Anyone know how likely next weekend's friendly will be if the weather keeps up like this?

If it stays like this....very likely. If it warms up, the snow partially melts, and then refreezes.....iffy.

Biggest issue might not be the pitch or even inside the ground itself, but fans being able to get to the game

Can't see there being an issue, Saints v Wakefield is going ahead this arvo, plenty of games went ahead in far worse conditions round 1 last year. Just as long as we don't use Catalan logic and water the pitch a few hours before kick off!

Can see a shout out for volunteers mid week to help clean the pitch if it stays like this. Fingers crossed it goes ahead.

I'm sure they would get them as well given the service and number of 100% games Bennie puts in.

have they considered covering the pitch,after all the season starts proper in 2 weeks

The groundsmen get a nice pay packet to think about these things, I am sure it is all under control.

well the game should go ahead then,snow need to panic then

At the moment, it is. 2 inches of snow will actually offer more protection than a sheet of polywhatever.

The weather report on the BBC for the week is below freezing most days and the covers cant go on the pitch as they won't protect it and will damage the new grass when its taken off. It's unfortunately not likely to go ahead unless the weather greatly improves.

Braziers are the future.

Really hope the weather picks up. He'll get a really good crowd if it does, going to struggle to even play the game otherwise, to say nothing of the fact that we won't have played a proper warm up game before the season (soz widnes).

Also, I'm on baby duty all weekend and the game is my respite (he's going to his grandmas whilst I go the mmatch)

A high of 5 degrees is the current forecast for Saturday - that should suffice shouldn't it?

Mr Gatcliffe has said the club will look at the pitch on Thursday so until then no one knows. I'd be gutted for Bennie if the game was called off.

Looking at the long range forecast the weather does get a little bit better Friday & Saturday.
Perhaps the game could be played Sunday?