Leaving before the end

[Patrick]

Never seen supporters leaving before the end when we have a 3 goal lead and such a gifted team on the park

Was it just a clever telly shot or is this the new breed of supporter?

[Dunne's Half-Time Pint]

Hard to gauge in your own stand but it seemed like half of the New Kippax had fucked off after about 80 mins. Bizarre to say the least.

[colonel_muck]

new breed of supporter? it's one of the staples of city fans throughout the ages. no matter what the score or the opposition the ground empties regularly on the 85 minutes mark and i hate it. most peoples arguments are to beat traffic.

[9secondlegend]

i stayed to to the end in 110 and still got my lift from near the townly and was back in swinton at 5.30

[Beefymcfc]

Happens all the time but today just seemed to be extreme. The amount of empty seats after 80 minutes was quite extraodinary. Bonus was that it took me 15 minutes to get home after the game.

[Buffalo Soldier]

It's always happened Patrick for as long as I can remember. It's the same if it's a tight game when a goal either way would decide it, if we've just played someone off the park or if we've just been well and truly spanked.

It annoys the fuck out of me, especially if we owe the players a good reception at the end like today or if they need our support to possibly bag a last minute winner.

I would have thought Gillingham in 99 would have taught people a lesson or maybe people missing a sublime goal like Aguero's last against Swansea, but apparently not.

Don't know what the answer is to stop it, maybe the first person to try and get up to leave should be shown on the big screens with a caption underneath saying 'sit down you ungrateful cunt'. It's like half the ground is waiting for the first clunk of a plastic seat flipping up with about 10 minutes to go and everyone panics in case they miss the first 10 minutes of fucking X Factor.

Queue the 'I pay my money, I'll leave when I want' brigade.

[Dunne's Half-Time Pint]

No idea why it goes on really - I do a 3 hour round trip for each home game so don't really grasp why people rush out to get back to Ashton/Stockport/Cheadle/Wherever 15 minutes early. I suppose it's the same reason - legitimate problems with cost aside - why the top tiers will be closed against Birmingham - some of our fans aren't as good as we pretend.

[bernabias_right_boot]

It's always happened Patrick for as long as I can remember. It's the same if it's a tight game when a goal either way would decide it, if we've just played someone off the park or if we've just been well and truly spanked.

It annoys the fuck out of me, especially if we owe the players a good reception at the end like today or if they need our support to possibly bag a last minute winner.

I would have thought Gillingham in 99 would have taught people a lesson or maybe people missing a sublime goal like Aguero's last against Swansea, but apparently not.

Don't know what the answer is to stop it, maybe the first person to try and get up to leave should be shown on the big screens with a caption underneath saying 'sit down you ungrateful cunt'. It's like half the ground is waiting for the first clunk of a plastic seat flipping up with about 10 minutes to go and everyone panics in case they miss the first 10 minutes of fucking X Factor.

Queue the 'I pay my money, I'll leave when I want' brigade.

It is annoying. I've seen them leaving when we're 1-0 up and under the cosh, which is exactly when the team need the support of fans,not see them sneaking out!

having said that, I left once the board went up for 3 extra minutes as, sitting at the back of level 3 in the bell end, if i'd got stuck in the stand I would've missed my train back to Euston, which wouldve cost me another hundred odd quid! Don't do it normally and certainly dont condone it and don't expect much sympathy either!

[Nickyboy]

at half time my mate said i'll get the beers in the pub after the match cos i'll get off at 85 minutes. I said there is no way i'm leaving before the end, we owe it to the lads to clap them off at the end, especially when they've played so well

[thegoatfeeder]

Always the same around me (block 128), same people very week too. Hundreds missed Aguero's screamer against Swansea, serves them right.

[Kippax]

Don't get me started!!!!

Kippax.

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[Dameerto]

It could be worse - Bolton fans started leaving after 27 minutes. Now that's just plain daft.

[Slim]

Weren't Burnley fans streaming out at the 19 minute mark last season?

I believe some twat broke his hand punching a wall too...at least he has a place to go afterwards.

[lyons07]

Weren't Burnley fans streaming out at the 19 minute mark last season?

I believe some twat broke his hand punching a wall too...at least he has a place to go afterwards.

or was it 7 minutes? when we scored the 3rd? i remember him punching it though.

[Slim]

Weren't Burnley fans streaming out at the 19 minute mark last season?

I believe some twat broke his hand punching a wall too...at least he has a place to go afterwards.

or was it 7 minutes? when we scored the 3rd? i remember him punching it though.

Might have been season before...Adebayor, Sylvinho etc were there.

[stevefromdonny]

why oh why do people get upset when people leave early, thats there choice ffs, you will never stop it, it happens at most grounds

[john@staustell]

Hadn't been up for a while. But me and my two lads made it up for this one. Top of the new Kippax, middle second row from the top. We left home at 6.30am and got back at 11.15pm.

We were just about 3 of the last out of the stadium. Had a leisurely watch of everyone else cramming out and strolled on.

Not sure whether we were bemused or embarrassed by the hundreds, no thousands that left early. Half of the fuckers were the ones that were late in their seats anyway, and I'll bet you any money 95% of them live within quarter an hour of the ground at most by car on a traffic-free Sunday.

I know it happens at all grounds, but it's very very sad, for tha sake of half an hour saved.

[Ted Hughes]

why oh why do people get upset when people leave early, thats there choice ffs, you will never stop it, it happens at most grounds

For one thing, the cunts get in your fucking way when you're trying to watch the fucking game. Too many are doing it: it's shit & shows a prawn sandwich/theater goer's attitude; "great show luvvies but must be orf, things to do, people to see, more important than you so have to go, byeee.." Cunts.

[irblinx]

All the new faces near us left early, I guess if you don't come often you could be a bit worried about getting out at the end?

I also think the atmosphere was very odd yesterday, it just seemed that it was all too easy for us on the pitch and therefore the pace of the game was very low and that transferred itself to the crowd. Very flat.

Personally I wouldn't dream of leaving early, win lose or draw but if other people want to leave after 85 mins that's their choice, they have their own reasoning, and I'm not going to judge them on it

[saulman]

I didn't think it was too bad yesterday at all. There were a lot of empty seats at kick-off. Loads of queueing outside apparantly.