Which was the worst relegation and why?

[grey_squirrel]

Looking forward to the Championship in all honesty - as this season has just been horrible and no one at the club – players, management, owners or even number 13 come out of it with any credit at all.

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

The fans have supported and been more committed than the players. Attended in droves. Followed expensively away. Put up with left and right incompetence from the Club from top to bottom. Yet we are stil here. And will be.

You my friend are a total complete tool.

[Ian Royal]

97/98, I went twice to Elm park that season, don't remember too much about the Portsmouth game at home but Huddersfield at home was diabolical, although I remember Swindon away and we kicked arse! My first time Swindon away.

I can still remember dicking Sunderland 4-0 that season, with Asaba looking like a world beater. And then trying to work out what the hell had gone wrong.

[peterroyal76]

88 was the first one for me and just edges out 2008.

[AirRaidSiren]

97/98, I went twice to Elm park that season, don't remember too much about the Portsmouth game at home but Huddersfield at home was diabolical, although I remember Swindon away and we kicked arse! My first time Swindon away.

I can still remember dicking Sunderland 4-0 that season, with Asaba looking like a world beater. And then trying to work out what the hell had gone wrong.

I was probably one of a few who was gutted to see Asaba go after that season

[Ian Royal]

97/98, I went twice to Elm park that season, don't remember too much about the Portsmouth game at home but Huddersfield at home was diabolical, although I remember Swindon away and we kicked arse! My first time Swindon away.

I can still remember dicking Sunderland 4-0 that season, with Asaba looking like a world beater. And then trying to work out what the hell had gone wrong.

I was probably one of a few who was gutted to see Asaba go after that season

Me too, expected him to tear up (old new) Division Two. Mind you, I was also disappointed to see The Meaks leave.

[LUX]

1977.

We had a brilliant team in 75-76, coming third in Division 4, with Friday, Steve Death, Youlden, Hetzke, Hiron, Murray, Gary Peters (wipes away a tear). Stuckey, Carnaby.

And the rest.

Then we had a great start in 1976-77, winning 4 1 at home to Swindon in the October to challenge for the top (er, iirc).

We sold Robin Friday after Xmas and went on a terrible run, the deciding game being a 3-0 home defeat to Rotherham.

Massive crowd trouble at home to Oxford and Pompey (both games won).

Never missed a home game, went to Oxford away (Friday's last game, lost one nil). Cannot remember if Brentford (2-2), Hereford or Wealdstone in the Cup were that season, but I was there too. Lost both cup games natch.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

Looking forward to the Championship in all honesty - as this season has just been horrible and no one at the club – players, management, owners or even number 13 come out of it with any credit at all.

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

The fans have supported and been more committed than the players. Attended in droves. Followed expensively away. Put up with left and right incompetence from the Club from top to bottom. Yet we are still here. And will be.

The Madejski's not exactly been buzzing on matchdays though, has it? And I'd guess that was what he was getting at.

[TBM]

Mind you, I was also disappointed to see The Meaks leave.

Oh i get it, its called sarcasm............right?

[southbank1871]

I was genuinely excited when we got Meaker, but he was utterly dreadful for us. I was disappointed to see Asaba leave too. Pretty sure he would have scored quite a few in the third tier.

[Ark Royal]

1977.

We had a brilliant team in 75-76, coming third in Division 4, with Friday, Steve Death, Youlden, Hetzke, Hiron, Murray, Gary Peters (wipes away a tear). Stuckey, Carnaby.

And the rest.

Then we had a great start in 1976-77, winning 4 1 at home to Swindon in the October to challenge for the top (er, iirc).

We sold Robin Friday after Xmas and went on a terrible run, the deciding game being a 3-0 home defeat to Rotherham.

Massive crowd trouble at home to Oxford and Pompey (both games won).

Never missed a home game, went to Oxford away (Friday's last game, lost one nil). Cannot remember if Brentford (2-2), Hereford or Wealdstone in the Cup were that season, but I was there too. Lost both cup games natch.

Yes, the cup defeat at Wealdstone and the thrice-taken George Duck penalty. Kicked off big time after the game IIRC.

[TBM]

I was genuinely excited when we got Meaker, but he was utterly dreadful for us. I was disappointed to see Asaba leave too. Pretty sure he would have scored quite a few in the third tier.

1 player i've never got over losing is Simon Osborn/Osbourn/Osbourne/Osborne

I think thats why i hated Meaker so much, cos we essentially swapped Osborn for Meaker that season

[Big Ern]

Terry the taxi taking us down was bad, 1988 was inevitiable but winning the Simod Cup softened the blow. But for me, this has been by far the most difficult. I saw the writing on the wall after only our third game, and our failure to learn from our mistakes from our last Prem campaign rubs salt into the wounds.

We have given such a poor account of ourselves and played such terrible football, it gives the inmpression feeling we were doing nothing more than squatting in this division. Apart from that little purple patch, the whole season has been depressing and devoid of all hope.

[Terminal Boardom]

For me, and I go back to 1977, the worst one was 2008. It was completely avoidable but the people who run the club, and the management team screwed up. You should never get relegated if you can draw at Old Trafford and beat the bin dippers.

[soggy biscuit]

Looking forward to the Championship in all honesty - as this season has just been horrible and no one at the club – players, management, owners or even number 13 come out of it with any credit at all.

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

The fans have supported and been more committed than the players.

disagree. Just turning up does not mean people have been supportive/commited. The fans this season (and many others) have been the equivalent of the player who is in the starting XI but can't be arsed to actually play. You could quite clearly hear the players calling to each other at the weekend, and I don't even sit that near to the front. The fans have put in a worse performance than the vast majority of the players this season

[bobbybottler]

I was genuinely excited when we got Meaker, but he was utterly dreadful for us. I was disappointed to see Asaba leave too. Pretty sure he would have scored quite a few in the third tier.

1 player i've never got over losing is Simon Osborn/Osbourn/Osbourne/Osborne

I think thats why i hated Meaker so much, cos we essentially swapped Osborn for Meaker that season

Agree about Ozbourne

I really hated that jumpy bunny rabbit thingie that Meaker and Asaba had going on as a goal celebration.

2008 was the worst - it's the only one I've seen which I thought that we might have avoided.

[grey_squirrel]

Looking forward to the Championship in all honesty - as this season has just been horrible and no one at the club – players, management, owners or even number 13 come out of it with any credit at all.

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

The fans have supported and been more committed than the players.

disagree. Just turning up does not mean people have been supportive/commited. The fans this season (and many others) have been the equivalent of the player who is in the starting XI but can't be arsed to actually play. You could quite clearly hear the players calling to each other at the weekend, and I don't even sit that near to the front. The fans have put in a worse performance than the vast majority of the players this season

You obviously don't go away do you? You want quiet then you could've heard a pin drop at Everton or Liverpool for example this season.

The fans have stuck by a zero performing team all season with a balance of faith, commitment, tolerance and humour.

There is no way any blame can be nailed at our door.

[The Beardy Man]

2008 for me simply because I really didn't feel we were one of the three worst teams in the division. Had we survived that year, I really feel Coppell had learned a few lessons about his squad, think we would have done what Stoke went on to do and established ourselves for a period of time. That probably set us back 10 years.

Relegation under Bullivant had an air of inevitability about it as we had been slipping year on year for a little while, then Terry began to lose the plot.

This year always felt would be difficult, only real disappointment for me was that we were not even able to make ourselves hard to beat.

Still, hopeful for next season, perhaps the start of a new era. What with new outside eyes in the management team, decent crop of youngsters coming through and a chairman with a little more disposable cash.

[Barry the bird boggler]

Depends what you mean by worst. In some ways it's this season as the club gave indication of no ambition right from the summer onward so we had a season of absolutely dire uncompetitive cobblers right from the off with nothing to look forward to.

2008 was probably the worst though as we had some semblance of being able to compete throughout but were ultimately let down by two totally disgraceful home performances v Bolton and Fulham (I won't mention the "can't be arsed as we've bought the FA Cup" P*rtsm**th contribution on the last day)

[royal_ross]

Looking forward to the Championship in all honesty - as this season has just been horrible and no one at the club – players, management, owners or even number 13 come out of it with any credit at all.

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

The fans have supported and been more committed than the players. Attended in droves. Followed expensively away. Put up with left and right incompetence from the Club from top to bottom. Yet we are stil here. And will be.

You my friend are a total complete tool.

Can think of at least one home game this season where our fans have been complete 'tools', definitely Villa but I'm sure there has been a few more. Agree though the support has been good, away especially, even home vs Liverpool was a good atmosphere.

[Reading West]

yep 2008 was the worst, unlike this season where we have been in the bottom 3 most of the season we were lower mid table for a good part of 2008 and then dropped like a stone after Jan allowing Fulham to catch us up especially in the embarassing 0-2 defeat at home near the end of the season we slipped into the bottom 3 with a few games to go and never came out.

A good reference between the two teams was the stark difference in their respective home wins against Everton. In 2008 where it was a 1-0 (stephen Hunt) it was a hard even game where we edged them out and came out deserved winners. This season we should have been 5-0 down by half time but thanks the ALF we somehow won it in the end.

There was more quality in the 2008 squad and we should've stayed up, this season no complaints in going down as we may now not even get 30 points.