ADAM HINSHELWOOD has admitted that he has doubts as to whether Saturday’s trip to Maidenhead United will go ahead, with concerns over a potential frozen pitch.

York City’s trip into Berkshire could be in doubt after snow hit the UK in the last week, with Hinshelwood putting provisional plans in place in case there are any postponements.

The York boss believes that no decision is likely to be made until Saturday, despite the implications this could have on travelling City supporters, with Maidenhead keen to avoid any financial loss from the match being re-arranged.

“We’re making all of the provisions really but we’ve still got to treat it like it is on,” Hinshelwood admitted in Wednesday’s pre-match press conference.

“I can’t see them making a call until Saturday, so by that point we will already be down and in a hotel by Friday.

“I think it might be a case of getting something provisionally booked closer to where we’re staying, just as a provision as we want to train if the game does not go ahead.

“You just want to keep some momentum and keep the game’s on, especially on the back of a defeat when the next game has come around quickly.

“We want to put the wrongs of that defeat right, so the longer that drags on the worse it is really.

“It’s not ideal, we’ve had it already once where the supporters have travelled over to Oldham and the fog has beaten us on that day.

“It’s disappointing and probably more so for the supporters, their time and effort is part and parcel of being a footballer.

“We’ve got to be able to deal with it and whatever the situation is, be ready. That’ll be us on Saturday.”

Hinshelwood doesn’t expect any decisions to be made until Saturday, but hopes that ‘common sense will prevail' and that a decision will be communicated in a timely manner.

“I think we’re past now the old days of the weather forecast, these days they are a lot more accurate with what they’re telling you, I believe.

“You can look into that but fog is a bit of a difficult one to judge.

“In terms of whether the pitch is going to be frozen or playable, the forecast is relatively good nowadays, so I don’t think you’ll get too many occasions where they predict a cold snap and it’ll be glorious sunshine where you can play games of football.

“For the supporters it would be better if you looked at Friday and see if the pitch was frozen, and if the forecast doesn’t look like it’ll get any warmer.

“Common sense should prevail and a decision should be made on Friday, it would be better for everybody that way.

“Whether that’s the case and if it can happen or not, I don’t know.

“Teams try to give it as long as possible because they want the games to go ahead as well, we’re obviously a big club and Maidenhead will do better financially if the game is on, on the Saturday rather than the Tuesday, potentially.

“It works in their favour to do all they can to get the game on, so I do see it from that side as well.”

Despite the snow and frosty conditions hitting York in the last week, City have still been able to continue training and have even occupied the astro turf pitches next to the LNER Community Stadium.

Hinshelwood confirmed: “We’ve still been able to find areas here and there, we managed to get one of the cage pitches out here in front of the stadium for Monday, which wasn’t too bad.

“It was a bit of a lighter day for some, so we had a bit of a smaller group in there.

“We managed to get on the astro for the last couple of days, get our work done so there will be no complaints on our end.”