Speccy the clue is in the name I think and where am I from - Manchester though what relevance that has I'm not sure. And negative no - as I said earlier no-one wants the game on more than I do but if the forecast is right then we have a problem, I for one hope it is wrong.

under 20's fixture between Salford & Cas has been pulled

The latest forecast for M30 is for -4C Friday night, with light snow on Saturday and temperatures rising to 2C for the afternoon and evening.

Better not be called off, i have sold my City ticket

you can get another one for £20

BBC NW now forecasting 2-5cm of snow on Saturday in low lying areas.

Everyone down to the ground early with your shovels it is then, we could have a snowman building contest outside, though with any mention of snow at a rugby ground you'd have to beat Hock to the line

Anyone see how heavy the forecast snow was on the national BBC forecast? Blimey. I love snowy weather, but hope they're wrong for saturday at least.

yeah its lucky we are situated on a main road by a busy motorway so i cant see the roads iceing over much they will keep the pitch covered for as long as possible i recon

On Monday the late weather forecast on BBC put up a graph to show what the temperature could be this weekend and basically it could be 7C or -2C depending on the strength of the winds from the west and east.

So if we could get DI,LT,MM & PT on the pitch from 4.00pm the game would be definitely on?No hot air blowers needed.

Latest GFS output going for a max of -1c during Saturday and 10cm of snow in the afternoon. May just be easing off by the time the game starts..where are they going to have their warm up?

BBC has the snow arriving after 3pm, not sure which would be best.

Just get the orange balls out and get on with it. We're 3 from 3

The thing is, although there is a reasonable amount of sense in not laying undersoil heating for a potential 2 month window in a summer sport, we will be hugely laughed at and widely derided if the first game proper in a new stadium is weather affected.

I suppose it depends how heavily it snows. If it causes a logistics problem for sky and supporters getting to the game then you can't blame not having underfloor heating.

I presume hat the stadium owners never envisaged a footie club ever playing there so felt there was no need.

Or didn't want to spent a penny beyond the minimum on the pesky sports related stuff next to the nice conferencing facility.