Lowest Points from 1996 to 2022

[DizzyBala]

I was reading the thread on here about What a year 2022 has been and how positive things have been for us, but I'd genuinely be interested to know from other Forest fans, what are some of the lowest points for the club in the last 26 years. The reason I picked this timeframe is because it was from the last good season we had in the Premiership at that time.

I'm not asking to be critical or negative or anything like that, I'm just really interested in seeing what others think have been the real nadirs of the last quarter century.

What are some real low points for Forest as a club in the last 26 years?

 

[justnotjase]

For me personally it was sitting in the main stand watching us capitulate against Yeovil in the playoff semi final. Brutal.

 

[Quntib Hollox]

For me personally it was sitting in the main stand watching us capitulate against Yeovil in the playoff semi final. Brutal.

You’ve just beat me to it jnj.
Never felt so flat.

 

[Redemption]

The lowest point for me was Brentford away in the first L1 season under Megson. About a month before he was sacked.

Absolutely pissing down and we were shit, although we some how drew 1-1. A team with no direction or identity and we were dropping down the league. There was moment in the game where a loose ball went begging because not one Forest player moved for it.

I felt like I was in a lift and the cables had snapped and all I knew was we were free falling and the floor would eventually arrive.

I was so wet and cold and so depressed on the tube back, I felt like giving football up.

 

[Bonfy177]

For me personally it was sitting in the main stand watching us capitulate against Yeovil in the playoff semi final. Brutal.

You’ve just beat me to it jnj.
Never felt so flat.

I’d forgot about that, thanks for the reminder ……

had a curry in Bombay ? Radcliffe Rd after the game and got dug out by a couple of Reds because of my accent ……first game mate ? And all that …..aye I replied just before leaning across and smashing their pile of popadoms ……nice curry though …every cloud and all that.

 

[Bonfy177]

The lowest point for me was Brentford away in the first L1 season under Megson. About a month before he was sacked.

Absolutely pissing down and we were shit, although we some how drew 1-1. A team with no direction or identity and we were dropping down the league. There was moment in the game where a loose ball went begging because not one Forest player moved for it.

I felt like I was in a lift and the cables had snapped and all I knew was we were free falling and the floor would eventually arrive.

I was so wet and cold and so depressed on the tube back, I felt like giving football up.

Oldham 5 zip ……wet, miserable, cold and married still ……bad times

 

[Redemption]

Oldham 5 zip ……wet, miserable, cold and married still ……bad times

Yes, that's was terrible - The New Years Day Massacre. Although the longest conga around the away stand made for fun.

The drive back in a very steamy car wasnt the best!

But, IIRC, we were on an OK run with Colin at that point.

 

[football post]

Cov away under Megson, the night where we were going to give it everything to avoid relegation but decided not to bother.
I think thats the lowest I've felt leaving a game.

 

[Bonfy177]

Yes, that's was terrible - The New Years Day Massacre. Although the longest conga around the away stand made for fun.

The drive back in a very steamy car wasnt the best!

But, IIRC, we were on an OK run with Colin at that point.

I had trouble with the ex brother in law when I got back north ……not much of a congo for me…..we’d lost to Donny last game at Belle Vue a few day afore Christmas I remember……got a belting photo somewhere inside before anyone …..

 

[Strummer]

I had trouble with the ex brother in law when I got back north ……not much of a congo for me…..we’d lost to Donny last game at Belle Vue a few day afore Christmas I remember……got a belting photo somewhere inside before anyone …..

This sounds like the plot of Get Carter.

 

[incident]

I’ve never minded (too much) losing to a better side, or even one that’s played out of their skin to get ahead of us. Where it’s got really depressing is when we’ve not even tried. In approximate date order -

Appointing Ron Atkinson, as a clear signal of surrender.

Going down to L1. The record books say that it happened at QPR, but for me it was written in stone on a Tuesday night at Coventry a few weeks prior. We knew that a good result could go a long way towards safety, yet I’d never seen such a gutless can’t be arsed display before and we lost comfortably to a relegation rival who looked piss-poor themselves. We then repeated the trick at home to Plymouth at the weekend.

Too many individual moments in League One to mention, but Chester Away in the Cup can serve as a “catch all”. f***ing grim.

A man employed as Forest manager choosing to damn near throw a key game, by letting his petulant desire to make a point to the ownership negatively influence his team selection.

Appointing Steve McClaren, a move so obviously destined for failure that it still confuses me to this day.

Re-appointing a manager who’d damn near thrown a game, and all the negativity and bullshit that he brought to the club.

 

[Cloughie1975]

Cov away under Megson, the night where we were going to give it everything to avoid relegation but decided not to bother.
I think thats the lowest I've felt leaving a game.

The game before that was Crewe-as I walked away from Gresty Road following a 1-1 draw I thought relegation
was inevitable (I felt as miserable as sin).
The other 2 low points for me were in the 1st Round of the FA Cup in 2005 against Weymouth-as I surveyed a
third full City Ground I realised how low the club had been allowed to sink.
The Yeovil play-off game-well,truly pitiful.

 

[Redemption]

I had trouble with the ex brother in law when I got back north ……not much of a congo for me…..we’d lost to Donny last game at Belle Vue a few day afore Christmas I remember……got a belting photo somewhere inside before anyone …..

Yes, that was also a wet day and the canvas 'roof' thing failed!

What a time to be alive!

 

[Bonfy177]

Yes, that was also a wet day and the canvas 'roof' thing failed!

What a time to be alive!

Met a forum member that day for the first time “zigga“ not heard from him for years hope he’s ok

 

[Jah]

When we beat Ipswich at home to stay up on the last day of the season on goal difference, despite all the investment and hope at the start of the season. It was relief, but it felt wrong to be happy because we were only just not shit enough to go back down again

 

[Thomas]

Since I only seriously started following in 2012, the lowest point that I can remember is the Sabri collapse against Stoke. It felt to me as tho that Simpsons meme “you’re stuck here forever” was actually true and the football gods for some reason had a gripe against us.


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[Statto]

there is no contest.

Megson.

 

[Robert Learnshaw]

My low point is actually one where we were doing better,

For me it was losing to Blackpool, it's just because I felt we were destined for the Premier League that season and the stars had aligned. I thought we were fantastic that season and for it to abruptly end the way it did hurt the most

 

[OLDMANRED]

The death of Nigel Doughty.
A great human being and taken far to early

 

[MaxiRobriguez]

Relegation from the Championship wasn't actually that bad because it was pretty clear from early on in the season the was a likely outcome. The following were more gut wrenching:

Daws being sent off in semi final first leg for nothing and then the extra time heartache thereafter at Sheff Utd.

Paul Hart getting sacked because his team was dismantled under him and the replacements weren't up to scratch.

The insipidness of Megsons tenure. Getting smacked 5-0 by multiple North West provincial town teams. Drawing Vs Weymouth in FA cup first round at home. Inviting fans into the dressing room to let them have a go at the players. Nicky Eaden refusing to jog on the pitch let alone sprint. The whole twelve months was toxic nightmare.

Yeovil under Calderwood let me seething and resulted in me joining this forum to vent. Following year when we were chasing top 2 we needed to go to Doncaster and win. We played six at the back, had 15% possession and zero shots on goal. Away end might have started a riot that night although ironically that was season we'd end up going up.

Nigel dying.

Fawaz. Sacking O'Driscoll and replacing him with McLeish. Winding up orders. Safety certificate on ground expired. Stealing one of the European trophies for his gaff. Ok Spiderman.

Sabri, not for the collapse against Stoke but because of how apologetic he was in presser after. Not angry just gutted for him, nice guy and was our best season in ages from a everyone in same direction sort of thing.

Chris f***ing Hughton. Whatever the f*** happened there I'm not sure as guy with a decent reputation turned out to have the tactical nous of a frog. Plan A is Yates pumps it long to Garner to flick in to Taylor. There is no plan B. Middlesbrough game was fiirst time ever I've left a game more than five mins before end and I left with 30 mins to go.

It's been shit, which is why I'll enjoy this season even if we get relegated. Nothing can be as bad as it's been multiple times over the last couple of decades.

 

[Otis Redding]

I agree with most of the points raised, and I'd like to add the embarrassment of the club being a matter of days away from playing the first home game of the season behind closed doors because Fawaz shamelessly ignored the importance of gaining the appropriate sports stadium H & S certificate, a requirement prior to the start of every season.

 

[DizzyBala]

I took a break from watching football after leaving school and didn't pick Forest back up again until 2009.

Losing to Oldham in the Cup under McLeish and George Boyd's eye saga.
Losing to Derby 5-0
Losing to Rochdale in the Cup.
Losing to Derby 3-0 with Bendtner scoring an own goal.
Signing Bendtner in the first place.
Replacing Oliver Burke with Lica and Dumitru.
Wigan away under Montanier.
Spending £13m on Joao Carvalho, who was good for six months.
Losing 4-0 to Sheffield Wednesday and half our fans walking out at half-time.
Losing 3-0 to Millwall.
Bottling the playoffs in the last game 4-1 after being in them for half a season.
Sabri's Winter Transfer Window. Diakhaby and Bong!
Sabri's Summer Transfer Window. Taylor, Arter, Bachirou and Freeman!
Signing Knockaert and Glenn Murray.
Hughtonball.

There will be more but I've mentally blocked half of it.

 

[JohhnyM]

Relegation at QPR. It may have been inevitable but it was still shit.
Oldham away 5-0.
MK Dons away 1-0. Everything about that night was shite. I even filled my diesel car with petrol after the game whilst still in MK.
Yeovil semi final.
Burnley away 5-0.
Pitch invasions after avoiding relegation.

 

[Bonalair]

For me Chester away.

Chester and Wrexham are my 2 nearest ‘league or former league’ clubs and I’ve seen us lose to both.

 

[Gyros Peter]

My worst bits were the David Platt years, as much for the personal side (boozefest) than the football, which for me was about the realisation that we were going to be at this level for quite some time. Watching Platt try and figure out the level was agonising too, especially with reasonable hope and backing on his arrival.

I know worse followed, but that period for me, and the season leading into it in fairness, was where it all began. I also moved away from the area in 2001, meaning I didn't have to suffer what followed on quite the same level as those who were there week in, week out, albeit in a couldn't escape it if I tried type way... at one point I was following forest via BBC live text updates at three in the morning.