Biggest wins and defeats supporting your club

[PaulHaddock]

I was lucky enough to see our 7-0s vs Stockport, Alfreton and Halifax. I was also lucky enough to not see the 8-1 vs Hartlepool and the 5-0 at Braintree.

 

[Stanleyfan]

Biggest away win was 6-0 away at Leigh RMI in the Conference (anyone remember them??)

We got thumped 8-1 away at Peterborough around 2007/8 ish although I think that Posh side smashed a few teams that season.

Craziest game was a 7-4 home win v Gillingham and I didn't include it on goals galore...

 

[Posh Red]

Beat Bury 8-0 at home. Saw us ship 7 at both Newcastle and Bolton.

We also let in S E V E N (as the vide printer would say) at Forest, when Trevor Benjamin scored for us. There comes a point when you have let so many goals in that you stop being concerned and just sing anyway

 

[Indian Dan]

Forgot that one. That makes all 3 I witnessed! Also saw the 6-2 defeat at Everton - although we played pretty well there!

 

[rudebwoyben]

Biggest away win was 6-0 away at Leigh RMI in the Conference (anyone remember them??)

We got thumped 8-1 away at Peterborough around 2007/8 ish although I think that Posh side smashed a few teams that season.

Craziest game was a 7-4 home win v Gillingham and I didn't include it on goals galore...

Everyone remembers the lone Leigh RMI away fan!

 

[rudebwoyben]

Fisher Athletic, there's a name from the past. Where are they now, do they still exist?

They went under a few years ago but reformed and are now playing at their own basic ground at non-league step 5(?) level.

 

[NightHiker]

Biggest win: 7-1 away vs Norwich.
Biggest defeat: 7-0 away at Preston (I think?) in FA Cup, a few away 6-0s (MK Dons, Chesterfield). Losing 6-1 at home to Stevenage was a particular disaster as well.

 

[kieran_vale]

Biggest win as other Vale fans have mentioned is the 7-1 v Burton. Same victory margin so may as well include 6-0 v Barnet in 1993 when Bernie Slaven and Martin Foyle scored hattricks each after Vale went down to 10 men (Barnet to be fair to them were in all sorts of turmoil under Stan Flashman at that time). Also a 6-0 v Hartlepool in the FA Cup maybe a year or two after that.

Missed the 6-0 defeat at Swindon thankfully so can only really say 6-0 at Fulham in the League Cup and a 5-0 at Rotherham at the Don Valley Stadium stand out which was one of the triggers to us doing a great chokejob missing out on the playoffs when were looking on course for automatic promotion that season.

 

[Sydney Posse]

Honestly cannot remember the biggest win I have seen without looking it up (which I am not going to), but was there to see us lose 7-1 at home to Brentford in the early 80"s

 

[King Kev]

It was, I missed that game though as I was away on holiday. Oldham let everyone in for free that game as it was the start of new ownership. IIRC it was 6-0 at half-time. We also lost 5-1 at Vale that season but we did beat Barnsley 6-1 when Phil Jevons scored four.

It was 5-0 at HT, second half was like a friendly then Oldham bagged a late sixth. I was at the game and next to the cod army. There was a decent pre match atmosphere that very quickly vanished when Oldham scored alot of goals in quick succession. The police segregation line had to relocate to the front of the stand as it looked quite likely that the Grimsby fans were preparing to invade the pitch and attack their own players.

 

[King Kev]

6-0 vs Carlisle in 1993, we were 6-0 up at HT. Then 7-1 against Lincoln in 1996. Special mention for doing Northampton home and away 5-0 in 1994/1995. Also a 5-1 home victory over Darlington in 1993/94.
Biggest home defeat 0-5 against Plymouth, August 1995. We sacked our manager the next day and in came Stan the Man, the rest is history.
Coventry away under that idiot Flitcroft 6-0 we lost and were 4-0 down at HT. They were five without a win going into the game and didn't win another game that season. The inept idiot Flitcroft stood in the dugout staring into space.

 

[Pablosammy]

9-0 was the biggest win I've seen Tranmere in, against Solihull last season. Defeats... I've seen us lose by 5 a few times, but a 6-1 reverse at Hull was the most goals. We ended up with Theo Whitmore pulling on a goalie's jersey and it didn't go well.

 

[RLC]

I was not at the Hull game but I have seen several five goal defeats, the most recent at Peterborough.

The most memorable heavy defeat I have seen, for all the wrong reasons, was a 5-0 thrashing at Millwall under John Barnes where we were four down after eighteen minutes. Still the most shambolic performance I have seen by any professional football team, and I watched us under Micky Adams.

Mercifully Barnes was sacked the following week.

 

[Davidimp]

Same biggest win as Luke the 7-1 game v Rochdale in 2006(got it on DVD somewhere)
My biggest defeat was 7-1 at Colchester in 1996.

 

[Roger Stone]

Biggest away defeat I've witnessed was at Stafford Rangers - mullered 6-1. Back in the Southern League 1995/96 season. League was won by Rushden that year and included FL heavyweights Burton, Crawley and Cheltenham too.
Biggest home defeat losing 0-5 v FGR on New Years Day 2013, remember Norwood playing a blinder. Strange won that as we beat them away on Boxing Day.

 

[Tranmerewhite]

9-0 against Solihull last season was the biggest win.

Saw us lose 7-1 to Birmingham and Blackburn back to back in a pre season once. In the league 6-1 away at Mansfield

 

[GTFCfish]

Same biggest win as Luke the 7-1 game v Rochdale in 2006(got it on DVD somewhere).

That deserves an entry in the tinpot thread.

 

[AdamStag]

Seen us win by 7 goals twice

2011/12 - barrow home 7-0 (won away 3-2)
2012/13 - barrow home 8-1 (won away 4-0)

Think they were glad we went up

 

[Dean]

Tranmere 9-0 Solihull Moors 2016/17 (then we actually lost at home to them this season 1-2)

Plymouth 6-0 Tranmere 2003/04 they romped to the league one title that year. (nationwide division 2 as it was known)

Honourable mentions;

Mansfield 6-1 Tranmere 2002/03 we went 0-1 up.
Hull 6-1 Tranmere 2004/05
Tranmere 0-5 Peterborough 2013/14
Peterborough 5-0 Tranmere 2013/14
Tranmere 0-5 Peterborough 2017/18 (FA cup)

God I hate the posh.

 

[GTFCfish]

Seen us win by 7 goals twice

2011/12 - barrow home 7-0 (won away 3-2)
2012/13 - barrow home 8-1 (won away 4-0)

Think they were glad we went up

We also quite liked hitting 7 goals in non league too Adam..........

 

[AdamStag]

We also quite liked hitting 7 goals in non league too Adam..........
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I remember, didn't go mind.

Grimsby is cold and unappealing in the summer, let alone NYD!

 

[Blue Lion]

I was lucky enough to see us lose 6-0 at AFC Fylde in January. I bet there aren't many teams who have lost a game by 6 goals and won the league in the same season

 

[GTFCfish]

I was lucky enough to see us lose 6-0 at AFC Fylde in January. I bet there aren't many teams who have lost a game by 6 goals and won the league in the same season

 

[Luke Imp]

That deserves an entry in the tinpot thread.

You can buy most Lincoln games on DVD if you want (I'm guessing you can't for Sky, BBC, BT broadcasts). That's been the case of years and years.

 

[DippyDon]

Biggest win would be the 7-0 against Oldham in 14/15, coming the home game after we'd beaten Colchester 6-1, and a couple of months after beating Crewe 6-1 as well.

Biggest loss that I've seen would probably be the Chelsea 5-1 in the FA Cup, I was lucky to be at uni when Southampton trounced us 6-0 earlier in the season in the League Cup.

 

[Vanni]

I remember a couple of nice away wins back in 93/94 - 7-2 vs Cardiff and a 5 nil win at Exeter (I think Steve Butler got all 5 goals). Sadly I wasn't at either one of these two.

Onto the 1998/99 season when we went up from L2, and I was there for a nice 7-2 win over Mansfield. That year we also won 5-0 (or was it 5-1?) at Scarborough. A couple of years later I recall us coming back from a goal down to beat Rotherham 6-1.

What I sure recall though is loads of heavy 'head shaking despairing type' away losses back in the 2001/02 season, the last time we were in L1. We had something like three 5 nil losses, and iirc we also let in 6 goals in one game.

We had a few nice wins in the connie years - I sure recall us beating Gateshead 5-0, Weymouth 7-0 among others, and also a few not so nice defeats too, like the 5-1 home reverse to Mansfield during the Xmas hols and a 4-0 defeat at fucking Bath

Back into the league, and forgetting that horrible 7 nil loss at Luton for now, we managed quite a few nice victories of our own. We beat Oxford and Carlisle 5-1 and 5-0 respectively in our first season back, and a 7-0 win over Morecambe the following year. We beat Pools 5-0 too at theirs but I didn't go, in fact I can't wait for Pools to come back up as I have yet to watch a league game up there.

 

[les.gtfc]

A couple of years later I recall us coming back from a goal down to beat Rotherham 6-1.

Reminded me of a couple of our games in the early 80's. 1981/82
season, we drew Millwall away in the 3rd round of the FA Cup but the game was postponed on the Saturday. I was staying at my brothers in London though so went to the rearranged game on the Tuesday. At half-time we were 1-0 down and the team were playing like they'd just met each other, but in the 2nd half we came out and ran them ragged, scoring 6 goals. Still the best 45 minute performance from a Grimsby Town team I've ever seen, they just couldn't live with us and it could have been double figures.

A couple of seasons earlier in 1980 we played at Wimbledon. and again we were losing 1-0 at half-time and playing awful but we came out 2nd half and went 6-1 up before they grabbed 2 late goals to make the final score 6-3 to us.

 

[The_Boss]

Saw us get bummed by both Cov (a) and Walsall (h) 7-0 in the FA Cup in our first two years in the football league last time we were here. Also got done 6-0 by Huddersfield, but i think the worst was a 6-0 home gubbing off Darlington.

Biggest win is very easy, the boxing day massacre of 2006 against County......

We followed that up 2 weeks later with our highest aggregate game, a 5-4 win away at Wycombe!

 

[Si Robin]

Talking of aggregate scores, the biggest I ever saw was this 11 goal thriller at Burton:

 

[RLC]

In 1991 we drew 6-6 with Newcastle in the Zenith Data Systems Cup (remember that ?).

We also hold the record for the highest ever aggregate score in the Football League; 13-4 versus Oldham on Boxing Day 1935. Bunny Bell scored nine for us.