I would think twice about attending a game in January beacuse of cold termperatures e.g. only the DW and a few SL clubs have accsess to undersoil heating my advice to fanatics check the look at the weather forecast

i would assume most clubs have the frost sheets though and the only general problem would be the surrounding area of the ground and terraces

Was cold last night but we've barely had a frost all winter. Certainly nowt to get a game called off. I reckon Waterlogging been more of an issue this year.

The undersoil heating works great at the LSV so the Leigh game is guaranteed not to have a frozen pitch & will be able to go ahead hopefully we'll see quite a few of you there on the 27th

Anyone remember that Boxing Day when someone on Central Park ground staff forgot to turn the undersoil heating on? Think it was 1993 and meant Wigan nearly missed out on a 26,000 festive crowd. Think someone paid with their job didn't they?

Leigh is the coldest place in the northern hemisphere - Fact!!

il give it a bodyswerve thanks.



Hull KR yes, Leigh No..

Can I challenge this with Odsal - Feb 2011?

The coldest I have EVER been

Watersheddings Oldham. The coldest I have ever known.
The day Henry Paul and a couple of other players were treated for hypothermia. I think it was a Regal Trophy / JPS round.

Wasn't it v Bradford in the "mission impossible" season (1990 - 91)?

Rogues, am fairly sure it was Boxing Day. Think we had to replay that Bradford game in '91 because the original had been fogged off

You've been back north of the border for a while, have you?!

Yeah thats right. Boxing Day 1993 - You can see it on yoo tube if you search that on there! Dunno if someone lost their job though.

A December 8th home match with Hull in 1985 had been postponed due to us playing in the John Player Quarter Finals and Maurice decided he'd cash in over christmas and re-arrange the match on a blank Sunday 29th December nipped in between the traditional Boxing Day v Saints and NY Day v Wire games.

Central Park had been starved of action in the 7 weeks prior to Christmas with only Mansfield visiting for a JPS tie (on Nov 24th) so it was a good idea by Maurice. A bumper crowd would have packed in, but in the end he was left "furiois" Although the Saints home tie on Boxing Day went ahead, the club needed to switch on the newly installed £80,000 pitch heating system for the first time. Suffice to say it failed with Maurice left with huge egg on his face after making boasts about this new system.

The match was called off and eventually played on a Sunday afternoon in March, 24 hours after Great Britain had played France at Central Park.