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Post by skunkie on Mar 13, 2005 16:24:14 GMT 1
For Christs sake there is such an easy explaination for this..The parking in Town is terrible,its like the start of the LeMons 24 hour race everyone trying to leave the tight parking at he same time.Or getting back to the local Pub for a Shandy or Getting crap public transport to anywhere outside the Town.I dont think this is any way to knock the people that turn up to support the club.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2005 16:28:18 GMT 1
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Post by Rennie on Mar 13, 2005 16:39:59 GMT 1
I felt sorry for them having to leave to get home for a cup of tea, if they had said thats it we give in i'd have blown up quite happily with 80 mins played
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Post by Egwel Fryde on Mar 13, 2005 16:41:14 GMT 1
Whatever the reasons for it, it still looks dreadful and is ammunition for away supporters if we're losing.
In 29 years I have only left early once...
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Post by skunkie on Mar 13, 2005 16:53:38 GMT 1
I dont often hear about away supporters moaning about home supporters leaving early,but what i dont care for are fellow Shrewsbury supporters,the Club and GP publicly taking an Anti-stance.seems more like the kind of Meadow Moaning this website is always slating.
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Post by question on Mar 13, 2005 17:03:33 GMT 1
is it better to stay and fight to the last whistle just as you want your team to do, with a bit of help from the fans..or.... leave with 10 mins to go with the away fans singing cheerio to let your players know that you have given up and so should they?
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Post by skunkie on Mar 13, 2005 17:13:05 GMT 1
Have a look at the lead thread,not everyone lives in or around the Town.People sometimes have to leave ready or not.The players shold concerntrate on the game Moral has nothing to do with the supporters leaving.its down to the players and management to be positive in all things.
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Post by DiggerDave on Mar 13, 2005 17:28:08 GMT 1
Have a look outside the Brittania with 10 mins to go and its packed with people who are already on their way home.We`re not the only club where fans leave early mainly to get home early rather than showing lack of support for their team.
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Post by perhaps on Mar 13, 2005 17:29:16 GMT 1
Yesterday was not the normal 40 or so leaving it was 150+ who had given up, i'm a fan anyway not a spectator, I believe I have a positive part to play, by verbally backing those who play for my club, I want them to play for 90+mins and I support for 90+mins, I feel or those who 'have' to leave early, you can tell who they are, they walk in everyone else cause they have thier eyes on the pitch not on where they are walking. More exits later escape in the future hopefully..
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Post by stuttgartershrew on Mar 13, 2005 18:13:05 GMT 1
But you still get loads of Town fans leaving early when we are winning the game don’t you? So I don't think it’s got owt to do with some giving up on the game and the team...
This sort of thing happens at every ground in the country, it’s just that at the Town (with the Meadow the way it is…with the one exit) it’s more obvious. I can’t have a pop at folk if they need to get off or want to beat the traffic. I’m sure a fair few who watch the game have someway to travel to get back home, sure they don’t want to be stuck in traffic waiting to get out of Shrewsbury. Not one to leave meself as I’m in no rush but it can be a pain in the arris to get out of the Abbey Foregate car park…so can understand why they would want to get out early…or to be near the exit to get a head start…
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Post by Ratcliffesghost on Mar 13, 2005 18:27:09 GMT 1
I went in the Nags after the game yesterday and there were some Macc fans in there who left at half time
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Post by tom_leather on Mar 13, 2005 18:50:04 GMT 1
i'm a fan anyway not a spectator, I believe I have a positive part to play, by verbally backing those who play for my club, I want them to play for 90+mins and I support for 90+mins, Obviously sometimes people have to leave early, but the numbers that do it frequently are astonishing. And as for saying that people leaving has no effect on the players, well I know that if I was playing then I'm more likely to put in the extra 5% or whatever if cheered on by a packed riverside compared to seeing an empty riverside whilst the station end is full of positive noise.
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Post by pawlo on Mar 13, 2005 19:12:28 GMT 1
How many actually leave. Seems to me that most just make their way to the wakeman gates from the riverside for the last ten minutes so they dont get held up.
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Post by True_Shrew on Mar 13, 2005 19:26:35 GMT 1
I can't see leaving early being a problem, look at the fans who left at the Middlesborough game when they went 3-0 down- it's the supporters loss if they miss the goals. As for extra support, well most of the vocal support come from 1000 or so on riverside , the rest just seem to let the game pass them by so I don't undersatnd how they will be missed when you don't hear them anyway
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Post by WindsorShrew on Mar 13, 2005 21:13:59 GMT 1
Interesting topic, I stand on the Wakeman week in week out, people generally start leaving 10 minutes before the end of the game. I freely admit sometimes I join them when the 4th official holds up the extra time boards I take a slow amble to the exit. I do this because I want to and have the right to as has everybody else in the ground, yes I have missed last gasp goals and incidents but I can live with that. Cos by the time the kids are in the car and sorted out i can just about get out of the damn car park (Abbey) I also don't think it makes anyone who does it less of a supporter.....
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Post by essofsteel on Mar 13, 2005 21:26:41 GMT 1
This really is getting boring. If someone pays £12 or more to get in to see the match it's no business of anyone else whether they watch 9 minutes or 90. The exit from the Riverside & the Wakeman is exaggerated by there being only one way out. No more no less. Give it a rest!
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Post by somersetshrew on Mar 13, 2005 21:47:20 GMT 1
it may have appeared like more were leaving early yesterday, because a lot had moved from the wakeman end to the riverside to get out of the rain, myself included. I started moving around back to the wakeman with 2 mins left, to get a headstart to beat the traffic, as I have a long journey to make. Incidently, I broke my record yesterday, I got in my car at 5 o'clock, and was in my house just before 7.
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Post by tom_leather on Mar 13, 2005 22:55:02 GMT 1
I always wonder why people don't park in the small car park at the bottom of wyle cop, near the footbridge, especially for evening games as it is dead quiet in evenings and we always get out with no queues at all, saves us about 15 mins
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