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Also should be noted by the fans and management team that a small squad struggling with injuries and depth have just wasted an hour of exertion in tough conditions for no reward whatsoever, and will now physically and mentally have to go again. I hope when more players break down and injuries are picked up there's no head scratching going on. By the time we've played our rearranged game against Wednesday we will effectively have played the best part of 2 extra league games over everyone else having had two cancelled with 15-20 minutes remaining in each. That's an extra demand we could really, really do without but has been imposed on these players and manager.

The owners and their stooges deserve the ridicule they will rightly receive from the footballing world. Happening twice shines a light on our decaying facilities. The players and the fans don’t deserve the humiliation though. I suppose on the bright side, anything that piles on the pressure and hastens their departure is a good thing.

Not at all. They have complete discretion. (But chose not to exercise it last time)

This could be the answer to…..DeNeve, Tavares , Henriksson, Kargo all fish out of water …step forward boys . If I didn’t laugh , I would cry .

In some ways the club are lucky we've been winning both times. Imagine we'd been losing instead? Would we have seen such a shrug of the shoulders reaction from the competition's supposed regulators?

have they even investigated the matter of why the pitch gets waterlogged????

I’d be inclined to argue that we’re so neglectful as to have forfeited the match by not solving a known issue. Zero effort has been made to provide a solution since the Ipswich abandonment. You could have rain covers at half time. Not ideal for subs wanting to stay warm, but abandoning a match every time there’s moderate-to-severe rain in Blackburn also isn’t ideal. They ought to throw the book at us, teach the owners and Pasha a lesson and hand out a hefty fine. In the meantime - expect a club announcement of a shake up in the ground staff, as though that’s even remotely the issue.

This is very helpful for the 135 + 15 campaign (where is it?). I clearly remember Steve Waggott's failed attempts to get Pasha(and thru to Venkys) to agree to a completely new pitch rather than minor patching up.....but it was one of the battles he kept losing. There are 4 Water Guzzlers at Old Trafford Cricket Club that could have been hired for 3 months. File all this under short-termism and under-powered Management.

That would involve the EFL breaking their own rules.

He decided to 'align' himself with that curse.

I can't see how that would fly considering the Ipswich game setting the precedent.

Sheeple? May need an explanation on that one.

It's funny how you're unlucky when the club's planning and management is poor. Equally perplexing how lucky clubs are that are managed and plan well!

If we get relegated by a couple of points, its the Ewood drainage to blame.

Hope we get a huge fine so we can’t see a profit from the replay

The infrastructure of the Club is falling apart on all Levels due to willful neglect. Again,the question needs to be asked how long do we put up with this as a fanbase?

accrington stanley,7 miles from blackburn managed to play 120 minutes in the same weather,we are now not only an embarasment,but a national one at that,at least that ludicrous effort to get water off the pitch with those squeegies on wheels gave us a laugh

I'm I actually think there's a chance that awarding Wednesday the points might at least be discussed.

It has. By Venkys.

I saw it coming after 30 minutes. Ismael must think a curse has been put on him at Ewood.

Hope we get a fine, or even a points deduction, at this point, It’s embarrassing and shameful, at this point tbh.

It’s so embarrassing, it’s unreal. The fuck are we doing?

TBF immediately after the ref called it off the BBE were chanting V's out. That shows a little step forward in the narrative.

It's been pretty apocalyptic the rain today, make no mistake. You'd expect Sunday league in the park to be squelching around in mud and called off However, it's the Championship, this is supposed to be one of the top 40 football venues in England. PNE, Fylde and Accy managed to play. In the vicinity without issue. Further afield City and Everton played too! It's a recurring pattern now, it's not happenstance! The drainage needs renewing and maybe covers too. It's as simple as that.

Championship Reddit just has many photos of Ismael holding up pictures of clouds. I think that after fifteen odd years some fans of other clubs are beginning to twig that our situation might not be normal.