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« on: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 22:32:44 »

Is it this year? Anyone know?
DV must be licking his lips  Smiley
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« Reply #1 on: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 15:36:24 »

Obviously 93/94 sprang to mind and probably statistically looks worse, but you could forgive that in some ways. Then I remembered an awful season about a decade ago, couldn't remember the details so had to look em up I'm afraid...

99/00                           10/11 (so far)
Position: 24/24               TBC - 23rd
Points:   36 points           34
Goal dif:  -39                  -19
W:         8                     7
D:          12                   13
L:           26                   19

So on paper at least, it looks like it's going pretty similarly so far to 99/00... though I'm sure those with longer memories, or more time will be able to dig up some even worse seasons, though I wouldn't be surprised if they had trawl their memories back to the 60/70s or even further!

To add insult to injury we were practically going under to. It's all too easy for us to remember
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« Reply #2 on: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 15:42:38 »

And we were a division higher.
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« Reply #3 on: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 15:45:47 »

 
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« Reply #4 on: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 15:58:23 »

worst i can remember is 73/74 - finished well bottom of old division 2 and had a team including some players who would have struggled in div 4!
A few new players the next season and we challenged for promotion.
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« Reply #5 on: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 16:04:47 »

I think you have to factor in the division that we're playing in.  We were playing at a higher level in 1993/94 and 1999/2000.  If we finish bottom this season, then there can only have been a max of 5 seasons in our history when we finished lower in the league (because this is the number of seasons, according to Reg, that we have been in the 4th tier).

Given that at least a couple of those 5 seasons must have been promotion seasons (as 2006/07 was), then I think it's fair enough to argue that this season is certainly one of the worst ever.  Certainly since 1990, when I started watching, this has to be the worst.
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« Reply #6 on: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 16:23:11 »

worst i can remember is 73/74 - finished well bottom of old division 2 and had a team including some players who would have struggled in div 4!
A few new players the next season and we challenged for promotion.


That was indeed a shit season played out against a background of financial crisis at the club and political crisis in the country. Nevertheless your aspersion as  to the quality of player, available that season is misplaced....we could still field an XI containing Jimmy Allan, John Trollope, Joe Butler, Frank Burrows, Kenny Stroud, David Moss, Will Dixon and Peter Eastoe.  Many of the current crop aren't fit to lace the boots of some of those boys.

We even had the likes of Ray Clarke as a squad player, who went on to become a legend for both Feyenoord and Ajax.

It was the perennial problem of cheapskate directors and shit manager that went against us.

The 74/75 side which in today's money would have been a PO side, only added Colin Prophett and Trevor Anderson, but more importantly Danny Williams was back in charge for a whole season.

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« Reply #7 on: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 16:24:59 »

I think it's fair enough to argue that this season is certainly one of the worst ever.  Certainly since 1990, when I started watching, this has to be the worst.

I've done some reseach and it's grim reading indeed. I've listed the worst seasons I could find throughout the archives since 1890 below...

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Season     01/02       32/33       55/56       73/74       99/00           

League     South1    3 South    3 South         2             2   
Position   16/16       22/22        24/24        22/22       24/24
Points*    9             38            38            38              36   
Goal Dif   -75          -45           -44           -36           -39
W            2             9             8              7                8
D             3            11            14            11              12
L             25           22            24            24              26

* = table adjusted to 3pts for win.
Divisions all adjusted to 1,2,3,4 etc for comparison

Honourable mentions:
64/65 looked bad, but we won 14 games so meh...
93/94 - bad season, but remembered with fond memories!

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1901 & 1993/1994 could probably be ignored for reasons which should be obvious. So using that logic, in my mind if we don't get a win or 2 at least together soon, this campaign may well rank anywhere from 5th worst, to in fact the worst... depending on your point of view.

Either way it's not good!  Doh

--Edit: Sorry about the shit formatting!
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« Reply #8 on: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 16:38:31 »

Worst ever season is the one where Oxford did the double over us.

Only once in our existence have we suffered that humiliation.
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« Reply #9 on: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 16:40:36 »

Worst ever season is the one where Oxford did the double over us.

Only once in our existence have we suffered that humiliation.

Could you see this side beating the Scum?  We may be getting another one soon.
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« Reply #10 on: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 16:42:13 »

Have a chart

[url width=854 height=506]http://i.imgur.com/HFGWB.png[/url]
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« Reply #11 on: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 16:49:15 »

That one post is more relevant than all the others in this and other threads.
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« Reply #12 on: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 16:51:48 »

That one post is more relevant than all the others in this and other threads.

That depends if you take league position across the whole football league to equate to "the worst season ever" or not.

At the lowest ebb of that graph, in 83/84 we finished 17th. V good and inciteful graph!
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« Reply #13 on: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 16:52:15 »

That depends if you take league position across the whole football league to equate to "the worst season ever" or not.

I do.
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« Reply #14 on: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 16:56:32 »

I do.

Using that logic winning the league next year, will be a worse season than being relegated this year.
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