Most defining games in last 10 years

[Indian Bee]

Originally Posted by TW3Bee

I was more gutted at that Huddersfield play off defeat than I was at the Reading game.

ditto!! worst I ever felt after a game.....!

[Holysmit]

Originally Posted by Chorlton Bee

Gunnerson/Gunnlaugsson (sp?) or similar, lashed out with a kick at Rowlands after about 15 minutes.

Ah my finest moment.

I remember it well, he was moaning at the ref, at which point I yelled out oi Gunnlaugsson, how come you never made it in the premiership?

He looked straight at me, and then I said oh yeah it's because your shit!

Straight after the restart he lashed out and got sent off!

[Garybaldbee]

Reading is an obvious contender but as we are thinking counter factually how about the loss at Bristol City in 92/3? Holder would presumably have kept his job which would have meant no Webb and therefore no Noades (since he was only interested in us after the carcass of the club had been picked dry) and therefore, just possibly, no debt.

And while I would have thought that a second season in the 2nd tier under Holder would probably have brought relegation, just imagine if we could have consolidated at that level probably after some yo-yoing up and down between the 2nd and 3rd tiers. It sounds unlikely, but thats exactly what Reading did in the late 80's and 90's. Win promotion, establsih a foothold and sufficient crowds, resources and confidence to be able to quickly bounce back up again after a relegation and then after a time look to move on to the next level.

Of course thats the positive interpretation. It could just as easily have turned out that we gave a young Terry Butcher his first managerial appointment and found ourselves in the Ishmian League......

[seanrs]

Given that we'd pretty much thrown in the towel from kick off against Bristol.C, I think the more defining game was elsewhere that day.

Birmingham still needed to beat Charlton to send us down and did so 1-0 with a goal that was supposedly yards offside (I remember Charlton boss at the time Steve Gritt saying how we'd been hard done by). Charlton also missed a golden chance to equalise minutes from the end when they hit the post from six yards out

[TW3Bee]

Originally Posted by beebopalula

In our season in the Championship [ or 2nd division then ] when we drew at home to Notts County who equalised with the last kick of an additional 10 mins played by the ref!! That point would have kept us up. Worse was when we finished second to Birmingham in the early 90s in the season when only one auto promo place. It could only happen to us.

[TW3Bee]

Originally Posted by seanrs

Given that we'd pretty much thrown in the towel from kick off against Bristol.C, I think the more defining game was elsewhere that day.

Birmingham still needed to beat Charlton to send us down and did so 1-0 with a goal that was supposedly yards offside (I remember Charlton boss at the time Steve Gritt saying how we'd been hard done by). Charlton also missed a golden chance to equalise minutes from the end when they hit the post from six yards out

You really are trying to cheer me up today aren't you?

[seanrs]

Originally Posted by TW3Bee

You really are trying to cheer me up today aren't you?

It didn't exactly make my day at the time either. Remember reading about it in the Sunday paper match reports then the Bees Bristol C match report all about Holder blaming everyone but himself for relegation. His words were something like "relegation is a slur on my ability as a manager"

[Stuardo]

Originally Posted by Bee H

The most gutted I've ever been at a final whistle Tears, couldn't eat or drink, sat in silence all night and through Sunday, terrible stuff

Hands up though who felt sure it was going to turn out the way it did the moment the Ref blew the whistle at QPha away the week before when MacGammon missed 'that' header right in front of us, the *&^%$%^ useless £$%^&*

absolutely totally 100% agree. that would have meant that a draw would have done us proud. Meanwhile I seem to recall that Tranmere were 2-0 up v Reading and then Reading pulled it to 2-2 meaning that they could have the draw v us and go up.

the Notts County is a good shout for the other game that defined us. i will never ever ever forget that agony. Tony Agana only scored about 3 goals for County having been bought for about £1m, and one was that one. pain.

[Theobee]

Lots mentioned that I painfully agree with and some have one thing common.............REF

Reading - Free kick that never was led to poxy sub Cureton's goal.

QPR away pervious game - Big Ben Burgess getting booked in 1st half instead of stone wall penalty - Didn't he carry an injury to Cardiff from that?

Although there were others during the season - Both decisions snatched the Championship from us

Going back though................I have to agree with Garybaldbee.

Notts County - Ray Biggars forgetting to restart his Stop Watch.

Bristol City last game away - Watching the goals going in was bad enough but listening to the commentator on the radio say that Birmingham had the ball in the net but it has to come back because the player was at least 10 yards off-side, then going mental because he couldn't believe the Ref had allowed it with Charlton players and manager protesting.

Drove the family to my sister in Cheltenham for the rest of the weekend and felt even worse when seeing the goal .........it was a major talking point on TV because I think it put us into the bottom 3 for the first time.

Consolidation then without the debt might just have seen cheaper move to a new stadium before We££ & his Granddad had a sniff.

[Jammy Jay]

Originally Posted by Hungerford Bee

Reading at home in 2001 - 2002

This one. If we went up we would never of been in League Two and would probably be one of the better teams in League One at present.

[scruff puppy pup]

Originally Posted by Hungerford Bee

Reading at home in 2001 - 2002

Has to be.
If we had won that, Coppell would have stayed, and he would have kept us in Division One or whatever it was called then. For crissakes, we did the double over Brighton and they still ended up champions!

[Inappropriate Smilies Bee]

Originally Posted by Hungerford Bee

Reading at home in 2001 - 2002

i guess that was the biggest game.

Originally Posted by WisBee

...................Swansea in the play-offs for me..........................

and the second leg of this one showed how shit our support really is. i am embarrassed to write the attendance here. very embarrassing. we had lost before the match had kicked off imo. brentford "fans" out.

[Brentford Bob]

Originally Posted by Inappropriate Smilies Bee

and the second leg of this one showed how shit our support really is. i am embarrassed to write the attendance here. very embarrassing. we had lost before the match had kicked off imo. brentford "fans" out.

10.5k? It could have been worse I suppose but I know what you're getting at.

Far, far worse was the attendance at home to Bradford - 6.5k. We were second at the time with only 5 games to go.

Maybe I expect too much, but.......

[Alton_Bee]

For me the most defining game was for the club's MIS handling of tickets - Southampton in the cup - showed just how little respect those that RAN the club had for the supporters

[Brain-dead Bee]

Originally Posted by scruff puppy pup

Has to be.
If we had won that, Coppell would have stayed, and he would have kept us in Division One or whatever it was called then. For crissakes, we did the double over Brighton and they still ended up champions!

I'm not sure Coppell would have stayed, nor that any manager could have kept us up next season in our financial position at that time - as we were about to lose players on Bosman or end of good loanees

I think the game (Bristol City?) that got us relegated from second tier to third might have been more significant

Sadly, they're almost all defining in a bad sense

[nocoat]

That wasn't the last 10 years though.

I think it was Colchester at home in the 2009/2010 season, that really kickstarted us and we went on to win the play-offs at the end of the season.

[Easter 1959]

[IslandBee]

Originally Posted by easter1959

OK, that's just about every heart-sinking moment of the last 20 or so years, so what about a few more good ones? Like Brentford 4 Fulham O - the game before we were promoted at Peterborough I think. I was literally shaking from the first moment and still thought we might lose when we got the fourth!

[TW3Bee]

Originally Posted by IslandBee

OK, that's just about every heart-sinking moment of the last 20 or so years, so what about a few more good ones? Like Brentford 4 Fulham O - the game before we were promoted at Peterborough I think. I was literally shaking from the first moment and still thought we might lose when we got the fourth!

The only disappointing thing from that game was that we didn't go on and get another four in the second half.