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Back before these bastards darkened our door we had guaranteed annual trips to Old Trafford, Anfield, Goodison, White Hart Lane, the Emirates and Eastlands.

In theory yes, but I suspect it couldn't as you'd have machinery chewing up the remaining turf and although I've no knowledge of being a groundsman, I would imagine the turf wouldn't bond (can't think of a better word) well with the newly laid sections. You'd have to redo the lot but again, it's only backfilling/top soil and reseeding. Shouldn't be crazy expensive, not for Billionaire owners anyway.

Everything pointing towards the Club being under financial strain.

I think the drains beneath the pitch are blocked or broken/compacted as the river level wasn't high enough for it to be an issue and I think the Groundsmen said the same at the Ipswich game. Basically needs digging up and a new drainage/pitch going down.

Is there anything actually coming out of the outlet?

Quite fitting as the entire club is a circus now with the clown in charge.

Steeleye Span - All Around My Hat

This is what those scumbags have reduced me to, hoping for a ‘big day out’ somewhere as it’s obviously totally unrealistic to expect to move up one whole division.

The pitch/drainage needs urgent attention. The Romans would have done it in a few days, the Victorians in a couple of days and the Japanese nowadays would sort it in half a day. I'm looking at summer 2027 for this shower (no pun intended) to start planning it.

Everton away is a good shout. New ground. Relatively local.

He did it against Preston a week or two before when he scored a cracker and ran the game in midfield. I thought the penny had dropped at the end of that season and he would kick on. Not to be.

Also could be done without removing all the turf

No idea on the cost but the video is 7 years old. All they've done is placed pipes at 3m centres along the pitch, and the water is distributed to the edges of the pitch and into a drainage system, backfilled and reseeded the pitch over the top. Wouldn't be earth shattering in terms of cost but that's assuming the drainage system it distributes into is existing. The system at Ewood probably isn't up to scratch and would need replacing along with the pitch pipework, which would be expensive.

Anything to do with the stadium is PSR/FFP exempt I believe - spent enough money putting safe standing in for all 100 fans that turn up but daren't install new drainage systems..

It’s the ‘rainy season’, so very silly of the EFL to schedule matches at this time, bit like when the ICC try and arrange cricket in the middle of West Indies hurricanes or Bangladesh monsoon seasons.

Simples ..one large Circus tent ..yes Circus !!!!!!....water runs off to the edge of the pitch ....bring yer wellies ..!

If there is only one outflow into the river as there appears to be and the pitch and stadium all drains into that then it could be as simple as installing another. Not something that can be done overnight and obviously still costly but not the work of Einstein either. Possibly something that could be done also without digging up the pitch, just divert off the main drain outside the stadium.

It was to an extent we didnt have a game off for a waterlogged pitch until Brighton in 2012 and won awards for thr state of the pitvh several times. Like anything it needs maintenance, Venkys took responsibility for that when they bought the club. Shouldnt impact transfer budget as we have billionaire owners who love us and will never sell their baby, who they significantly invest in, oh and its PSR exempt.

That is exactly the plan.

I thought that was common knowledge

I've never known Rovers to have abandonments at Ewood? Did it only start raining this season?

If I had to put my finger on one thing - they don’t know how to leave the ball. They have to play at everything. Nothing is more dispiriting for the bowler than to see the batsmen not play at something you’ve put a lot of effort into.

Has anyone been near Ewood or seen any work ongoing? The drainage has been poor at Ewood for a number of years. I assume there is a non-return installed at the discharge points, although unsure how many discharge points there actually are. Does all pitch / stadium drainage go to a single outfall? Installing the outfall extension in the way we did suggests they thought there was an issue with the non-return valve on that particular headwall. That is clearly what they blamed Ipswich on. In isolation, it is not a bad fix but evidently there's better options for the long-term Unsure whether there's an attenuation system at Ewood. If not, that has to be the only viable solution here. They can be installed relatively quickly but the design / drainage amendments could be severe. Assuming at present all drainage runs down into the River Darwen, there would be quite a piece of remedial work required to change the flow of the drainage into a crate system, unless one can be installed between the back of R/Side and River Darwen. Probably best if they used a series of smaller attenuation crate systems to create that attenuation capacity. Evidently, the current capacity is not good enough to deal with a relatively minor deluge. Typically these systems now are crated with a 1:100 year event in mind. I very much doubt Ewood were held to those standards back when it was built It's a dereliction of duty by our 'stewards'. They should really be seen as that now. £6m in infrastructure investment in 15 years. Pittance. They are not owners, they are stewards, offsetting losses and plugging gaps but never investing to improve. Things will keep falling apart whilst they own us. The drainage, the stadium, just another of Jack's legacy's not being respected.