“I Was there” ( …but I wish I wasn't)
As suggested and started by @LeedsBlue
"Wish i hadn't been there for...
- Losing to Eastwood under Taylor
- VS Rugby
- Barnet at home (0-7)
- Met Police
- The Jason Cousins 'foul of the century'
- 'And their goalkeeper scored' (still painful to think about)
- the game with the crazy 30 yard own goal which as good as sealed our Gola League relegation
- Bristol Rovers at home the week before Torquay
- the 'Smith out' game (3-6 v Posh)
- losing 4-0 at home to Windsor and Eton in the league in front of around 400 on a Saturday afternoon (club at a really low ebb early in 80s)
- Hendon semi final at Brentford (that really hurt)
- Hyde away quarter final plastic pitch (that really hurt)
- 6-0 stockport in the wet
- 0-1 home Stevenage last year. On-pitch thuggery and the disgraceful fall-out from it via Evans' mouth
(of course, these experiences are essential in order to feel the full value of the 'glad i was there' ones)."
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Sunderland Wembley play-off final. 🤦🤦
I'm going to struggle with this one to be honest. I don't really regret going to watch Wycombe Wanderers most of the time...
At a stretch I'd go with:
Gillingham (A) - November 1995 - F.A. Cup first round replay - we were fucking appalling and on the train journey home I realised that Martin O'Neill's legacy was done.
Wigan Athletic (A) - August 1997 - roasting hot day, crammed on a coach, arrived just before kick-off and saw us go in 4-0 down at the break on the opening day of the season. Bleak.
Bury (A) - September 2001 - postponed due to floodlight failure - literally got off the coach and straight back on it and down the motorway.
Aston Villa (H) - September 2003 - League Cup second round tie - strumped 5-0 in what was a glorified training session at the arse-end of Lawrie Sanchez's reign. A complete waste of time.
AFC Bournemouth (A) - January 2012 - Happy New Year! Lost 2-0 but it should have been seven or eight. Gary Waddock's second attempt at trying to keep us in League One and it was clear we weren't up to the level after being completely outplayed here.
Tranmere Rovers (A) - November 2019 - F.A. Cup first round replay - Scott Davies had a worldie despite our players not taking it seriously and then had an argument with my girlfriend (who tbf, probably had Covid).
The entire W***s era?
That Wigan game was terrible - wasn’t that under John Gregory?
that Tranmere replay was so bad that people left at full time and didn't hang around for extra time
it was also very very cold
Fleetwood away (including Jamie Vardy) and Basingstoke away in the FA Cup, to go with the Eastwood game mentioned above.
Don't think we've suffered any more 'giant-killings' since joining the League, just those three?
Oxford City? A moral giantkilling?
Coalville? No - Eastwood Town.
Our exit from the FA cup last season.
Orient away last season.
Marcus Bean’s throw-ins - I had brought guests to see the Wycombe Spirit in action. To be fair all have come back since :-)
Like @glasshalfempty i find watching Wycome such a privilege i have a hard time thinking of games that i wish i hadn't seen. Especially since i hardly get to any in person these days. I suppose i could have done without watching us lose in the pouring rain at the Kassam on new years day whatever season that was.
Don't remember when, or the result, but a game at Layer Road on a winters afternoon probably MO'N era but I'm not sure.
For some unknown reason I thought it might be warmer sitting down. It wasn't.
Front row of seats just behind the dug out. Miserable, the view was obscured and all we could hear was the Col U coaching team shouting.
I wanted to go home after about 15mins, as sitting down made by coat bunch up leaving me to freeze from the waist down. (Yes I'm male but my jeans offered no thermal insulation at all).
Yes, having stayed up the season before we finally had some hope again under Alan Sm*th. Alas, it would be a sign of things to come away from home that season.
Also, Sunderland would be on my list too. That whole day was like a living nightmare, as @ReadingMarginalista can testify!
That was our first ever visit to the Kassam Stadium. New Years Day 2005. A month after John Gorman had been appointed as Tony Adams successor.
Oxford United were managed by Ramón Ángel Díaz. We wore yellow shorts. Drewe Broughton played the full 90 minutes for us.
I'm sure I'm being thick, but I can't work that out
GOT IT!
(yes I was being thick)
You of all people!
I suppose at least it was a tick off then.
Something about one organism living on or inside another organism (host) and causing it some harm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cS3hn1i66o
Being thumped 6-0 by Huddersfield Town on Sky (06/01/12)
Carlos Lopez at Cambridge (22/01/02)
Losing 5-1 at Walsall in the midst of our cup run (24/03/01)
Losing 4-0 at the Withdean TWICE (05/03/02 & 26/12/03)
Losing 6-0 at Stockport (08/12/07)
Waddock's last game, loss to Wimbledon 22/09/12)
4-1 loss to Blackpool, the start od Sanchez's demise (19/02/02)
Losing 4-0 at Chesterfield, Sanchez lambasting the players on the pitch (22/03/03)
Alan Smith appointed Wycombe Manager (06/95)
Boston United at home and they had a load of U16s in the squad. We were utterly dreadful. Worst 0-0 ever.
Morecambe last year in the FA Cup.
Any game at the Withdean…
I think I was at most of the games mentioned above as well post 2000 so can ditto on those 🤣
Oh that home loss to Blackpool was awful. I’d forgotten all about it.
Basingstoke away in The F A cup in the late 90s (i think) We lost on penalties.
I forget the match but it confirmed relegation from league 1. All I remember was Vinnicombe played one of his last games for us. I sat watching from the FA thinking about 3 or 4 of the team couldn’t give a hoot. I left at half time as it really hurt me watching that, and those players all left shortly after.
Was that the time no one realized we were relegated until @Midlander called the BFP?
What was Scott Davies' beef with your gf?
Haha!
I also interpreted it that way initially
I remember losing 0-4 at home to Stoke in 1999.. it may have actually been on a wet cold Tuesday night..
Losing 0-2 to Colchester a few years ago under Ainsworth was dreadful..
Away to Stevenage 3-0 under Ainsworth again was a depressing one..
I’m not sure if I had a worse memory of the Gillingham FA Cup replay than you or not.
My car broke down going up some hill (just off the M25 I think). It was a busy road and I was stood I the cold for about two hours waiting for the AA (or whoever it was). Missed the game completely. It was pre smartphones so had no idea of the score until I turned the radio on and immediately heard the final score.