Were you one of the pathetic fans that left early.If so shame on you.

[Chesney Christ]

This thread seems to be missing a fairly major point. There needs to be a distinction between made between those who left at 3-1 and those who left at 2-1. Two entirely different things, to my mind.

Anyone who left at 3-1 was well within their rights to do so, and the players didn't deserve to be applauded off at the end so I'm glad they had to face an empty stadium.

However, anyone who left at 2-1 - i.e. with us still in the game and still able to realistically get a point - is not fit to call themselves a "supporter".

Shame on you if you did. Don't bother coming again.

 

[Gritt23]

When can we meet up with BBC SCR and I'll kick you in the nuts, then put a microphone under your nose. FFS it was knee jerk reaction from a game that I probably looked forward to more than any since the 83 Cup final.

Nice to meet you too.

But why turn your anger on your fellow Brighton fans? Was it your fellow fan that that did the "kicking in the nuts"?
As for it being a kneejerk reaction, I expect better than that from someone who has spent so many hours doing live radio, at various emotional times for the Albion.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I think leaving after the third goal went in and with about a minute left to play was a pretty effective way of registering disgust with the performance, and certainly better than booing.

 

[grummitts gloves]

We're all individuals and all react differently to a nightmare scenario like last night. Some, including me, showed their disgust by leaving early. I left just before Murray scored with my mate, my 12 year old and his 10 year old. It had nothing to do with getting on the bus early, it was just pure frustration and not wanting to stay to watch Palace celebrate or boo the team, or say and do something I might later regret. For those that stayed till the bitter end, does that make you a better fan or human being than someone who left early? I never normally leave early, but I've paid for my season tickets and that's how I chose to deal with how I felt at that precise moment. If some people on here don't like it, well tough titties.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Nice to meet you too.

But why turn your anger on your fellow Brighton fans? Was it your fellow fan that that did the "kicking in the nuts"?
As for it being a kneejerk reaction, I expect better than that from someone who has spent so many hours doing live radio, at various emotional times for the Albion.

Which is why Grittie at 47 Im far too old and too emotional to do it every week. (I wouldn't have really kicked you in the nuts)x

 

[DerbyGull]

But it wasn't about the result, it was about the way the team played for the final 70 minutes. They didn't look as though they wanted to be there and so we had every right to let our feet talk back to them. I left at 1-3, only my second early departure since a debacle against Everton in 1983. Gus isn't apologising and nor am I.

Ok, I couldn't get a ticket for last night so i couldn't see for myself. Going from what people are saying on here they were unusually bad. But it still kind of stinks that for years and years (pre-gus) we've been pretty shit, but people have accepted we had no money. But now we've got a bit of dosh and a EPL stadium people want EPL footy almost instantly.

 

[Birdie Boy]

This thread seems to be missing a fairly major point. There needs to be a distinction between made between those who left at 3-1 and those who left at 2-1. Two entirely different things, to my mind.

Anyone who left at 3-1 was well within their rights to do so, and the players didn't deserve to be applauded off at the end so I'm glad they had to face an empty stadium.

However, anyone who left at 2-1 - i.e. with us still in the game and still able to realistically get a point - is not fit to call themselves a "supporter".

Shame on you if you did. Don't bother coming again.

This.

And all those people who left early and are blaming the travel chaos, did you leave early at the Gillingham, Sunderland (extra time), Liverpool or Leeds games? No, I didn't think so. The ONLY reason to leave early was if you were a single woman (Daffy) or had young kids and were worried about any violence. Personally, Igot up to leave after Murray scored and heard/saw the final whistle. Luckily for me, I did leave then because the mass exodus meant I just and I mean just got the last S bus back home!

The atmosphere at the Liverpool game was great, the atmosphere at the Leeds game was awesome. Last night, it was shit. It was Aaaallllbbbbionnnnn or Seaaaaagulllls or nothing. It should be up to the North Stand or WS (purely as there is more of them) to keep an atmosphere going. Near the end I glanced around to the North Stand, and there was hardly anyone there! Pathetic atmosphere, pathetic support & pathetic team display. Hopefully we will all have drowned our sorrows and it will be better at the next game on all 3 accounts.

 

[Rugrat]

people want EPL footy almost instantly.

Not here .. for me it was all about attitude and effort (seemingly little of either from several) not the result

 

[The Merry Prankster]

I think leaving after the third goal went in and with about a minute left to play was a pretty effective way of registering disgust with the performance, and certainly better than booing.

I wish I had. I was too deflated to even boo but some way of registering my disgust might have made me feel slightly better.

 

[brightn'ove]

I left after Murray scored the third, I was close to the south stand and I couldn't bare to see them outside the ground so me and my dad promptly made our way to the already fairly large p&r queue.

 

[Arthur]

My pride would not let me get up from my seat until final whistle.

Congratulations! You are my hero!

 

[CP 0 3 BHA]

More than 30 years a fan - and I left early for the first time ever last night after Murray scored.

I still feel terrible about leaving but I feel just as bad about the abject performance of the team in a game that meant so much to all of us.

The strange thing is that it looked so unlikely after the first 10 to 15 minutes. We were bossing the game and then just stopped. This quickly transmitted itself to the stands and I thought the atmosphere was pretty poor after that - we were all too on edge to throw ourselves into it I suspect. And boy, were we right to be on edge!

 

[BHAFC_Pandapops]

left when the 3rd went it. but it's not that I'm pissed off with, it's the pricks who were saying brighton are quote 'f***ing shit' waddling down the stairs. Said people were also the ones trying to jump the queue for racehill p&r

 

[Commander]

This.

And all those people who left early and are blaming the travel chaos, did you leave early at the Gillingham, Sunderland (extra time), Liverpool or Leeds games? No, I didn't think so. The ONLY reason to leave early was if you were a single woman (Daffy) or had young kids and were worried about any violence.

Not everyone lives in Brighton / Sussex mate. At 3-1 with a minute to go and with a long journey home people are within their rights to leave.

 

[Birdie Boy]

Not everyone lives in Brighton / Sussex mate. At 3-1 with a minute to go and with a long journey home people are within their rights to leave.

1-3 with a minute to go is not really an issue is it? It is the 1-1 and 1-2 leavers that is an issue.

BTW, did you leave with a minute to go at the Liverpool, Leeds or Sunderland games?

 

[DumLum]

This thread seems to be missing a fairly major point. There needs to be a distinction between made between those who left at 3-1 and those who left at 2-1. Two entirely different things, to my mind.

Anyone who left at 3-1 was well within their rights to do so, and the players didn't deserve to be applauded off at the end so I'm glad they had to face an empty stadium.

However, anyone who left at 2-1 - i.e. with us still in the game and still able to realistically get a point - is not fit to call themselves a "supporter".

Shame on you if you did. Don't bother coming again.

FFS just F Off!

 

[Gritt23]

Which is why Grittie at 47 Im far too old and too emotional to do it every week. (I wouldn't have really kicked you in the nuts)x

Fair enough. I just assumed that the time you had done for, it would have given you some sort of little inner switch that distinguishes you from the rest of us. When people knock the phone-ins with the sort of "meh, anyone can do that" I've disagreed as there would have been some nights that I would have still been raging well into the phone-in.

People leave early, they did at Withers, and they will be tempted to at the Amex, because I'd have thought getting to teh front of the queue for trains and buses makes quite a difference to the journey home. Just seemed that it's a common-enough sight at football these days, that a wily old fox like yourself wouldn't have taken issue with that, on a night when there was so much else to grumble about.

For the record, despite the inevitable midnight arrival home at Maison Gritt, the prospect of leaving early never tempts me, not even last night. It always amazed me at Withers, the amount who did, but I've long since got used to the idea.

 

[Chicken Runner61]

FFS I have been to a match where the home club lost 8-0 and less people left than last night!

Its not about being a better fan, its about not making your club look like you only support them when we are winning.

Look at the pictures it looks pitiful - worse seeing as 5 mins earlier the ground was full.

Getting home is not an excuse because I bet you wouldn't have minded getting home late if we had won.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Copying my post from the other thread:

Left with about a minute to go - wasn't interested in clapping the team off and wasn't interested in watching the party in the away end - if that makes me a bad Albion fan then I'm a bad Albion fan, but I'll say one thing - those idiots who are so desperate to get in the queue first for beers and pies or to take a piss and so walked out five plus minutes before half time (plus two minutes stoppage time) in our derby game deserve a lot less respect than those who left just before the end.

 

[darters74]

You may be right about Ian Hart being in the past but I would rather a few thousand fans with his heart than what must be a lot of jcls.

You obviously haven't got kids!