And the award for...

[BillyStubbsTears]

...the Grimmest Match of the 2020s goes to...

[roversdude]

Think that is the worst since Chesterfield away when we couldn’t get the ball out of our 18yard box

[Butchers Red]

Think that is the worst since Chesterfield away when we couldn’t get the ball out of our 18yard box

If you're on about that Boxing Day away game in early 90's !! Blimey I remember that, I was sat in main stand feeling mightily sorry for the Rovers on that away end terrace.

[RoversInSpain]

Think that is the worst since Chesterfield away when we couldn’t get the ball out of our 18yard box

If you're on about that Boxing Day away game in early 90's !! Blimey I remember that, I was sat in main stand feeling mightily sorry for the Rovers on that away end terrace.

Thought about standing on that Chesterfield away terrace on that Boxing Day (3-0 loss??). whilst watching todays game and those poor souls.
IFollow in sunshine and 22 degrees gives rest-bite to these horror games now.

[roversdude]

Think that is the worst since Chesterfield away when we couldn’t get the ball out of our 18yard box

If you're on about that Boxing Day away game in early 90's !! Blimey I remember that, I was sat in main stand feeling mightily sorry for the Rovers on that away end terrace.

That’s the one Butchers

[Barmby Rover]

Going back a bit further, remember the match at Grimsby where our goalie kicked it out, the wind caught it, took one bounce and ended up in the back of our net?

[philsky]

Newport away 0-3 in the late 70s

Didn’t stop raining.

Awful

[adamtherover]

Going back a bit further, remember the match at Grimsby where our goalie kicked it out, the wind caught it, took one bounce and ended up in the back of our net?

didn't that happen in 08 at Grimsby in first round of checka trade?,  plus the pre season friendly v real sociadad at OBV,  torrential...

[drfchound]

Going back a bit further, remember the match at Grimsby where our goalie kicked it out, the wind caught it, took one bounce and ended up in the back of our net?

I wasn’t quite that Barmby.
The keeper kick the ball out but it ballooned up into the air and our player(I think it was Sam Hird but might be wrong there) tried to head it back to the keeper but instead, headed it back into the goal.

[ChrisBx]

Going back a bit further, remember the match at Grimsby where our goalie kicked it out, the wind caught it, took one bounce and ended up in the back of our net?

I wasn’t quite that Barmby.
The keeper kick the ball out but it ballooned up into the air and our player(I think it was Sam Hird but might be wrong there) tried to head it back to the keeper but instead, headed it back into the goal.

Was it Gary Woods in goal?

[swintonrover]

Going back a bit further, remember the match at Grimsby where our goalie kicked it out, the wind caught it, took one bounce and ended up in the back of our net?

I wasn’t quite that Barmby.
The keeper kick the ball out but it ballooned up into the air and our player(I think it was Sam Hird but might be wrong there) tried to head it back to the keeper but instead, headed it back into the goal.

Was it Gary Woods in goal?

Ben Smith.

The centre back was Matt Mills.

[Chris Black come back]

Think that is the worst since Chesterfield away when we couldn’t get the ball out of our 18yard box

If you're on about that Boxing Day away game in early 90's !! Blimey I remember that, I was sat in main stand feeling mightily sorry for the Rovers on that away end terrace.

I was there. Wearing only a wafer thin home shirt. Never been so cold before and since. Truly miserable.

[Donnywolf]

Going back a bit further, remember the match at Grimsby where our goalie kicked it out, the wind caught it, took one bounce and ended up in the back of our net?

I wasn’t quite that Barmby.
The keeper kick the ball out but it ballooned up into the air and our player(I think it was Sam Hird but might be wrong there) tried to head it back to the keeper but instead, headed it back into the goal.

Was it Gary Woods in goal?

Ben Smith.

The centre back was Matt Mills.

Wow . Just what I was going to post

Then there were the "biased" Penalties

I came out gutted .... The winners out already

[Campsall rover]

Going back a bit further, remember the match at Grimsby where our goalie kicked it out, the wind caught it, took one bounce and ended up in the back of our net?

I wasn’t quite that Barmby.
The keeper kick the ball out but it ballooned up into the air and our player(I think it was Sam Hird but might be wrong there) tried to head it back to the keeper but instead, headed it back into the goal.

Was it Gary Woods in goal?

Ben Smith.

The centre back was Matt Mills.

Wow . Just what I was going to post

Then there were the "biased" Penalties

I came out gutted .... The winners out already

We might not have got to Wembley and promoted if we had had a long run in the JPT
I think that penalty shambles ( ref saying Ben Smith moved ) was in hindsight the best thing that could have happened.
The League became the 100% focus after that.

[mugnapper]

I remember a 0-4 home defeat to Torquay, possibly our first home game of the season, in the early 70's. Absolutely tipped it down.
 I spent the 1st half on the Rosso end before decamping to the cowshed for more misery in the 2nd half.
When I got home I was sodden so had a bath to warm up.
Unfortunately I'd worn my new Brutus flared jeans which used to fade from dark blue to light blue with each wash.
When I took them off, my legs were blue. I looked like a half Smurf, except for my thigh, where my brightly coloured, paper Season Ticket book had stained it all the colours of the rainbow as it disintegrated.
Had to go to the Club office to get a new Season Ticket as after drying it on a radiator, it set solid.
The chap in the office asked why I stood on the Rosso while it tipped it down, I said 'it's my lucky spot and I didn't want to jinx us'.
He said 'Well that didn't work did it?'
I replied 'We may have lost 0-6 if I'd moved'!

[Bollinger]

I remember a 0-4 home defeat to Torquay, possibly our first home game of the season, in the early 70's. Absolutely tipped it down.
 I spent the 1st half on the Rosso end before decamping to the cowshed for more misery in the 2nd half.
When I got home I was sodden so had a bath to warm up.
Unfortunately I'd worn my new Brutus flared jeans which used to fade from dark blue to light blue with each wash.
When I took them off, my legs were blue. I looked like a half Smurf, except for my thigh, where my brightly coloured, paper Season Ticket book had stained it all the colours of the rainbow as it disintegrated.
Had to go to the Club office to get a new Season Ticket as after drying it on a radiator, it set solid.
The chap in the office asked why I stood on the Rosso while it tipped it down, I said 'it's my lucky spot and I didn't want to jinx us'.
He said 'Well that didn't work did it?'
I replied 'We may have lost 0-6 if I'd moved'!

Remember that well Mugnapper. 1976 I think it was. Definitely first home game of the season. From memory they had a fat little striker with a droopy moustache called Brown, maybe Willie Brown who might have got a hat-trick but anyway, he ran us ragged.

My mate chucked his scarf in a puddle in the car park on the way out swearing he’d had enough but of course we were back a few days later for a league cup match I think it was.

To cap it all of we decided to get off the bus in Bawtry and walk to Harworth as it had stopped raining at last. A hundred yards out of Bawtry the heavens opened. Happy days.

[mugnapper]

I'm thinking the guy who scored a hat trick was Colin Lee who went on to greater things with Spurs and Chelsea.
Could be wrong but I'm better at remembering stuff from 50 years ago than 50 mins ago lol

[drfchound]

I remember a 0-4 home defeat to Torquay, possibly our first home game of the season, in the early 70's. Absolutely tipped it down.
 I spent the 1st half on the Rosso end before decamping to the cowshed for more misery in the 2nd half.
When I got home I was sodden so had a bath to warm up.
Unfortunately I'd worn my new Brutus flared jeans which used to fade from dark blue to light blue with each wash.
When I took them off, my legs were blue. I looked like a half Smurf, except for my thigh, where my brightly coloured, paper Season Ticket book had stained it all the colours of the rainbow as it disintegrated.
Had to go to the Club office to get a new Season Ticket as after drying it on a radiator, it set solid.
The chap in the office asked why I stood on the Rosso while it tipped it down, I said 'it's my lucky spot and I didn't want to jinx us'.
He said 'Well that didn't work did it?'
I replied 'We may have lost 0-6 if I'd moved'!

That is a really funny story.
Made me laugh.

[drfchound]

I remember a 0-4 home defeat to Torquay, possibly our first home game of the season, in the early 70's. Absolutely tipped it down.
 I spent the 1st half on the Rosso end before decamping to the cowshed for more misery in the 2nd half.
When I got home I was sodden so had a bath to warm up.
Unfortunately I'd worn my new Brutus flared jeans which used to fade from dark blue to light blue with each wash.
When I took them off, my legs were blue. I looked like a half Smurf, except for my thigh, where my brightly coloured, paper Season Ticket book had stained it all the colours of the rainbow as it disintegrated.
Had to go to the Club office to get a new Season Ticket as after drying it on a radiator, it set solid.
The chap in the office asked why I stood on the Rosso while it tipped it down, I said 'it's my lucky spot and I didn't want to jinx us'.
He said 'Well that didn't work did it?'
I replied 'We may have lost 0-6 if I'd moved'!

Remember that well Mugnapper. 1976 I think it was. Definitely first home game of the season. From memory they had a fat little striker with a droopy moustache called Brown, maybe Willie Brown who might have got a hat-trick but anyway, he ran us ragged.

My mate chucked his scarf in a puddle in the car park on the way out swearing he’d had enough but of course we were back a few days later for a league cup match I think it was.

To cap it all of we decided to get off the bus in Bawtry and walk to Harworth as it had stopped raining at last. A hundred yards out of Bawtry the heavens opened. Happy days.

How do you know that the little fat striker called his moustache “Brown.”

[Draytonian III]

If you type in Clint Boulton and go to his Wikipedia page it mentions about him playing as a emergency centre forward and scoring a hat trick against Doncaster Rovers in August, on another page there’s a photo of him and he did have droopy moustache. I wasn’t at the match but I remember it because the only other player I had heard of called Boulton was Colin the Derby County goalkeeper

[andysly]

I remember a 0-4 home defeat to Torquay, possibly our first home game of the season, in the early 70's. Absolutely tipped it down.
 I spent the 1st half on the Rosso end before decamping to the cowshed for more misery in the 2nd half.
When I got home I was sodden so had a bath to warm up.
Unfortunately I'd worn my new Brutus flared jeans which used to fade from dark blue to light blue with each wash.
When I took them off, my legs were blue. I looked like a half Smurf, except for my thigh, where my brightly coloured, paper Season Ticket book had stained it all the colours of the rainbow as it disintegrated.
Had to go to the Club office to get a new Season Ticket as after drying it on a radiator, it set solid.
The chap in the office asked why I stood on the Rosso while it tipped it down, I said 'it's my lucky spot and I didn't want to jinx us'.
He said 'Well that didn't work did it?'
I replied 'We may have lost 0-6 if I'd moved'!

That was my first ever visit to Belle Vue, an inauspicious start to the next 47 years !

[Bollinger]

If you type in Clint Boulton and go to his Wikipedia page it mentions about him playing as a emergency centre forward and scoring a hat trick against Doncaster Rovers in August, on another page there’s a photo of him and he did have droopy moustache. I wasn’t at the match but I remember it because the only other player I had heard of called Boulton was Colin the Derby County goalkeeper

Good to know! I couldn’t find anything.

Loved the Stan Anderson era and you find yourself wondering why a team of Kitch, Miller, O’Callaghan and others couldn’t get close to promotion but a defender playing as a makeshift forward and scoring a hat-trick tells you all you need to know.