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Post by blazey on Apr 2, 2011 18:57:06 GMT 1
Fantastic performance by the Town today... though one thing is really sticking in the throat... Why the mass exodus from the ground five minutes before the end? After playing some of the best football we've seen at home all season (against admittedly the poorest opposition we've seen yet ), I was really disappointed to see hundreds of fans leaving the ground on 85 minutes. Can you really not just stick around another five minutes to show the team your appreciation for their superb performance, especially seeing as this is the best chance we have of automatic promotion in a long time.... Rant over.
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Post by Stavvy on Apr 2, 2011 19:00:44 GMT 1
Totally agree. After the fantastic 2nd half performance they deserved clapping off. Some people would have had legitimate reasons to need to get away early though.
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Post by Rusholme Ruffian on Apr 2, 2011 19:06:22 GMT 1
Yup. Terribly frustrating when you cant see the last few minutes, cos people are constantly getting up to let people leave.
Where have these people got to get to that is so important?
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Post by grinfish on Apr 2, 2011 19:09:36 GMT 1
They want to get home in time to see how Town did on Final Score
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Post by Feedo Gnasher on Apr 2, 2011 19:13:40 GMT 1
Very bizzare, very frustrating as well
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Post by Optimistic Shrew on Apr 2, 2011 19:19:51 GMT 1
I hate it when people do this, especially when we look like we're getting a poor result.
I've never gone home early. Just can't see why at a home match you'd want to go home early if there isn't anything of high importance you need to do.
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Post by daveshrew on Apr 2, 2011 19:34:57 GMT 1
This really does annoy me week after week. It's not only when the game is all but over either. There's still loads of people heading for the gates when the score is level or if there's only one goal in it. I really don't understand it. £16 is a lot of money and personally, I want to get my money's worth! I also want to stay after the final whistle to show my appreciation to the players.
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Post by shrew54 on Apr 2, 2011 19:40:41 GMT 1
It annoys me too! I know some go so they can get out of the car park quicker, some must have to wait by a car for other people. My uncle doesn't walk very well but he wouldn't want to leave early I can't understand why people can't stay to clap the team off, especially after a performance like today.
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Post by ceejay75 on Apr 2, 2011 19:42:17 GMT 1
yes i totally agree how frustrating and disrespectful it is to leave before the final whistle is blown especially after a stonking performance from the lads but like Stavvy pointed out a few of the exodus have legitmate reasons to leave early.
My excuse is that I had to be on the coach back to Oswestry quick. I've stayed beyond 90mins previously during injury time and actually missed the coach so as a result I tend to leave in the 90th min nowadays like today
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Post by rep on Apr 3, 2011 12:48:21 GMT 1
There are several possible explanations as to why people leave early, park and ride being one. The other less obvious one is the fact that in an all seated stadium you cannot simply move towards the exit as we did at the old ground. The gate being locked at the West /North stand may also be a reason. There is always a game televised at 5:30 on ESPN so this may be another factor. I never leave early but have on occasions moved to the front of block 16 (spare seats permitting) to avoid the blockage on the stairs.
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Post by Pilch on Apr 3, 2011 13:04:27 GMT 1
why not have a go at those who didnt turn up instead ?
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Post by sgd on Apr 3, 2011 15:53:40 GMT 1
why not have a go at those who didnt turn up instead ? it was a tad disappointing that 6,775,230,455 decided to stay away but not a single person who stayed away spoiled someones view. Do you do it at the cinema? if so Norman Bates dresses as his mum,Charlton Heston is already on earth!Willis is dead,Hopkins is having an old friend for dinner and yes mein furher!,i can walk! will Elton John say this is my last one tonight,thank you Shrewsbury only to see 3000 fans get up and walk out? is it really that important to be first on a bus that can not move for 10 minutes? first in a car that can not go until the buses have gone? first at the bar that is serving for at least another 6 hours? There will be a few who have genuine reasons for wanting to get away on time,but will 3 minutes really make that much difference? So many left early yesterday that I thought that I had missed a fire alarm. "we can see us streaming out" rant over now. and don't even start me on those who move to be nearer to the exit - like that's not annoying. it's not good to moan after a good win but you can't do it after a defeat without "just because we lost" cropping up.
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Post by captainpike on Apr 3, 2011 16:51:46 GMT 1
Isn't it all down to the fact that a lot of the buses leave straight after the final whistle giving people no choice but to leave before the end? That's what I've been told anyway. If it is true then it's a stupid state of affairs.
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Post by Myddleshrew on Apr 3, 2011 17:19:31 GMT 1
Its happen for decades happens every ground
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Post by scooter on Apr 3, 2011 17:26:38 GMT 1
It used toannoy me at the old ground, when people started moving round and pushing into people watching the game This is something similar, but it is so much more annoying because we are all seater. Why can't people at least wait until the ball goes out of play rather than get up just as an attack starts? also, personally i think the half time exodus is just as annyoing - from 35 mins onwards people are likely to get up and move everyone, and then they come back after play has restarted I guess we can moan all we want, people will still do it
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Post by timgallon on Apr 3, 2011 17:31:51 GMT 1
Part of the problem with the first half exodus though Scoot is that it takes so damn long to get served at the buffet you have to get there early to avoid the worst of it.
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Post by OswestrySalopian on Apr 3, 2011 17:40:51 GMT 1
Im sometimes guilty of leaving my seat a good 5-10 minutes before half time, just to avoid the hoards of people rushing for the buffet, and to make sure i dont miss the start of the second half, which is often more exciting than the end of the first.
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Post by Worthingshrew on Apr 3, 2011 20:26:26 GMT 1
i reckon its due to the park and ride. At the very first game at new ground I missed the bus and have never used the park and ride again because i always want to clap the team off (except after the Morecambe game!)
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Post by eclipsechaser on Apr 3, 2011 22:34:26 GMT 1
It makes me laugh when fans complain How much it costs to watch a game and then proceed to miss the last 10 minutes of each half either at the buffet or missing the crowds at full time !! What crowds ?! They must be getting value for money for less time then !
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Post by Ned on Apr 3, 2011 22:37:48 GMT 1
I never leave before the final whistle, don't really get it to be honest. Always found it a bit strange, unless, of course, people have some dinner party or whatever.
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Post by eclipsechaser on Apr 3, 2011 22:57:19 GMT 1
I never leave before the final whistle, don't really get it to be honest. Always found it a bit strange, unless, of course, people have some dinner party or whatever. You can't leave those prawn sandwiches going off in the heat !
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Post by Pilch on Apr 3, 2011 23:17:46 GMT 1
i was offered a lift yesterday by someone getting picked up at sainsburys
we left after the final whistle
very slowly filtered out of the side gate spent a good 10 minutes getting out of sainsburys 5 minutes down to the island and then slow up to roman road
out of almost 6000 fans there will be some that maybe have to work after the game some maybe have to babysit other may have arranged to go out to keep the other half sweet
whatever they have to do or go, missing 5 minutes of the game might be a small price they have to pay to actually be there in the first place
and those 5 minutes might mean they are home half hour earlier
i don't really see what the problem is myself and i'm one who sits it out until the bitter end
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Post by The Shropshire Tenor on Apr 4, 2011 8:11:52 GMT 1
An acquaintance of mine has left at around the 85 minute mark for the 20 years that I've known him.
He has no reason other than he says he doesn't like being stuck in traffic.
I've also noticed a couple of guys who sit near me who always arrive after kick off, go to the buffet before half time, are back after the 2nd half starts and leave early. They miss 15/20 minutes each game.
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Post by DaveG on Apr 4, 2011 10:17:25 GMT 1
An acquaintance of mine has left at around the 85 minute mark for the 20 years that I've known him. He has no reason other than he says he doesn't like being stuck in traffic. I've also noticed a couple of guys who sit near me who always arrive after kick off, go to the buffet before half time, are back after the 2nd half starts and leave early. They miss 15/20 minutes each game. They sit on our row - i find it quite funny that they must miss 10% of the season, but a lot of people on our row find it very ignorant and very annoying, I think their record is mising the first 12 mins, the last 5 of the first half, the first 5 of the second half and leaving five minutes early. I can't say too much in fairness, the third pint usually guarantees I'll need to go the loo after 25 minutes..... When the added time board goes up I move down to the front row until the end, which avoids the crush on the stairs. As we are second row from the back it takes ages. I have only ever left a game early on a one or two occasions, when we have been getting thrashed, i.e Torquay.
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