Coldest spot in RL was Thrum Hall - possibly, maybe, arguably trumped by Watersheddings...depending on which way the wind was blowing. Always find it a bit sad to lose the old grounds, to be honest, but div 2 definitely go a bit warmer when they went..

Don't remember that Bentley chap at Thrum Hall, I thought he was later at the Shay? Colin Dixon and Charlie Renilson were the sort of names I remember from the the TH days.

I think Bentley played in his mittens bet. 92-96 and they moved to t'Shay in 1998?

I have a painful Thrum Hall memory of Bentley picking up the ball next to the corner flag and scoring in the diagonally opposite corner. I don't remember the gloves, just that he was a copper and fast as ....

I have a painful Thrum Hall memory of being in Halifax.

You may well be right FA. I do remember him at the Shay too, I have a feeling he played for Cleckheaton RU and then came back to Fax later in his career and that's maybe what I'm remembering.

You can not be serious!

Thrum Hall was bleeding tropical compared with Odsal.

Odsal has its own microclimate that is certainly true and could be cold enough for anyone to be fair but, talking of plain, simple, perishing cold, to compare it with those frozen arctic environments stuck on the side of the hill [either Watersheddings or Thrum Hall], in the words of the famous oracle John McEnroe - "you cannot be serious"!

It wasn't, of course, not being up a mountain an' all, but the thing is once you got in to Thrum Hall, you could find the shelter of a roof and as long as you stayed put, you had some protection from the elements. Whereas the wide open terraces of the Odsal bowl are not a fun place to be when there's an icy wind ripping hail or snow around.

Good job we have summer rugby now - even if it does start in the winter!

Fingers crossed that next season we will have a team which will be able to give the opposition a warm welcome