Leaving the Brum game early

[AthleticoSpizz]

There was no way i was going to be inside the ground when the full time whistle went and seeing loads of Brummies celebrating.

why not??


all gods children in football there will always be more disappointment than glory


seriously....we are all part of the footballing family...the reading Players came onto the pitch, and witnessed the party that could be theirs in a few weeks


surprised just how muted it was for the Brum team and fans (their stand half empty when they came back out)

[willz_royal]

Agreed^^^^^^^^^^^^

+1

[Rawlie19]

LOL at Cardiff! before I start.

Sad to see our "johnnny come lately rapscallions" leaving early.

Sad to see so many "fans" missing (some of you have the gaul to post on here) when the Royals finally came out for their (non) lap of honour.


Credit to the Reading fans who had the dignity to clap off the Brum team.....and the Brum players who clapped back.


Been there, done it, both sides of the coin.................nice to be one of the football family


...and we have a 2 game season to look forward to!


....back to Cardiff lol

It wasn't the last game of the season at the Mad though. That's when I would have expected a lap of honour, after we fail to make it to Wembley. Who the fcuk are you to say when someone can and can't leave the stadium?!? Sure, it pisses me off when people leave before the end of the game and get in the way of those that want to stay and watch it all, but to have a got at those that decide they'd quite like to get home WHEN THE GAME HAS ACTUALLY FINISHED, and especially not stay and watch a team celebrate being promoted AT OUR EXPENSES remember. Fcuking hell, this board never ceases to amaze.

I corrected your penultimate sentence.

[RFCMod]

LOL at Cardiff! before I start.

Sad to see our "johnnny come lately rapscallions" leaving early.

Sad to see so many "fans" missing (some of you have the gaul to post on here) when the Royals finally came out for their (non) lap of honour.


Credit to the Reading fans who had the dignity to clap off the Brum team.....and the Brum players who clapped back.


Been there, done it, both sides of the coin.................nice to be one of the football family


...and we have a 2 game season to look forward to!


....back to Cardiff lol

It wasn't the last game of the season at the Mad though. That's when I would have expected a lap of honour, after we fail to make it to Wembley. Who the fcuk are you to say when someone can and can't leave the stadium?!? Sure, it pisses me off when people leave before the end of the game and get in the way of those that want to stay and watch it all, but to have a got at those that decide they'd quite like to get home WHEN THE GAME HAS ACTUALLY FINISHED, and especially not stay and watch a team celebrate being promoted AT OUR EXPENSES remember. Fcuking hell, this board never ceases to amaze.

I corrected your penultimate sentence.

Rawlie don't get wound up over this
This same old question comes up again and again about people leaving early

The answer is that as long as people don't get in the way of others who want to stay then its their prerogative
RL will tell you that I normally leave every game with 8 minutes left,thats my choice I want an extra beer and to get back into town quicker on the first bus

[West Stand Man]

I can't believe all this concern over the lack of a lap of honour by the Reading team.

- firstly it was't the final home game of the season; and
- secondly, it would have been simply rude to intrude on the justified celebrations of the team that had just been promoted.

Let's just accept that this was not our day it was B'ham's. Our day will come (maybe soon, maybe in another season).

[CMRoyal]

North end of your lounge more like. If you were there can you tell me how many fans were left when the players did their lap of honour and what were their names? (the fans not the players
I can tell you the players didn't do a lap of honour....

Well Marcus did, and then Doobs and Harps strolled round. Other than that they just stood looking a bit sheepish in the middle of the pitch

Yes embarrassing wasn't it

Yes it was


so was the paltry few that remained after the game


some of you are a funking disgrace


but I guess, it was one of those games that you actually turn up to (and to the "regulars" just what was so good on Sunday night tv ?.....

Personally, given that the season's not over I couldn't see the point either of the players doing a lap of honour or of us hanging around to see it considering we'll be watching them at least twice more this season.

[Royal Lady]

I can confirm that due to arriving after match has started due to drinking, going to toilet during game due to drinking, leaving a few minutes before half time to get some beers in, getting back to seat after second half has started due to drinking and leaving before the end of the game so he can be back at the pub for a few beers, RFC Mod sees about 40 mins of each home game!

[rabidbee]

Ended up in the South Stand for this, due to poor planning. Great view from the back row, though - right behind the goal. Some guy in the middle of the block got up and berated everyone around him for not showing enough commitment after their first goal. As soon as the ball hit the back of the net the second time, he and his mate up and left, and didn't return. I took great pleasure in climbing up on my seat to hurl invective at him as he walked around the back of the stand after Matty's scored.

Cock.

[RFCMod]

I can confirm that due to arriving after match has started due to drinking, going to toilet during game due to drinking, leaving a few minutes before half time to get some beers in, getting back to seat after second half has started due to drinking and leaving before the end of the game so he can be back at the pub for a few beers, RFC Mod sees about 40 mins of each home game!

Scandalous

Im always in my seat for kick off now
I never go for a pee during the game
Yes a few minutes before half time and a few before full time
I'd go with generally seeing 79 minutes of a game

[Man Friday]

I was sitting next to a bloke who was biting his nails constantly throughout the whole game. If that's you - get a grip!

(Sorry - nothing to do with leaving early but I had to mention this.)

[gh7901]

Ended up in the South Stand for this, due to poor planning. Great view from the back row, though - right behind the goal. Some guy in the middle of the block got up and berated everyone around him for not showing enough commitment after their first goal. As soon as the ball hit the back of the net the second time, he and his mate up and left, and didn't return. I took great pleasure in climbing up on my seat to hurl invective at him as he walked around the back of the stand after Matty's scored.

Cock.

LOL

I was also in the south, first time there for me and there were certainly some 'characters'

My personal favourite was the guy in a Cisse shirt who also left after the 2nd goal (perhaps it was the same guy?!) and stopped on every single step to shout 'oxf*rd off' to the Brum fans. A very angry man. Certainly cheered me and everyone around me up

[Schards#2]

Ended up in the South Stand for this, due to poor planning. Great view from the back row, though - right behind the goal. Some guy in the middle of the block got up and berated everyone around him for not showing enough commitment after their first goal. As soon as the ball hit the back of the net the second time, he and his mate up and left, and didn't return. I took great pleasure in climbing up on my seat to hurl invective at him as he walked around the back of the stand after Matty's scored.

Cock.

LOL

I was also in the south, first time there for me and there were certainly some 'characters'

My personal favourite was the guy in a Cisse shirt who also left after the 2nd goal (perhaps it was the same guy?!) and stopped on every single step to shout 'oxf*rd off' to the Brum fans. A very angry man. Certainly cheered me and everyone around me up

I simply can't get that wound up about football any more. I doesn't matter anything likenas much as it once did. I think it's to do with having achieved the lifetime ambition of seeing top flight football that it just doesn't seem to meanas much now.

I had a couple of Brum fans dancing in front of my car on the A33 (I was in a shirt ) and just smiled at them whereas a few years back i'd have been fuming inside.

[The 17 Bus]

I hope to like going to football again one day, but i cant see it happening, unless we get a team of locals back, and they play for RFC with all their hearts.

[CMRoyal]

Sounds like what we really need is relegation to League One. Just to give the old aspirational side of following the team a bit of a re-boot.

[Sun Tzu]

I hope to like going to football again one day, but i cant see it happening, unless we get a team of locals back, and they play for RFC with all their hearts.

Blimey

Has that been the case since the late 1900's ?

Teams stopped being full of locals when the Scots moved down to start off the era of professionals !

When did we last have more than 3 or 4 locals as first team regulars ? And do the likes of Karacan pss the 'local' test or does being born in the RBH become an essential prerequisite ?

[Silver Fox]

However, there was virtually nobody left (Reading fans) to salute to (a f11cking disgrace on most of your parts......some of you freely post on here....what was the rush to get home?)....and we still have another home game.

How about you just oxf*rd off? I left with about 3 minutes left of injury time, mainly because we were shit and the result was irrelevant. Why the oxf*rd would I want to salute a team I am going to watch twice (possibly thrice) more times this season?

^greed, apart from the fact athleticospazz makes the same point by saying that we still have another home game. I left on the final whistle and gave Brum a smattering of applause on my way out, I'm actually amazed to find out that there was any sort of lap of honour for our players and that anyone actually stayed for such a thing, maybe they had a bit of weak lemon drink left in their thermoses?

[The 17 Bus]

I hope to like going to football again one day, but i cant see it happening, unless we get a team of locals back, and they play for RFC with all their hearts.

Blimey

Has that been the case since the late 1900's ?

Teams stopped being full of locals when the Scots moved down to start off the era of professionals !

When did we last have more than 3 or 4 locals as first team regulars ? And do the likes of Karacan pss the 'local' test or does being born in the RBH become an essential prerequisite ?

well yeah, but you know, players that came from us and want to be here, Karacan, pearce, Henry, Kelly, church all kind afit the role, add asmattering of old lags and long servers and thats the kind of team i like to watch, so long as all want to be here, rather than elsewhere.

[Maguire]

I can confirm that due to arriving after match has started due to drinking, going to toilet during game due to drinking, leaving a few minutes before half time to get some beers in, getting back to seat after second half has started due to drinking and leaving before the end of the game so he can be back at the pub for a few beers, RFC Mod sees about 40 mins of each home game!

Sounds familiar. I was almost at the buses when the final whistle went on Sunday - remember thinking "crikey, that whistle's loud". Full of such interesting musings, me.

[RoyalBlue]

I was sitting next to a bloke who was biting his nails constantly throughout the whole game. If that's you - get a grip!

(Sorry - nothing to do with leaving early but I had to mention this.)

I thought Coppell normally moves down to the dugout for the second half!

[Jerry St Clair]

When did we last have more than 3 or 4 locals as first team regulars ?

In the 90s.

Williams, Taylor, Lambert, Lovell.