January 2, 200521 yr why fook off with 5-10 mins to go just as the game gets exciting!?!?! surely people have watched bolton long enough to know that there is quite often a goal in the last few mins! i've only ever left early once and then there were 2 goals scoredx and one disallowed as i walked across the car park and kept hearing the cheers i felt like a right ejit!
January 2, 200521 yr Always stay till the end and walk around shops for half an hour to allow mad lunatics to rush off Middlebrook car park. Have my tea,leave about 5.45pm for a clear run back onto motorway. Still home for 6.30pm. :D/
January 2, 200521 yr Yesterday was the first time I've left early. It was just after Diouf did that back pass and Hoult pushed it away for a corner, it was either leave or run on the pitch and show them how to kick.
January 2, 200521 yr went into a pub on the a6 and talking to a lad at the bar he said bolton fans were coming in for a pint after leaving at half time. [-X
January 2, 200521 yr Makes u laugh when fans winge at the price of tickets when they can't be bothered staying for half a game. I ain't gonna waste my ??485 season ticket my leaving early [-(
January 2, 200521 yr i find bar area better they really need seatin as u relaxin watchin the tv with pint in hand watchin the new fans goin 10 mins b4 the end they get on my wick am constantly spillin beer as they push past also rip some seats out lets have a standin area that wud create some atmosphere aleast and got pissed wet through again is it a covered stadium?
January 2, 200521 yr I think I may have left if Horsfield had made it 2-0. Not just because the match was shite. I was pissed wet to the bone. Horsfield missed and I decided to stick it out. Glad I did, I kind of enjoyed the 2nd half. Witnessed some spirit and a few players improving.
January 2, 200521 yr These fans leaving early are just as bad as the players not giving 100%. We are supporters at the end of the day and as that implies we are here to support the team. Leaving the stadium early does not support the team. Those last 10 minutes the players needed us and there was a noticeable improvement and after we scored the goal if those sad fuckers hadn't left early perhaps the extra support could have lifted the players even more to get a winner. BUT no empty ragging seats all around the stadium just so they could get home 20 or 30 minutes earlier. gary nevilles!!
January 2, 200521 yr We are supporters at the end of the day and as that implies we are here to support the team. Of course the other argument is that footballers are paid entertainers and their responsibility to those who pay their wages is exactly that. Personally I can think of few things duller than sitting watching a game of football for 90 minutes. After 20 odd minutes, unless it's really good, I'm bored and would be wasting my time staying put. I haven't been to a football match for a bit now but to be honest most of the time I felt it spoiled a good day out, and that's the same for Bolton, Leyth or England.
January 2, 200521 yr We are supporters at the end of the day and as that implies we are here to support the team. Personally I can think of few things duller than sitting watching a game of football for 90 minutes. After 20 odd minutes, unless it's really good, I'm bored and would be wasting my time staying put. You are taking the piss right? At least I hope so.
January 2, 200521 yr the majority of early leavers are not in my opinion true football fans, i would say that they probably never went to burnden in the bad days in the early 80s, if you were brought up in the shite teams we had then this current downturn is a walk in the park, cue abuse.
January 2, 200521 yr Not taking the piss one bit!! I tell you, there's plenty more like me. A typical day at football would consist of 10am out, 3pm till 4.45 at the ground, maybe, and then out again. Football's only a tiny part of it.
January 2, 200521 yr Anyone going to a game is entitled to stay as long as they feel like staying. Spectating isn't a competition and so what if someone wants to leave early? I think I've only once left early, Nov 7th 1998 v QPR @ Loftus when we were playing appallingly badly, lost it 2-0, I left 10 mins early as I had something better to do.
January 2, 200521 yr the majority of early leavers are not in my opinion true football fans, i would say that they probably never went to burnden in the bad days in the early 80s Well I was only a tot in the warly 80s but to answer the broader point, going to a football match was never much about watching football to me. It was more the day out and the crack. I'll have Grimsby, Rotherham and Hull awaydays any day over Spurs, Villa and so on. You could stand up, there was a bit of needle and you recognised nearly everyone stood in the same stand as you. Hence why the good days with Leigh were legendary, football had fu ck all to do with it. Now I ain't saying it should be pitched battles at games, don't get me wrong, but somewhere inbetween would be alright. But that's a different thread int it I suppose.
January 2, 200521 yr I nearly managed a full 90 minutes watching Sudbury this season. Does that count? 8-[
January 2, 200521 yr Author Anyone going to a game is entitled to stay as long as they feel like staying. Spectating isn't a competition and so what if someone wants to leave early? I think I've only once left early, Nov 7th 1998 v QPR @ Loftus when we were playing appallingly badly, lost it 2-0, I left 10 mins early as I had something better to do. agreed in so far as you've paid your money and it's up to you, but the supporters do have a part to play, however small fooking off when the game is evenly poised is not supporting the team id not mind betting most of the empty seats are the tutters and moaners when theres any noise
January 2, 200521 yr Anyone going to a game is entitled to stay as long as they feel like staying. Spectating isn't a competition and so what if someone wants to leave early? I think I've only once left early, Nov 7th 1998 v QPR @ Loftus when we were playing appallingly badly, lost it 2-0, I left 10 mins early as I had something better to do. agreed in so far as you've paid your money and it's up to you, but the supporters do have a part to play, however small fooking off when the game is evenly poised is not supporting the team id not mind betting most of the empty seats are the tutters and moaners when theres any noise id call em quitters.
January 2, 200521 yr I'd call em gary nevilles. Harsh but true. Why bother fooking turning up at all.
January 2, 200521 yr exactly. my mate from huddersfield who sometimes gives me lifts, always leaves before the end to avoid traffic The only time i left early was when i was getting a lift back off her. it was against portsmouth and we missed seeing someone sent off for them. like someone else said..its bolton, something exciting is guaranteed to happen in the last few minutes
January 3, 200521 yr i can undertand people leaving early..... it is upto them on saturday however we were looking like getting back into the game and it was actually exciting
January 3, 200521 yr People who would rather spend most of the match watching down stairs with a pint are just as bad, if not worst, as the early leavers.
January 3, 200521 yr I make a round trip of 80 miles to each home game so getting home 5 minutes earlier by rushing off before the game finishes doesn't make any sense to me
why bother turning up?