Anyone from Quins know what the pitch is like?

B***er all snow in Oxfordshire at the moment, but I am led to believe the Ice Age has started down the road.

It's a big green thing with white lines on it.

(Sorry. Couldn't stop myself)

Live 2 miles from the Stoop lots of snow and maybe more this evening.HTH

Cheers - hopefully defrosted for Sunday

Can't speak for TW2, but Central London is fast defrosting and there is only a very slight chance of more snow between now and Sunday. I would suspect the game will go ahead as long as the ice is cleared from the concorse area in front of the East stand where we will all be sitting.
Might be more of a problem for your travelling support getting down here as the forecast along the route isn't too clever.
Good luck to those hardy souls who do attempt the trip down!

got my ski's ready just in case

There's going to be a pitch inspection 9am Saturday to decide if the game will be played. If it's cancelled, when would they fit the game in? Would it have to be midweek?

maybe a challenge cup weekend if we both get knocked out

[url=http://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/news/4016/QUINS%20GAME%20PITCH%20INSPECTIONPitch inspection Saturday[/url

If the game does fall foul of the weather it has to go back to it's original week 3 slot.

Well I'll find out before I set off then. Either way, I'm sure there'll be more things to do on a weekend in London than say Castleford or St Helens

That would be highly unfair to Bradford IMO.
We were forced to play this weekend because London wanted to play a friendly when we were supposed to be playing.
To make us go all that way mid week and allow London to take up a whole weekend after the start of the season for a friendly would be totally out of order.

If they have to cancel this weekend because the pitch is not up to scratch then they should forfeit their friendly weekend and put the match back where it was supposed to go in the first place.

As things stand with the snow today, will you still be making the journey?

London is due for heavy rain on Sunday while Brighouse/Bradford/Huddersfield are due light snow on Sunday.

I've told my travelling party that if the main roads remain ice free and the game goes ahead, we'll still be going. If the game goes ahead i'll be [url=http://www.twitter.comtwittering[/url the results live and will provide a proper url nearer to the time.

Are the Union Lot playing at the Stoop on Saturday?

When we went to Quins a few weeks ago the pitch was a quagmire, Didn't seem to be draining very well. So could either be too wet, (reason the Celtic game was cancelled) or if its cold will be frozen.

No.

I agree.

Not just any other friendly though - I agree that it seems unfair to mess around the Bulls but I'd be surprised if the Quins/RFL scrap the Manly game unless they absolutely have to.

I'm sorry but it doesn't make a slightest bit of difference for me it's a friendly. It was bad enough having the game moved for it in the first place but to have to possibly play midweek would be a travesty.

Hopefully the game will be on, weather is improving slightly down here so perhaps it won`t be a problem, the ground staff are working hard to keep the pitch in playable condition. I doubt there is any chance or appetite for the Manly game to be cancelled. As for playing mid-week.......from a fan`s perspective it is not a lot different to us having to travel north for Friday night games .......so you can see how that annoys us!!

I don't think it's the travelling midweek that would be unfair on Bradford (although the number of Bradford supporters at the game would be seriously reduced), it's the impact on the team, asking them to play 3 games in a week so Quins can have a friendly. Maybe the game should be moved to the friday of the 'friendly' week, and Quins can still play their friendly if they want and Bradford would play their weekly game as normal.

Of course, let's hope this isn't an issue and the game goes ahead as planned!

No but there is a game at Twickenham on saturday if you want something to watch.

Whilst I agree with your priciple, I would be stunned if that happened given the RFL are using this friendly to attract fans to Harlequins Rugby League. There is talk of Harlequins V NRL champs being the warm up game to the WCC every year from now on (until we win a SL Grand Final that is).
I think that it will be played mid-week, which is unfair to everyone concerned, but more so your players and fans who had no control over this fixture change in the first place.
Let's hope it goes ahead. There is apparently a small army of volunteers from both codes currently shoveling snow off the plastic covers and the forecast for Friday night is no frost (2 degrees), so I think it will......

RL & RU working in harmony

I am shocked too.

Of course it's different if it's played on a Wednesday people will be at work on Thursday.

www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=3787

www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=3787