View Full Version : Your biggest hammering for a home game ?
Here`s a friday afternoon question. And a tough one appealing to your magnanimous side !
What was the biggest hammering you witnessed your team take at home in a domestic game ? This shouldn't just be a high scoring game, or a freak result, I`m looking for games where you just had to hold your hand up and say you were played off the park for 90 mins. Two spring to mind for me. 1983 v Athlone (who went on to win the lge that year) hammered Dundalk 4-0 in Oriel in an FAI cup replay. Denis Clarke, Noel Larkin, Michael O'Connor etc all in their prime. I even think they got a standing ovation at the end of the game, it was that good. Second one was 1989, Derry City (Lge Cup Final), again the score was 4-0, I think they won the treble this season, they didnt get a standing ovation, but still an excellent performance and one i remember well.
osarusan
04/05/2007, 2:05 PM
remember Limerick losing 7-1 at home to Cork/Cobh one year, I think we even took the lead in the game.
I remember a real 3-0 battering from Shamrock Rovers in the cup one year when we were just woeful from start to finish.
lofty9
04/05/2007, 2:08 PM
We were 4 up at half time in that game vs Dundalk
Our's is fresh in the memory: 4 - 1 at home to Cork.
Just to balance it up we beat Cork 7 -2 at home around 88 and gave Galway a hammering 9 -1 at home. I think we beat Harps 7 - 2 at Finn Park too.
Risteard
04/05/2007, 2:10 PM
I've already managed to forget Pats in the Setanta this year.
Can't remember how poor we were so i'd go for Slavia Prague.
The best team to come to the Cross imo.
4-1 at richmond v Finn Harps
Good friday about 4/5 season back.
Horrible horrible game and no pub to go to afterwards to get rid of the memories.
remember Limerick losing 7-1 at home to Cork/Cobh one year, I think we even took the lead in the game.It was Cork City in 93, I was there, ours would be when we lost 4-0 at home to Pats
Steve Bruce
04/05/2007, 2:14 PM
Got hammered 4 nil by Distillery a few years ago.
Also got hammered 3 - 0 this year by Cliftonville. They are the two hammerings at home I can remember.
Schumi
04/05/2007, 2:16 PM
5-1 v Cork, almost entirely in the second half.
Thinking further on it- I think Cork's 2-0 win at Finn Park was the most comprehensively outplayed I've ever seen Harps at home.
WeAreRovers
04/05/2007, 2:34 PM
I remember a real 3-0 battering from Shamrock Rovers in the cup one year when we were just woeful from start to finish.
I remember that but I also remember Rovers 1 - Harps 4 under that clown Collins.
KOH
pineapple stu
04/05/2007, 2:48 PM
5-1 v Cork, almost entirely in the second half.
That's the obvious one, but I'd go for the 3-0 against Longford in Doolin's penultimate game in charge. You could see it coming from such a long way away in the game; we just had no fight at all at all. Longford were in the middle of their Cup double run, but were still a fairly average league side, which made the hammering all the worse.
Schumi
04/05/2007, 2:53 PM
That's the obvious one, but I'd go for the 3-0 against Longford in Doolin's penultimate game in charge. You could see it coming from such a long way away in the game; we just had no fight at all at all. Longford were in the middle of their Cup double run, but were still a fairly average league side, which made the hammering all the worse.
Thought of that one too but the original post mentioned being played off the park which happened more in the Cork game. We played ourselves off the park against Longford.
Partizan
04/05/2007, 3:15 PM
Biggest wins:
We dished out some almighty beatings to Kilkenny, Monaghan & Finn Harps down through the years but my most abiding memory is the 7-2 pasting that we gave the inbreds (KK) in the Cup in 2004 and that after going 1-2 down in the first half. What a comeback :p
Biggest defeat:
Losing the opening game of the 1990/91 at home to St Pats, then reigning league champs 0-5. A shambles of a day, Paschal Keane, striker playing in goal and a half time fan protest over the sacking of Johnny Matthews.
That day was start of the decline.
DmanDmythDledge
04/05/2007, 3:19 PM
Losing at home 5-1 to Cork was one of the best displays of football I've seen in this league. Hard to tell was it better/worse than the beating Shels gave us last year.
Sam_Heggy
04/05/2007, 3:29 PM
Thinking further on it- I think Cork's 2-0 win at Finn Park was the most comprehensively outplayed I've ever seen Harps at home.
Yeah that was the first game of the season afaik and George O'Callaghan ran the show. One of the best performances against Harps at Finn Park.
Tbh ive seen too many hammerings for my own good, the game this season against Wexford where we lost 2-1 felt like a hammering. :o
red bellied
04/05/2007, 3:31 PM
I think Cork beat us 5-0 one year they were going for the league in the 90's but not sure about that.
That was when McNally was there resigned shortly afterwards. Game was on Sunday afternoon due to work starting on the new stand at the time. Worst hammering I ever witnessed Rovers being involved in, home or away was in the Showgrounds. Dundalk were the opposition in a league game, ended up seven or eight one. Think it was around 1987, open to correction.
passerrby
04/05/2007, 3:32 PM
2 0 up againist galway and losing 5 2, painful many moons ago ..most surreal game was home to dundalk during the foot and mouth scare our best game ever won 5 1 an nobody there to see it.. i suppose nothings changed
Lost 6-1 and 5-1 in two games arounf the same time to rovers a few years back as far as i can rememeber. One in the cup and league. Im sure we have been beaten by more back in the day but they stick out in my head!!
BleusAvantTout
04/05/2007, 3:37 PM
Ours was undoubtedly last Monday night when we were hammered at home by Cork City!!!! :mad: :rolleyes:
Oh wait a minute, you have to concede goals to be hammered!!!;)
s-side hoop
04/05/2007, 3:42 PM
I remember that but I also remember Rovers 1 - Harps 4 under that clown Collins.
KOH
or the match against Galway in 1994 in the RDS it was 5-2 or 5-3 to Galway cant remember the score exactly as im trying to erase that one from my brain. we still won the league that year though :)
Erstwhile Bóz
04/05/2007, 3:44 PM
Oh wait a minute, you have to concede goals to be hammered!!!;)
St. Pat's supporters take note: this means you may not nominate the merciless thrashing meted out by Bohs this season.
monutdfc
04/05/2007, 3:44 PM
For me it was 2 home defeats by Dundalk in the 2005 season: 5-0 in May and then 7-1 in the Cup about 5 or 6 weeks later.
First one was probably worse but it goes down in the record books as an away defeat as Dundalk were playing at CHP because they had dug up their pitch and were waiting for the plastic pitch. 5-0 not because they were that good (Dundalk fans will even agree - it was the Gannon era) but we were absolute muck. Even Shane Jackson scored and then at 0-2 Ciarán Quinn got sent off for a doing a Zidane on Jackson.
The Cup game we were actually the better side in the first half and took the lead. They equalised before half-time then Jimmy Fullam and Graham Doyle got themselves sent-off and the world collapsed.
Sums up the Mick Cooke era - indiscipline, red-cards, not competitive (cue smart remarks, but our record under Bobby Browne who preceded Cooke wasn't bad, he got us promoted and we played good football, not like the rubbish we have to watch now).
RonnieB
04/05/2007, 4:01 PM
Lost 6-1 and 5-1 in two games arounf the same time to rovers a few years back as far as i can rememeber. One in the cup and league. Im sure we have been beaten by more back in the day but they stick out in my head!!
Yup those two certainly standout :(
NavanBohs
04/05/2007, 4:02 PM
Bohs 4-6 Shels a few years back. I remember we were 3-0 down after about 10 minutes and I just wanted to go and get the next bus home, it was unreal. 4-2 down at half time. We got back to 4-4 in the 2nd half but they got 2 more in the end.
The 'what's it liek to lose 6-4' chant we sang to Rovers was short-lived :o
Closed Account
04/05/2007, 4:08 PM
Bit off topic but I was playing a top tier Mayo junior game recently in a local derby, only my third game playing centre back. We lost 14-0.
dcfc_1928
04/05/2007, 4:21 PM
I know Derry City beat youse 7-1 in the last game of the season (circa 1988). Johnny Speak needed 4 goals to finish top scorer, and he ended up scoring 6!!
That was when McNally was there resigned shortly afterwards. Game was on Sunday afternoon due to work starting on the new stand at the time. Worst hammering I ever witnessed Rovers being involved in, home or away was in the Showgrounds. Dundalk were the opposition in a league game, ended up seven or eight one. Think it was around 1987, open to correction.
red bellied
04/05/2007, 4:35 PM
I know Derry City beat youse 7-1 in the last game of the season (circa 1988). Johnny Speak needed 4 goals to finish top scorer, and he ended up scoring 6!!
Wasnt at that game myself, away at the time. Remember a few friends saying they left at half time. Dundalk out done ye the season before by one though!
CharlesThompson
04/05/2007, 5:02 PM
Nobody from Shams remember a particularly cold Sunday afternoon hiding you took a few years ago?
Bohs beat us 3-1 one year and i remember from start to finish Bohs just outclassed us. It was like Barca-Liverpool when barca kept the ball and Robbie Fowler asked for a lend of it. Bohs were brilliant. Stephen keny was in charge at the time.
As far as wins go it would have to be Shels last year when we beat the 2-0. We were superb
gustavo
04/05/2007, 6:03 PM
I remember one year we lost to Cork City and Kelvin Flanagan got a hattrick that was bad
Pablo Escobar
04/05/2007, 6:11 PM
Umm Zimbru :(
kdjac
10-0 to the.................:D !
AnnaghRed
04/05/2007, 6:56 PM
Portadown 1-7 Glentoran 1981, was painful to watch but probably one of the best sides ever to grace the Irish League.
Reckon they could even have taken Cork City :eek: :D
adamcarr
04/05/2007, 6:58 PM
Portadown 1-7 Glentoran 1981, was painful to watch but probably one of the best sides ever to grace the Irish League.
Reckon they could even have taken Cork City :eek: :D
Well they could only beat ye by 6 goals away from home so I doubt it.
AnnaghRed
04/05/2007, 7:01 PM
Ouch! Dont think we'd a makeshift defence that day though ;)
adamcarr
04/05/2007, 7:11 PM
Ouch! Dont think we'd a makeshift defence that day though ;)
But were Glentoran missing about 7 players players??;)
AnnaghRed
04/05/2007, 7:19 PM
Billy Woods is a Portadown reject :p
Flawless
04/05/2007, 7:23 PM
Wrong wrong wrong passerby ! :) :p we hammered you lads 6-0 one st Stephen's day i think, it was christmas time anyway.
And we beat you 7-1 in CHP few years back too!!
Sorry that wass meant for passerby not you rogue trader!!!
10-0 to the.................:D !
Never conceded 7 at home to Derry altho they whomped us 5-1 away before, turned out to the the best 5-1 defeat ever :D
kdjac
Yep, forced Kerr to play Gormley in the centre...
Saint Tom
04/05/2007, 8:05 PM
sligo fans: there was a more comprehensive defeat than the one we dished you a few weeks back? could and should have been a lot more
St. Pat's supporters take note: this means you may not nominate the merciless thrashing meted out by Bohs this season.
Comedy of the highest order (the post, not the Bohs performance:D )
As far as hamerings, nothing will ever come close to the pain of Z****u.:eek: I think it was the expectation beforehand that made it worse. We'd just done back to back leagues and thought we were really going places, as a club and a team. It's only this year that I actually feel we're getting even close to that level again.
Back to my first post, when Athlone (83) and Derry (89) both beat us 4-0 at home, we were defending champions in both these years, so just to put even more gloss on both defeats or wins depending on who you support......... :)
Would be interesting to hear from athlone fans who saw this 83 side as i think they wont the lge by a massive and still record pts that year ? That was a super side.
pineapple stu
04/05/2007, 11:26 PM
or the match against Galway in 1994 in the RDS it was 5-2 or 5-3 to Galway cant remember the score exactly as im trying to erase that one from my brain. we still won the league that year though :)
God, I remember that one. 5-2 it ended; Galway scored inside 30 seconds as I recall. Think they went 3-0 up at one stage. Did Rovers win 3-0 against them later in the season?
Nobody from Shams remember a particularly cold Sunday afternoon hiding you took a few years ago?
The first half performance that day was enough to exclude it from such a 'hammering' label.:p
As WAR said, Rovers 1-4 Harps is the worst I can think of...there's a few from 2005 though..notably a comprehensive 0-2 defeat to Longford at the start of 2005. A heavy defeat to Dublin City at Richmond in 2004 springs to mind as well.
Comic Book Guy
05/05/2007, 1:29 AM
Seem to remember us (ramblers) losing 6-1 at home to Longford the year they got promotion, the weird thing about he game was that we had as many chances in the game as them, if my memory serves me right we then beat Monaghan at home in our next game 6-4. Strange days.
Réiteoir
05/05/2007, 12:30 PM
The first half performance that day was enough to exclude it from such a 'hammering' label.:p
As WAR said, Rovers 1-4 Harps is the worst I can think of...there's a few from 2005 though..notably a comprehensive 0-2 defeat to Longford at the start of 2005. A heavy defeat to Dublin City at Richmond in 2004 springs to mind as well.
We could label the first half as a Bohs "Ham"
And the second half as a Rovers "Mering"
That should work...
sligoman
05/05/2007, 12:32 PM
Last season, losing to Derry City 4-0 and then 5-0 in the cup. Also remember we lost to Finn Harps 5-1 in the League Cup in 2004. O'Riordan was sacked afterwards so some good came out of it!
In term of hammerings we gave-Galway 4-1 in 2005 and we beat Monaghan 4-1 and 4-0 that same season.
Leejo
05/05/2007, 12:39 PM
Nobody from Shams remember a particularly cold Sunday afternoon hiding you took a few years ago?
:D :D
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