Southend United's Paul Sturrock before Macclesfield Town after Cheltenham Town postponement

Though frustrated Tuesday evening's game at Whaddon Road was called off Blues boss Paul Sturrock is pleased it gives his injured players more time to get fit yet the suspensions just move on! And the snow falls down; how many games will survive this weekend?Look on the bright side, if you can, and the Shrimpers manager Paul Sturrock is trying to, but if the game with Cheltenham Town had gone ahead Tuesday evening we would have been able to play centre-back Bilel Mohsni and midfielder Anthony Grant against the other town of Macclesfield at the weekend. Both remain banned after both picking up five yellow cards while left-back Peter Gilbert is also unavailable for the next three games after being sent off last week at Stevenage. However, from Luggy's point it gives Chris Barker more time to get fit and return to the centre of defence, if the home match against the Silkmen even goes ahead.The forecast is for a break in the big freeze sometime Friday, but would the damage have already been done?We will see, just hope they don't wait too long, a 9am job on the Saturday morning will not help the northerners, or the odd exiled Shrimper.The latest weather outlook here:http://uk.weather.com/weather/10day-Southend-on-Sea-UKXX1314 Meanwhile, after two abandoned matches in Gloucestershire, Luggy is getting restless, let's hope it's third time lucky! Sturrock told www.southendunited.co.uk: "You begin to wonder if the match will ever get played but it was a shame the game was called off because it was one we were looking forward to playing in. The good thing was that it was called off early before anyone would have started the journey. We had a few players injured who might be fit by the time we go there again and that's the positive way of looking at things."

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