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Always interested to hear of people’s first game, but more intrigued to understand what they thought of the whole thing. Here’s mine:-
Home game v Slough Jets while we were in the Heineken era (year before we were promoted to the top league).
Was basically mooting around Cardiff with some mates and saw this massive queue outside the WNIR. Got talking to a chap in the queue and he explained there was a game tonight! Decided to queue up and get a ticket to see what the fuss was about with one of my mates (whilst the others decided the call of the beer was more important - poor call). Didn’t have a clue what to expect, didn’t even know the rules! Had a standing ticket at the cafe end right next to the Slough fans. Great atmosphere building up to face off and the place was rammed. Never seen anything quite like the intro before, so was looking forward to seeing how the game planned out. Slough fans were very loud, but also quite funny which was entertaining. Enjoyed the first period, but recall thinking why so many of the players were doing all the work (the imports) and majority of the others were just taking it easy on the bench
Great game, we won, I think it ended 5-4 or something like that - thought the whole thing was a bit mental but although I didn’t have a clue whether I just watched something amazing, mediocre or poor, was immediately hooked. It all made a lot more sense after getting a book from the library and reading the rules (no internet in those days).
Home game v Slough Jets while we were in the Heineken era (year before we were promoted to the top league).
Was basically mooting around Cardiff with some mates and saw this massive queue outside the WNIR. Got talking to a chap in the queue and he explained there was a game tonight! Decided to queue up and get a ticket to see what the fuss was about with one of my mates (whilst the others decided the call of the beer was more important - poor call). Didn’t have a clue what to expect, didn’t even know the rules! Had a standing ticket at the cafe end right next to the Slough fans. Great atmosphere building up to face off and the place was rammed. Never seen anything quite like the intro before, so was looking forward to seeing how the game planned out. Slough fans were very loud, but also quite funny which was entertaining. Enjoyed the first period, but recall thinking why so many of the players were doing all the work (the imports) and majority of the others were just taking it easy on the bench
Great game, we won, I think it ended 5-4 or something like that - thought the whole thing was a bit mental but although I didn’t have a clue whether I just watched something amazing, mediocre or poor, was immediately hooked. It all made a lot more sense after getting a book from the library and reading the rules (no internet in those days).