Re: Pre season. : Thu Dec 15, 2022 3:34 pm  

BESTY wrote:

I wonder what Hoy and Clifford are making of the weather.

Bet they think it's cold

Re: Pre season. : Thu Dec 15, 2022 10:45 pm  

BESTY wrote:

I wonder what Hoy and Clifford are making of the weather.

bit of luck, this cold spell will be the coldest this winter, may as well get aclimatised now

Re: Pre season. : Thu Dec 15, 2022 10:53 pm  

number 6 wrote:

bit of luck, this cold spell will be the coldest this winter, may as well get aclimatised now

February and March might have something to say about COLD. Nowt compared to 1947, 1964 and 2011. My daughter’s birthday is mid April and we’ve had snowball fights to celebrate it. A cricket match in Derbyshire was snowed off in 1976, The summer of all summers

Re: Pre season. : Fri Dec 16, 2022 11:17 am  

worst winter of all was 1962/63.continuous snow on the ground from boxing day till mid march.decimated rugby league fixtures for 3 months,games were still being rearranged for late may.

Re: Pre season. : Fri Dec 16, 2022 2:28 pm  

Armavinit wrote:

February and March might have something to say about COLD. Nowt compared to 1947, 1964 and 2011. My daughter’s birthday is mid April and we’ve had snowball fights to celebrate it. A cricket match in Derbyshire was snowed off in 1976, The summer of all summers

last winter was quite mild compared to the beginning of this winter, not just for rugbys' sake but for everyone struggling to heat their homes, lets hope we have a similar one

Re: Pre season. : Fri Dec 16, 2022 3:25 pm  

number 6 wrote:

last winter was quite mild compared to the beginning of this winter, not just for rugbys' sake but for everyone struggling to heat their homes, lets hope we have a similar one

But coldest December since 2010!

Re: Pre season. : Fri Dec 16, 2022 5:29 pm  

fosdyke99 wrote:

worst winter of all was 1962/63.continuous snow on the ground from boxing day till mid march.decimated rugby league fixtures for 3 months,games were still being rearranged for late may.

Sorry, your quite right 1963 it was. There were some flat top garages near Bean Street, we climbed on top of them and jumped into the snow drifts.

Re: Pre season. : Sat Dec 17, 2022 4:24 pm  

Shaw totally writing us off, grading our recruitment at a C and having us 11th below Leigh, we won't win the league, but I'm very confident we will at do better than that.

Recruitment is much better than a C on paper, big improvement than last season, player for player.

Re: Pre season. : Sat Dec 17, 2022 4:34 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Shaw totally writing us off, grading our recruitment at a C and having us 11th below Leigh, we won't win the league, but I'm very confident we will at do better than that.

Recruitment is much better than a C on paper, big improvement than last season, player for player.

wouldn't worry about Rovers fan boys' predictions! (Dobbins 5th proves that!), he has history of negativity with FC!

Re: Pre season. : Sat Dec 17, 2022 4:41 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Shaw totally writing us off, grading our recruitment at a C and having us 11th below Leigh, we won't win the league, but I'm very confident we will at do better than that.

Recruitment is much better than a C on paper, big improvement than last season, player for player.

Thought it was Appleyard who wrote those articles first time I saw them