Swindon's home game with Stockport on Saturday could be the latest to fall victim to the cold weather.

The League One club have not been able to bring in heaters and the cold weather has left the pitch frozen.

Groundsman Marcus Cassidy told BBC Radio Swindon he could be fighting a losing battle for the league game.

"Given the current forecast, we look to be struggling at the moment. Temperatures aren't going to rise enough for the frost to come out."

"The pitch is frozen all over and the frost is probably three to four inches deep," Cassidy said.

"We've just got to hope and pray that temperatures do rise and the forecast is slightly wrong."

If the game is called off, Danny Wilson's team will have gone three weeks without a game.

Swindon have already had to rearrange games against Hartlepool and Millwall because of their opponents' FA Cup commitments.

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"It has been an interesting journey - there's no question of that.

"We found some things in the woodwork that we hadn't anticipated and we have had to clear them up.

"And some of those issues have been quite painful, financially, to address.

"But we've addressed them and we now need to move on.

"As I've always said, the component parts are the same as in any business.

"You've got a finance department, sales and marketing department, personnel department, operations department and administration department.

"The product goes on display on a Saturday afternoon between 3pm and 4.45pm and, unlike manufacturing, when you can control the output of the machine, sometimes you cannot control what happens on a Saturday afternoon. And that can impact quite severely.

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Planting seeds may not be the easiest thing to do at this time of year, but new Swindon Town boss Danny Wilson has been trying to do just that.

While some fans would contend that getting into the heads of the Robins' squad is a task akin to driving a spade through frozen ground, Wilson is trying to make the best of a tough job.
The big freeze has driven Swindon's players inside. Physical training has continued at nearby Cirencester Arena but, as Lee Peacock revealed in Tuesday's Western Daily Press, Wilson's work has been more on the technical side.

"Everywhere outside is frozen over and we have been going to the Arena at Cirencester. We are a bit restricted but we have been doing technical work with them," said the new manager.

"We have been trying to plant little seeds in their minds. Showing them out on a grass pitch has been difficult so we have been talking to them, getting feedback and demonstrating things.

"Hopefully by the time we get the players back out on the grass then they will have a fair inkling of what we need to do."

Wilson and his fringe players had been hoping yesterday's reserve game at Bristol City would go ahead. But that too fell victim to the conditions.

"It's not a surprise but it is a bit frustrating, from more than one perspective," said Wilson.

"The players wanted a game to have the opportunity to show us what they can do. We will just get on with it.

"We haven't been able to get on to the training ground to use the time we have been afforded. It's prime time really because we didn't have a game on Saturday and wanted to get the players out training and work with them."