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You very confident about Leicester winning the 2nd leg of the League Cup semi final?

Without wanting to tempt fate yes I am.

However, as pointed out by another poster is another failing of the railway is that I can get a ticket from Birmingham to Canterbury for £11.50. That won’t be available after the semi. Anyway, if all else fails at least I will be able to have an extensive ale day out in Birmingham without being accosted by squeaking Grealish look Alikes and be able to do what I want. Oh I forgot we do that anyway!!

Come on Leicester,
 
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👍
But if all the early leavers took your advice then they would be adding to the traffic later on and it wouldnt be clear 😀
 
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Joking aside I think weve established that those that stay think that those that leave should stay and those that leave believe that they shouldn’t have to justify why they are leaving early. A discussion that will never go anywhere.

Why would anyone be bothered either way ? Stay if you want to stay, go if you want to go.

Alternatively if you decide to go then halfway down the kop steps you change your mind and decide to go back but then decide a minute later that you were right first time and decide to go then quite frankly I’m comfortable with that in that you are your own person who can make your own decisions
 
Joking aside I think weve established that those that stay think that those that leave should stay and those that leave believe that they shouldn’t have to justify why they are leaving early. A discussion that will never go anywhere.

Why would anyone be bothered either way ? Stay if you want to stay, go if you want to go.

Alternatively if you decide to go then halfway down the kop steps you change your mind and decide to go back but then decide a minute later that you were right first time and decide to go then quite frankly I’m comfortable with that in that you are your own person who can make your own decisions
I think for most of the 'Remainers', it is not about telling anyone else what they should do, and we know lots of people have reasons to leave early. It is more an interest in human behaviour, as most of us go to matches wanting to see our team win, and it seems odd to leave without seeing the final outcome. It would be unusual at concerts, theatre, cinema to leave before the end; with live theatre, concerts, etc., showing appreciation at the end is part of the experience. Do similar early departures occur at other sports? Is it perhaps more common to miss the beginning and wait until things get more interesting (cricket, baseball, for example)? Do people leave a Grand Prix as the last lap begins? I find it puzzling, and therefore interesting.
 
I think for most of the 'Remainers', it is not about telling anyone else what they should do, and we know lots of people have reasons to leave early. It is more an interest in human behaviour, as most of us go to matches wanting to see our team win, and it seems odd to leave without seeing the final outcome. It would be unusual at concerts, theatre, cinema to leave before the end; with live theatre, concerts, etc., showing appreciation at the end is part of the experience. Do similar early departures occur at other sports? Is it perhaps more common to miss the beginning and wait until things get more interesting (cricket, baseball, for example)? Do people leave a Grand Prix as the last lap begins? I find it puzzling, and therefore interesting.
Don’t know mate some on here are quite clear that people shouldn’t leave. Some have reasons why it’s in their interest to leave early others don’t but they don’t have to justify their reason to me.

It’s not unique at the lane and not unique to football. Cricket fans will leave in their droves towards the end of a test match day and spend half of the days attendance drinking or sleeping.

I’ve no idea how many blades games I’ve been to. I’d hazard a guess at over a thousand. Some of those I’ve stayed and clapped the players off, some I’ve stayed to the end but gone as soon as the whistle blows, sometimes I’ve gone with a couple of mins left if the game is safely won or lost and on the odd occasion I’ve left 10-15 minutes before thanks to Weir, Adkins and one or two others. Sometimes I’ve had reasons for leaving and reasons for staying and sometimes I’ve left or stayed for no reason at all.

I’ve never thought about it long enough in terms of why I stay or go in certain scenarios and why anyone else would be bothered what I do
 
Don’t know mate some on here are quite clear that people shouldn’t leave. Some have reasons why it’s in their interest to leave early others don’t but they don’t have to justify their reason to me.

It’s not unique at the lane and not unique to football. Cricket fans will leave in their droves towards the end of a test match day and spend half of the days attendance drinking or sleeping.

I’ve no idea how many blades games I’ve been to. I’d hazard a guess at over a thousand. Some of those I’ve stayed and clapped the players off, some I’ve stayed to the end but gone as soon as the whistle blows, sometimes I’ve gone with a couple of mins left if the game is safely won or lost and on the odd occasion I’ve left 10-15 minutes before thanks to Weir, Adkins and one or two others. Sometimes I’ve had reasons for leaving and reasons for staying and sometimes I’ve left or stayed for no reason at all.

I’ve never thought about it long enough in terms of why I stay or go in certain scenarios and why anyone else would be bothered what I do
Each to their own. I first went to the Lane when crowds were big (1953), and I think for many youngsters the first experience of football is made special partly by the crowd - it is something not experienced before. And the behaviour of crowds is interesting in all sorts of ways - people behave very differently, just as they do on-line. I am not wanting to judge the decisions people make, but I do find it fascinating.
On cricket, early days of a test-match, it is not surprising people leave early, because the game is in its early stages. The length of a 20/20 game is closer to football, and the few I've been to the crowd has stayed to the end. I went once to baseball in the States with my brother, and like true Yorkshiremen, we were there from beginning to end. Nobody else turned up til hours after the start.
 
Joking aside I think weve established that those that stay think that those that leave should stay and those that leave believe that they shouldn’t have to justify why they are leaving early. A discussion that will never go anywhere.

Why would anyone be bothered either way ? Stay if you want to stay, go if you want to go.

Alternatively if you decide to go then halfway down the kop steps you change your mind and decide to go back but then decide a minute later that you were right first time and decide to go then quite frankly I’m comfortable with that in that you are your own person who can make your own decisions
I think what you have to remember is that a lot of people leaving shortly before the end can have a negative effect on the overall viewing experience of those who stay, so it's obviously going to cause a degree of annoyance. Having to let people past, having your view blocked and a reduced atmosphere at and just after the final whistle are all things that annoy people who stay.
There are always going to be some people in a crowd of that size who have legitimate and unavoidable reasons for leaving early, but the difference in numbers leaving depending on the score, or the match, shows that many could stay but simply choose not to.
Excepting those who have an unavoidable reason for leaving early, I personally don't understand why people don't want to stay to the end or even a few minutes after - for me the match experience ends a few minutes after the final whistle, not before, but then I don't go to every home game and perhaps that's why a lot of people don't feel the need to savour every moment!
 
Was having this discussion on Friday pre match. Somebody said "you should devote your whole afternoon/evening to it so there is no reason to leave early"

Thats fine then, we'll just let people in with no other priorities/commitments. Except you'll knock at least 5-10k off every gate.

I've got a season ticket and have had one for the last 20 odd years. I also have a young child. Its big commitment and often clashes/overlaps with other things. Most of the time i'll have the afternoon free for a couple of jars and a slow walk to my seat. Occasionally i'll have something else to do and will be rushing to make kick off or need to get off 5 mins early to be somewhere else for a certain time.

If people want to leave early that's up to them, there are many reasons. Personally I can't understand why somebody decides when a game is on a knife edge with 5/10 that they've seen enough but ultimately that is up to them. Likewise during an away game why somebody would travel all that way just to watch it on a screen on the concourse seems odd. Again up to them though.

In terms of people turning up late a lot of it is down to the turnstiles. They are painfully slow and have been for the past 3 years. If you turn up 15 mins before chances are that you aren't seeing kick off.
 
Definitely part of the leave early club you ?

If needs must then yea I am willing to leave early but on the other hand on many occasions I have made the match when I should have prioritised other commitments.

Missing a match or leaving early doesn’t make anyone a lesser blade. Everyone attending has paid their own money to attend, if they want/need to leave early it’s their choice, why this upsets people is really beyond me!
 
Each to their own. I first went to the Lane when crowds were big (1953), and I think for many youngsters the first experience of football is made special partly by the crowd - it is something not experienced before. And the behaviour of crowds is interesting in all sorts of ways - people behave very differently, just as they do on-line. I am not wanting to judge the decisions people make, but I do find it fascinating.
On cricket, early days of a test-match, it is not surprising people leave early, because the game is in its early stages. The length of a 20/20 game is closer to football, and the few I've been to the crowd has stayed to the end. I went once to baseball in the States with my brother, and like true Yorkshiremen, we were there from beginning to end. Nobody else turned up til hours after the start.
I can’t argue with the crowd experience comment. I can vouch that I used to love watching the ground slowly fill up as kick off got closer and the scenes when your team scores.

For the record I get why many don’t stay to the end in test matches. I suppose the point I was making is that leaving early isn’t unique to football. I don’t watch other sports closely enough but would hazard a guess that rugby league is another where the whole crowd aren’t still around at full time and afterwards to clap off the players but i’ll stand corrected on that if anyone does watch that sport
 
If needs must then yea I am willing to leave early but on the other hand on many occasions I have made the match when I should have prioritised other commitments.

Missing a match or leaving early doesn’t make anyone a lesser blade. Everyone attending has paid their own money to attend, if they want/need to leave early it’s their choice, why this upsets people is really beyond me!

doesn’t upset me, or make me think anyone is lesser a blade at all - my mum came with me to Stamford bridge and didn’t get in because she chose to have one too many on the way down - out of order ? I think so - but she’s still a blade - an idiot but still a balde. Maybe I should have put a wink on the end of that post because it was crap banter - my bad.
The topic of conversation I was discussing was the fact villa fans was leaving right before half time at 3-0 down... - the question I was talking about was “would you leave early because your team is getting absolutely tonked ?” - and my answer is no.
 
Absolutely tonked? Don’t know depends how pissed off i am with them.

Mentioned on some other post that I very nearly left after 20 mins when we were 3 0 down at home to Southend a few years ago but stopped because I decided it couldn’t get any worse and also at donny a couple of seasons before that when we were only losing 1 0 but were utter tripe and between arriving late, going early and spending time in the concourse drinking I probably watched about 20 mins of the match through absolute boredom.Those were 2 extreme cases for me though.

Your mum sounds one of the lads metaphorically speaking of course 😀
 
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!!
To quote another John Denver classic....
I’m leaving on the last train,
These 8pm kickoffs are-a-foo-kin-pain.
 
doesn’t upset me, or make me think anyone is lesser a blade at all - my mum came with me to Stamford bridge and didn’t get in because she chose to have one too many on the way down - out of order ? I think so - but she’s still a blade - an idiot but still a balde. Maybe I should have put a wink on the end of that post because it was crap banter - my bad.
The topic of conversation I was discussing was the fact villa fans was leaving right before half time at 3-0 down... - the question I was talking about was “would you leave early because your team is getting absolutely tonked ?” - and my answer is no.
When we played them last season they were getting tonked 3-0 , and loads chose to walk out. They then missed an amazing (from their point of view) comeback. One of the best feelings you can get as a fan.
 

If i spend money on a ticket, I'll leave as and when I want. Isn't such a thing as a "bigger blade" I don't think people should spout off about someone leaving early. Work commitments, family or any other reason is a valid reason.

For the record, the last time I left early was Peterborough during the Adkins era.. Worked nights at this stage.
 
If i spend money on a ticket, I'll leave as and when I want. Isn't such a thing as a "bigger blade" I don't think people should spout off about someone leaving early. Work commitments, family or any other reason is a valid reason.

For the record, the last time I left early was Peterborough during the Adkins era.. Worked nights at this stage.
I may have missed it, but has anyone said "I am a bigger Blade because I stay to the end"?
 
When we played them last season they were getting tonked 3-0 , and loads chose to walk out. They then missed an amazing (from their point of view) comeback. One of the best feelings you can get as a fan.

Not for us - was this when billy sharp got the hatrick, gets subbed off and we conceded 3 goals - wow we really let that one slip didn’t we. The less said about that game the better I reckon
 
One particularly bad game I went to there were loads leaving early. The bloke on the end of my row shouted to them "What you going for? Stay here and boo 'em off" 😂
 
We have 60 minute man sitting in front of us. Rocks up late, leaves early at half time for beer, comes back late after halftime and leaves well before the end.

Don't know why he bothers but it makes me and the nephews laugh every time guessing when is he actually going to rock up or leave........little things 😜
 
We have 60 minute man sitting in front of us. Rocks up late, leaves early at half time for beer, comes back late after halftime and leaves well before the end.

Don't know why he bothers but it makes me and the nephews laugh every time guessing when is he actually going to rock up or leave........little things 😜
Surely everyone has the right to come or not come , leave early or stay to the end. Why does it matter §?
 
Surely everyone has the right to come or not come , leave early or stay to the end. Why does it matter §?
it mattered saturday whether going for a bus or trying to beat the traffic all 3 home sides should have stayed in respect to george and lots didnt surely fans could have stayed for this one
 
Every one has a right to stay or leave as they see fit, no one knows the circumstances behind there decision, for example if my lad cant go the wife goes with me and due to mobility issues we havve to leave 5 mins early as walking through a crowd would be difficult, or when i worked nights i had to leave to get to work for 10 so had to leave night matches early. So does that make me less of a blade. Just let people leave or stay as they see fit and dont judge people
 

More recent ‘leaving early’ thread was locked, so putting this here

Seems fans leaving early is leading Sunderland to survey their fans to understand why


Sunderland fans are the worst in football for turning their backs on the team.
40,000 v Leeds, and there must have been 20,000 left when they scored with the last action of the game to get a point.
 

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