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

Was thinking the same thing, it wouldn't be Salford if there wasn't a hiccough at the last minute.

Just talking about that the other day, feckin' horrible day topped of by one reds getting hit by some old deer with her umbrella IIRC



Just waved *Lady In Red* off to work and there was no need to scrape any ice off the car as there is none, fresh yes, frozen nope!

Jesus wept man at this time on a Saturday you must be going back inside to clean the poo of your bedsheets.

www.accuweather.com/en/gb/barton ... 838?hour=8 Suggests snow will fall at Barton early afternoon, then be sleety after that. If it does fall at those times it should be fine for playing - let's just hope it doesn't put people off coming - knowing how some react to a bit of snow.

www.accuweather.com/en/gb/barton ... 838?hour=8 Suggests snow will fall at Barton early afternoon, then be sleety after that. If it does fall at those times it should be fine for playing - let's just hope it doesn't put people off coming - knowing how some react to a bit of snow.

Forecast is not looking great. Snow and more snow. Hopefully it wont stick.

No mither:

Facebook page says ref has inspected the pitch and the game is DEFINITELY ON

Snow just started.

NO-SHIT-SHERLOCK

Not looking too promising
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