No its's not. in the old days they would have broken up the ice on the pitch with a pick and just got on with it.

I do remember lots of games at Bradfords Odsal Top being postponed though.

Cue Crackers and Ivor telling us about the season 62 - 63

Tonight I'll mainly be outside hitting icicles with a broom to try to prevent my gutter breaking.

Good times.

Good to se some common sense being used by the club to call the game off early when clearly it's only going to get worse before it gets better.

Gutted for Eorl but safety comes first, going to be around -10 tonight too

I remember playing in weather so cold you had to break the ice on top of the sponge bucket...

Anyway, much better to call it off now I agree. I hope they find a way to reschedule though.

Hit that this morning, at around 6am.

No it's not. This is summer rugby!

Just the one about 8 of us setting off from Crosland Moor to walk to Almondbury [no trolleys could get up Blackmoorfoot Road]. In town some of the 'braver' ones ran the head up and asked if the school was open. He replied 'Yes'. They said 'bugger' and went home! The rest of us caught a bus to Almondbury.

Over to you Crackers.

lets put it all into context..............

well it took a full on 48 hour effort for Stoke City to play Fulham on Tuesday night and heck was it cold.....................

the whole of the site of the britannia was frozen solid and knowing the stadium manager as I do it was down to him and his team working through 2 nites and days solid to clear the roads pathways and walkways to get the game on.............

stoke made around 490k for staging the game on sky plus 160k short notice bonus (we were put on sky at 1pm on the day of the game due to blacburn v villa being off) it was well worth it

the 3 points were more than welcome too

when you think man city v man utd and arsenal v bolton were off too it makes the efforts doubly commendable.

to try and do all this for a friendly RL match would have been crazy..................

Been told they are looking to re-arrange this fixture for either the Tues 19th or Weds 20th Jan depending onground availablity

few weeks ago but one or two things stick in memory

we had a Christmas fixture against St Helens I think (though other events took over!)
and about 20 of us who`d been at Huddersfield New College had helped clear the snow off and cover it with straw to try and get it playable

Think the match was on a Saturday and that it was Christmas Eve cos I was in a "group" then and we were playing at Thongsbridge Drill Hall that night

Went up to ground at about 11-00 am with Mick Nasey ( Underbank RLFC) to clear off the straw but it was bitterley cold and the stand side touchline and about 15metres in hadnt had any sun on it --and the ref called it off -and rightly so

Mick said hed give me a lift into town on his BSA bantam and we turned right at Fartown bar and on Bradford Road towards town

At the junction by the Slubbers (there were no traffic lights then ) a car coming away from the cancelled match was edging out into the road but braked to let us past -but skidded on some black ice and hit us trapping my leg between front bumper and the motorbike and Mick was thrown off over the handlebars as we skidded into the wall at the top of Hillhouse Lane He was badly bruised and shaken - and I spent 4 months in the Infirmary with a broken knee (in traction) and ankle!

The other I remember was either 69 (or maybe 70) when we played Warrington away in the cup -about early Feb I think
The only way over was the A62 through Marsden -all other roads closed--and when we got to the pub at the top (Floating Light??) the blower had been through and the snow was as high as the Hanson coach
When we got to Warrington -there wasnt a spot of snow anywhere to be seen - but on the way back we drove through a blizzard and had difficulty getting back over the tops arriving back in Hudds about 9-00 pm (game finished 4-30pm)

They are two that stick in my memory though may be wrong re the exact details -Ive slept once or twice since then! ( waits for Examiner archives to correct!!)