun May 27, 2018 11:12 pm

Dirty Leeds. The b...… Norman Hunter more or less finished Frank Casper's career.

South West Claret. · Post by **South West Claret.** » Sun May 27, 2018 11:51 pm

Can’t remember getting much away at Rotherham in the dark days of our lower league membership.

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Sun May 27, 2018 11:56 pm

Just remembered west ham! Never got much off them over the years sick of there goading fans.it was great to see em spanked at long last.

mdd2 · Post by **mdd2** » Mon May 28, 2018 8:30 am

Villa away and about the only time we beat them away was in 1962 and look at the results after that. No coincidence that they had been relegated in 1959 before we won the League in 1960. Before 1962 P12 W1 D2 L9 at Villa Park.

Noblelight · Post by **Noblelight** » Mon May 28, 2018 8:44 am

Reading for me without a doubt. Remember standing on the Tilehirst end when we got beat 5-1 after being 1-0 up at half time. Boy did I get some stick from my mates over that game. Glad we seem to beat them a bit now though.
UTC.
Oxford was another one as well, 5-0. Moody came on for them in that game, I said to my mate "he won't score, he's a cart house " . Came on and got a hat trick and one of them was a screamer.
Shows how much I know about football

Walt · Post by **Walt** » Mon May 28, 2018 9:24 am

Stockport

RammyClaret61 · Post by **RammyClaret61** » Mon May 28, 2018 9:37 am

Bolton in any era. W**kers, and Lincoln City.

RocketLawnChair · Post by **RocketLawnChair** » Mon May 28, 2018 10:31 am

Hereford at Edgar Street we used to get some real pastings and that was in the years after 6-0 home tubbing.

Gillingham and Barnsley were generally the destination of many a nightmare. We were once actually that bad at Gillingham we were brilliant.

boatshed bill · Post by **boatshed bill** » Mon May 28, 2018 10:35 am

Leeds for me too.
I have a healthy disliking of them since the Revie era.

Spike · Post by **Spike** » Mon May 28, 2018 10:52 am

boatshed bill wrote:Leeds for me too.
I have a healthy disliking of them since the Revie era.

Very rare you see healthy and Dirty Leeds in the same thread

Lordlucan · Post by **Lordlucan** » Mon May 28, 2018 9:01 pm

Fo me, Thinking through this thread has just reinforced the achievements of the last 10 odd years. We’ve sorted all the clubs out above and I don’t really care who bowls up, apart from Arsenal in injury time

Pstotto · Post by **Pstotto** » Tue May 29, 2018 12:44 am

Obviously dirty Leeds, Liverpool Man U early 70's, never liked Newcastle or Sunderland then either, but also QPR and Derby County.

Blackburn, Blackburn who? Weren't they on a milk advert around that time?

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Tue May 29, 2018 1:04 am

PNE and their holier than thou supporters

Longsider · Post by **Longsider** » Tue May 29, 2018 11:37 am

Shore claret · Post by **Shore claret** » Tue May 29, 2018 1:38 pm

bfcjg wrote:When we were in the fourth it was Rochdale as it made you realise just how far we had plummeted. Consistently thereafter Wolves.

How do think I felt, I went to school in Rochdale when they used to beat us.
Personally Preston and Grimsby, always seemed to come away from Grimsby with nothing but disappointment.

Bordeauxclaret · Post by **Bordeauxclaret** » Tue May 29, 2018 1:45 pm

Rotherham and Chesterfield seemed to be incredibly dull games the majority of the time.

NottsClaret · Post by **NottsClaret** » Tue May 29, 2018 1:53 pm

We lost to Gillingham loads. If we played them now I'd still expect to get beat, with Carl Asaba scoring.

Lord Beamish · Post by **Lord Beamish** » Tue May 29, 2018 1:59 pm

NottsClaret wrote:We lost to Gillingham loads. If we played them now I'd still expect to get beat, with Carl Asaba scoring.

Though, oddly enough, in(I think) Stan’s last season we beat them 3 times; twice in the League, and in the FA Cup at home. I only really remember this because for one it didn’t happen much, and secondly my Brother in Law is a Gills ST Holder, and I have him dog’s abuse for it.

MK-Claret · Post by **MK-Claret** » Wed May 30, 2018 1:20 pm

We were never really any good in the capital in the 70s 80s or 90s apart from Spurs for some unknown reason. Leeds were another one. Never seems to get a result against Man United until 2009. Have always dreaded playing Wolves the coming season will be no different. In the lower leagues Stoke, Blackpool well you could have a fair sized list from the 4th Division.

Brunshawroad66 · Post by **Brunshawroad66** » Wed May 30, 2018 3:33 pm

can't say I was over enamoured with any of the opponents during the Division 3 and 4 years ... I reckon I saw all but five or six of the home games between 1980 and 2000 but let's be honest deep down I must still have enjoyed it because it isn't actually compulsory to keep going

... Wolves always gave me a feeling of dread .. the defeats were seemingly inevitable although I was at the Molineux win in 1986

claretonthecoast1882 · Post by **claretonthecoast1882** » Wed May 30, 2018 3:34 pm

Wolves n Peterboro

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Wed May 30, 2018 3:37 pm

Was always Wolves in my earlier days because we never seemed to be able to beat them.

Another vote too for the likes of Peterborough and Scunthorpe in our times further down. I've only seen us win once at Scunthorpe and the one occasion we did win at Peterborough I wasn't able to go.

jurek · Post by **jurek** » Wed May 30, 2018 4:12 pm

From my time (late 60's and early 70's) then it has to be Leeds and Man United.
Mainly because their fans were so obnoxious.
Although I have to admit to my only case of what some might call football hooliganism
when I threw a half eaten pie over the fence at Turf Moor and struck a Leeds United fan in the face.

Waste of a half eaten pie.

KateR · Post by **KateR** » Wed May 30, 2018 6:23 pm

Swindon early days then more recently West Brom