Is there a planned pitch inspection at all before the game?

Eagleblade says it's fine.

Anyone for bog snorkelling?

Don't panic,Paul Hudson,Says persistent rain til four in south yorkshire,Then dry til the morning

Game is ON atm and will be unless you hear otherwise.

It's ON unless it's OFF, then.

Correct, but it's fully expected to be on.

The pitch nay be playable but what about access roads from Halifax? Are they passable? I guess the crowd could be quite low (500 - 600?)

ESO is quite good at bog snorkelling altough he did once get trapped in the U bend

Would be amazed if M62 isn't passable, might be a little slow through rush hour though. I don't think it'll affect the crowd too much.

That's disgusting! What if someone flushes it?

The Eaglettes won't be doing their stuff - Julie has cancelled it. Looks like there is far too much water on the track.

Not sure we've ever had a match thread go to 7 pages before kick off

Well maybe you young 'uns need to know that as you get older you get more and more obsessed with the weather



The problem may not be moving slowly on the motorways but getting onto them in the 1st place. In the floods of 4 years ago we couldn't get into Sheffield and had to spend the night at Tibshelf Services - something I don't recommend.

Let's try and get 8 pages

I dont envy anyone making the journey down from Halifax, was meant to go there for work today but the roads were all flooded! Trains between Leeds and Sheffield also up the creek.

5 years ago



I managed to get home - 15 hours after i'd set off from Glastonbury, where I had been rained on for 5 days solid. When I did get home the power had gone so I couldn't even have a shower!!

The novelty of seeing Brightside Lane on Sky News wore off after about 10 minutes.

It's only a bit of drizzle,Suns out at Wimbledon,A roof

Suns gone back in.Was nice for that full minute.

South Yorkshire Police twitter:

Police are advising #syorks public to avoid #Meadowhall area and only travel if essential, particularly in low-lying areas #floodaware

thank the lord for 4 x 4's,Stay clear of meadowhall

Who wants to go shopping anyway?

And I wish they'd told me that this morning, I could have got the day off work!!

Any chance of 9 pages?