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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.

If they carry on like nothing has happened - we might forget!

Its a disgrace,utter shambles.

This will only end one way.

That's why the wankers out the country, on holiday, with 300-400k.

I agree with him regarding Anderson. A hard working player but he hasn’t got the passing ability that Wharton has. Another instant pass yesterday that created the Palace first goal. You could see how he spotted what was on the cards a couple of seconds before everybody else.

Blackburn Rovers have been warned, to sort the pitch out. Does this mean, no money next Summer to strengthen the squad, heads should roll over this fiasco. Why wasn't it sorted, when Jack Walkers hard earned money was still invested in the club.

Nixon suggesting that moving Gueye out is largely down to getting the wages down even more! Unreal, the players we've signed must be on less than all the ones that left.

Paying him 300-400k and we cant even afford to fix the f'kin Pitch. The state of our Club!

Grant McCann seems unaware of how terrible Rovers are with communication 😉 https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25679653.blackburn-rovers-stance-january-recall-defender/ Doncaster boss Grant McCann is wary he could lose O'Riordan but stated last week that nothing had been communicated on whether Rovers would recall the defender. "We have to be mindful that with some of the loan players there's break clauses in there," McCann told Doncaster Free Press. There are agreements in place for both parties so we just have to be mindful of that. We have to be prepared for whatever January throws at us because you just don't know with this particular window. But we're prepared in every position and so if we need to go and act then we're ready to do that." "No, nothing as of yet," he added on communications over their loanees. "But I don't think any club wants to make decisions right now. I think we have nine or ten games before that decision has to be made in January. "Even if clubs are thinking of it (recall), I don't think they want to let their players know yet anyway, because it's not great if they know that they're going to be pulled back in January. All of a sudden you can lose focus or form. But, as I say, we're prepared for that."

Everton or Tottenham away, as I doubt I’d ever see Rovers at those places otherwise.

With Waggott gone (and enjoying his lucrative gardening leave), Pasha is likely to be out of the country, so there's nobody left apart from a few minions.

Last couple of days in this vote, be sure to get your opinions in. Some Monday highlights for you also. Boxing Day doesn't get much better than this

Grabbed another assist and MOTM display yesterday against Fulham. Nice to see high praise for our academy too in some quarters: https://x.com/rajsinghchohan/status/1997762721543024880?s=20

No thank you.

Is anyone "in charge" at Ewood Park??

Getting away with murder these Charlatans ruining our Club...my anger grows daily.

Still waiting for anyone in charge at Ewood to make a comment. Totally unacceptable.

Looking at the radar, it's going to be extremely heavy in the early hours through to lunch - ease off then back heavy before stopping at around KO time.. the only saving grace seems to be no rain forecast during the match. However i think the significant downpour during the day will be enough to call it. River hasn't gone lower than the levels before Kick off on Saturday...

Suppose it depends how much damage is done between midnight tonight and lunchtime tomorrow while the weather warning is in place, but it's then clear from 1pm for the rest of the day.

A trench installed to angle water down to a tank between the Riverside and BBE with pumps on standby before during and after the game. Angle the the run off toward the trench with new pipes installed. They've either become clogged, or they've perished. Only real option is to put new pipes intermittently, something that can be done during a break that can see our season out until a proper revamp is scheduled in the off season