Leaving Falmer Early

[Giraffe]

It might help if the game started on time!

 

[smudge]

What a stupid thread. What about the people that leave 5 minutes before half time to fill their faces with crap food. Let's stop all that. Also, what about the piss heads who queue all through half time to have a piss. Should they be allowed back to their seats. Should anyone be allowed to leave early irrespective of the reason. Some people have far to travel and if watching only 85 minutes of a game is all they can do then why should they be penalised?

Lot of anger there; you need to calm down a bit.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

It's going to be a nightmare getting back from Falmer, especially from midweek games when you have work in the morning. The trains won't cope, in fact they'll probably have to close the station for safety reasons on a regular basis same as they did at Preston Park station for Pride last saturday. Fully expecting to have to walk back into Brighton after most midweek matches. Oh well.

Exercise will do you good, Tom! Actually for me it's the Saturday games I haven't worked out yet if I have to go quickly (normally I shall find a watering hole afterwards). At least for weekday games I can park at Haywards Heath and go back via Lewes. Some clever person has decided to cut the roadside parking there on Monday to Saturday to 2 hours. I have no intention of leaving early, but I suspect others in my boat will.

What I do wonder is how the Emirates copes. Arsenal, Drayton Park and Holloway Road tubes are all closed to my knowledge when Arsenal play at home, and Finsbury Park is not that big a station. You can't park anywhere nearby either, and there are restrictions at the outer tubes too, such as Cockfosters, Edgware and High Barnet.

 

[drew]

Lot of anger there; you need to calm down a bit.

Don't panic, I don't get angry contributing on this forum although it might seem to others I do.

(what really pisses me off though is conceeding dumb goals in injury time)

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Exercise will do you good, Tom!

What is this 'Exercise' of which you speak?

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

Too late to stop the hordes walking out well before the final whistle at Withdean, which I actually thinks affects the team.
Will it happen at Falmer though, & if so, how can the club stop it?
My opinion; if you have somewhere more important to be, don't bother coming; the game finishes when the ref blows the final whistle, that's when you should leave.

Thanks for your opinion but if it's okay with you, having been soaked through then baked for the best part of 2 hours and then seen a stupid needless mistake cost us the game then considering I paid the best part of £25 for that then I'll do what I bloody well like.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

I walked down to the track yesterday as I had the boy with me.

But I will never understand what the massive urgency is about getting to the bus or train quicker than everyone else.

If you are going to the Albion set some time aside to go to the Albion. Not sod off early so you can get home early.

I really hacks others off when people are constantly filiing past them in the closing minutes.

I know as I had to do it yesterday.

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

I walked down to the track yesterday as I had the boy with me.

But I will never understand what the massive urgency is about getting to the bus or train quicker than everyone else.

If you are going to the Albion set some time aside to go to the Albion. Not sod off early so you can get home early.

I really hacks others off when people are constantly filiing past them in the closing minutes.

I know as I had to do it yesterday.

I don't know why but your constant references to your son as "the boy" really grates. Anyway, as I said earlier, it's my money and it's my choice.

Sometimes, when you've been cheering your side on for 90 minutes and they go and throw the game away, it becomes - for that few minutes - too much to take and there's a need to storm off and mutter obscenities under your breath. There's also the small matter of the bus lottery whereby, some games there's lots of buses and others only one or two. Add into the mix the very likely chance of a heavy rain shower and the fact that I had children to look after and get home safe and dry then, quite frankly, I don't give a damn what you think.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

What is this 'Exercise' of which you speak?

Getting yourself fit ready to raise the next bottle of Westons Organic I guess

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

My opinion; if you have somewhere more important to be, don't bother coming; the game finishes when the ref blows the final whistle, that's when you should leave.

Right, so I've purchased my season ticket with my wages, but according to you I should not come because I needed to leave 10 minutes early to make sure I get home in time to make an evening somewhere which is quite important?

What a ridiculous thing to say. People can do whatever they bloody want, it's their money. You can't FORCE them to stay!

 

[Deleted User X18H]

I don't know why but your constant references to your son as "the boy" really grates. Anyway, as I said earlier, it's my money and it's my choice.

Sometimes, when you've been cheering your side on for 90 minutes and they go and throw the game away, it becomes - for that few minutes - too much to take and there's a need to storm off and mutter obscenities under your breath. There's also the small matter of the bus lottery whereby, some games there's lots of buses and others only one or two. Add into the mix the very likely chance of a heavy rain shower and the fact that I had children to look after and get home safe and dry then, quite frankly, I don't give a damn what you think.

The boy really is great. What is a bus lottery? I don't understand there are always plenty of buses when I walk past that way. It is a well marshalled operation.

In my opinion leaving before the end is quite frankly rude! And to be honest it had been raining on and off all afternoon.

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

The boy really is great. What is a bus lottery? I don't understand there are always plenty of buses when I walk past that way. It is a well marshalled operation.

In my opinion leaving before the end is quite frankly rude!

The family stand can be really difficult to leave as there are exits for the entire stand and although there are usually enough buses, there have been plenty of times in the past when there are not. It is, in short, a lottery.

"The boy" is not great. It makes your son sound nothing more than a possession of yours.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

"The boy" is not great. It makes your son sound nothing more than a possession of yours.

Why? As far back as I can remember the men in my family have referred to their sons as 'the boy' or 'boy'

It's a Brighton thing and hails from the market tradition the town used to have 'I'll get the boy to it' etc etc.