Have you ever left a game mid way through? If so, why..

[LIVIFOREVER]

Closest i've come to leaving at HT was against Falkirk, we were 3-0 down and defensively shocking, my mate asked if i wanted to go (he was driving), thought about it and said we should give it another 10 mins or so after HT, Bollan took off our weakest link in defence and stuck on another striker and went for it, we drew level to 3-3, only to concede a sucker punch boot up the pitch in the dying minutes. Glad i didn't leave, it was some 2nd half, and even though we still lost it was a fantastic game to have been at, just for our 2nd half display.

 

Mate was driving again for QoTS away, and we left with 10 mins to go when we were 5-1 down, heard the crowd roar as we were walking outside the stadium to the car, and turned the radio on to hear we were now 6-1 down. 

 

Only other time i've left early was when we conceded in injury time and i just got up and left to get away early at away games, always sit to the death at home games even when we're being stuffed, just in the hope we will score a goal, even if it's just a consolation one, just can't bring myself to leave early.

[kingjoey]

9 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:

Once, the 4-0 League Cup defeat at Tynecastle to Aberdeen.

Sat in the front row, drenched, then they scored their 4th in 70th odd minute. My dad stormed out to go back to the bus, and I half considered staying, until I realised the choice was between drying off in a warm bus, or sitting getting even more soaked in a game where we were more likely to concede another than score.

Add in the bizarre atmosphere in the crowd that day as you had a mix of diehards resigned to the fact we'd never win a Semi-Final, and day trippers who spent 90 minutes sitting in silence.

Bad, bad, day.

I must have been at a different game. The atmosphere that day was one of the best that I’ve ever been in, in a (longish) lifetime of supporting the Dons.

[resk]

2011 League Cup semi
Left at 4-0
It was 4-0 after 34 minutes 

My answer is no, but this is the closest I've been to leaving at half time. Most of our group pissed off to the pub after the fourth goal, fair enough. At least we got a goal in the second half.

The Hampden pumpings off of Celtic kinda merge into one now.

[d_t_b]

Left at half time when we were 3-0 down at home to Celtic on a cold Friday night about three years ago.

Went to the pub and kept and eye on the second half whilst getting pished, nice and warm. I regret nothing 

[AJF]

18 minutes ago, tree house tam said:

If I must.

I'd been out on the Friday night and got pretty fucked up, pulled a burd and went back to hers. It was a pretty mad night that involved various drugs and some viagra, not much sleeping put it that way. Met my mates in the pub in the morning and off we went to the football, gets inside the ground and the bitch starts saying she wants me back round to pump her again. Starts sending me pictures etc. Now anyone who knows what the after effects of viagra are will know that at the sight of the dirty pictures you will instantly have a boner again, so rather than sit watching Saints players take five touches to control a ball I took the sensible option and emptied mine.

[Monkey Tennis]

22 minutes ago, tree house tam said:

If I must.

I'd been out on the Friday night and got pretty fucked up, pulled a burd and went back to hers. It was a pretty mad night that involved various drugs and some viagra, not much sleeping put it that way. Met my mates in the pub in the morning and off we went to the football, gets inside the ground and the bitch starts saying she wants me back round to pump her again. Starts sending me pictures etc. Now anyone who knows what the after effects of viagra are will know that at the sight of the dirty pictures you will instantly have a boner again, so rather than sit watching Saints players take five touches to control a ball I took the sensible option and emptied mine.

Yeah, but what about the time when I forgot my glasses?

[G51]

35 minutes ago, kingjoey said:

A sad indictment for human nature.

 

30 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said:

It's not a surprise at all.

It's depressingly predictable.

It's not sad or depressing lads, it's how this works. People are going to support the teams they can engage with most often. I grew up with a guy who was a Hearts fan who could only see his team four times a season. Unsurprisingly, he eventually just lost interest.

If other SPFL teams wanted to capture this market, then the solution was to make all of the games available on TV rather than just every Old Firm away game. But the clubs preferred to protect the 3pm blackout and their local markets. Which is absolutely fine, but don't go crying when you can't build a fanbase outside of your stadiums catchment area.

[Monkey Tennis]

6 minutes ago, G51 said:

but don't go crying when you can't build a fanbase outside of your stadiums catchment area.

Why, on God's earth, would I cry about that?

[G51]

Just now, Monkey Tennis said:

Why, on God's earth, would I cry about that?

I've no idea, ask all the people on this thread who are crying about it.

[Monkey Tennis]

Just now, G51 said:

I've no idea, ask all the people on this thread who are crying about it.

I've not seen anyone doing that at all.

[RandomGuy.]

32 minutes ago, kingjoey said:

I must have been at a different game. The atmosphere that day was one of the best that I’ve ever been in, in a (longish) lifetime of supporting the Dons.

Yeah the Aberdeen support that day was incredible, place was a total bear pit.

The Saints support had been weird all day. As I say, normal fans were trying to not get invested as we lost so much, while mixing with folk who didn't give a f**k and were just there to say they'd been.

More passion in the Semi at Ibrox in our end, despite the fact our crowd was about 4 times smaller.

[Sugar_Army]

My mate left us and walked out of Tannadice with 5 minutes to go in the 96 play-oof v Thistle.  He said he heard a roar and assumed it was the final whistle and only found out United had equalised when he got in the pub.

Not a case of leaving early but once went through to Edinburgh for United v Hibs and as it was chucking it down ended up getting pissed instead. We lost so it seems I made the right choice.

[G51]

7 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said:

I've not seen anyone doing that at all.

You must have missed the guy asking me why I didn't grow up supporting East Fife.

[Monkey Tennis]

10 minutes ago, G51 said:

You must have missed the guy asking me why I didn't grow up supporting East Fife.

Yes, I did miss that because it didn't happen.  

Have a look back.  The guy who mentioned East Fife wasn't asking why you don't support them, or bemoaning the fact that Meadowbank never attracted legions of fans from the far north.

[D.A.F.C]

5 hours ago, Ludo*1 said:

Once.

30th March 2010.

We were well into our complete bottle job of handing Inverness the title. We hadn't won in the previous 5 games and had sacked Jocky Scott a couple of weeks prior.

The setting was East End Park. It was a midweek game and it was a must win match. We were a single point behind Caley and Dunfermline were 5 points behind us.

6 minutes in, Willie Gibson smashed the ball past Tony Bullock and the players just didn't seem to care. It's cliche to say that players don't care when your club is on a bad run, but they genuinely didn't seem to care at all. A 30 yarder from Steven Bell put Dunfermline further in front. The players were arguing amongst themselves and the fans in the stand were arguing with each other.

The weather was dreadful. A rain cascading the terraces and it was quite violent with the little specs of rain feeling like little hail stones.

To make matters worse, Ben Hutchinson went for a 50-50 with Greg Paterson in the Dunfermline goal and it resulted in the worst sounding leg break I've ever witnessed at the football. Horrific injury and there are some nasty pictures of Paterson's leg on Google.

 

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At half time it was 2-0 going on 15-0. Dunfermline had chance after chance and if it weren't for the fact that several Dunfermline players seemed noticably affected by the leg break incident, I'm sure they'd have taken their chances. We made all 3 subs at HT (Ben Hutchinson being enforced as he was clearly grief stricken) - It's since came out that Chisholm well and truly lost the dressing room here (If he ever had it).  Some players are still quite bitter about it and have admitted they stopped trying when Jocky got sacked. It showed that night.

 

Various players have slandered Chisholm and Dodds' running of the team. Most recently, Leigh Griffiths on the Open Goal podcast slated Dodds' coaching techniques in particular.

Any way - I left around the 70th minute. Fans were still arguing with each other. The guy that was leaving in front of me was almost getting into a physical altercation with another fan as they questioned why he was leaving.

Dreadful, dreadful night and has made me hate East End Park ever since.

Was in the other end, it was freezing and the incidents you mentioned made me stay. Most fans moved up into the upper rows for shelter.

I think that’s the only time I’ve seen a player ask to leave other than for an injury.

The injury seemed to rile our players up and Bell absolutely melted it out of anger. Some goal.

We seem to have a bit of a hex over Dundee at eep. 
 

Edit, only left two games early. Once at Easter road when we were winning in extra time to get the train. Turns out it waited anyway but ran from Easter road to haymarket with my dad and next door neighbour. 
Other time was 1-8 Celtic. Even Lennon scored. Walked out at 8.

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[Empty It]

Surely anyone with half a brain cell from anywhere would see Sevco and Celtic for what they are, bigoted sectarian organisations who's fan base glorify terrorists and think nah why would I want to be associated with that.

Back to the main question never left early which has made me see us on the end of some scuddings.

[kingjoey]

39 minutes ago, G51 said:

 

It's not sad or depressing lads, it's how this works. People are going to support the teams they can engage with most often. I grew up with a guy who was a Hearts fan who could only see his team four times a season. Unsurprisingly, he eventually just lost interest.

If other SPFL teams wanted to capture this market, then the solution was to make all of the games available on TV rather than just every Old Firm away game. But the clubs preferred to protect the 3pm blackout and their local markets. Which is absolutely fine, but don't go crying when you can't build a fanbase outside of your stadiums catchment area.

The worrying thing is that you appear to have taught yourself to believe that shite. 

[kingjoey]

33 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:

Yeah the Aberdeen support that day was incredible, place was a total bear pit.

The Saints support had been weird all day. As I say, normal fans were trying to not get invested as we lost so much, while mixing with folk who didn't give a f**k and were just there to say they'd been.

More passion in the Semi at Ibrox in our end, despite the fact our crowd was about 4 times smaller.

Your crowd was a quarter of the size at Ibrox than at Tynecastle? Are you sure? I actually thought that you had more at Ibrox. More bloody celebrating anyway.

[RandomGuy.]

Just now, kingjoey said:

Your crowd was a quarter of the size at Ibrox than at Tynecastle? Are you sure? I actually thought that you had more at Ibrox. More bloody celebrating anyway.

I don't know exact figures tbh, but memory tells me we sold out the stand at Tynecastle, then barely sold 2000 tickets for the game at Ibrox.

[G51]

12 minutes ago, kingjoey said:

The worrying thing is that you appear to have taught yourself to believe that shite. 

Believe what shite?

It's incredibly hard to discuss this when you simply resort to meaningless, empty sentences. Tell me what part of what I posted is wrong, and why it's wrong.