QI alert for whoever says 80-0 at KR....

Wakey away when Busby dropped a last minute penalty (missed by McNamara) that would have tied the game and they came through and scored the winner. Did Willie Poching get that try?

St Helens at KR when Long scored the winning drop goal from what seemed like the halfway line (was it same season as 10, 9, 8, 7, oh no?)

Hull KR in cup QF in 2006.

I remember going over to the old Watersheddings ground for a midweek game (late 80's) it was in the middle of winter....freezing cold...and I think we got beat by a vey late drop goal....terrible!

I am going to say it anyway.

Mind I remember the terrace being quite jovial with gallows humour.

As Mark says, the 80-0 game became quite fun once it became obvious how lopsided it was going to be.

I remember one trip to Bradford (not sure of the year) when they had scored four tries before we had even got possession of the ball. That felt like a trip well-made. Another fun trip to Odsal was week 2 of the 2000 season, where the Langer-Nikau revolution came to a painful end with a 58-4 thumping, a real kick in the guts that one.

Then about 20 trips to Knowsley Road, all of which I have painstakingly forgotten the details of. One I haven't managed to forget was when we were leading and Chris Bridge tried a little dribble and regather in our own half.

Hull KR away in the cup when they were top of the league below (2006). We were bad that day.

Wigan away when all Nathan Wood had to do was find touch with a penalty.

Cup semifinals against the Bulls in the early 2000s.

Sorry it HAS to be this game. We left when it was around the 60-0 mark, and listened to the rest of the game on the radio on the way home..all I can remember is the commentary "and they're in again"..etc etc...became quite funny in the end.

March 2009, getting stuffed by Harlequins, and the Matt King incident. Whilst it ultimately proved a bit of a turning point, it was grim at the time, given our team and its potential.

Too many. Mostly every cc leg loss since 1976 none more heartbreaking than 1989 loss to the Pies aka Joe Lydon drop goal!

Barrow in 2002 was dire. Weather, standard of the game, stadium, journey. Just dire!

Obviously anything in the last decade and a half of Knowsley Road. The other week at Widnes was up there with the performance and the general atmosphere in the away end after the smoke bomb incident. There was a Widnes away circa 2004 when we took an absolute battering as well. I think I've done ok with away games, not been to too many awful ones aside from these unless I've blocked them from my memory.

Swinton away at Station Road circa 1992. Beaten by a woeful side, stood by the posts without any cover as the rain came down horizontally.

Wakefield away, 2008 maybe? We lost 16-2

workington away early 80s in the lancs cup..it was a midweek game with an early kick off which meant getting time off work to catch the coach at haydock st..we got beat 8-0 and with the long trek back it meant a late night with work the next day...other dour away games were losing at cas in the cup after going 12-0 up and losing ken kelly to injury..the week after we went there in the league and won (pat poasa had a stormer)there are to many dismal away performances over the years..but wouldnt swap any of it....

Most embarrassing was the Hull kr quarter final, Cullen should have walked after that. Weather wise, I agree with the monkeyman, that was one horrendous day. Also, the play off game v wigan last year was pretty painful as i'm convinced we'd have spanked saints in the final.

I was there too. Something like 12-10 I seem to recall them having a non called Sullivan at stand off and he disgraced us?
We were trailing 10 nil at h/t? but the players seemingly looking as if they would turn it around at ht and had all the time in the world@

Was this the game that Holden picked up a career ending injury? If so I was there as well - remember the rain more than the game!

You are a rum cove, you put the Maine Road semi down as a 'best ever' away game on the other thread

Too many to mention.

80-0 was absolutely awful. 320 mile round trip to see us get stuffed from the 1st minute. And the knock on to the subsequent games where losing 44-16 seemed half decent.
Semi final of the Premiership in 87 (?) with THAT Joe Lydon drop goal.
Losing away to Hunslet at the Leeds United ground when Boyd was playing for us and he was just not interested - standing 3 yards behind the line.
8-6 loss to Wigan where we effectively lost the Championship. (The Cullen 'knees' incident, when we really played well for the rest of the match)
The numerous last minute losses to Saints.
That's more than 4 for going on with.

Got to disagree there, the atmosphere in our end was fantastic and the performance was fairly good, no disgrace. Some painful defeats have been remedied by our own fans on occasion for me.

Probably this. Wasn't there a floodlight failure, too.

Add to this, my first ever away game, Leigh, Easter Monday 84
I'd pestered my dad for hours for him to take me, (his Wire watching career ended 20 years before this day). We fielded a real Dad's Army team for this one (I think Derek Finnigan played, but none of the Leigh players would tackle him, as he was 72 at the time, and stunk of wee and Werther's Originals). A certain winger played for Leigh that day, and I can honestly say, I've never heard a few thousand people make so much noise, whenever he touched the ball. DEAFENING.

Also, I've never seen us win @ Wakefield.

The 80 niller, obviously
'89 CCSF
87 Prem Final (scandalous reffing)

and a wet midweek match v Leeds in 89. The only time I've left early. My mates had had enough, and one of them was driving so I had no choice.

That away match at Widnes, 89 I think, when Offiah scored 5. Horrible experience.

Pedantic hat on, you can't put the 8-6 loss to wigan(you are still not forgiven Russell smith!) on this thread as it was at wilderspool.

There are two side to that story!

For me pick anygame at KR against Stains in that wretched run of theirs against us

The 80-0 debacle remains uppermost in my mind, despite years of therapy, industrial strength drugs and Newcastle Brown abuse in an attempt to wipe it out. I stayed to the end, but only because my eyes had involuntrarily slammed shut with shock.

As for the others? Goodness, too many wasted Sunday afternoons to recall without descending into pits of despair wondering what I could have been doing instead, and with whom.

I remember us losing at Barrow in the late 80s - spending a Sunday in Barrow is a waste of an afternoon even to watch a great team performance but we were the antidote to greatness that day. Hunslet away also in the late 80's I think 11-10. Pick any god awful yorkshire town (Hello Featherstone) and I've probably witnessed Wire-related events that would triple the NHS valium bill.

Not strictly an away game but the one that still wakes me at 3AM in a cold sweat was the JP Final 87 @ Burnden Park v Wigan. Having demolished Widnes in the semi I fully expected us to do Wigan, and we failed miserably. Bish was suspended and Steve Peters & Ken Kelly just couldn't provide the spark. Also, it was a day so cold it would have sent an Eskimo sprinting to the nearest double-glazing showroom. In fact, it was so cold at half-time I urinated on my hands to try and warm them up. Not only did this fail to do the trick, and resulted in severe chaffing, but also meant I had to douse myself in deodrant before being allowed back in the car with my mates for the (long) journey home.

I was in that car too and you never owned up at the time

You never learnt your lesson though, I remember you pouring red hot tea on yourself a half time at Odsal once to try and keep warm............I wouldn't have minded but it meant I only got half a cup of tea instead of a full one, and that was when a cup of tea was the most enjoyable thing about visiting Odsal.