Snow-bound Shrewsbury Town searching for training venue

Shropshire rivals AFC Telford United are searching for somewhere suitable too after heavy snow in the county over the weekend.

The snow is around a foot deep at Town's Sundorne Castle training complex, meaning the players have been limited to sessions in the gym.

Hurst is hoping to find somewhere else – ideally an outdoor artificial surface – to prepare for Saturday's game against Blackpool.

“We’ve managed to get almost all of the players in, which was the first concern," Hurst told the club's website.

"Moving forward there is a genuine concern on my part of where and how much we can train before Saturday’s game.

"We will be making calls to try and get venues to give us a chance of getting the best preparation possible, but it’s certainly not going to be ideal, so that’s going to be a bit of a challenge.

“I don’t like using excuses, so we’ve got to get on with it and make the best of what we can, but it is a bit of a winter wonderland out there and I don’t think it’s going to go anywhere quickly and the problem we’d have if it did would be flooding.

“We’re just going to have to take it day by day and make calls and see where we can get.

"The problem is that when we’ve got the freezing temperatures even the outdoor artificial surfaces are hard to come by because the colleges are shut."

He added: "If you go in an indoor facility that’s difficult because some of the players will find it hard to train on that or you are risking flaring injuries up, so it’s a case of just getting some fitness work in them and then we will look at Thursday and Friday as we move closer to it."