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Definitely down to lack of recent maintenance Hasta but there is no doubt the problem has always existed.I remember my dad talking about how quickly the Ewood pitch would turn into a muddy quagmire in the 50/60s era.

There's absolutely no point in protesting at this moment in time. They're doing such a bad job all we have to do is let them fail on their own. As I had hoped for, a game cannot be completed at Ewood Park. That's bringing the spotlight in their direction and they've managed to do this entirely on their own.

Venkys- putting the infrastructure back 60 years

But we had no postponement in a game fter kick off for god knows how many years and we've now had 2 in 2 months. Today was heavy but it wasn't biblical.

It's striking how many people (myself included) are now advocating for a points deduction and/or fine in response to how poorly the club is run. I'd bite your hand off for a 50% increase in the chance of us being relegated if the wider media picked this up in the same way the Owls' troubles have been. Fuck Venkys and by and large, everyone down to and including VI.

Just because it may have happened nearly 60 years ago doesn't make it acceptable or "just one of those things" in this day and age with the technology available Im afraid.

I think there has historically always been a problem with the Ewood pitch and the surrounding water table level.The Ground literally sits in a trough of a small surrounding Valley. Remember the Old Riverside Stand had to be demolished due to the Foundations literally having rotted away!.

Yeah the river hasn’t moved, the pitch hasn’t moved - yet it’s 3 games abandoned in 12 months or so, but I’m struggling to remember too many in the 20+ years prior It’s negligence and incompetence that has led to this

Did see you today Ian but you were in full swing convo by the coffee shall say hello next time 👍🏻😊

I hope it's off. I just can't be arsed. it's utterly dispiriting. I know the conditions were difficult for the players but the standard of football was pitiful. And Ipswich were terrible too. But if we can't beat Wednesday twice we ought to be relegated. I despair.

Yea, how else we gonna fund all the work that needs undertaking

Weather is showing a bit of rain tomorrow afternoon, nothing on Monday, then rain until 11am Tuesday morning with it remaining clear for the rest of the day. Tuesdays game will be fine, if it was 3 days of non stop rain I would agree.

There were plenty in the BBE

Harold Varner was there today, saw him talking in fanzone before the game. Please buy us Harold get so.e of your pals to invest please 🙏

This

The Oxford game must be in doubt,three days of rain expected. What a situation this is.

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Well its a bit of a coincidence it's 2 teams with good followings it's happened against, they'll probably bring half the amount to the rearranged one in a Tuesday night but yes it's surely extra money....

There's probably a few kids in Sheffield getting a couple less Christmas presents because their dad pissed money away on a wasted trip to Blackburn. Genuinely feel for them. I know fans of various teams and they list Ewood as one of their top away days, I suspect opinions are fast changing.

Great article. We need more of them.

Hopefully open a full investigation...we cant carry on like this.

After Wimbledon (we sorted out the drainage that summer) we didn’t have an issue for 20 plus years.

Fair comment JHR. i suspect the club have been reluctant to spend vast sums of money on the pitch that up to this season had been pretty reliable (can’t think of the last time a game was abandoned). Even in the Premier League we had the odd postponement e.g. Wimbledon. However, despite being extremely unlucky with the weather, we are now a laughing stock and will come under close scrutiny from the authorities who will want assurances that something will be done by next season. As an aside, I thought we the pitch was doing us no favours when the game was called off and Wednesday could have snatched a point or three due to the unpredictability of some of the passing. We had also lost a couple of key players.

Have to sell the squad first though.

Agree, and as time goes on with games and weather the drainage system gets even worse. Call the expert, as Andy Bayes suggested tonight. What would be the EFLs view to this??