Dreadful Clarets Performances : Which Stand Out?

[ElectroClaret]

A five-nil battering at Forest, October 2000. Nick the Greek was like a comedy turn.
Think Robbie Blake was playing for them.

Terrible stuff.

[BroadIslandClaret]

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

That, VegasClaret, is WAY beyond my powers of recollection.

Gave me an idea, though. Wouldn`t it b great to do an `UptheClarets` quiz on here!!!!!????? It could be organised quite easily, couldn`t it!? It could be a pre-cursor to the World Cup and I would be crowned champion!!!!!

[BroadIslandClaret]

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.

You`re right! How none of us have mentioned that is incredible (until your goodself). That was pathetic!

[ClaretTony]

A five-nil battering at Forest, October 2000. Nick the Greek was like a comedy turn.
Think Robbie Blake was playing for them.

Terrible stuff.

And we got a hell of a lot more comedy turns from him before we finally got shut

[Pearcey]

6-1 at Ipswich was awful. The one that stands out for me was losing 1-0 at Southend on a Tuesday night under Cotterill. I left the ground feeling angry and had to endure a dreadful drive home.

[Vegas Claret]

6-1 at Ipswich was awful. The one that stands out for me was losing 1-0 at Southend on a Tuesday night under Cotterill. I left the ground feeling angry and had to endure a dreadful drive home.

not as bad as when we were 3-0 down after 20 mins at Southend !!

[BroadIslandClaret]

not as bad as when we were 3-0 down after 20 mins at Southend !!

I was there for that...truly awful! We were behind the goals and they possibly scored them all in front of us. Depressing stuff.

Scarborough away is now coming to mind when most of us wanted to leave the ground at half-time but they wouldn`t unlock the gates.

[Sausage]

Anyone remember getting beaten 1-0 at Vale Park in 1995 as we spiralled towards relegation? I think it was a Robin van der Laan goal that did for us on a depressing Saturday afternoon and we were utter garbage for 90 mins. I think we got relegated a few days later. A Vale fan got right in my face after the match, telling me: “You’re not fit to be in this division”. To my eternal shame, I opted not to lay him out flat. I’d love to meet him now.

[IndigoLake]

Burnley 2 Sheffield Wednesday 7

That's the one time I wanted to leave early as a kid watching Burnley. Awful.

I almost remember being seriously disappointed watching the FA Cup quarter final when we lost 2-0 at Watford. We were poor that day.

[Dyched]

Im not old enough to remember the dark days so Ill say Lincoln and Stanley.

We might have in the past been a poorer team. In the the lower leagues, getting beat week in week out against Hereford or whatever. But we were **** and most teams we played woukd have been ****

Lincoln and Stanley were appalling games. Divisions apart. Footballers classes apart. Its not like we even created chances. Giant killings happen. Weve been on the right side of a fair few. But we rode out luck. Lincoln/Stanley didnt.

[NL Claret]

I was there for that...truly awful! We were behind the goals and they possibly scored them all in front of us. Depressing stuff.

Scarborough away is now coming to mind when most of us wanted to leave the ground at half-time but they wouldn`t unlock the gates.

I went to our 2nd visit to the theatre of chips, lost 1-0. Memories from the game were about 4 lads throwing a massive fire extinguisher over the fence at the front at the police. I'm guessing it had been borrowed from the burger hut. The police had to beat a hasty retreat.

At full time they locked us in the ground until the gates and turnstile doors were dismantled. The tannoy announcer kept telling us we would soon be let out of the ground whilst most were free to leave as the doors were passed down the crowd and thrown on to the pitch. There were some Clarets though who had been locked in by fence in the terracing towards the main stand who were getting most irate.

Again, I think back to some of moaning after the Southampton game on Twitter, "words fail me after watching that sh1t" been the pick by one off that no nay never podcast thing. They don't know they were born. Didn't we have a pretty terrible record against Scarborough. Remember losing 1-0 at home to them as well.

How about Macclesfield Town away? Getting drenched on the open end and losing 2-1.

[Dejavu]

I'm surprised this thread has got so far without mention of the 0-6 at home to Hereford - Stuart Phillips hattrick.

Of course it was our worst ever season - but when Wolves beat us 5-2 (possibly the home game before or after Hereford)...the rampancy of the away team was staggering - I recall a palpable feeling of being absolutely torn to shreds - I could swear Wolves scored about 3 disallowed goals too!

For some reason though, it was a number of performances after the Orient season that felt almost worse - as there were so many false dawns and we were still a lower half Division 4 side. Losing at Doncaster on a freezing day with a late Mark Rankine goal was a notably pitiful affair. And it has to be the 0-5 at Rovers as the pits - as Souness said afterwards - 'we got off lightly'.

And losing to 9-man Rochdale is perhaps symbolically our lowest ebb. I'm pretty sure they only scored after the men were sent off too, it wasn't as though they were hanging on (I stand to be corrected on that).

What a delight it is to think those days are so far behind us....

[Dejavu]

I live in Hereford these days and Stuart Phillips is my Wife's, best friend's Uncle.

[Spijed]

For me it has to be the Watford match in the FA Cup.

By leaving Little and Blake on the bench it was as though Stan was prepared to lose the game just to prove a point.

[box_of_frogs]

Anyone remember getting beaten 1-0 at Vale Park in 1995 as we spiralled towards relegation? I think it was a Robin van der Laan goal that did for us on a depressing Saturday afternoon and we were utter garbage for 90 mins. I think we got relegated a few days later. A Vale fan got right in my face after the match, telling me: “You’re not fit to be in this division”. To my eternal shame, I opted not to lay him out flat. I’d love to meet him now.

Was it absolutely lashing it down with rain? I remember going to Vale Park, missing kickoff and getting absolutely soaked some time around 95.

[bfcjg]

Crewe away in 1987. Dreadful woeful cowardly performance which meant our fate was taken out of our hands for the next game.

[Culmclaret]

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

That was a bit harsh on Tommy Cassidy. The Torquay game was in Feb 1986 and he left the club in 1983. But Cornwall Claret was right that was a bloody awful performance.

My personal favourite was Reading 5 Burnley 1 in 84/5. We were 1-0 up at half time.

[John Johnson 1605]

Coventry (a) under Stan when we lost 4-0.

We were dreadful, in a season where we got dry humped on a fairly regular basis and still stayed up.

Agreed, I also had the misfortune to be a Coventry away under Brian Laws.

[onewillieirvine]

May '67 7-0 at Sheff Wed and 3-0 Oxford in the Cup 1971 were hard to bear.

[Bin Ont Turf]

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

Yes it was.

Carlisle, McCann and Grezza were awful.

[BurnleyFC]

Darlington away in the cup. Kval in goal

[BroadIslandClaret]

I went to our 2nd visit to the theatre of chips, lost 1-0. Memories from the game were about 4 lads throwing a massive fire extinguisher over the fence at the front at the police. I'm guessing it had been borrowed from the burger hut. The police had to beat a hasty retreat.

At full time they locked us in the ground until the gates and turnstile doors were dismantled. The tannoy announcer kept telling us we would soon be let out of the ground whilst most were free to leave as the doors were passed down the crowd and thrown on to the pitch. There were some Clarets though who had been locked in by fence in the terracing towards the main stand who were getting most irate.

Again, I think back to some of moaning after the Southampton game on Twitter, "words fail me after watching that sh1t" been the pick by one off that no nay never podcast thing. They don't know they were born. Didn't we have a pretty terrible record against Scarborough. Remember losing 1-0 at home to them as well.

How about Macclesfield Town away? Getting drenched on the open end and losing 2-1.

SO MANY WONDERFUL MEMORIES!!!!!