How many slipped out early today?


Park and ride seems to cause an issue people running for that also people running early to catch the busses from the colliery.

Know some will always have genuine reasons to go but if it’s for a pint etc open the bars on the concourse at full time can make some money in the process too
Exactly this I leave on 88 minutes otherwise I miss the first set of buses an have to wait another 30 odd minutes for them to come back, I see it as no different to people chucking pints down their neck before the match or at half time that return to their seat a couple of minutes into the action.
 
Exactly this I leave on 88 minutes otherwise I miss the first set of buses an have to wait another 30 odd minutes for them to come back, I see it as no different to people chucking pints down their neck before the match or at half time that return to their seat a couple of minutes into the action.
I can just about understand some leaving near the end to save half an hour or so but the business of fans streaming out to the Concourse after 30 minutes play I don't get. Perhaps they should take out the televisions ! Some leave early to get the Metro where there is not the problem that you would have with the buses. There is a bigger picture insofar that anyone who gets off their backside and goes to the SOL in the first place are doing 100% more than armchair fans, regardless of their match day habits. I don't recall many leaving early the last couple if months when Big Sam was here.
 
Its a cultural thing going right back to Roker when the roads did actually get really clogged up and you would be sat there ages. It probably wasnt noticed as much at Roker as it was mainly terracing.

My dad used to leave early to beat that and I have to fight the urge as i have a 2.5 hour drive home.

Question to away fan regulars, do other clubs not have same issue?
 
Exactly this I leave on 88 minutes otherwise I miss the first set of buses an have to wait another 30 odd minutes for them to come back, I see it as no different to people chucking pints down their neck before the match or at half time that return to their seat a couple of minutes into the action.

What do you do with the extra 30 mins?
 
What? About his barnet or the standard of his singing?
The Barnet!
The standard of his singing was as usual impeccable.
Baffles me how people can leave early in situations like yesterday. Stoke game, yes I get why you'd fuck off after the 4th or 5th went in, but surely you wouldn't want to miss a potentially late winner from us yesterday. And we were pushing for the winner. I get the argument of people pay so entitled to do what they want etc but it looks daft and I'll never get my head around it. Unless we were lifting a cup at the end or playing the Mags, I think we have people streaming out no matter what the case, I can't understand it personally. Takes me 20 mins extra getting home to what it does getting there, which is double, because of traffic. Not life changing that. Stay and clap the young lads off after a good performance anorl 👏
Took the words out of my mouth.
 
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I wouldn’t even bother going tbh if I was that arsed about getting home.

Must be class spending half an hour to an hour at home watching Saturday night telly.
 
What do you do with the extra 30 mins?
So there is a set of say 6 buses that do the park and rid (I've made the 6 up but its somewhere in that ball park) if you dont get on the first set of six you need to wait for them all to go and deliver people and then travel back to the ground before the next set load up.
What do you do with the extra 30 mins?
Stand in a queue waiting for the buses to come back, quite often in the rain
 
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The Barnet!
The standard of his singing was as usual impeccable.

Took the words out of my mouth.
Nice one, Vin. The bloke is superb, even now. As for the Barnet, it's nearly all toupe these days. I'll forgive him that..his own locks were brilliant back in the day.
And we're on the same page re early leavers!
 

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