I think I've said something similar to the captain myself on several occasions! It seems that immediately you pass through security, even with 90 minutes or more before the scheduled departure time and no aircraft in sight, people are queueing at the boarding gate! Everyone has an allocated seat number now so there's absolutely no point and on any Ryanair flight I've been on in the last six months or so the ground crew have organised for people at the back of the queue's bags to go into the hold free of charge. Ryanair is not the scrum it once was but there is a strange obsession with forming queues at boarding gates ridiculously early!