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Interesting subject... I feel the analysis is generally better than days of Hansen, Lawrenson, Shearer et al. spouting cliches about passion, heart, desire. On the other hand, there is a horrible excess of everything now online, with the same people everywhere. It's designed both to be addictive and, maybe, even, soul-destroying. In some cases, it's a parasocial situation with these podcasts, an imaginary alternative to the social circles people lack, I feel.

It was much worse against ipswich but you kept banging on about it was playable and that McKenna was the one who called it off. It was the correct decision to call it off both times from where I was sat, ridiculous that we're in this situation in 2025.

Unfortunately he's just got hit where it hurts! Why does everyone think this is funny?

Yesterday's conditions were worse but just after the abandonment its rain very heavy. The pitch can't sustain that much water on it as post match pictures shown this. We need a new modern day pitch

Are we going to witness a stokes miracle innings?

Comments from Sheffield Wednesday boss thanking their fans etc but nothing from Rovers. Why are they silent?

I want the club to be dragged in front of the EFL and be held to account. We get more rain than the vast majority of the country in East Lancs and we have people working on the pitch daily, surely those people will know how many times out of the 365 days a year the pitch would be unplayable. I want the club and head groundsman to be interviewed on public record to admit how many times that pitch would be unplayable, and who has decided to do nothing be it the groundsman not letting the club know (impossible in my eyes) or the club ignoring his requests. I feel I already know the answer to this but I want the jokers running this club to be exposed.

And every other match until this cancer is removed.

Well i cann9t beli e it's happened again well actually I can lol 😆 thata another threepoints we will have to play for again. Thank you to the owners

Said this last night, well have effectively played two games extra than anyone else

we have played 80mins of one game called off replayed that match 60mins of another game called off Will replay this match Not just an embarrassment perspective, potential fine for the club, lack of progression as we now played one less than others around us, but more importantly from a player welfare perspective, considering the amount of injuries, our players are playing more minutes than others as they are effectively playing 2 games more than every other club, which is more risk of injury especially the stop start nature of the abandoned matches stupid ownership If you don’t care about our club, our history, our reputation, our league position, at least care about the player welfare -and repair the pitch!!

we played in worse....

Yes agree After the Ipswich game they came out and discussed it and he said nothing after this game the Wednesday coach came out and talked about it and he said nothing clearly being told to say nothing until they have decided a PR angle

If I didn’t support rovers I’d be asking for them to deduct us 3 points per game missed i would rather the owners were fined

I don’t think he would do it for one minute, but imagine him resigning and claiming for constructive dismissal, on the basis that the club, can’t provide the tools for him to do the job (knackered drains) so he can’t work under these circumstances any longer.

Play them on the car park

Can we play our home games there please

I watched this one. They travelled all this way and chanted for it to be called off yet say they were having good chances etc etc

It’s always someone else’s fault, so who do they blame this time? What are the odds on this happening again this season and next time, if we are losing instead of winning, are the team on the receiving end, going to just accept their lot?

Okay, I will give you a scenario, hypothetical granted, but not beyond all realms of possibility. Let’s choose Middlesbrough as an example. They are leading 0-2 and the same happens again, so due to our lack of investment on our pitch, the match gets abandoned and a replay is ordered that we go on to win, costing them 3 points, which in turn, costs them a place in the premier league. Do you think they should just shrug their shoulders and sit back and count the cost, of them missing out on the premier league?

They haven't, for all the reasons I outlined.

The summer when we went down, we spent just over £1m on fees. Is that not sparing any expense? And that was off the back of a season where anyone remotely sellable was sold. The summer when the court case really started was possibly the strongest in terms of cut backs but far from an isolated incident. There has been the odd summer where we have had even a reasonable summer in terms of net spend, the one upon promotion and Tomasson's first season which are both exceptions to the rule. Think the season I just mentioned that led to relegation, think the season we sold Armstrong and they wouldnt spend a fee, and think the season when we sold Cairney/Gestede etc and brought in a whole host of cheap crap, and even in those years they would have had to offset some sort of loss. Many other summers we barely spent a fee too. This idea that they "pump in £20m a year" seems to linger in some minds as if have been actively and willingly putting in money, rather than just the standard Championship owner raising share capital/adding debt to offset general expenses. Im not even sure that the worst of the problems have been in line with the court case. Seems like a bit of an excuse.

100%. The threat of pretty severe sanctions is also probably the only way anything approaching a proper solution will ever get done. Otherwise we'll just be treated to yet more BS along the lines of "a drainage sleeve" getting done "that week" but nothing ever actually happening.

I honestly do not believe talk of further punishment is daft. It’s the clubs fault alone this, so why should they get away with it?

We've already punished ourselves by losing possibly up to 5 points, getting injuries unnecessarily, bookings to count towards suspensions unnecessarily, national embarassment and having to play 2 more league games this season than nearly everyone (except Ipswich and Sheff W, for who it's only one more). Talk of any further punishment is daft.