Quote tigertot="tigertot"I do wish people would stop picking on the old girl, Odsal made superleague in the early days, those barmy friday & saturday evenings in the sun, happy days!'"
I couldn't agree more. Odsal was made for summer rugby league, standing on the terraces getting a tan and having a relaxing pint before watching the Bulls and bringing that heart attack one day closer... I strongly believe that there is no better place to watch rugby on a hot summers day than at Odsal.
Unfortunately we've taken the usual half d British approach to to everything... in this case global warming... and have freezing weather and torrential rain throughout summer. This makes Odsal as unappealing as it was 'back in the day' when you'd stand watching a Yorkshire Cup game agains Bramley listening to the noise of a crowd being played over the sound system as tumbleweed blew across the half empty terraces... if not more so because at least in winter you expected to have to wear a scarf and waterproof coat where as in summer it feels morally wrong.
I think the bad weather all started when we returned to the mighty Odsal after the spell at VP. It's as if the Gods, in their anger at our desertion from this magnificent temple to Rugby League, decreed that never again would we bask in the sunlight and everything would be wet and gloomy. All we can keep doing is offering sacrifices to the Gods in hope of their forgiveness. We are to blame for the floods that have swept through the UK in recent years.
Or something.