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For us or for the opposition, or any game you care to include...

Obviously Brezovan's debut goes without saying for us while Luke Rooney's 45 minutes up at Preston last season was just appalling.  Many Mark Walters performances took the breath away, what a hero...

As for the opposition - the goalkeeper who kept out an absolute barrage for Marlow in the FA Cup was sensational.  Pilkington for Stockport at the CG and Delph in the 3-0 defeat to Leeds also at the CG completely dominated.

Worst has to be Carlton Palmer for Stockport up at their place while he was player-manager, didn't he sub himself before half an hour was up?

I was at Glen Johnson's debut for England while still at West Ham, really felt for him, truly dreadful performance.

Remember Paul MacAreavey once having a stormer, completely forget the opposition though?

Danny Ward vs. Charlton? JPM in the away leg? Charlie Austin vs. Charlton in the 4-2?

Worst... Amankwaah vs. Millwall in the final?

Can't think of any more personally..

Forget the opposition but Darren Bullock was at his psychopathic worst.

best: Nicky Hammond away at West Ham

TAH at home to Maccelsfield this season was pretty inept.

Stabby Ashikodi's 10min cameo was pretty special.

Is that the one where he came on as sub after being out on loan? I seem to remember we were losing and we either drew or won as a result of him.

Adi Viveash's debut.

I remember being 2-0 at home to Sheffield Weds in a midweek game, must have been 2004 playoff season, and we came roaring back to do them 3-2 and Brian Howard's performance would have made Giggs in his pomp look average.

Worst performance has to be either

Kim Heiselberg vs Walsall or Marko Tuomela vs Tranmere.

Both were Colin Todd recruits and both were substituted at half time...In fact I seem to remember Heiselberg taking about 6 throw ins and each one being a foul throw.

Yeah, came on as a sub and was subbed 15 minutes later, he was appalling but became a decent player and a good servant of the club.

Alan o brien was quality against someone, unplayable that day.

Worst performance - all his others in a town shirt

Not sure if it's the very worst I've seen but Aaron Brown away at Barnet in the 06/07 promotion season was woeful.

He also ended up squabbling with some of our fans that night.

Troy v Macclesfield will take some beating. Comical.

Michael Timlin's left back performances were also comical. Two stand out, I think against Brighton and Stockport.

Big Kev at Wembley is a good shout.

I can't remember who is was against, but Mark McCammons home debut was pretty piss poor too.

Wasn't even close to being born but from video; Peter Downsborough in the cup final has to go down as a great individual performance? About 6 class saves. Following the keeper theme Brezovan vs Hartlepool.

Sam Parkin debut vs Barnsley is a favourite too from the top of my head.

Trevor Benjamin at Forest in 05/06 - unplayable that day and capped his display off with a fine diving header.

Best Pre-season friendly : McNamee v Pompey in a pre-season friendly was amazing. Unfortunately instead of paying us a billion squid there and then, they came back to watch him again.

Offside.

I was thinking of the game, but more Christian Roberts...

Obvious one here - James Collins vs Portsmouth, Jan 1st 2013.  And he didn't even make the starting line up.  OK, Pompey were rubbish.  But even still.

My football memory isn't as good as some of yours.  But I sure Fraser deserves a mention somewhere.  Over one third of our Premier League games in 1993/94 finished as draws, often as a result of his heroics at the back.

One of the most under rated ever was Frank Talia away at Charlton in 2000. OK he didn't save a penalty, or two penalties, but he made some of the best saves I've ever seen that day, they couldn't get past him!

There's way too many contenders for worst! Id forgotten just how bad Rooney was at Preston but Im sure I've seen worse. Remember Ifil being made to look amateur up against Nathan Tyson when Forest spanked us, but everyone was shit that day so it'd be a bit harsh to single him out!

Kevin Horlock V Bristol Rovers. The perfect hatrick.

Alan O'Brien against Exeter was the best performance I have ever seen live. He looked a premiership player that day, dribbling, pace, end product, the bloody lot. Shame it only occurred in one game.

Great shout, missed that game myself unfortunately, probably due to being unable to get tickets due to distance, could be wrong though.

Parkin's debut was going to be my shout as well.

As for the worse, that little twat from Spurs was diabolical at Franchise this past season. No surprise he got binned off within a couple of days.

And mine.

Worst I've seen was probably Bodin vs Sheffield Utd at home in about 1995. We lost 3-1, he missed a penalty and scored an own goal; the Utd fans were singing "One Paul Bodin" by the end. I was cringing for the poor bloke (who was already a club legend and didn't deserve the abuse most players would get for such a performance).

Most deffo my worst performance seen....Jamie Slabbers run outs for us come close also....Alan Mayes and his hat trick on debut at Rotherham many moons back was special....but Hoddles cameo's in a few matches were the best i ever saw.

It was only about 15 minutes but Christian Roberts against Sheffield Wednesday. 2-0 down, think we bought Fallon on to go 433 with Roberts wide left of the trio.

Played like a chavy white Thierry Henry.

Plenty of poor ones anything from Pericard.

Yes that 15 minutes was immense.

Simon Cox away to Northampton in '09 was a pretty decent performance (hat-trick). Good job he was on form, because the rest of the team were crap and conceded 3 goals.

A memorable game because DRS flashed his cock at a goading Northampton fan.

Billy Paynter was awesome that game as well.

Richard Dryden's debut! Think it was against Stoke & he scored an own goal after about 10 minutes!!! AOB was unplayable against Exeter. Darius Henderson's double against Bristol City also sticks in the memory!!

Danny Invincibile at home v Wigan was a stormer.Don Rogers v Liverpool,Peter Thorne's hattrick away at West Brom.Any performance by Terry Fenwick ,the other end of the scale.

Some recent stand out's for me in an ineffectual sense (although I'm sure there have been worse..)

Any of Jamie Slabber's in a town shirt - the worst loanee I've ever seen. If he's a footballer I'm a cheese & pickle sandwich.

Vincent Pericard (Sept 2010) v Plymouth (didn't jump for one header or chase one ball all night). I actually booed him when he was subbed that day I think the lazy, useless wage-collecting fuck. I think we lost 2-3 at home and they hardly won again for 6 months. Irrationally I blame Pericard for Austin leaving so early, he must have thought, I'm not doing all the running for "Big Vinnie."

Mattia Lanzano v Hereford (2011). Okay we are in complete and utter control at 2-0, don't try and walk the ball around the striker when he closes you down you twat. Oh fuck they've gone and scored 3 times from 3 speculative forays into our box. Another Di Canio special overseas nugget. It didn't help that he was Italian...

Any of Bobby Howe's master classes circa 2001/02 - Fucking attrocious wanker, made Andy Gurney look class.

Ricky Shakes v Peterborough (2006) - Pace isn't a useful attribute if you can neither trap a ball nor pass Ricky. No wonder Roberts was always pissed... Shakes drove me to drink a lot during 2005-2007.

Personally I thought David Duke and Matt Hewlett got singled out in the King era...

A more recent one, Alan Navarro at home to Bury when his name was cheered and he was booed as he was subbed off. An awful display. Another contender from last season would be Nathan Byrne at Brentford in the play offs.

Brez vs Swansea. Fantastic.

Viveash vs middlesborough. Subbed on and back off soon after

Best save I've ever seen live from Bauza's header. 4 sides of the ground got off their feet to applaud that, probably the only time I can honestly say I've ever seen that happen!!

Haha, I forgot about that. Was it definitely 'boro. I though I'd only seen us play once from the Arkells - the one where Diggers kicked the ball to Emerson. But I thought sub-subbed came when I was on the Bank.

Its probably my memory that is shot, but its going to irritate me.

agree best save I've ever witnessed. pretty sure it was boro. Not 100% though

Three of the best opposing players in recent years:

Fabian Delph for Leeds at County Ground when they beat us 3-1

Anthony Pilkington for Stockport in a midweek game, scored and played superbly.

Zaha in pre season, brilliant to watch.

Definitely Boro - September 1990 I think, my first game at CG for a number of years after moving back to Glos.

Thanks. I'll sleep better to know that. I'm not even joking either, sadly.

Random I know but Neal Fenn away at Bradford circa 98/99. On loan from spurs but awful in every way imaginable.

Plymouth Argyle 0 - 4 Duncan 'Hot-Shot' Shearer

Frank Mcavennie at Man City

How the hell do you people remember these games? I'd forgotten about Collins' hat-trick and that was the only game I saw last season.

I vaguely remember Miglioranzi playing like a God in defence once, not sure where or when. Igoe ran the game on a sunny day at the County Ground. Lots of things happened. I've forgotten them.

This. I don't remember much. I recall Invincible playing like his name once at a night game, migs running the shop on occasion, Parkin being like some kind of heavenly gift from above, but fuck me if I can remember when or where. The first Paolo season is really the first time I have regular memories of matches.

Ross MacLaren at the Goldstone Ground - he was the last man in a 2 on 1 Brighton attack, as one Brighton player was about to pass to his team mate Ross calmly stepped up and caught them offside. One of the best things I've ever seen on a football pitch.

Gordon Strachan's performance in the 4-0 demolition of Town at Elland Road was pretty special. Not a nice all-round experience that.

Kieron Dyer when we played Ipswich years ago, outstanding game.

Rotherham away under Iffy in our relegation season.

Our first away win of the season - in December. I'd travelled directly from Florida to attend.

Did they run away ALA carry on up the Khyber?

Dean Ashton and Rodney Jack tore us a new one at the County Ground in 2002, one of the best strike partnerships I've seen play against us., they were un-playable that day.

Surprisingly one of the best individual Town performance I've seen was probably Kennedy last season away at Southend. I'm being serious, played like Roberto Carlos.

http://youtu.be/PS__ls3FIyg

Tony Thorpe. Enough said.

The whole team played brilliantly that day, even Risser

Haha oh dear

Although I do remember Jim Neighbour paying you a rather nice compliment.

Yeah that was a bit weird actually.

have to admit i didn't expect drs' cock to feature when i started a thread about individual performances...

a half fit Darius Henderson at Bristol City was a pretty good performance

Best Performance - The bloke controlling the floodlights against tranmere at home when losing 92/93 season! we were losing but that bloke played a blinder (and we wont the rearranged game!!)

Worst performance - The whole fucking team at Notts Forest getting spanked 7-1 on your birthday is not the one!!

I remember that match, and also remember the foul throw ins. How he played for Finland i'll never know, definately the worst performance from a Swindon player i've seen....

25 caps no less!!!

Good God, i thought it may be a couple, one of those players who somehow played for their national team. But 25!!!!!