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.

The BBC Weather forecast always mirror's the Met Office website. The Met Office are forecasting -4C overnight with heavy snow between 3pm and 9pm tomorrow and a temperature high of 1C around 12pm, dropping to 0 C.

Unless they've got it wrong, it looks very doubtful to me.

im pretty worried with the snow moving in from the west,we at cas have had the set off time for the coaches moved back an hour to a 3pm set off has they are anticipating a rough ride over the pennines,a few things that will need to be considered is how do the fans get there and back safely and what will the viwers be able to see if the snow is has heavy has predicted.

i have a feeling the game will be off if the snow is has bad has they are saying but hope im wrong.

I can see the snow being the bigger issue. But we played Wigan in plenty of snow in 2006 - so the issue is less about the actual game of rugby and more about how the public generally panic at the sight of a snowflake and the roads get clogged. If Sky are there early, and the players get there, sky won't give a toss about others getting there as long as they can show a game even if the pitch is white. I don't think they make orange balls any more so the TV spectacle may be somewhat reduced by the invisibility of the ball when it's not in a player' hands.

Pretty sure they've had undersoil heating for decades!

I thought that they tore it up a few years ago after having lots of problems with the pitch.

I seem to remember a white field with green touch lines

The trend is to pass on undersoil heating systems. It costs around £4000 a day to run and knackers the pitch long-term.

Quote ="redmatt77"I seem to remember a white field with green touch lines '" Aye. There's a cracking panorama somewhere (from Diavolo Rosso if I remember rightly) although I can't find where it is. EDIT: Found it. Or at least, a reduced version of it anyway. I'm sure I've seen it bigger. www.flickr.com/photos/8546672@N0 ... 63208@N20/

Quote ="redmatt77"I seem to remember a white field with green touch lines '" Aye. There's a cracking panorama somewhere (from Diavolo Rosso if I remember rightly) although I can't find where it is. EDIT: Found it. Or at least, a reduced version of it anyway. I'm sure I've seen it bigger. www.flickr.com/photos/8546672@N0 ... 63208@N20/

Cas fans being advised it's still on. Can't do owt about the snow but otherwise looking good (But still I'm not convinced!!)

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Don't worry,The Realist will pop off back to Cheshire after sat.By the way,Leeds took out their undersoil heating about 6 yrs ago and don't forget the Leeds game doesn't kick off until 8.00pm.

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Anyone remember going to a pre SL New Years Day fixture at Odsal ,
when it wasn't below freezing



Judging by the state of the Headingley Pitch , their undersoil heating consisted of clay pipes , where they sent small warm blooded mammals ( ferrets & Weasels ) down when it got braw..
they had to abandon it when their ferret wangler retired.
Occassionally a lost weasel suddenly turns up on the pitch mid game ...

Good point - lets hope someone has sourced whether available

might have to set up camp in the airport bar and ration provisions
maybe get Captain Oates a drink or two

On another note, if you all think back to amount of problems Salford have faced in getting the new ground sorted, public enquiries, credit crunch, change of planning law, casino idea taken from us etc etc etc
would it really surprise anybody with this luck that we get 6 foot of snow and the first game is OFF