Leaving early

[The Ball Inn]

We've just bossed another high spending entitled premier team at home and moved up to 5th place ( 5th fucking place ) and still people leave before the final whistle rather than applaud this fantastic group of players!!! Just remember when you get home 5 minutes earlier and are watching a repeat of pointless that it may never be this good again!!

Or a blade living in Manchester just get last train back

 

[NAP]

Whilst not wishing to get in to the argument, what I would say is that some of the scenes and bonding between fans/players/staff after the final whistle have been some of the most memorable moments of our journey ( and I include ‘normal’ wins in league games ) and if this is not worth the extra inconvenience to you then so be it.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

5 mins early saves me 45 minutes on my drive home to Bristol.
UTB

As someone who never leaves early, but would not drive from Bristol for home games, I salute your dedication. And there must be so many regulars getting messed around by changes to kick-off times and days that the efforts people make just to be there are impressive. It must do people’s heads in if they have to leave early and there is last-minute drama. To those who leave early to miss the crush and local traffic, I would say that 10 minutes after the final whistle, leaving the ground is easy, and on some routes at least, the traffic has thinned out.

 

[hidesbehindapseudonym]

I have missed two home games this season, Burnley (Boxing Day with family) and Newcastle (flu). The two games where I left early were Man Utd, last minute equaliser and West Ham, last minute VAR. So I know exactly what you mean about last minute drama.
From now on, I am staying over for the night. Starting with the Man City and our last minute victory.
UTB

 

[Bartleby]

It's worth remembering though that not everybody still lives in Sheffield before playing the bigger Blade card. Many travel quite a distance to every home game so there can be constraints around last trains or buses. I rarely leave early but sometimes have had to on 8PM evening games or I don't get home.

What about all those tossers that put getting served first for a pint at half time before watching the game and applauding the team off? Got their just desserts in the Burnley game when we scored two goals just before half time

 

[GymClassHero]

Funny thing about all this is that I guarantee not one person moaning about early leavers would dare confront someone about it, you'd get chucked down the stand. It's fucking pathetic to see grown men playing the "I'm the biggest Blade" game. You don't know anyone's circumstances or reasons for leaving, and quite frankly if someone wants to pay £45 for a ticket they're entitled to do whatever the fuck they want with it.

Here here

 

[PokerBlade]

The worst part of the Wham game was how many people started leaving and then instead of going back to their seats or getting the fuck out suddenly decided to stand on the steps and block my view.

Either watch the game or don't.

 

[ReggieBlade]

Perhaps there could be a part of the ground where you're not allowed to leave your seat (between 0-45+mins and 45-90+) ?

 

[Woodys Thunderbolt]

You pay your money you can fuck off when you like - Stupid post.

 

[Linz]

We leave in added time so that my Nannan who isn't as steady on her pins as she once was can get out of the way of the South Stand stairs before the people who stay until the final whistle then try and rush out start jostling. Straight up and out of the way and go and watch the last minute on the tellies in the concourse. She feels better because she's not being pushed and shoved and no one has to wait for us.

If anyone wants to go bigger Blade about it, try talking to someone who's been going to the Lane since 1948.

 

[HillmortonBlade]

I’m too tight too leave early, it’s expensive enough without making the £/min worse.

I also worry I might miss something exciting. But I can’t second guess why others want/have to leave early.

I drive back to Rugby usually, but park a little distance away so that delays departure and then often consider a little refreshment as well, so traffic is greatly thinned out.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

The worst part of the Wham game was how many people started leaving and then instead of going back to their seats or getting the fuck out suddenly decided to stand on the steps and block my view.

Either watch the game or don't.

Yes, but you can’t possibly know the circumstances of these people. They presumably all had highly respectable reasons for leaving, and their circumstances must have simultaneously altered the moment VAR ruled out the goal. Completely coincidental.

 

[jt64]

Or a blade living in Manchester just get last train back

This is exactly why I left early on Friday

 

[Davalon]

Some people leave early for health, age, or transport reasons.

Some leave early to avoid the queue at the bar.

As someone who likes to wait and applaud the players off, especially these days, I don't get the obsession with this that some have.

I find it more baffling these days that we have fans who go away and barely watch the game.

 

[Canterbury Blade]

Just booked my train tickets back from Villa to Canterbury. I can only travel at a reasonable cost if I book certain trains. If I miss that train I can’t lawfully get another or have to pay a Markle security cost sum of cash to get home.

The journey back from Villa ain’t exactly easy and short, though at least it’s possible unlike Swansea and Man City last year. The journey itself can also sometimes dictate when I leave, a factor compounded by weekend engineering, iced points, unreliable trains and the often poxy stations we have to queue at. West Brom last year (after another late kick off) and Brighton this year (on the last Saturday before Xmas) not being likely to win railway stations of the year.

So, if I am seen sneaking off, I do apologise to those offended for being such a lightweight, as I head back on my often 200 mile journey, but please don’t take it as any less of a love lust for this beautiful team.

They make me feel young again. The feeling I had when courting birds and watching bands in the 80’s. That sort of tingling excitement and unexplainable feel good factor just due to having been there and seeing something wondrous. An excuse???

 

[Bladesman]

Some people leave early for health, age, or transport reasons.

Some leave early to avoid the queue at the bar.

As someone who likes to wait and applaud the players off, especially these days, I don't get the obsession with this that some have.

I find it more baffling these days that we have fans who go away and barely watch the game.

I find it more baffling we have fans that don't even show up.

 

[hidesbehindapseudonym]

Perhaps there could be a part of the ground where you're not allowed to leave your seat (between 0-45+mins and 45-90+) ?

Good idea. I can't believe the late arrivals who then stand around in the aisles on the Kop: then go out five minutes later for a piss and/or a fag. Plenty leave their seats early at HT - far more imo than at the end of the game.
UTB

 

[ReggieBlade]

ReggieBlade said:


Perhaps there could be a part of the ground where you're not allowed to leave your seat (between 0-45+mins and 45-90+) ?

Good idea. I can't believe the late arrivals who then stand around in the aisles on the Kop: then go out five minutes later for a piss and/or a fag. Plenty leave their seats early at HT - far more imo than at the end of the game.
UTB

Errrrr…..I was being sarcastic.

 

[hidesbehindapseudonym]

ReggieBlade said:


Perhaps there could be a part of the ground where you're not allowed to leave your seat (between 0-45+mins and 45-90+) ?





Errrrr…..I was being sarcastic.

I'm not

 

[sheffielder]

If I can stay I stay,
If I need to get off a little early I get off a bit early
If I need to leave with 20 minutes to go, guess what I leave with 20 minutes to go.
If I can't go, I don't go.
If I don't want to go, I don't go.

But apparently there is an issue, yet people who arrive late, go to half team early, come back for 2nd half late, feck off for a pee half way through second hard it's not an issue. Feck my life

 

[ReggieBlade]

Getting on a bit but still liking to get bladdered I made sure my seat was on or near (1 seat off) the aisle. So I don't annoy anyone, have to shuffle along the row of smilers, etc. Pragmatism with the knowledge of an 11-3 gallon.

 

[Billyblade]

The people who leave early to dodge the traffic have never witnessed the fact that if you stay till the last knockings, applaud/boo/abuse/cheer the team off (have included several responses there to encompass pre-CW seasons), have a little chat with those around you, mosey on out at your leisure and amble back to your car, most of the traffic has fucked off

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

I have missed two home games this season, Burnley (Boxing Day with family) and Newcastle (flu). The two games where I left early were Man Utd, last minute equaliser and West Ham, last minute VAR. So I know exactly what you mean about last minute drama.
From now on, I am staying over for the night. Starting with the Man City and our last minute victory.
UTB

It is probably some consolation that at least you missed the Newcatle game...

 

[Dkc]

If you're the last person to leave the stadium, do you earn extra Bladey Blade points?

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

I’m too tight too leave early, it’s expensive enough without making the £/min worse.

I also worry I might miss something exciting. But I can’t second guess why others want/have to leave early.

I drive back to Rugby usually, but park a little distance away so that delays departure and then often consider a little refreshment as well, so traffic is greatly thinned out.

'With the luck of the Irish?' That first sentence is written by a true Yorshireman, surely. My feelings exactly.

 

[CJBLADE]

Just remember when you leave early that everybody clearly knows your circumstances and therefore has a valid reason to criticise.

 

[Bladesman]

If you're the last person to leave the stadium, do you earn extra Bladey Blade points?

Yes.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Just booked my train tickets back from Villa to Canterbury. I can only travel at a reasonable cost if I book certain trains. If I miss that train I can’t lawfully get another or have to pay a Markle security cost sum of cash to get home.

The journey back from Villa ain’t exactly easy and short, though at least it’s possible unlike Swansea and Man City last year. The journey itself can also sometimes dictate when I leave, a factor compounded by weekend engineering, iced points, unreliable trains and the often poxy stations we have to queue at. West Brom last year (after another late kick off) and Brighton this year (on the last Saturday before Xmas) not being likely to win railway stations of the year.

So, if I am seen sneaking off, I do apologise to those offended for being such a lightweight, as I head back on my often 200 mile journey, but please don’t take it as any less of a love lust for this beautiful team.

They make me feel young again. The feeling I had when courting birds and watching bands in the 80’s. That sort of tingling excitement and unexplainable feel good factor just due to having been there and seeing something wondrous. An excuse???

As I said elsewhere, there is a lot to be learnt from why people leave early. One reason is the poor state of our transport system.

 

[Dkc]

As I said elsewhere, there is a lot to be learnt from why people leave early. One reason is the poor state of our transport system.

Another is the length of time it takes to get served in the Golden Lion 10 mins after full time

 

[DI36O]

Not my place to tell other people what to do but its one of the most baffling phenomena of life to me.
Bloke next to me leaves on 88 or 89 minutes every single match, no matter the scoreline.
Can't imagine that no matter the kick off time thousands of people's last trains and buses invariably depart 5 minutes too early to stay until the game actually ends. But you do you.