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I don't think it's happened in my lifetime (Prem era onwards).

If he was worried about player danger he'd have had a word with his own players - Hirst tried to break Ribeiro's legs (should have been a straight red) and they were sliding in for challenges all match.

What was the last game anyone can remember called off mid-game at Ewood?

'We are very confused'

I reckon that game against PNE was worse conditions - granted we did a lot of damage to the pitch playing on in that weather.

Chaddy’s going to have us second in the league on 15 points now 😀

We don't spend millions on players, we're not going to spend millions on the odd abandoned match.

Tinpot that from Ipswich.

The venkys in India won't have a clue what is going on. 'Rain what is rain? Never heard of it'

Spot on. It would sum up the Venky's period of ownership if we lost the replay and skimping on the pitch infrastructure sent us down by less than 3 points this season.

About 1 min before they went off. VID-20250920-WA0008.mp4

Instead of celebrating they should have been sitting in the dressing room being told they've had a massive let off and need to improve immediately. They've spent more on a single player than our entire squad cost.

An unbelievably unfair distraction but what we did learn again today is that we are a lot better than we thought we’d be given the upheaval of the summer. Well done big Val!

SPEND SOME MONEY ON THE GROUND FFS!

We are now at the stage of robbing ourselves of 3 points. The club could have resolved the drainage issue but it costs money and we are all about saving the owners cash. It's actually embarrassing as a championship club we get games called off for a waterlogged pitch. We were the only game in the football league to have the game called off.

Yep, a well deserved win has been snatched from us. Made Ipswich look very ordinary.

Cards & resultant suspensions aren’t wiped.

yeah i can't help but think after that performance there is a decent team in there. Alebisou looks a real player

You might have a point but surely it's incumbent on Rovers to sort their own solution out?

And we all know what will happen in the replay......

It's so fucking frustrating because it has detracted from what was a really good performance again, coming on the back of the win at Hull. I wasn't optimistic going to the game today, but thought we were excellent throughout.

The BBC are incompetent?

Isn't it a local authority issue, rather than a Rovers issue? The River Darwen needs investment to handle the drainage of the local area (lots of new houses since 1994 - lots of water that goes straight from the sky to the river over tarmac and in drains] rather than into the water table).

Make of this what you will, but the BBC put up this image 20 minutes ago:

Hasn't this been a known issue for some time and something that our current owners have been aware of? Haven't they also been told a way it can be addressed? Maybe the cheque they signed for it went sailing down the River Darwen.