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Post by Laughing Gravy on Jan 31, 2015 21:43:46 GMT
That section that is normally the away end was almost empty by the 85th minute. I think I heard a lot of those seats had been given away to local junior football teams so they'd probably all been marshaled out by those in charge to miss the rush/crush.
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Post by armitagestokie on Feb 1, 2015 0:52:51 GMT
We are Stoke City...we leave when we want!!!!!!!!
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Post by bayernoatcake on Feb 1, 2015 0:55:23 GMT
A good number in the bit that's normally the away end had left at half time.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 1:19:00 GMT
What a fucking stupid thread this is Anyone can leave whenever they want. If I didn't leave early I would be stuck on a car park for 2 hours, is that excuse good enough ?? You don't have to make excuses .....it's your money mate
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Post by Scrotnig on Feb 1, 2015 1:28:29 GMT
I always stay to the final whistle, then leg it.
However, it's unfiar to judge those who may have other commitments that require than to leave slightly early.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Feb 1, 2015 1:37:11 GMT
Can I judge the fuckers that choose to leave early and then watch the game at the bottom of the stairs thus causing a jam?
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Post by tuum on Feb 1, 2015 2:36:13 GMT
People whinge their bags off about the price of football and quite rightly, but then decide to miss chunks of the game. Leaving early at half time 'to beat the queues', having to go the bog because they have bladder issues and leaving early towards the end. Knobs the lot of 'em. Why are they knobs just because their priorities do not seem to match your own? I find it amazing that people can be so rude and aggressive over someone else's actions. Actions that have little or no impact on other people's lives. It would be nice if everyone stayed to the end to avoid having to keep on getting up to let people pass but I do not consider this a massive inconvenience. Just chill a little and be a bit more accepting of others choices. People leaving early should be a non issue unless they hang around at the stairwell obstructing others views.
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Post by jimigoodwinsbeard on Feb 1, 2015 6:45:51 GMT
Not got a problem with people leaving early, it's their choice. It's the ones who get out of their seats 5 minutes before the end and then stand on the gangway blocking the view of those who want to stay. If you get up to go, then fuck off and don't hang around spoiling it for those who want to stay. This
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Post by wagstand on Feb 1, 2015 7:07:52 GMT
Well said Tony I completely agree with you. I was in Block 27 and people were flocking out after 75 minutes. It does my head in, it looks shite, and it must piss the players off. We want our team to play til the final whistle but thousands of fans can't be arsed to stop and watch and clap the team off at the end. Do some people's cars turn into pumpkins at 5pm or somat ?
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Post by adi on Feb 1, 2015 7:12:43 GMT
Not the best game ever -true BUT You missed the cracking killer goal by SJW right at the end cracking header into the home end in injury time our first and well deserved hat trick in the prem too Beautiful - absolutely beautiful AN absolutely perfect end to the game and - Those who stayed, arose as one to applaud super Jon holding his matchball pity you couldnt be fucking bothered to stay to watch it defies logic and belief (tin hat on - but - like I give a fuck) OH - AND CUE A PLEATHORA OF LAME EXCUSES I stayed. However I think it's very sad that you think it's your business what people do. Busy body.
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Post by cobra on Feb 1, 2015 9:01:14 GMT
People whinge their bags off about the price of football and quite rightly, but then decide to miss chunks of the game. Leaving early at half time 'to beat the queues', having to go the bog because they have bladder issues and leaving early towards the end. Knobs the lot of 'em. Your all hard bastards sat behind a fuckin key board
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Post by Clem Fandango on Feb 1, 2015 9:04:11 GMT
Can I judge the fuckers that choose to leave early and then watch the game at the bottom of the stairs thus causing a jam? Judge away mate. Those fuckers wind me up no end. I was trying to leave early yesterday and I had to fight through a sea of people standing by the stairs who all refused to move even when they saw me trying to get past.
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Post by mrred on Feb 1, 2015 9:17:42 GMT
Can I judge the fuckers that choose to leave early and then watch the game at the bottom of the stairs thus causing a jam? The biggest kind of cunt in my book, like the stewards, they purposely block the exit so I make every effort to barge through them if I need a wazz. Utter bellends. And before anyone says anything, I've tried the nicely nicely approach and they just look at you like you're smothered in shit, before slowly shuffling out the way.
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Post by steino1979 on Feb 1, 2015 9:45:32 GMT
I personally would just like to know why EVERYONE seems to feel the need to reply or even explain thereselves to the bellend/fuckin idiot/wind up merchant that is ukyestony or whatever his name is.....I don't really post that often bit when I see a thread started by him you should all know what it's going to involve.....absolute bollox....I don't leave early...never have,BUT it's YOU that pays the money n me personally don't give a fuck if u leave on 4,24 or 84 minutes its your prerogative(Bobby brown lol) to do whatever you want without knobs who don't even know you commenting on what YOU do on YOUR matchdays!!!just do what you do and enjoy the day instead of being more interested what other people are doing!!
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Post by ianstokie on Feb 1, 2015 10:02:28 GMT
About 1 game in 4 I have to get the boys home, feed them, get them back to their mothers in Eccleshall, to be at work in Leek for 7. Do you mind awfully If I leave 2 minutes early?
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Post by retired1 on Feb 1, 2015 10:13:51 GMT
I remember being stuck on the car park once a few years ago, about half an hour after the match had finished. Listening to Radio Stoke, and some bloke named Tony rang up and said he was already at home in Warrington. Always wondered how in holy hell he'd done that. I didn't think Pulis lived in Warrington.
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Post by BristolMick on Feb 1, 2015 10:21:42 GMT
I really don't get why anyone leaves before the end unless their team is getting walloped. There will be people that have to go for important reasons like work or care but the people who leave early are the same people every week, it's habitual it's what they do. They have this insane worry about the traffic, that if they don't leave before the end they will be stuck in traffic for 2 hours. That is a myth of course two hours after a game has finished I am nearly back in Bristol and I have never left before the end. We park in Stoke so have a 15 min walk after the game but there is never a traffic issue getting on to the motorway EVER!
This doesn't just happen at Stoke of course, it happens at every match, even when there is only 2 or 3 thousand at the game. It is bizarre and unnecessary behaviour. If you are THAT worried about traffic perhaps you shouldn't go to football. There is absolutely nothing better than a last minute winner like that Assaidi goal v Chelsea last season or Mama v Villa in that first Prem home game. Surely it's for moments like that that we love football? Yet the habitual early leaver who has traffic phobia fantasies is never going to experience these moments, which are far and away the best moments of being a fan.
BM
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 10:32:23 GMT
The majority have not got priorities though, have they. They block the exits and then get to see the end of the game, and then can get away, leaving everyone else to struggle to get away. I do not for one minute believe this tripe about people having priorities at all. There maybe a few, but not all of them.
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Post by enuntio on Feb 1, 2015 10:33:45 GMT
Sometimes, only sometimes. I need to be away PDQ - If I don't watch the end of the game by the exit to the concourse it can take me 15 minutes or longer to exit the ground. This leads to a longer walk to the car and more traffic to contend with for the drive home UP the M6. This leads to the other issues of "Traffic and Stadium Management" I do wish we could have some exits at the back of the stands leading straight down to the outside Between the Police, the Football Club and the Tax Payers I'm sure they could organise the traffic flow a lot better.
and besides ukyestoney, sometimes I can't even make it to the ground to watch a game! I deserve a birching...
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Post by ladyinred on Feb 1, 2015 10:56:12 GMT
Some people will have a genuine reason, but for others it is just habit an unnecessary. I stay to the end, clap the players off and I am home by 5.30pm (Alsager). If you need to be somewhere, then park away from the stadium and walk, (appreciate that some are unable, but most of the people leaving look totally capable). There is a perception that the traffic at the Brit is worse than anywhere else - this is rubbish - if at any ground you park close to the stadium, you will have issues. I was sat on a residential estate for 45 mins at Rochdale. I remember sitting in traffic on Campbell Road for ages when we were at the Vic.
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Post by rednwhite43 on Feb 1, 2015 11:02:47 GMT
Boring yaaaaaaaawn!!!!!
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Post by Sparkiee on Feb 1, 2015 11:05:07 GMT
If I didn't leave early I would risk being late for work, losing my job, house and car. Is that alright?
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Post by localloser on Feb 1, 2015 11:11:11 GMT
I remember being stuck on the car park once a few years ago, about half an hour after the match had finished. Listening to Radio Stoke, and some bloke named Tony rang up and said he was already at home in Warrington. Always wondered how in holy hell he'd done that. Probably hadn't been to the game - like half the bastards on p&g
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Post by Stafford-Stokie on Feb 1, 2015 11:12:18 GMT
This shit again. I used to have to leave early for work but changed jobs and now I don't. People have valid reasons to leave early and one may be because they bloody want to. Also yesterday was a bit of a dull 2nd half and it was bastard freezing. May be that help to persuade people to leave early. It is no fucker else's business! I agree about the gathering at the bottom of the stairs but other than that they can come and go as they please. Get over yourselves! P.S was it the big twat and his little bald mate in block 23 again?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 11:24:30 GMT
It's not like ukyestony to start a pointless shit thread. The same bloke that described Walters goals as scruffy on Radio Stoke after the game Ha ha did he now? I think Tony gets that excited about everything that he just goes into full rant mode and he hasn't got a clue that 99.9% of the words that leave his mouth are complete and utter bollocks
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Post by Sergeant Muttley on Feb 1, 2015 11:27:16 GMT
The same bloke that described Walters goals as scruffy on Radio Stoke after the game Ha ha did he now? I think Tony gets that excited about everything that he just goes into full rant mode and he hasn't got a clue that 99.9% of the words that leave his mouth are complete and utter bollocks Couldn't believe what i was hearing tbh mate, Scruffy (rofl)He had to have his say about extending the ground as well
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Post by mrcoke on Feb 1, 2015 11:31:22 GMT
I really don't get why anyone leaves before the end unless their team is getting walloped. There will be people that have to go for important reasons like work or care but the people who leave early are the same people every week, it's habitual it's what they do. They have this insane worry about the traffic, that if they don't leave before the end they will be stuck in traffic for 2 hours. That is a myth of course two hours after a game has finished I am nearly back in Bristol and I have never left before the end. We park in Stoke so have a 15 min walk after the game but there is never a traffic issue getting on to the motorway EVER! This doesn't just happen at Stoke of course, it happens at every match, even when there is only 2 or 3 thousand at the game. It is bizarre and unnecessary behaviour. If you are THAT worried about traffic perhaps you shouldn't go to football. There is absolutely nothing better than a last minute winner like that Assaidi goal v Chelsea last season or Mama v Villa in that first Prem home game. Surely it's for moments like that that we love football? Yet the habitual early leaver who has traffic phobia fantasies is never going to experience these moments, which are far and away the best moments of being a fan. BM Well said Mick, I've never left early myself but can understand some people might need to. Blocking the exit route though is selfish behaviour. Just to give another angle on this to younger fans, when I started to support Stoke in the 60s, some of us played rugby for the school on a Saturday afternoon and then one of the dads took us to the match after changing and we'd get in for the last quarter of the match for free. Of course a lot fewer people had cars in those days and lived closer to the ground.
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Post by heisenberg88 on Feb 1, 2015 11:35:44 GMT
Coates should employ up to 10 snipers and situate them on the roof of the stadium, anyone that is seen leaving should then be shot to the ground, that would stop them.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 11:37:20 GMT
Certainly pricked a few consciences with this one eh ! and like 'Im bothered not' - well that bit is not true.
I do care
I do fully understand plenty of people have plenty of GOOD practical reasosn to arrive or, leave a match early
but some thousands it seems these-days certainly, more and more having spent sizable chuncks of money, shuffle off very early and miss valuable parts of our season
just to save minutes, literlaly getting off car parks - or, for no good reason whatsoever - (and we are talking large numbers here now )
As a CONSEQUENCE, many of those then proceed to rubber neck the game and block the aisles exits and gangways by shuffling off slowly
- and that IS something that bothers me
Not least because its a safety hazard to them all - including women and children - it obstructs other spectators views also
most frustrating is this to those who stay
Some of my opinions are 'out there' perhaps even 'out of order' I agree - but if it makes even a few of some of what this new breed of premier league 'part timers' now routinely do - i.e. think about
a) what they are actually missing and
b) how this affects other spectators
Perhaps its no bad thing I bring this up
I will say no more - and mind my own business - and for those whose sensibilites which are offended - I apologise
and Ps
one of SJW s goals was a bit scruffy (shulodve been saved) - and I always stay to the bitter end - good or bad
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Post by adi on Feb 1, 2015 14:15:47 GMT
Not really no, you've just shown yourself to be a busy body old man, like the kind of bloke who has to pass comment when someone parks in their space on the road, when it's none of their business. It's actually quite sad. And I stay til the end too.
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