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Early Leavers - Again!


You’ve just got a weird way of going on about it mate. Leaving early negatively affects the club no two ways about it. Why else would the club have called it out themselves? You can play the “people can do what they want” card all day long but it’s still shite. I don’t know how anyone can argue that. Another hard fought win at home in one of the best times ever to support the lads and the ground was half empty at full time. That’s poor support however you want to dress it up.
Didnt realise the club had fired shots. Fair play.
 
Didnt realise the club had fired shots. Fair play.
Aye it was last season I believe. I'm sure it said something like "We said 'Til The End and we meant it" and then there was a follow up survey about peoples travel to and from games etc etc. Not sure what came of it but it was definitely brought up by the club. We went through a phase in the championship where it was diabolical.

Found the tweet:
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That was their response during a Supporters Collective.
 
Aye it was last season I believe. I'm sure it said something like "We said 'Til The End and we meant it" and then there was a follow up survey about peoples travel to and from games etc etc. Not sure what came of it but it was definitely brought up by the club. We went through a phase in the championship where it was diabolical.

Found the tweet:
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That was their response during a Supporters Collective.
Thanks for that. Yep that's rather clear.

I know years ago, when they were first looking into have pre match surfers and displays the club studied the leaguexand concluded we were 'worst' for late arrivals. And added the recognised 'issue' of early leavers too. That was when Quinny was here.
 
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Genuine question - can you not survive another 8 minutes? I appreciate it will be more full downstairs, but you're paying to watch the footy... not to stand downstairs and look at a TV (if they even still show the match on TV's downstairs, no idea)

Assuming 2 minutes of stoppage time, that's 190 minutes you're missing over a standard season, only for home games. Essentially 2 entire games. I just don't get why you'd even pay to do that when clearly beer is more important. Are you an alcoholic?

Genuine answer.

It has absolutely nothing at all to do with you, my matchday routine. You are a complete stranger. And let me assure you that

A) I have zero interest in your matchday routine
B) Certainly wouldn't be going that deep with my response. 😂

However.

Just some more information for your spreadsheet to add times into the equation.

I do also go to midweek non-league games so you need to add those times in.

😂😂
All your posts on here can be summarised as "me me me me me"

Well it's not going to be about, you, you, you

Is it
 
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Ground was half empty? That’s simply not true, mind.
The ground was half empty when the players were still on the pitch walking round showing their appreciation.
This wasn’t the case with West Ham, Brentford, and others including Mags , Arsenal.
On Saturday we didn’t have the twelfth man for some reason and there’s plenty of comments elsewhere expressing views.
Till the End doesn’t resonate with a sizeable number. It would be interesting to get feedback from one of the players as I’d guess there was a conversation afterwards in the dressing room “ what the phuck did we do “ . Some our lads new to the area would be confused. They deserve better for giving us what we’ve got.
 
You'd think, given the apparent love for this crop of players, supporters would not only want to stay to help the lads get over the line but also show their appreciation for their efforts at full time.

Kristjaan Speakman mentioned it when he did talk in at former players dinner before Christmas

The players do notice it he said and they do wonder why people leave in such droves.

"Til the end" must only apply to play off semi finals or playing Newcastle.
 
Genuine answer.

It has absolutely nothing at all to do with you, my matchday routine. You are a complete stranger. And let me assure you that

A) I have zero interest in your matchday routine
B) Certainly wouldn't be going that deep with my response. 😂

However.

Just some more information for your spreadsheet to add times into the equation.

I do also go to midweek non-league games so you need to add those times in.

😂😂


Well it's not going to be about, you, you, you

Is it

I hope you get the alcoholism help you need.
 
In a crowd of 46,000 people there are 46,000 different reasons why someone might want to leave early.

It's not a prison and they don't need an excuse.

I'm lucky enough to be able to get away from my seat quickly at full time as well as have someone who is willing to come and park up and wait for me to take me home. So I've no need to leave early.

On the other hand I've a family member who struggles to walk and has to leave before it gets too busy.

I can get away at the end now but when I go to the cup games and forced to sit in the east stand I'm always astonished by how long it takes to leave the stadium, even when it's half empty. If you're towards the back and not at he end of the row it can take 10, 15 minutes before you move an inch. Used to sit at the back of the North stand back in the day and it was like that there too.

When I do leave and walk past the park and ride queue I always think to myself there's no way I'd be willing to stand in that - I'd be leaving at half time. And from what I hear, the metro is horrific.

The match situation drives a lot of this too. Hardly anyone left early for the derby or the Arsenal or City games. More people are more willing to put up with the stuff mentioned above for the types of game. Like it or not, expectations shift very quickly and the Palace game has already come to be seen as nothing special for a lot of people - different topic, but that's why I'm sceptical about expanding the stadium - what seems incredible now can become run of the mill next week and demand will tail off a bit when that happens.

Honestly I get even more annoyed by people arriving late to their seats at kick off, especially after half time where thousands do it, getting in everyone's way.
 
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People need to feed back to the club if they've asked for reasons why people are piling out early. They've said the players notice and they are wondering why so this might prevent any damaging of the great relationship that has been building between the club/players and fans.
 
Only takes a few and the floodgates open for the rest.

Same on around the 35th minute when the half time drinkers disappear
As I said above, this is more annoying for me.

Loads of criticism for those who prioritise getting home sheepish. Very little for those who prioritise their half time pint over watching the end of the first half/ start of the second.

First five minutes of the second half sometimes look like COVID era matches.
 
That's disappointing to read - the players noticing in particular.
Big time.
In a crowd of 46,000 people there are 46,000 different reasons why someone might want to leave early.

It's not a prison and they don't need an excuse.

I'm lucky enough to be able to get away from my seat quickly at full time as well as have someone who is willing to come and park up and wait for me to take me home. So I've no need to leave early.

On the other hand I've a family member who struggles to walk and has to leave before it gets too busy.

I can get away at the end now but when I go to the cup games and forced to sit in the east stand I'm always astonished by how long it takes to leave the stadium, even when it's half empty. If you're towards the back and not at he end of the row it can take 10, 15 minutes before you move an inch. Used to sit at the back of the North stand back in the day and it was like that there too.

When I do leave and walk past the park and ride queue I always think to myself there's no way I'd be willing to stand in that - I'd be leaving at half time. And from what I hear, the metro is horrific.

The match situation drives a lot of this too. Hardly anyone left early for the derby or the Arsenal or City games. More people are more willing to put up with the stuff mentioned above for the types of game. Like it or not, expectations shift very quickly and the Palace game has already come to be seen as nothing special for a lot of people - different topic, but that's why I'm sceptical about expanding the stadium - what seems incredible now can become run of the mill next week and demand will tail off a bit when that happens.

Honestly I get even more annoyed by people arriving late to their seats at kick off, especially after half time where thousands do it, getting in everyone's way.
Your lift doesn't park on Keir Hardie Way do they?
 
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As I said above, this is more annoying for me.

Loads of criticism for those who prioritise getting home sheepish. Very little for those who prioritise their half time pint over watching the end of the first half/ start of the second.

First five minutes of the second half sometimes look like COVID era matches.
Of the two, one set are at least putting extra coin in I suppose.

I'm trying to ignore the sheepish typo :lol:
 
As I said above, this is more annoying for me.

Loads of criticism for those who prioritise getting home sheepish. Very little for those who prioritise their half time pint over watching the end of the first half/ start of the second.

First five minutes of the second half sometimes look like COVID era matches.
Agree with you here mind.
 
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