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Unlikely, but if not then it means he either believes he knows better than both managers and the referee, or just does not care about player welfare at all. Neither is a good look but one is obviously more deplorable than the other.

I seem to recall reading that in addition to your solution, extending the outfall to further downstream could be undertaken, without Environment Agency involvement, but obviously at a cost to the club

This is totally irrelevant in deciding whether the pitch was fit enough to continue the game.

back in 2021 when Rovers pitch was stitched. As Garner, you would the Environmental Agency to do building work and improve the drainage system in the River Darwen and also factoring in the number of new houses being building in the local area all using that River Darwen. Could Rovers build a storage tank facility on site to store more water and slowing disposal it into the River? I'm not an expert in this field btw My answer to your question was very clear and very direct that I stand my opinion . I gave you the answer which was what happens if we lose 1 or 2 key players between yesterday and the replay game stand by my original opinion

If the drain outlet was angled downstream, rather than at 90 degrees to the river, and a non return valve fitted, the river flow itself would draw out the ground water (venturi effect ).

That might help Chaddy change his mind

I daren't! Sorry dont agree on your other points either. We're far from the only ones to have owners who subsequently turned out to be disastrous initially approved and if we send in transfer registrations late or with clerical errors that's our fault. ( I suspect the latter were deliberate anyway)

It's the footballing authorities in general, there was no challenge to the Venky's ownership and agents and rogue managers etc despite loads of evidence they were up to no good. Admittedly this was the PL in the first instance but the EFL have done diddly squat since so that makes them culpable in my eyes. They specifically rejected our appeals on some technicality concerning player signings. They will reject this appeal I have no doubt though it hasn't happened yet. If any of these things were under discussion with or had happened to a Man U, a City, an Arsenal in the PL or say a WBA or Leeds in the EFL would outcomes be different? Course they would. Ever since we 'bought' the title the collective 'they' in authority haven't been our friends. Besides which my wife says they hate us and she's never wrong she tells me so take it up with her.

I'm not an engineer so can't comment on your opinion at the end. Why though do you think Waggott thought it was possible? (According to Mike Graham) Edit: Regardless of cost and time a permanent long term solution needs to be undertaken with mitigating measures such as pitch covers and squeegee (sp) machines utilised in the interim until the problem is fixed. You can just brush it off and shrug your shoulders on the basis of cost or that it's not completely straightforward.

So now that I've slept on it these are my feelings. I'm certain we would have won the match had it not ended at 79 minutes. However, its the clubs fault that the match had to be abandoned, proven by the fact we were the only club who had to abandon a match in the football league. Lancashire is a very wet area of the country, you have to have a proper drainage system for football grounds, otherwise this will continue to happen. As its out fault, as much as it sucks, the game should be replayed, we failed to properly host a football game, so the result cant be decided at 80 minutes.

Simon - I didn't think I was defending anybody, just pointing out the challenge that Ewood Park's location brings. Of course an owner willing to pay for a proper solution would be great but they would still have practical issues in doing anything quickly. you're right that the pitch has not had a full renovation for 30 years. As others have said there was a compromise and a stitched pitch was laid instead. But the drainage system we have now is essentially no different to what it was then and the critical point is that it's all predicated on draining into the river. Whilst there may well be ways of mitigating the severity I can't see any real solution being possible without building some sort of holding system which will require major engineering and will need EA approval.

6 points made but none of them valid. I can just imagine the reaction on here if we had a game called off at 1-0 down with 10 mins to go at our opponenent's place because their pitch was unfit and the EFL awarded them the points. Is if fair to Ipswich to deprive them of the chance to equalise with 10 -15 mins to go? Is a game still "done and dusted" at 1-0 with 20 mins of normal time to go? That's just as arbitrary. If we get a game called off at half time due to our knackered drainage later in the season and we're 2-0 up - do we get the points then as well? If you have to play another game so be it. Players could get injured at any time, not just in that particular game.

You’re wasting your time. I asked him exactly the same question on page 26 and he sidetracks and refuses to answer

Adam has teamed up with Rovers fan Gary Aspden for the launch of the new Adidas SPZL.

What if Tronstad or anyone else had picked up that injury in the last 10 minutes of yesterday's game, which would have been a significant possibility.

No no I get the angle and it wasn't aimed at you bud. Just meant over that last few months noticing more hostility towards other posters. I'm sure there's loads on here that just read in the background and not comment on topics through fear of being shot down by a regular poster. Not everyone has the answers but discussion without being dumped on would be nice once in a while

Apologies - only wading in there because it’s painful for everyone to have an ongoing discussion where one party doesn’t take into account anything put forward from the other side.

Why do we know they "hate us"? Can you cite any examples?

So 6 points made with only one objected to. Still sounds like 5 good reasons the EFL should do the right thing.

This forum really has turned into an ear bashing at times. What happened to the discussions without sniping 😒

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Come on, you know the EFL hate us, all referees are biased against us, and there's a conspiracy against us in general. (Despite the fact the ref awarded us a penalty and reduced our opponents to 10 yesterday) In this instance it would actually help if the EFL threatened to suspend our membership of the League unless we take immediate steps to put temporary measures in place to alleviate the problem pending a permanent solution being carried out in due course. Sadly I dont suppose anything will be done at either end and it will happen again and again.

You only have to look back to the Brum game.

I'm not too concerned about us going down at the moment, based on what I've seen across the league thus far. I think the only reason we'd be in trouble is if we suffered a number of serious injuries.

Cheers, I'd only seen things saying they could replay it or let it stand, none saying we could potentially just do the right thing and finish the match. When do the authorities do the right thing though.