Cold Weather : Mon Jan 30, 2012 10:09 pm  

With cold weather forecast for the rest of the week, have protective measures to keep the pitch playable been employed?

Re: Cold Weather : Mon Jan 30, 2012 10:14 pm  

The pitch was deffo covered today when i glanced over whilst on the m60 Barton Bridge. With the game being shown live on sky , im sure the club will do everything in its power to make sure the game goes ahead

Re: Cold Weather : Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:44 am  

Current forecast is for 9 degrees and rain on Saturday, so freezing shouldn't be a problem.

Re: Cold Weather : Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:28 am  

Things seem to be building nicely.Cold in the night but no problem with the weather for sat.

Re: Cold Weather : Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:09 pm  

Iain wrote:

Current forecast is for 9 degrees and rain on Saturday, so freezing shouldn't be a problem.

More like 1c with a band of snow moving in from the West!

Re: Cold Weather : Tue Jan 31, 2012 3:12 pm  

Stew2 wrote:

More like 1c with a band of snow moving in from the West!

That's why I said current. That was what was on the 5 day on the local news on BBC breakfast. That's now saying 4c and rain/sleet.

Re: Cold Weather : Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:45 pm  

the weather forecast is just some educated guess looking back at previous weather patterns and seeing what the outcome and result of them, but because the earth's weather system is very dynamic things can change in a matter of hours making accurate forecasting nearly impossible for most of Europe. So if you want to see what the weather is like go stand outside.

Re: Cold Weather : Tue Jan 31, 2012 6:04 pm  

Frozen pitch shouldn't be an issue...... between Di, LT, MM & PT there's enough hot air to melt the polar ice caps, never mind thaw our new pitch!

Re: Cold Weather : Tue Jan 31, 2012 6:12 pm  

http://www.salesharks.com/RugbyNewsDetail/article/2594497 Sales game at Stockport on Saturday has been moved from an evening KO to 3pm as a precaution to avoid frozen pitch ..

http://www.salesharks.com/RugbyNewsDetail/article/2594497 Sales game at Stockport on Saturday has been moved from an evening KO to 3pm as a precaution to avoid frozen pitch ..

Re: Cold Weather : Tue Jan 31, 2012 6:34 pm  

SaleSlim wrote:

Frozen pitch shouldn't be an issue...... between Di, LT, MM & PT there's enough hot air to melt the polar ice caps, never mind thaw our new pitch!

Yeah,and the grass will be lovely and green with all the crap you and your back slappers spew out on here.