I Stayed Until The Final Whistle & Applauded The Team Off

[Rag_hater]

This thread makes me want to leave early every game,just to wind the " going early police " up....

That made me laff.

[mcfc1632]

In the 8 league games so far this season, we have scored 4 goals in the last 5 minutes of games.

Yes, against:

Swansea when we were 3 - 0 up
Spurs when we were 4 - 1 up
Toffees when we were 1 - 0 up
Blackburn when we were 3 - 0 up


I am a bit more worried about when we are drawing or losing and need a late goal for points - just thinking we need to be the 12th man in such times - not meaning to make a big thing about it

I like watching us score goals regardless of the score.

agreed - I only commented because I thought that you were replying to my earlier post where I had expressed the need for a 12th man type support if needing goals at the end of a game

I was just thinking that the fact that we have scored 4 goals late on was evidence of us finishing teams off / being ruthless. Whilst that is very very welcome it will/would be different if we are needing to push for a late winner/equalizer - just thinking that in such a situation the atmosphere could help

[mcfcshoz]

never left early and never will win lose or draw me and lad are always there till very end ctid

[9secondlegend]

well i stayed to the end aswell but i understand why people leave early.
i usually walkfrom town or get a lift but got the bus yesterday because i was with my lad and by the time i had got round to the bus stop the special buses had finished and had to wait for the service bus and i was only passing the mitchell arms at 17.40! fucking nightmare i didnt get into town until around 6pm!

[hyper]

If you're home by 5.40 then great, if you hang around and have a pint after the game then that's great too. I have a 2 hour drive (minimum) at the end of a home game, and that's if I leave 5 mins before time. Staying till the final whistle can add 30-40 mins onto that. So I'll keep leaving early.

This is bound to end up as a "who are the real supporters" thread. Be nice to think that we all give City everything we can regardless of our ability to go to match; watch a match online; listen to the OS comms; or just watch the teletext results come in.

[dazby]

What's so important on a Saturday that you need 30 minutes for? Is it really worth missing the last 5 of a match?

And do you stay if the game is in the balance or is that half hour really important?

Please answer this hyper because I just don't understand the mentality.

[Arjan Van Schotte]

What's so important on a Saturday that you need 30 minutes for? Is it really worth missing the last 5 of a match?

And do you stay if the game is in the balance or is that half hour really important?

Please answer this hyper because I just don't understand the mentality.

when we first moved to eastlands, 2 lads that i used to go to MR with often never made it past mary d's if they were showing the game on dodgy satellite. and they were season ticket holders.

[Yffi_88]

It will get to a point that so many people are leaving increasingly early - that the people who stay til the end will end up getting home without having to sit in any traffic at all because everyone left half way through the game.

[saulman]

Couldn't believe how empty the stadium was at full time.
On the plus side, half the traffic had already gone by the time I got outside.

[hyper]

What's so important on a Saturday that you need 30 minutes for? Is it really worth missing the last 5 of a match?

And do you stay if the game is in the balance or is that half hour really important?

Please answer this hyper because I just don't understand the mentality.

What will I do with those 30 mins? Possibly nothing, possibly lots. My day isn't just about those 5 minutes at the end of the games, or about the 30 mins I'll gain by leaving early.

I'd like nothing more than a leisurely stroll to the ground and a few pints before, during, and after the game. That's how it was when I lived locally, don't think I ever left Maine Road early. But my match day experience has changed - it's now 7 hours of my Saturday, 4 of them spent driving. But that's not to say I don't love it! Don't think for one sec that I'm moaning about this, just explaining as asked.

You call it mentality, I just think it's getting on with life. Each to their own.

[Beefymcfc]

I park on St Bridgets, 2 minutes from the ground, and come out on Turing way. What's so good about this season is that when we get held up by the away coaches leaving under escort they drive right past us with all their miserable faces because they've lost. This alone is becoming part of the day as we sit in the car watching them go home with their tails between their legs. Priceless.

There's more to it than just the game.

[Mase]

What's so important on a Saturday that you need 30 minutes for? Is it really worth missing the last 5 of a match?

And do you stay if the game is in the balance or is that half hour really important?

Please answer this hyper because I just don't understand the mentality.

What will I do with those 30 mins? Possibly nothing, possibly lots. My day isn't just about those 5 minutes at the end of the games, or about the 30 mins I'll gain by leaving early.

I'd like nothing more than a leisurely stroll to the ground and a few pints before, during, and after the game. That's how it was when I lived locally, don't think I ever left Maine Road early. But my match day experience has changed - it's now 7 hours of my Saturday, 4 of them spent driving. But that's not to say I don't love it! Don't think for one sec that I'm moaning about this, just explaining as asked.

You call it mentality, I just think it's getting on with life. Each to their own.

You should be commended for that mate. I think most people think that every City fan just lives around the corner.

[mcfc1632]

Not sure that is true MASE - one thing that has become apparent to me on here is that so many people that go to the matches seem to come from Manchester but now live far away - I live in Berkshire.

I am not commenting on Hyper's position - each to their own, but for me when I am driving back to Berkshire after the game I prefer to wait until the end of the game (I have come a long way for it - why not enjoy all of it), soak in a few mins of atmosphere at CITY square and by then there are no crowds.

It is about minset but mine is that I would rather leave a little later (20 - 30 mins) than those that leave early and have a stress free drive - why have all that rushing and dashing and queuing in traffic before a long drive? There are enough delays on the road that can be worse than 20mins.

[Kladze]

People who leave early, on the whole, are just leaving early because they want to, not because they have to get to their sick grandmother or catch a flight to fucking Zimbabwe in 25 mins; they're just trying to beat the traffic. Enough with the sanctimonious bullshit.

The voice of truth and reason Ted :-)

It fucking beats me. Like who the fuck would go to the cinema/theatre/concert/whatever and leave before the end?

Only once in my entire life supporting City did I leave before the end and that was during Big Mal's second reign when the defeats just kept coming and coming. We were 2-0 down at home to Crystal palace and I chucked my scarf over the wall and fucked off five minutes from time.
Needless to say, by the time I'd walked a coupla hundred yards away from Maine Road we'd scored fucking twice - I never did it again.

[LookMumImOnMCF.net]

What cinema has 48000 people in it?

[Kladze]

What cinema has 48000 people in it?

Is that a trivial pursuit question you sarky fucker ? ;-)

[King Kev]

What cinema has 48000 people in it?

Conversely, what cinema has dozens of different exits spread over a very large area and has the roads closed around it when the performance ends to allow people easy exit?

In my experience, the queue to get out of the stadium after a game is no worse than the queue to get out of a cinema after a film. I have also been stuck in a cinema car park for 40 minutes after watching a film.




P.S. What happens at the end of Titanic? I hope those nice people managed to get to America safe and sound.

[john@staustell]

What cinema has 48000 people in it?

Conversely, what cinema has dozens of different exits spread over a very large area and has the roads closed around it when the performance ends to allow people easy exit?

In my experience, the queue to get out of the stadium after a game is no worse than the queue to get out of a cinema after a film. I have also been stuck in a cinema car park for 40 minutes after watching a film.




P.S. What happens at the end of Titanic? I hope those nice people managed to get to America safe and sound.

I understand some of the nice Irish third class passengers made it, despite the efforts of all those nasty English officers!

Adding to this debate I must admit I now have developed an attitude where I stay to the end and wait until everyone has gone, especially as we are usually stuck toward the top middle of the Upper New Kippax, probably the hardest place to get out.

At Maine Road in the awful 90s we sometimes used to sneak off, but now I reckon it's not worth the hassell if we have to drive 300+ miles anyway, what's half an hour?

(Plus we usually lost then, whereas now it's slightly better fare!)

[Hazy2]

For those who leave you are in the majority, looking at Saturday, piss poor IMHO.

[blue wine]

i think some of the excues a pathetic (i live far away, my brother is in a wheelchair etc.) and your all abit spoilt IMO! i wonder how u would feel if some of u lot lived in a other country...flight costs, taking time of work... most of u would stay until the end and enjoy every minute of it.