Re: Odsal weather reminiscences : Tue May 25, 2021 9:18 pm  

Maccbull_BigBullyBooaza wrote:

Wasn’t that a cup game? I watched that on tele on holiday in Portugal. McNamara got array with Tanya Arnold on the bbc when she interviewed him after.

Wrong thread but I also remember another game (think it was against Catalans) at odsal where they kicked off, it bounced in our in goal area and looked to be going dead. Rikki Sheriffe jumped from the field of play to palm it forward back into the ingoal area where the opposition centre dived on it to score.

Back on topic I once got sun stroke after knocking a few back before a cup game against Hull in the mid noughties. I ended up laid in bed shivering afterwards.

The Ricki ricket was against Warrington in the cup.

Re: Odsal weather reminiscences : Tue May 25, 2021 9:22 pm  

Bull Mania wrote:

I got to experience Odsals micro climate in one of the first games I went to at Odsal.

Think it was around 1998? We played Leeds and we were in our black away strip. We had every weather imaginable. Glorious sun shine. Rain. Hail. Snow. Wind. All in 80 minutes.

Another one was I think we played Salford in the middle 8s and we were enjoying a superb win in glorious sunshine. Everyone in shorts and t-shirt and then a big dark cloud started to form right over Odsal. You could hear everyone laughing in the stadium wondering if the full-time hooter would go before the heavens opened. Think we were 2 minutes off the final whistle when they did. Drenched doesn't do it justice. Doesn't feel as bad when you win though.

The Saints game in 2003 when we lost 35 nil was even worse started absolutely hammering it down about 15 minutes before kick off. Rained full game and stopped just as hooter sounded.

Re: Odsal weather reminiscences : Wed May 26, 2021 7:55 am  

redeverready wrote:

The Ricki ricket was against Warrington in the cup.

Yes that's it. Best cock up I've ever seen -probably.

[Bullseye]

Re: Odsal weather reminiscences : Wed May 26, 2021 9:38 am  

ChinaBull wrote:

wernt there just over 1000 there also wasnt it midweek game ... i remember this one because my grandad, who took me and my dad left at ht from the cold. win's a win

Yes it was a Regal Trophy/JPS Cup game IIRC. There weren't many there.

[Pumpetypump]

Re: Odsal weather reminiscences : Wed May 26, 2021 10:25 am  

My abiding memory of Odsal rain is when I was stood behind the posts for the game against Cronulla in the 1997 World Club Championship. It absolutely hammered it down for 80 minutes and I haven't been more soaked outside a swimming pool. In fact to this day I leave wet footprints as my body is still trying to expel the Odsal deluge.

Re: Odsal weather reminiscences : Thu May 27, 2021 7:41 am  

I remember the first home league game of super league 1, March 1996 vs cas. Standing on the terrace for the first league game of “summer rugby” at Odsal....and it snowed (sleet mainly) but I remember the laughs and comments around us on the terrace about that being about right for summer rugby at odsal!

Re: Odsal weather reminiscences : Thu May 27, 2021 6:10 pm  

Bull Mania wrote:

Another one was I think we played Salford in the middle 8s and we were enjoying a superb win in glorious sunshine. Everyone in shorts and t-shirt and then a big dark cloud started to form right over Odsal. You could hear everyone laughing in the stadium wondering if the full-time hooter would go before the heavens opened. Think we were 2 minutes off the final whistle when they did. Drenched doesn't do it justice. Doesn't feel as bad when you win though.

Was this the game where it chucked it down so hard, we all got soaked, and on the final try instead of playing the usual bully bully they played singing in the rain? It may be a different match but I remember that distinctly and the laughter from the terraces. I suppose if we were losing it wouldn’t have gone down as well

Re: Odsal weather reminiscences : Thu May 27, 2021 6:15 pm  

Odsal really does have its own micro climate. It’s been sunny outside on Rooley lane, I’ve pushed through the turnstiles and it’s been raining.

I’ve seen games that were played in scorching heat with stewards fainting due to the heat and then playing games in a blizzard.

Another fun memory was thick fog. I can’t remember who we were playing but they were camped up on our line under the coral stand. We couldn’t see a thing but someone must have thrown a ball out wide which was picked off. No reaction from the crowd until 26 players burst out of the fog running towards the other side of the pitch.

Re: Odsal weather reminiscences : Fri May 28, 2021 6:41 am  

Remembering one June or July years back when on a Wednesday there was a Yorks v Lancs type "Origin" match at Headingly it was played in one of balmy sunny evenings. Two days later at Odsal on Friday evening the weather changed from warm and sunny to cold windy and it also hailed for a while.
Also when we played the Broncos at Griffin Park? It was a lovely day till just before K O when the clouds rolled in and torrential rain hammered down throughout the match and by the time we got on the Coach going back it was just as sunny with blue sky and only the odd wispy cloud. Those who went to the usual place behind the posts were sodden through, I for some reason that day went into the covered stand!

Re: Odsal weather reminiscences : Fri May 28, 2021 11:28 am  

[quote="Bullseye"]ChinaBull's post on the return to Odsal thread got me thinking - see below:



"Bad fog too for the 1986 Kangaroos - if it'd been any other game it would've been postponed. I remember it peeing down that night too so you got soaked and saw bugger all - we lost 0-38. "


One of my earlier memories is also of playing the Kangaroos in thick fog, but this was in the early to mid 1970's. We actually climbed over the barriers from the paddock on the main stand side and stood on the speedway track to try and at least get a glimpse of play.

In more recent years the first home game vs either Whitehaven or Workington in 2017 was absolutely freezing. In stark contrast the previous game I'd been to was an NRL play off fixture in Melbourne between the Storm and the Sharks.
Also got utterly soaked standing on the popular side when Toulouse nilled us a couple of years ago. The rain actually kept the score down that day.