When did your team shite it big time?

[GHF-23]

On 30/03/2024 at 21:19, Crawford Bridge said:

Jack Ross shat it three times in the same season. Unprecedented, even for Hibs. 

Wait what was the 3rd one again? 

[VictorOnopko]

On 31/03/2024 at 16:20, AyrshireTon said:

2013 - Partick Thistle at Firhill in a top of the table clash. Lost 1-0 after a didn't-look-crossfield-pass from Tam O'Ware set up the only goal. None of our team played anything like the side that had put us top throughout the season. Still maintain that the turning point in that season was Partick being 2-1 down at Cowdenbeath and the game getting abandoned.

 

My recollection (could be wrong) is that Morton were on top mid-season having played 2 or 3 games more than us and beaten us around Christmas at Firhill in a scrappy game.  We caught Morton once we played those games in hand, and played attractive attacking football most of the season with SOD and ATS as pacy wing backs and Erskine, Lawless and Doolan all on great form.  We doled out some pumpings scoring 5, 6, and 7 goals - and won the league by 11 points in the end. It's the only season I can remember where there was oodles of confidence around the club from quite early on that we were going to be champions.

McNamara left us for Yinited midway through (a nervy moment) but that was a key turning point as we started to win away games under Archibald which we had struggled to do before.  Yes we were lucky with the fogged off game against Cowdenbeath - but the 1-0 win over Morton at a buzzing Firhill was just a very cagey and tense affair, with neither side playing their best.

Edited April 4 by VictorOnopko

[A Diamond For Me]

Numerous playoffs throughout the years, but for us the big one is probably the 1995 Cup final.  Before my time, but the general consensus is that a poor Celtic team were there for the taking and we just never really turned up.  Celtic finished 4th in the Premier Division that year, we finished 4th in the First Division, so on paper we ought to have been a pretty long shot anyway, but we had a bit of a reputation as cup specialists in those days, had beat Hearts in the semi and tore Raith to shreds in the quarter, as well as winning the Challenge Cup and beating Hibs in the League Cup.  Celtic should clearly still have been massive favourites, but that's gone down in Airdrie lore as the one that got away. 

[madton]

31 minutes ago, VictorOnopko said:

My recollection (could be wrong) is that Morton were on top mid-season having played 2 or 3 games more than us and beaten us around Christmas at Firhill in a scrappy game.  We caught Morton once we played those games in hand, and played attractive attacking football most of the season with SOD and ATS as pacy wing backs and Erskine, Lawless and Doolan all on great form.  We doled out some pumpings scoring 5, 6, and 7 goals - and won the league by 11 points in the end. It's the only season I can remember where there was oodles of confidence around the club from quite early on that we were going to be champions.

McNamara left us for Yinited midway through (a nervy moment) but that was a key turning point as we started to win away games under Archibald which we had struggled to do before.  Yes we were lucky with the fogged off game against Cowdenbeath - but the 1-0 win over Morton at a buzzing Firhill was just a very cagey and tense affair, with neither side playing their best.

You've got to give credit to Partick that year ( can't quite believe I'm saying that). They went the last 18 games unbeaten I think, winning 13 and drawing 5 or something like that. They were just too good for us in the end. I thought when we won at Xmas  at Firhill we would go on and win it but Partick went on a great run and were deserved winners.

We lost a couple of games before the Thistle one, Raith and Hamilton away and Dumbarton at home which cost us dearly.

Was a good scrap that season!

 

[Sortmeout]

1 hour ago, alta-pete said:

As @Hoose Rice has already pointed out, hibsing it against The Hibs, May 2016.

That was an ultimate shite’ing it as the players and the fans got ran over by Hibs.

[Andy_K_97]

Connah's Quay Nomads is the obvious one - but over the past decade and a bit, there's been a number of quarter finals that we've royally shat the bed in. The most painful of these was probably in 2018 when we took the lead against Aberdeen, only to have them beat us on penalties. The quarter final at RP against Hibs in 2013 was also a sore one - big crowd in the place and a good large away support, and we just didn't turn up at all. 

On that note, the whole time that Rangers were in the seaside leagues can be considered a time when we shat it and underperformed under poor management. I was disappointed when we sacked Kenny Shiels (although some people may not have been), but we should have found a better replacement than Allan Johnston. In turn, we also should have done better than getting Gary Locke to be his replacement. I still don't really know what to make of Lee Clark's time in charge given he kept us up in the playoff final, but the style of football wasn't exactly eye-catching and I suspect that we'd have finished around 7th or 8th. During the time Rangers were absent from the Premiership, teams like Motherwell and Dundee United managed to capitalise on this and reached Europe - instead, we were floundering in our own mediocrity due to poor decisions made by our weasel of a former chairman. Even when things were bad for us in the Championship, things still seemed a lot more positive than they were around ten years ago when the weasel was sucking the very life and soul out of the club. His leaving of the club, never to return, has turned the club around and made being a Kilmarnock fan much more bearable - I lay the blame for our mediocrity from 2013-18 solely at his door.

[AJF]

2 hours ago, alta-pete said:

As @Hoose Rice has already pointed out, hibsing it against The Hibs, May 2016.

This, as well as the play-off defeats against Motherwell. While we were a shambles that season, we were still strong favourites IIRC and completely shat the bed.

St Johnstone at home in the Scottish Cup as well, when they scored with the last kick of extra time after Clarke had gone up and got his head to it. They went on to win on penalties.

[well fan for life]

On 30/03/2024 at 22:01, YassinMoutaouakil said:

I've never seen a single second of the game as I was on holiday at the time but losing 2-0 at Ibrox when we were top of the league and they were midtable in the 3rd division is an all-timer. Don't think I'm alone in never really forgiving McCall for it.

It's been over a decade since this and I am still furious at McCall for his build up to this game. We shat the bed a week before a ball was even kicked. 

[Desp]

On 30/03/2024 at 23:18, pozbaird said:

2010 League Cup Final, losing to nine man Deadco. That takes clarting your nappy in a big game to a new level.

Everyone can probably name a handful that happened to their own team, but this was an all-timer.  Even I felt sick when St. Mirren lost that one.

 

3 hours ago, C4mmy31 said:

5-1 Hibs in the 2007 League Cup final was right up there to.

Slighly harsh, I'd say.  I was at the game as a neutral that day and it was just one of those days.  Hibs were absolutely fantastic, with a superb young side, and would've ripped most teams to shreds.

 

15 minutes ago, well fan for life said:

It's been over a decade since this and I am still furious at McCall for his build up to this game. We shat the bed a week before a ball was even kicked. 

This, plus the Albion Rovers debacle, means that until my dying day I'll argue that McCall was a very poor Motherwell manager.  Stevie Wonder could have taken us to 2nd spot with the team we had and how poor the rest of the league was at the time.

Edited April 4 by Desp

[Greenlantern]

Lincoln Red Imps (thank f**k for second legs). Or Artmedia Bratislava anyone? 

[Squirrelhumper]

I was at the Hibs Hearts final as a neutral in the Hibs end. 

Some unbelievable heads gone scenes. 

[AyrshireTon]

4 hours ago, VictorOnopko said:

My recollection (could be wrong) is that Morton were on top mid-season having played 2 or 3 games more than us and beaten us around Christmas at Firhill in a scrappy game.  We caught Morton once we played those games in hand, and played attractive attacking football most of the season with SOD and ATS as pacy wing backs and Erskine, Lawless and Doolan all on great form.  We doled out some pumpings scoring 5, 6, and 7 goals - and won the league by 11 points in the end. It's the only season I can remember where there was oodles of confidence around the club from quite early on that we were going to be champions.

McNamara left us for Yinited midway through (a nervy moment) but that was a key turning point as we started to win away games under Archibald which we had struggled to do before.  Yes we were lucky with the fogged off game against Cowdenbeath - but the 1-0 win over Morton at a buzzing Firhill was just a very cagey and tense affair, with neither side playing their best.

The defeat at Firhill gave us too much to do - needing 4 wins from the final 4 and Patrick to drop points elsewhere. In the end we lost 3 of those and the gap just widened.

Many of the players knew they'd be away, promotion or not, so we'd have to start again. What transpired the following season (Celtic result aside) was inexcusable. 

[realmadrid]

2 hours ago, AJF said:

St Johnstone at home in the Scottish Cup as well, when they scored with the last kick of extra time after Clarke had gone up and got his head to it. They went on to win on penalties.

Probably my all time favorite Saints game. Went to the game expecting nothing but we put in such a good effort.

The DJ has the music at full volume from about 45 minutes before kick off and off all the lockdown games i was lucky enough to "work" at this felt the most normal.

Gerrard went mental when Ranger scored and we had the media posts typed up with all the cup stats from that season when Clark headed the ball onto Chris Kane's foot and we equalized. 

[Allroy for Prez]

Many many cup exits

- Ayr in 2000

- Inverness 2004

- Dundee 2007

- Albion Rovers 2013

- x 3 v Aberdeen in 2012/2013

Basically any time we had a decent team but then shat it v teams that we really should have been beating. 

Edited April 4 by Allroy for Prez

[Crawford Bridge]

6 hours ago, GHF-23 said:

Wait what was the 3rd one again? 

The delayed by covid Scottish Cup semi from the season before against Hearts. 

The same Hearts side that lost to Alloa and Brora in the other cups that season.

I hate Jack Ross, a total charlatan. 

[Doctor Sanchez]

On 30/03/2024 at 23:18, pozbaird said:

2010 League Cup Final, losing to nine man Deadco. That takes clarting your nappy in a big game to a new level.

6th November 1985. At home to Hammerby 2nd round, 2nd leg and Frank McGarvy puts us in front in the 21st minute at home...  That's where the story ends and we didnt f**k it up in the dying minutes... Still keeps my awake at night. It was a feeling that came back to me the other week at Rugby Park.

 

As for the league Cup Final 2010, I don't think I have ever left a game as angry as that... Its still too soon to discuss it on here. 

[pozbaird]

8 minutes ago, Doctor Sanchez said:

6th November 1985. At home to Hammerby 2nd round, 2nd leg and Frank McGarvy puts us in front in the 21st minute at home...  That's where the story ends and we didnt f**k it up in the dying minutes... Still keeps my awake at night. It was a feeling that came back to me the other week at Rugby Park.

 

As for the league Cup Final 2010, I don't think I have ever left a game as angry as that... Its still too soon to discuss it on here. 

Fortunately, and the most un-St Mirreny thing I’ve ever witnessed, we actually exorcised the 2010 demons by actually winning the thing a mere three years later, and taking an ugly sister scalp in the semi final. I anticipated being haunted by the 2010 final forever. I can genuinely say that 2013 banished the haunting forever - being in a 3-2 thrilling ugly slayng semi final, and a genuinely exciting and thrilling 3-2 final itself. 

Hammarby was a feckin nightmare too, but my attitude is that for all it was indeed a nightmare, all it definitely did was to do us out of another European tie. The 2010 capitulation did us out of fcuking over the Deadco in a major cup final. The sight of, and subsequent re-living on DVD of the St Mirren captain raising the cup as the dregs of the Deadco hordes slinked out of Hampden was snatched away, by our own hand. That was the worst. Worse than Hammarby.

Still, we won it in 2013 and those kunts died.

[Stu_81]

Dons 1-4 United LC semi 2008 at Tynecastle was a collapse and a sore one that night. 

[Derry Alli]

Coca cola cup final v Aberdeen.

[Super Staggie]

5 hours ago, Greenlantern said:

Lincoln Red Imps (thank f**k for second legs). Or Artmedia Bratislava anyone? 

Might be before your time but neuchatel xamax?

Lost badly away in Switzerland, game back in Glasgow on BBC get pen after a couple of mins Charlie Nic blasts over bar, won on the night but a case of what might of been.