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).
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
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.
Nobody from Shams remember a particularly cold Sunday afternoon hiding you took a few years ago?
I got no lips I got no bones where there
were eyes there's only space
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
I remember one year we lost to Cork City and Kelvin Flanagan got a hattrick that was bad
Umm Zimbru
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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
Ouch! Dont think we'd a makeshift defence that day though
Billy Woods is a Portadown reject
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