Speccy you need to move in to the real world, if only it was that easy, the pitch is fit etc... etc.... unless you can prove this then I suggest you don't raise people's expectations. In reality at 7.30am this morning it was -7 just 400 yards from the stadium, and no covers can keep that level of frost out, the stadium is exposed and located in an area prone to cold mean temperatures, I know as I live very close by. I like everyone hope the match is on, not least as work commitments would mean I would miss any re-arranged fixture next week but we need to be realistic and as mentioned elsewhere dependent on where you look Saturday shows temperatures down to similar levels and heavy snow. We will have to wait and see but anyone who thinks the game is 100% certain to go ahead "come what may" is living in denial - mind you as usual so are the Club, is it really too much to ask that they put an update on the website? Thought so .......

ITV weather's saying a max and min of 6C and heavy rain, whereas BBC's saying 2 max and light snow. They seem to change all the time though. Really hope it isn't postponed, it'd be pretty disastrous if it was.

it's on telly
it will not be postponed
simples.

I see we have a new 'friend,The Realist.Two postings so far,both very negative,I wonder where he has popped up from,I think we all know.

anyone remember the March 2006 game against Wigan ?

Speccy the clue is in the name I think and where am I from - Manchester though what relevance that has I'm not sure. And negative no - as I said earlier no-one wants the game on more than I do but if the forecast is right then we have a problem, I for one hope it is wrong.

under 20's fixture between Salford & Cas has been pulled

The latest forecast for M30 is for -4C Friday night, with light snow on Saturday and temperatures rising to 2C for the afternoon and evening.

Better not be called off, i have sold my City ticket

you can get another one for £20

BBC NW now forecasting 2-5cm of snow on Saturday in low lying areas.

Everyone down to the ground early with your shovels it is then, we could have a snowman building contest outside, though with any mention of snow at a rugby ground you'd have to beat Hock to the line

Anyone see how heavy the forecast snow was on the national BBC forecast? Blimey. I love snowy weather, but hope they're wrong for saturday at least.

yeah its lucky we are situated on a main road by a busy motorway so i cant see the roads iceing over much they will keep the pitch covered for as long as possible i recon

On Monday the late weather forecast on BBC put up a graph to show what the temperature could be this weekend and basically it could be 7C or -2C depending on the strength of the winds from the west and east.

So if we could get DI,LT,MM & PT on the pitch from 4.00pm the game would be definitely on?No hot air blowers needed.

Latest GFS output going for a max of -1c during Saturday and 10cm of snow in the afternoon. May just be easing off by the time the game starts..where are they going to have their warm up?

BBC has the snow arriving after 3pm, not sure which would be best.

Just get the orange balls out and get on with it. We're 3 from 3

The thing is, although there is a reasonable amount of sense in not laying undersoil heating for a potential 2 month window in a summer sport, we will be hugely laughed at and widely derided if the first game proper in a new stadium is weather affected.

I suppose it depends how heavily it snows. If it causes a logistics problem for sky and supporters getting to the game then you can't blame not having underfloor heating.

I presume hat the stadium owners never envisaged a footie club ever playing there so felt there was no need.

Or didn't want to spent a penny beyond the minimum on the pesky sports related stuff next to the nice conferencing facility.

Apparently Langtree Park (an excellent looking facility, of which I think most of us are at least a little bit jealous of) doesn't have undersoil heating either.

-6 in Leeds last night,pitch protected by old style covers,pitch used by the rugby union side over the winter and Leeds have confirmed this morning that their game goes ahead with no problems.Our game is in no danger,stop worrying,record crowd,big travelling contingent,carnival atmosphere,close,competitive game,with a Salford win - enjoy.

Hmmm in no danger, what a reassuring and rational comment; let's see, 10cms of snow forecast, -9 at the stadium at 7.30am this morning, -6/-7 for a solid 8 hours last night which no covers can cope with, weather warnings in place and sporting events falling by the wayside every minute - if you need to know how good covers are long term then read the below - these are state of the art covers put down a week ago to keep the frost out .......

[iSaturday's meeting at Sandown has been abandoned due to a frozen track.

Clerk of the course Andrew Cooper inspected the track at 8am and was forced to call off the meeting, which was due to feature Champion Hurdle hopeful Binocular amongst others.

Cooper and his team had covered the track earlier in the week to give the meeting every chance of going ahead.

However, the covers failed to beat a series of cold nights and Cooper admitted it had not been too tough a decision to call off the fixture.

He said: "It's obviously disappointing but I think, to be fair, we probably knew it was going to be an uphill battle at the close of play yesterday.

"It dropped to minus 4C here overnight, but the wind chill has also dropped, so in a way it's not really any worse than it was yesterday.

"We are frozen in places, despite the covers being down, and it was a relatively straightforward decision.

"We're expecting to go up to 2C today but it won't be enough. From where were are now, we need to be hitting 5C or 6C in this time scale[/i

So a horse race being called off in Surrey is proof that an RL game in Salford will be called off. But an RL game in Leeds going ahead proves nothing? Like your logic there

Sandown totally different micro-climate to Salford anyway this morning on the BBC Northwest they put up a graphic stating tomorrow will be 8C with rain, again totally different from the BBC website.