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Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:47 pm
by Reckoner
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.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:49 pm
by conyoviejo
People have beer to drink Saturday night

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:49 pm
by NL Claret
:D I'm a disgrace, sorry I can't be an uber fan like yourself.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:49 pm
by TractorFace
Don't hold back. Let it all out, uberfan.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:53 pm
by John Johnson 1605
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.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:55 pm
by Spiral
We need an 'early leavers' sticky thread. Much simpler, that way.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:55 pm
by bobinho
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 ****.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:12 pm
by FactualFrank
Spiral wrote:We need an 'early leavers' sticky thread. Much simpler, that way.
Good idea. Just stick it somewhere else. Even better.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:28 pm
by Sidney1st
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.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:32 pm
by wilks_bfc
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

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:36 pm
by Lord Beamish
I wasn’t there today, but I strongly suspect that I’d have left after the fourth went in.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:36 pm
by Steve-Harpers-perm
I stuck it out but to be fair nearly went after 3rd! Game over.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:38 pm
by bfcjg
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.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:39 pm
by conyoviejo
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

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:40 pm
by ontario claret
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.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:55 pm
by Woodleyclaret
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.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:57 pm
by clarethomer
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.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:01 pm
by claretrobo1
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

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:03 pm
by Lord Beamish
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.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:03 pm
by TheFamilyCat
Manchester City stewards have just locked the stadium after Reckoner finally left.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:07 pm
by Spiral
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!

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:10 pm
by Vintage Claret
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!

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:11 pm
by Bin Ont Turf
For once I didn't leave early.

I still had thoughts of Wells scoring 4 goals.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:15 pm
by Lancasterclaret
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.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:15 pm
by Vintage Claret
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.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:21 pm
by Lancasterclaret
And I bet the OP sang "Your just a **** man united" all game, despite it being the worst chant of all time.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:25 pm
by Blackrod
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.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:25 pm
by PutTheWheelieBinsOut
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 :?:

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:30 pm
by Lancasterclaret
Perfectly sober mate, just had a New Years resolution to call out dickheads.

You stay to the end?

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:31 pm
by ClaretAndLube
I bet that there were 11 men on the pitch who also wished that they could have left early.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:34 pm
by Bin Ont Turf
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.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:36 pm
by tybfc
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.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:38 pm
by Lancasterclaret
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!

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:42 pm
by pushpinpussy
part timers. no need to leave early apart from ignorance.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:45 pm
by Lancasterclaret
Nice cast pushpinpussy, but too obvious

Good try though!

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:47 pm
by ClaretPuddle
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 :? :lol:

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:48 pm
by Stayingup
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?

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:49 pm
by Somethingfishy
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.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:51 pm
by evensteadiereddie
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...."

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:55 pm
by Wexford_Claret
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 :? :lol:
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.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:01 pm
by tybfc
Loads of kids in our end today. Brilliant to see.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:01 pm
by Juan Tanamera
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. :lol:

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:29 pm
by Sidney1st
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 :? :lol:
4th away game of the season, I just couldn't be arsed to stand up for the duration this time :D

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:32 pm
by Sidney1st
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 :roll:

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:40 pm
by Steve-Harpers-perm
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. :lol:
Agree embarrassing chant that actually makes no sense.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:46 pm
by Lancasterclaret
The £5 for kids meant there were loads there, and it was great to see.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 11:18 pm
by Spiral
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.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 11:20 pm
by barba
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.

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 11:24 pm
by wilks_bfc
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

Re: Leaving after 4th goal

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 11:25 pm
by Pimlico_Claret
I'm still here waiting for us to get back level at 4-4. It's very dark and deserted however.