Related Clues:

• Performed really poorly
• Savoured
• Played miserably
• Needed a bath badly
• Performed poorly
• Small place to keep fish — smelt?
• Smelled a lot
• Created a stink for Weekender's dropping of news
• Really reeked
• Was lousy
• Needed a shower in the worst way
• Needed deodorizing
• Played pitifully
• Stank up a storm
• Detected, as trouble