Leaving after 4th goal

Reckoner · Post by **Reckoner** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:47 pm

Embarrassing today when the last goal went in and a quarter of our fans upped and left. If you are one of them you are a disgrace you don’t deserve this team.

conyoviejo · Post by **conyoviejo** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:49 pm

People have beer to drink Saturday night

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:49 pm

I'm a disgrace, sorry I can't be an uber fan like yourself.

TractorFace · Post by **TractorFace** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:49 pm

Don't hold back. Let it all out, uberfan.

John Johnson 1605 · Post by **John Johnson 1605** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:53 pm

Reckoner wrote:Embarrassing today when the last goal went in and a quarter of our fans upped and left. If you are one of them you are a disgrace you don’t deserve this team.

I left on 86 minutes which cut 45 minutes off my journey home. My sincere apologies for letting you down. #Dickhead.

Spiral · Post by **Spiral** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:55 pm

We need an 'early leavers' sticky thread. Much simpler, that way.

bobinho · Post by **bobinho** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:55 pm

Reckoner wrote:Embarrassing today when the last goal went in and a quarter of our fans upped and left. If you are one of them you are a disgrace you don’t deserve this team.

I paid what you paid, premier boy. I’ll leave when I want.

Why didn’t you say anything to me????

Why?

Why?

Uber fan ****.

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:12 pm

Spiral wrote:We need an 'early leavers' sticky thread. Much simpler, that way.

Good idea. Just stick it somewhere else. Even better.

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:28 pm

I left on the 80th min and didn't have to dick about sitting in traffic outside the Etihad for an hour or so.
Nearly home now instead of not getting home well after 10pm like I would've been if we'd stayed to the end.

No shame and no ***** given.

wilks_bfc · Post by **wilks_bfc** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:32 pm

Me & my dad left early.
We had been stood on the top tier for all the game and left early so it was safer for him to get down the stair whilst there wasn’t as many people.

It also meant we didn’t have to wait as long for the tram to get back to the car and was home by 6:30

Lord Beamish · Post by **Lord Beamish** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:36 pm

I wasn’t there today, but I strongly suspect that I’d have left after the fourth went in.

Steve-Harpers-perm · Post by **Steve-Harpers-perm** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:36 pm

I stuck it out but to be fair nearly went after 3rd! Game over.

bfcjg · Post by **bfcjg** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:38 pm

Pope left early for the fourth

I thought it looked bad tbh however I had a good parking spot on a rat run so getting away wasn't an issue for me.

conyoviejo · Post by **conyoviejo** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:39 pm

Sidney1st wrote:I left on the 80th min and didn't have to dick about sitting in traffic outside the Etihad for an hour or so.
Nearly home now instead of not getting home well after 10pm like I would've been if we'd stayed to the end.

No shame and no ***** given.

Would the OP even be at the game Sidney,if he had to travel as far as you do .lol

ontario claret · Post by **ontario claret** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:40 pm

Just think. If you had stuck around, there was the possibility that you could have said that you witnessed the greatest football comeback of all time. But if you leave, there's no chance.

Woodleyclaret · Post by **Woodleyclaret** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:55 pm

I wasnt there today but never leave early.I don't know why you would .But it's personal choice regardless of whose the better fan crap.

clarethomer · Post by **clarethomer** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:57 pm

I will tell you what a disgrace is...

It's dickheads who can't handle their beer chucking beer over people on the concourse

Its the same dickheads who get some kind of joy singing about someone being dead

Its dickheads who start shouting to man city fans over 10 m away from them that they are a **** team and that they all should be ashamed of their team

Its the female dickhead who starts calling aguero out for wearing gloves

Its the fact that those that run the metrolink know that there are going to be 50k leaving a venue and send single carriage trams.

What isn't a disgrace is people who choose to leave when the game is over in terms of getting a result because they don't want to spend 3 hrs getting away from the stadium to beat the rush because they have distances to travel, young children with them or elderly people etc.

claretrobo1 · Post by **claretrobo1** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:01 pm

clarethomer wrote:I will tell you what a disgrace is...

It's dickheads who can't handle their beer chucking beer over people on the concourse

Its the same dickheads who get some kind of joy singing about someone being dead

Its dickheads who start shouting to man city fans over 10 m away from them that they are a **** team and that they all should be ashamed of their team

Its the female dickhead who starts calling aguero out for wearing gloves

Its the fact that those that run the metrolink know that there are going to be 50k leaving a venue and send single carriage trams.

What isn't a disgrace is people who choose to leave when the game is over in terms of getting a result because they don't want to spend 3 hrs getting away from the stadium to beat the rush because they have distances to travel, young children with them or elderly people etc.

Well said. We left after 85 mins and cut 45 mins out of the journey. No regrets

Lord Beamish · Post by **Lord Beamish** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:03 pm

clarethomer wrote:I will tell you what a disgrace is...

It's dickheads who can't handle their beer chucking beer over people on the concourse

Its the same dickheads who get some kind of joy singing about someone being dead

Its dickheads who start shouting to man city fans over 10 m away from them that they are a **** team and that they all should be ashamed of their team

Its the female dickhead who starts calling aguero out for wearing gloves

Its the fact that those that run the metrolink know that there are going to be 50k leaving a venue and send single carriage trams.

What isn't a disgrace is people who choose to leave when the game is over in terms of getting a result because they don't want to spend 3 hrs getting away from the stadium to beat the rush because they have distances to travel, young children with them or elderly people etc.

That’s quite a concise list, ClaretHomer. I only hope they are reading this.

TheFamilyCat · Post by **TheFamilyCat** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:03 pm

Manchester City stewards have just locked the stadium after Reckoner finally left.

Spiral · Post by **Spiral** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:07 pm

I left after the 80th minute and then I left again after the 85th minute. I then left again after the 75th minute. Beat that, glory hunters!

Vintage Claret · Post by **Vintage Claret** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:10 pm

Can't believe some folk get so worked up about what time some folk leave a game.

It's a free country, people can leave a feckin football stadium whenever they like, doesn't mean they care any more or any less about the team they are watching, if they didn't care they wouldn't have paid to be there in the first place!

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:11 pm

For once I didn't leave early.

I still had thoughts of Wells scoring 4 goals.

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:15 pm

I left with my two kids (both at their first away game) and got back home on the train at about 7 pm.

Really good day, couple of beers before the game, an enjoyable match (despite 2nd half) and a hassle free journey.

Come back to this site and its either been taken over the idiots who were too drunk to stand at the Etihad, or the ones who can't possibly be sane as they are moaning about where we are and who we are playing.

Just enjoy it you utter dickheads, because this can't last.

Vintage Claret · Post by **Vintage Claret** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:15 pm

Bin Ont Turf wrote:For once I didn't leave early.

I still had thoughts of Wells scoring 4 goals.

Me too, I was convinced we were going to win 5-4, but I still stayed to clap the team off with a tinge off disappointment when we didn't.

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:21 pm

And I bet the OP sang "Your just a **** man united" all game, despite it being the worst chant of all time.

Blackrod · Post by **Blackrod** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:25 pm

What a pathetic post. People can leave when they want and particularly when a game is dead and buried. People have all kinds of reasons to leave. Don't think anyone who left early should be justifying it to the OP or feel remotely guilty about making their own personal choice.

PutTheWheelieBinsOut · Post by **PutTheWheelieBinsOut** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:25 pm

Lancasterclaret wrote: Just enjoy it you utter dickheads, because this can't last.

Oh bless him, you can tell Lancaster has had a few shandy's or is it that he let his kids post on uptheclarets

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:30 pm

Perfectly sober mate, just had a New Years resolution to call out dickheads.

You stay to the end?

ClaretAndLube · Post by **ClaretAndLube** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:31 pm

I bet that there were 11 men on the pitch who also wished that they could have left early.

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:34 pm

Why can't it last Lancaster?

Why can't we be the one who breaks the mould?

I know that there's a great deal of evidence to show that it's very hard to maintain, but we aren't Blackpool, Portsmouth or Bradford etc etc.

tybfc · Post by **tybfc** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:36 pm

I wish the bloke in the middle tier Row U somewhere around seat 130 with a green parker coat on and could hardly stand up had gone home after ten seconds instead of going to the stairs every five minutes to the toilets.

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:38 pm

I think where we are at the moment can't last.

Top seven and best of the rest.

I doubt that we'll drop as low as we did to be fair

I just hope people who seem really unhappy on here are just enjoying this cos I certainly am!

pushpinpussy · Post by **pushpinpussy** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:42 pm

part timers. no need to leave early apart from ignorance.

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:45 pm

Nice cast pushpinpussy, but too obvious

Good try though!

ClaretPuddle · Post by **ClaretPuddle** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:47 pm

I understand those with reasons such as safety regarding elderly people.

However, you could tell a mile off today the fans who've had their one away game day out of the season and give up supporting when the game looks dead. Lots of part timers on today- half the upper tier decided to sit down when the kick off whistle blew

Stayingup · Post by **Stayingup** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:48 pm

John Johnson 1605 wrote:I left on 86 minutes which cut 45 minutes off my journey home. My sincere apologies for letting you down. #Dickhead.

How do you know it cut 45 minutes off your travel time home?

Somethingfishy · Post by **Somethingfishy** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:49 pm

I also left after the fourth goal. Rare I leave early but with having to get the tram i decided to beat the rush.I didn't fully as we had to walk a long way round to get to the tram stop but i certainly saved a lot of time on my way home.
I don't deserve this team though because i don't stay until the end. I guess being there at our lowest ever attendance..seeing us getting hammered by Hereford at home and all those trips to the backwaters of lower league football counts for nothing? Oh well C'est la vie...we can't all be Uber fans.

evensteadiereddie · Post by **evensteadiereddie** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:51 pm

There was no need to leave. I have to say I was genuinely surprised by the number of people who buggered off early doors.
Walking back to the car after the game, I overheard a conversation between a City family where the Mum laughed and said , "Well, we finally shut that lot up, most of 'em went home on 80 minutes..."
Bloody embarrassing that, because the lads and the fans had done pretty well until then.
Fair play to all those who stayed and staged a reasonably defiant "We are the Longside...."

Wexford_Claret · Post by **Wexford_Claret** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:55 pm

ClaretPuddle wrote:I understand those with reasons such as safety regarding elderly people.

However, you could tell a mile off today the fans who've had their one away game day out of the season and give up supporting when the game looks dead. Lots of part timers on today- half the upper tier decided to sit down when the kick off whistle blew

Possibly due to the large presence of children and elderly people in that tier?

I try to stand at away games as much as possible, but there were two old blokes sat behind me so I decided not to block their view. I did notice a lot of kids as well around where I was.

tybfc · Post by **tybfc** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:01 pm

Loads of kids in our end today. Brilliant to see.

Juan Tanamera · Post by **Juan Tanamera** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:01 pm

Lancasterclaret wrote:And I bet the OP sang "Your just a **** man united" all game, despite it being the worst chant of all time.

This was cringe of the very highest cringiness.
We were sat right up to gap with the City fans and there were a few clowns around us giving it the '**** Man United'
Until they equalised.
Oh, and were a **** Barcelona.

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:29 pm

ClaretPuddle wrote:I understand those with reasons such as safety regarding elderly people.

However, you could tell a mile off today the fans who've had their one away game day out of the season and give up supporting when the game looks dead. Lots of part timers on today- half the upper tier decided to sit down when the kick off whistle blew

4th away game of the season, I just couldn't be arsed to stand up for the duration this time

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:32 pm

conyoviejo wrote:Would the OP even be at the game Sidney,if he had to travel as far as you do .lol

Not if he had to bring my kids with him too

Steve-Harpers-perm · Post by **Steve-Harpers-perm** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:40 pm

Juan Tanamera wrote:This was cringe of the very highest cringiness.
We were sat right up to gap with the City fans and there were a few clowns around us giving it the '**** Man United'
Until they equalised.
Oh, and were a **** Barcelona.

Agree embarrassing chant that actually makes no sense.

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:46 pm

The £5 for kids meant there were loads there, and it was great to see.

Spiral · Post by **Spiral** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 11:18 pm

Deriding 'early leavers' is rooted in romantic notions of valour from people who crave yet never had the opportunity to experience, for example, life in the trenches on the Western front (or any other point of adversity recognised in the narrative of our shared national history), but seek the sense of camaraderie that a literal existential threat breeds amongst a group of people, articulated through the cosy, safe, harmless, boring comfort of supporting football team. When Reckoner tells someone they're a disgrace for leaving early, thereby asserting his valour, he's essentially calling them a traitor to the cause, to which I'd argue, that's ****ing tragic, mate; you've a hole in your life than needs filling which you aren't going to find in football, but I hope it all works out well for you, anyway.

barba · Post by **barba** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 11:20 pm

Lancasterclaret wrote:I left with my two kids (both at their first away game) and got back home on the train at about 7 pm.

Took my two boys to their first away game and was great to see so many of our future fans there.

wilks_bfc · Post by **wilks_bfc** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 11:24 pm

Didn’t think the name of OP looked familiar so I have just clicked on his profile

9 posts since April?
You are a disgrace you don’t deserve this forum

Pimlico_Claret · Post by **Pimlico_Claret** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 11:25 pm

I'm still here waiting for us to get back level at 4-4. It's very dark and deserted however.