Early leavers and final whistle on Sunday

[Peel Street Massif]

I'm not sure they would.

When the team are playing well there are generally more people in the stadium at the end.

When we are not playing well and dont ever look like scoring it causes the mass exodus and excuses about beating the traffic are amplified.

Team playing well - not many early leavers,
Team playing poor with no attacking intent after conceding a goal - mass exodus.

It has everything to do with what is happening on the pitch.

If that is true, why are Sunderland fans more prone to this than other teams (I'm not saying other teams fans don't leave early, of course they do) but we seem to have more, and for them to leave at 1-0 is baffling imo.

 

[Shady Lane]

Each to their own, but I'll never understand the mentality of the early leavers.

Imagine paying today's prices and leaving before a later winner or something. What a waste! You can beat traffic entirely buy just not going to the game!

 

[Dodgy]

Good points. But how many people have been hurt over the past 30 years?

More than you'd think.

Oh, you mean physically: I thought you meant their feelings, at being stuck in traffic for 20 minutes.

As you were.

 

[dicccas]

Each to their own, but I'll never understand the mentality of the early leavers.

Imagine paying today's prices and leaving before a later winner or something. What a waste! You can beat traffic entirely buy just not going to the game!

I live in North Tyneside and I got through the door at 5.45 and I stayed until the whistle went. I think people serious exaggerate how long it takes to get home if they stay until the end.

I go to the game to spend time with my Dad and if we have a match on a Saturday, I know I won't make plans. If the plans are important, I won't go to the match and I'll sell my ticket back to the club.

I think it looks shit when people stream out, but I get it when we're playing in League 1 and the Championship or evening matches if people have kids/family to get back to.

Fact of the matter is, there isn't the numbers that leave en masse that have those commitments. I think it's engrained in them that they need to leave or they won't get a pint if they don't leave now, and if the match isn't thrilling them, they'd rather have said pint or get home sooner.

I go to support the team and they've given me a phenomenal season where everyone thought we'd go down without a wimper.

As you say, what's the point in spending all of that money if all you're bothered about is getting home half an hour sooner.

 

[RedandWhiteRebel]

If that is true, why are Sunderland fans more prone to this than other teams (I'm not saying other teams fans don't leave early, of course they do) but we seem to have more, and for them to leave at 1-0 is baffling imo.

We have a deeply ingrained apathetic attitude throughout our fanbase afters years of watching shite.

The team isn't paying well so that trait kicks in, people want to detach themselves from the situation and decide to leave early.

Beating the traffic or having time for an extra pint is a consolation prize.

 

[dangermows]

I think the strangest thing about it all for me is those people who leave early simply to get home 10 minutes quicker rather than be stuck in a bit of traffic. As if a tiny bit of traffic is such an inconvenience to them that it means more than the £500+ season tickets they're using to attend the games and plan their day around. Mental

Does seem odd given some of the times stated in terms of difference. 10 to 30 mins is nowt really you'd think.

We have a deeply ingrained apathetic attitude throughout our fanbase afters years of watching shite.

The team isn't paying well so that trait kicks in, people want to detach themselves from the situation and decide to leave early.

Beating the traffic or having time for an extra pint is a consolation prize.

They pile out early if we are walloping a team as well though. Reason being game is done usually.

 

[Blyth Reds]

I had noticed this season that getting out via Newcastle road was taking double the time to get out, then I realised that the traffic is getting stuck at the roundabout besides miller and Carter, because the traffic coming out of Fulwell can no longer turn left, it now has to come to the roundabout and go back on itself, hence traffic from Newcastle Road no longer flows freely , the only answer I can see is a couple of people directing traffic, or change the road system back to what it was.This has doubled the length of time it takes for us to get home, was about 40 mins now 1 hour plus

 

[safc3nufc0]

Its almost like there are 40,000+ people leaving all at once

Well not according to the comments about early leavers.

 

[robbie54]

if we are winning still loads leave . When we are losing there is no surprise as a lot of our fans now simply can’t take a defeat .

And if they are losing fans are not confident we'll get back in the game with our present standard of football.

 

[Hugh Gains]

leaving if we’re getting truly hammered is one thing

But the mass exodus when there’s only a goal in it is bizarre

It’s beyond bizarre actually, it’s pathetic.

You’re directly impacting the atmosphere negatively and this can go towards the attitude on the pitch.

It’s just straight up weirdo behaviour.

‘But traffic’

That’s life

 

[Feed the Monster]

Saturday was tragic. Some people were leaving not long after 80 minutes and the stadium was only half full at the final whistle. What kind of message does that give to the players when we were only a goal behind?

Probably that there is zero belief that we were going to equalise

I stayed to the end but don’t lose much sleep over those that didn’t. Particularly the criticism on here from people that mostly don’t even go to games

Most of the early leavers are those that get up 5-10 minutes before halftime to get another beer.

 

[Hugh Gains]

It’s always boggles my mind because these people have made a reasoned decision to be there. Nobody has forced them to come. They’ve decided they want to come to the stadium, knowing fine well the challenges getting in, getting out, grabbing a pint and getting to the bog.

If your intention is to take your seat 10 mins in, leave at 38 mins for a pint or the bog, return at 50 mins and leave at 80 mins played; give it up. What’s the point?

If you want to actually support the club then accept that being stuck in traffic or waiting for a metro is currently one of the challenges. Nobody cared about traffic during the Coventry game, or mags game.

It’s never going to change like and I wish it would cos it looks shite.

Folk near me routinely come in around 10 mine, leave on 35, come back on 55 and leave on 83.

It’s odd

What I will say tho in regards to pints in speed of service in the premier concourse for food and drink is shit

Everyone is basically order chips and curry sauce so just have loads of them ready to go instead of each order have to be fetched from the back

Same with pints to, have 2 Madris ready at prime time is perfectly acceptable, it’ll sit there a matter of seconds before being shifted

I sit in row 37 east stand and if you wait till very end it ridiculous how long it takes to get out.

At lot of this is also due to a lack of brain cells

Amount of people who stop and block queues and movement to wait for mates or whatever.

This is just exacerbated as more or more people do it and the problem compounds

 

[wigwams]

Should ask where they’re going in such a hurry. Must be somewhere utterly fantastic

 

[Hugh Gains]

I have one issue with getting out.
I am in the upper bowl of West stand P3.
When I go out I have to cross the access door to the corporate areas to get to the stairs down. They have a suited type steward who stops the ordinary folks crossing until the hospitality lot have gone in. This could be 5 minutes or more.
So I go down during injury time to avoid the delay most of the time mainly night matches and if I need to be somewhere straight after the game.
If the club could work that one differently I would stay.

From the likes of p10 you can walk into the hospitality seats and all the way along to the exit and beat the queue of ordinary season card holders on the rest of the concourse and take advantage of the privilege shown to hospitality from the stewards

 

[Boinger]

The score/position of the game is irrelevant. Rightly or wrongly people don't want to spend time stuck in traffic.

Exactly the major reason we have the same problems with early leavers at West Brom (Besides the shite being served up recently)

My nephew for example, travels up to The Hawthorns from Northampton and if he doesn't leave on 85ish mins it can add an hour or so to his journey home.

 

[Fray Bentos]

I had noticed this season that getting out via Newcastle road was taking double the time to get out, then I realised that the traffic is getting stuck at the roundabout besides miller and Carter, because the traffic coming out of Fulwell can no longer turn left, it now has to come to the roundabout and go back on itself, hence traffic from Newcastle Road no longer flows freely , the only answer I can see is a couple of people directing traffic, or change the road system back to what it was.This has doubled the length of time it takes for us to get home, was about 40 mins now 1 hour plus

That junction where you can no longer turn right on to Shields Road has been in place for at least 2 years now, so it can't be that causing your issue at the roundabout this season.

 

[Cosmo]

Till the end

 

[Ambivalent Dave]

Well not according to the comments about early leavers.

they havent vanished into thin air, if they left early they're still outside causing bottlenecks and traffic. Honestly amazes me that people come out with "it takes ages to get out" well yeah, there's the equivalent of twice the population of Seaham here all in one place trying to leave.

its gonna be a few minutes to get out

 

[Johnnyh]

The score/position of the game is irrelevant. Rightly or wrongly people don't want to spend time stuck in traffic.

Correct

I think it’s pretty much the only shit thing about our club. I just don’t understand it.

When there’s a lot of early leavers, even when only one goal in it, it just kills the atmosphere dead. It feels like telling the players fuck it, we’ve all accepted the result, don’t bother.

It was dead for most of the match.

 

[dangermows]

Exactly the major reason we have the same problems with early leavers at West Brom (Besides the shite being served up recently)

My nephew for example, travels up to The Hawthorns from Northampton and if he doesn't leave on 85ish mins it can add an hour or so to his journey home.

You'd think it would just be factored in and accepted as part of going to match really.

they havent vanished into thin air, if they left early they're still outside causing bottlenecks and traffic. Honestly amazes me that people come out with "it takes ages to get out" well yeah, there's the equivalent of twice the population of Seaham here all in one place trying to leave.

its gonna be a few minutes to get out

This. I presume these people do the same with similar events they attend (gigs for example) where again you will have a lot of people trying to leave a venue at the same time. Piling out a couple of songs before the end to beat the traffic etc.