Bath are counting the cost of their postponed Guinness Premiership clash with Wasps – particularly as it looks to have scuppered their plans for a winter training camp in Seville.

Steve Meehan had planned to send his entire first-team squad – minus their England and Saxons players – to a five-day strength and conditioning camp in the Spanish city from January 26 to 31.

But Saturday's late postponement – the match was finally called off shortly after 1.20pm ahead of a scheduled 2.45pm kick-off – looks to have ruined those plans.

The likeliest date for the rearranged fixture is Saturday, January 31, which if confirmed would see Bath have to cancel their Spanish booking and spend the week on home soil preparing for the crucial match.

And they will have to face Wasps without their England contingent – which is likely to include Matt Stevens, Lee Mears and Michael Lipman – as their Six Nations Championship campaign kicks off against Italy the following weekend.

Head coach Meehan said: "I would expect this game to be rescheduled for January 31.

"There are already fixtures scheduled for that weekend in the Premiership and it is a reserve weekend for sides who made the EDF Energy Cup semi-finals – so it's there for games that have been called off as well.

"If it is played that weekend, it will take those in the England 22 out of it – but that is the same for both sides.

"The disadvantage is then for the supporters, who want to see some of the England internationals running around that weekend. It is a great shame."

Meehan paid tribute to Bath's groundstaff, who worked around the clock in an attempt to get the game on, some even working through the night on Friday and into the early hours of Saturday morning.

The club also forked out thousands of pounds to hire heaters in an attempt to thaw out the worst areas of the playing surface.

"The groundstaff this week were exceptional," said Meehan. "I'm more disappointed for them – our guys have been up all night trying to do their very best to make sure this fixture went ahead.

"We don't like not playing – we are not a side who comes in and calls games off – and it is very disappointing for the staff and players."

But Meehan felt Wasps had not wanted to play the match, with representatives from the champions arriving at the Recreation Ground as early as 9am to inspect the pitch.

"Wasps were down here since 9am, telling anybody they could possibly find that it wasn't good to go," said Meehan.

"The referee called it off – he had the final say on it all and he deemed that there were a couple of areas out there that weren't safe.

"If the kick-off was at 1pm, there were question marks on small areas of the field at that time.

"But I would liked for them to have waited a little bit longer before making the decision – I think that's the most annoying aspect of things. But they chose to make the decision at 1pm."

French referee Romain Poite had been due to take charge of the match – his first Premiership appointment – but ruled the pitch unplayable after lengthy consultations with his touch judges and the Rugby Football Union's elite referee manager, Ed Morrison.

"One team was keen to play, one wasn't – but the final decision was with the referee," said Morrison.

Bath chief executive Bob Calleja was disappointed with the decision – but praised his groundstaff for their efforts in attempting to get the match on.

"We have looked after the pitch all week, not just with covers, but by bringing in hot-air heaters – and even up to Friday night the game was on," said Calleja.

"The efforts the groundstaff put in were tremendous – and I am very disappointed for the fans, some of whom travelled a long way to get to the game.

"But we couldn't call it off any earlier, because the pitch was playable on Friday night. We tried everything possible to make sure the game went ahead."