I guess the title of this thread sums me up. I've decided to give a reasonable account based on comparisions to going to the Hive for football.

So, I treated the day like a normal trip to the Hive to see footy, parked on Honeypot Lane 2:40 and did the 10min walk to the ground. The walk in was a massive difference, no other people walking to the ground, no traffic on Camrose Avenue and no cars waiting to turn into the carpark. The members carpark is normally full on a matchday (150 cars) but on Sat there was 10-20 cars max. I texted the mates I was meeting that the place seemed dead.

Entered the ground and the contrast was huge, crowd looked a reasonable and was buzzing, it was also fairly amusing having stewards trying to direct me to my seats. The six of us Barnet fans all sat in our Barnet members seats just below the temporary timer and the scoreboard that was obviously new and hadnt been there for our game on Tuesday.

Getting a Beer and bringing it back to your seat was a new experience. Home Bar was reasonably busy so we wandered round to the away bar (through the back of the Home bar and turn right) which was empty and got served immediately, I suspect most were unaware that there is second bar).

Enjoyed the game, whilst I can't claim to understand it all I could see that there was some skill on show, apart from a few occasions where Salford broke through the Bronco line I couldn't see a lot of difference and some of the kicking from Broncos caused Salford lots of problems yet Broncos dealt with Salfords kicks comfortably. The crowd was very vocal and having home and away fans mixed in made the atmosphere very different. We didn't take the game seriously and it was nice to watch something where you arent emotionally attached to the result, a mate shouting for the guy to get the ball back after kicking it out of the stadium and me voting for the physio as man of the match pretty much summed us up as being there to enjoy the occasion. I must admit we were distracted by what was happening in Wrexham where the result did matter to us.

Afterwards the bar was lively, nice touch when fans demanded the rugby union game on the tele so they could slag off union.

I will definitely go back fo a couple more games during the season, I know a fair number of Barnet fans who didnt go Sat due to Barnet playing and rugby on the TV but intend to go at some point, probably after the football season has ended.

Now there is a brief that would flummox the glitterati of the advertising world

I see RU and RL get positive publicity in the nationAl press today as leading clubs to invite old men to matches to combat loneliness. Who'd have thought it - community initiatives getting positive press!!

I was thinking more of the way you said it than what you said.

actually Deakin(?) there first CEO, who i think was the driving force behind the bulls name, the cheerleaders and razzamattaz based a lot of his thinking on American sport - he was the early driving force behind the bulls success and no-one should forget how successful they were in the early years of super-league 10,000+ crowds. He then went to the dark side Sarries(?) or Wasps(?) and was pretty successful i think?