Town’s game at Shrewsbury has been postponed due to a frozen pitch at Montgomery Waters Meadow.

A pitch inspection took place at around 1.50pm with a decision made soon afterwards to postpone the match.

Sections of the pitch were a concern once the covers were taken off two hours before kick-off was due to take place. The temperature is minus one and is not expected to get any warmer with light snow falling.

The game will now be played on a Tuesday night later in the season, tentative plans to restage it tomorrow not having come to fruition.

The postponement adds to Town's fixture congestion with the next available Tuesday night March 23rd. However, Shrewsbury already have a match that evening so the game won't be played until April at the earliest.

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Ipswichbusiness added 14:56 - Feb 13 According to the BBC website it is -1C in Shrewsbury, feels like -8C and light snow is expected. I know that in years gone by they would probably have played, but by modern standards it is quite a sensible decision.
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brittaniaman added 15:07 - Feb 13 Can anyone remember the December we played Leicester in a snowstorm and the lines had to be swept every little while, and Roy Keane (the dark lord) would not let the Ref call it off ??? We were winning at the time
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Bert added 15:14 - Feb 13 Britanniaman - if it's the game I recall it went all the way and we won in a complete whiteout and it finished twenty five minutes late. I was frozen. Erickson said that all he had learnt was that his team couldn't play in the snow but Ipswich could. I think it's still on You Tube.
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Beattiesballbag added 15:21 - Feb 13 Cakeman..... Warky wasn't a holding midfield player, as you said it was 4,3,1,2. but the three in the middle were box to box.... he would never have scored so many goals if he had been hanging back as they do nowadays..... they all chipped in with defence ....same as attack.
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Beattiesballbag added 15:22 - Feb 13 Looks a better pitch than Tuesdays game.
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jonbull88 added 15:37 - Feb 13 Saved lamberts bacon for another day 🙄😫
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Steve_ITFC_Sweden added 15:55 - Feb 13 Never mind the fixture congestion. We can always play Tues and Wed and field a completely different team each time.
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TimmyH added 16:03 - Feb 13 I see the Oxford game that was postponed also at the last minute (I should think very similar conditions) has soon been re-arranged for tomorrow...can't see why this fixture can't be?
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foot_kick_ball_goal added 16:38 - Feb 13 No worries... Can watch the Cardiff game instead.
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dirtydingusmagee added 16:54 - Feb 13 Lambert must be loving this, enough games in hand to keep him in a job for a while yet. the maths will prolong any action being taken,unless perhaps we get beat by the Cobblers Tuesday, and that would surely be the last straw.Hull on the slide now .
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BlueSwede added 17:05 - Feb 13 As I remember it, Mills played at rightback and McCall at leftback.
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bluearmy81 added 17:28 - Feb 13 After another year of underperming and mismanagement in order to play the match tomorrow I would have made them sleep on the coach overnight! Never mind a hotel. Pampered pussies.
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bluearmy81 added 17:31 - Feb 13 Underperforming *
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ringwoodblue added 17:34 - Feb 13 Bluearmy - underperming? That made me chuckle :-O
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ringwoodblue added 17:39 - Feb 13 Now down to 12th and below the mighty Plymouth. Apparently Northampton just can't score for toffee so what's the betting they start on Tue?
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Cheshire_Blue added 17:53 - Feb 13 Postponed match is now an excuse to abuse the manager. Such a positive group of supporters.
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Nobbysnuts added 18:52 - Feb 13 It was the only way we were going to avoid defeat today.... another stay of execution for shambert...
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bluearmy81 added 19:40 - Feb 13 Ringwood- I'm old enough to remember when players had 'perms' ! . Football was a lot more enjoyable then too.
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bobble added 05:31 - Feb 14 why weren't the 2 teams provided with heated boots ?
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Linkboy13 added 08:16 - Feb 14 Lambert doesn't like playing games if there's a chance to avoid playing he will. Remember last season during the international break we had the chance to play but no Lambert wasn't interested, deciding it was a chance to get injured players fit.
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Nobbysnuts added 10:50 - Feb 14 The simple truth of the matter is i just don't care anymore and its a great weight off my shoulders...roll on the golf courses reopening..🏌‍♂️🏌‍♂️🏌‍♂️
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Cloddyseedbed added 12:16 - Feb 14 The covers were taken off 4 hours before KO on a freezing day and everybody is amazed that areas were starting to freeze hard, I wasn't. Why take the covers off so soon when no thaw was forecast. As for arranging it for a day later, no change in the forecast until much later on so it wouldn't have gone ahead anyhow, once they had uncovered the pitch at 11am yesterday. Groundsmen not in tune with what was required and what was at stake I feel. Totally out of our hands.

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norfolkbluey added 17:38 - Feb 14 Feel sorry for all the travelling party. What a waste of time. Shrewsbury should pay us compensation. The only one good thing is that nobody was injured, was there? Somebody twisting an ankle getting off the bus? The problem is we have dropped another place. The worst since 1956!!! Speaks volumes to me. I don't think I need to point out the obvious. Roll on the next game. Win or lose up the blues.

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