once summer rugby started, me and a mate (plus a.n.others) would drive up from sheffield then later from london to arrive about 2/3 hours before ko. usually first in and would lay out on the rooley end, and taking in a 'beverage', wait for the curtain-raiser. once the 'main event' was upon us, would move round to the pop side. odsal certainly is a villain when it wants to be but when the weather is right its glorious

I got to experience Odsals micro climate in one of the first games I went to at Odsal.

Think it was around 1998? We played Leeds and we were in our black away strip. We had every weather imaginable. Glorious sun shine. Rain. Hail. Snow. Wind. All in 80 minutes.

Another one was I think we played Salford in the middle 8s and we were enjoying a superb win in glorious sunshine. Everyone in shorts and t-shirt and then a big dark cloud started to form right over Odsal. You could hear everyone laughing in the stadium wondering if the full-time hooter would go before the heavens opened. Think we were 2 minutes off the final whistle when they did. Drenched doesn't do it justice. Doesn't feel as bad when you win though.

Haha! Exactly! I remember playing Hull on a Saturday afternoon cup game, and the sun was shining when we came into Odsal; then it snowed the entire first half. The Sun came out again at halftime and then when the players came back out it started snowing again.

I also remember the Wigan game where we couldn't see the other end of the pitch for the fog. When we scored we only knew as the ripple of cheers came around the stadium from the people who could see it.

Yes, I remember getting home absolutely soaked and dripping wet - but didn't care a jot because we totally battered Salford that day

One I do remember was a New Years Day fixture against Castleford, must have been around 1974 or 1975. Most of the game was played in a blizzard and in the teeth of a freezing wind. To add to the sense of misery We (Northern) got absolutely smashed by that all-conquering team - the score of 0-33 sticks in the mind....

The Ricki ricket was against Warrington in the cup.

The Saints game in 2003 when we lost 35 nil was even worse started absolutely hammering it down about 15 minutes before kick off. Rained full game and stopped just as hooter sounded.

Yes that's it. Best cock up I've ever seen -probably.

My abiding memory of Odsal rain is when I was stood behind the posts for the game against Cronulla in the 1997 World Club Championship. It absolutely hammered it down for 80 minutes and I haven't been more soaked outside a swimming pool. In fact to this day I leave wet footprints as my body is still trying to expel the Odsal deluge.

I remember the first home league game of super league 1, March 1996 vs cas. Standing on the terrace for the first league game of “summer rugby” at Odsal....and it snowed (sleet mainly) but I remember the laughs and comments around us on the terrace about that being about right for summer rugby at odsal!

Was this the game where it chucked it down so hard, we all got soaked, and on the final try instead of playing the usual bully bully they played singing in the rain? It may be a different match but I remember that distinctly and the laughter from the terraces. I suppose if we were losing it wouldn’t have gone down as well

Odsal really does have its own micro climate. It’s been sunny outside on Rooley lane, I’ve pushed through the turnstiles and it’s been raining.

I’ve seen games that were played in scorching heat with stewards fainting due to the heat and then playing games in a blizzard.

Another fun memory was thick fog. I can’t remember who we were playing but they were camped up on our line under the coral stand. We couldn’t see a thing but someone must have thrown a ball out wide which was picked off. No reaction from the crowd until 26 players burst out of the fog running towards the other side of the pitch.

Remembering one June or July years back when on a Wednesday there was a Yorks v Lancs type "Origin" match at Headingly it was played in one of balmy sunny evenings. Two days later at Odsal on Friday evening the weather changed from warm and sunny to cold windy and it also hailed for a while.
Also when we played the Broncos at Griffin Park? It was a lovely day till just before K O when the clouds rolled in and torrential rain hammered down throughout the match and by the time we got on the Coach going back it was just as sunny with blue sky and only the odd wispy cloud. Those who went to the usual place behind the posts were sodden through, I for some reason that day went into the covered stand!

I think that, for supporters of a certain age, losing to Cas on new year's day was pretty much an annual ritual if I'm honest.