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Who? Gally hasn't played at all this season - is apparently just recently back in training Vale made his debut yesterday for Northampton Or did you mean to respond to someone else?

Bias? my opinion has been constant from the end of the game. My original opinion I stand by, not much to really add to it. McKenna wasn't happy and you aren't trying to tell you wasn't making it know about the pitch given that his team were playing poor, losing 1 nil and down to 10 men, plus given his post match comments and the celebration with their fans after the game called off, he got exactly what he and they wanted. No I have suggestion a possible situation which you ignored competently in any of your post that the game which will be in a few weeks time, could mean we have injury or 2 to some of our players who started yesterday and played so well. on your last point I would suggested you read ParsonBlue and Only2Garners posts about the work that would be required and it would need Environment agency and possible the councils involve in finding a properly overall situation.

There are no rivers anywhere near Victory Park, so a completely different situation. There were two other similar incidents in the region yesterday. AFC Fylde's game at home to Leamington was abandoned as was Southport's game against Peterborough Sports. I don't know at what time the games were abandoned but at Fylde they went 4-0 up in the 59th minute and Peterborough pulled the score back to 2-1 in the 62nd. Neither ground has any issues with nearby rivers and Haig Avenue is pretty much literally built on sand. Southport's website says that the game will be rearranged but Fylde's has a similar message to Rovers. Of course the National League is a different jurisdiction. Parsonblue is right that there can be no major works to alleviate the drainage situation done at Ewood without the approval of the Environment Agency and any agreed solution would I imagine cost in the millions and take a long time.

We have 3 midweeks available before Christmas to fit the game in. W/c 27th October W/c 1st December W/c 15th December Think there is some odd rule, although not 100%, that it needs to be completed before the return fixture in January.

Not at all, the pitch was dangerous in the opinion of the match officials, so the match was stopped, so it’s a decision that I can accept, even though it might cost Rovers. Sadly you can’t and of course you rarely back down, even when the consensus of your fellow supporters, seem to indicate you have this one wrong.

How dare you use evidence and examples to substantiate your exposition…😆

chaddy - if it had been the other way round you'd have been delighted with the abandonment and would be hailing it as exactly the correct call. You're just gutted that it was not possible to complete the last ten minutes of the game which is understandable, but to then call out other posters for having the correct opinion because you're disappointed is very poor form. The only question now is, does the underlying problem get sorted or do we have to witness the same sort of scenario again and again?

All the rubber dinghy men from the Kidd era obvs…😁

But even that isn’t completely fair…there are numerous scenarios that could see one team having players out injured/suspended that were available yesterday &/or vice versa. If it’s replayed in January, Rovers might even have signed a whole new XI by then…👀

stretching your arguments to extreme lengths to prove your own opinion.

Not directly related but odd. At half time Ipswich subs warmed up in wrong half of pitch and our groundsman was visably unhappy. Saw him pointing from here to there. This was in the exact same spot the ref & his assist did their ball testing. Was this deliberate to a soggy pitch area?? Anyone else see this?

What actually happened ? Did he pull a muscle lacing his boots up ?

The abandonment has made me forget the tavares pre-game injury debacle...at least this has given us something to collectively moan about that isn't transfer business related 😂

We played matches without the need for defibrillators at one point too, but several players are living proof, that this needed to change too and of course did. Hard to believe that any football fan, is prepared to argue that they safety of the players, is not of more importance than finishing a game.

Yesterday proved that Gardner-Hickman should he starting every day over Taveres.

Didn't need anymore proof really other that the two plays that finally stopped the game.

That was a unique situation where there was no possibility to complete the season. Logic only says that if we are Rovers fans. Id take that but it wouldnt be fair. But we didnt have it in the bag. There was 10 minutes plus some injury time so as much as I would happily take a win, it wouldnt be fair to do so. Basing a result on an incomplete match would be the least fair way. Any other way would at least put the game back in the hands of the 2 teams.

It was a waste of time and seemingly just for show. The pitch was obviously unplayable.

I thought what the ref did when he came back on with his linemen was a bit of a joke. At least they could have tried passing the ball between themselves a couple of times. The end result would have been the same but they would have had a bit more credibility.

Diego Armbando Maradona??.. 🤔

You are clearly incapable of looking beyond your bias because obviously we are frustrated that the game was called off. You are manifesting a situation whereby McKenna has managed to force the referee to stop a game that could have been played. You also keep manifesting a situation where all of our players are injured for the replayed game and suggest that people would change their mind if that was the case. Its all irrelevant to the decision that had to be made. The game couldnt be continued, it is as simple as that. 5 yard passes were stopping in the water. The ball couldnt bounce on the pitch. Players couldnt run forward with the ball, Clarke tried to do so and was essentially tackled by standing water. This narrative of being "screwed" and the way you are talking is just you allowing your petulance to convince yourself that they could continue on a pitch like that. They clearly couldnt. If you want to be angry at someone beyond the weather, direct it at the owners and Suhail for failing to fund the work required to upgrade the drainage on the pitch.

He came off at half time during their mid week game and he wasn’t in their match day squad yesterday. Make of that what you will.

That’s why we have risk assessments in society. If something is deemed dangerous, then suitably qualified people, make the call, to stop people like you coming along and tearing them a new one, for not eliminating the risk. if you can’t see that things have evolved since 2017 and lessons have been learned, fine, but that’s what has happened and I would rather rely on the professionals to make these important decisions that could be life changing for people.

When he got riled he could put in a hard a tackle as anybody.

All ifs again. They played 80 mins on it and the rest of the game should have played. Nothing more to add. We played on worst pitches like Portsmouth home game 2017.