Re: Giving up home advantage : Fri Dec 05, 2014 5:24 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

Coldest spot in RL was Thrum Hall - possibly, maybe, arguably trumped by Watersheddings...depending on which way the wind was blowing. Always find it a bit sad to lose the old grounds, to be honest, but div 2 definitely go a bit warmer when they went..

Don't remember that Bentley chap at Thrum Hall, I thought he was later at the Shay? Colin Dixon and Charlie Renilson were the sort of names I remember from the the TH days.

You can not be serious!

Thrum Hall was bleeding tropical compared with Odsal.

[Bulliac]

Re: Giving up home advantage : Fri Dec 05, 2014 5:56 pm  

Odsal has its own microclimate that is certainly true and could be cold enough for anyone to be fair but, talking of plain, simple, perishing cold, to compare it with those frozen arctic environments stuck on the side of the hill [either Watersheddings or Thrum Hall], in the words of the famous oracle John McEnroe - "you cannot be serious"!

Re: Giving up home advantage : Sat Dec 06, 2014 5:14 am  

Fax Machine wrote:

You can not be serious!

Thrum Hall was bleeding tropical compared with Odsal.

It wasn't, of course, not being up a mountain an' all, but the thing is once you got in to Thrum Hall, you could find the shelter of a roof and as long as you stayed put, you had some protection from the elements. Whereas the wide open terraces of the Odsal bowl are not a fun place to be when there's an icy wind ripping hail or snow around.

Re: Giving up home advantage : Sun Dec 07, 2014 10:08 pm  

Good job we have summer rugby now - even if it does start in the winter!

Fingers crossed that next season we will have a team which will be able to give the opposition a warm welcome