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The weather is looking ok at the moment. The prolonged heavy rain is not now forecast as bad as previously forecast. Hopefully the game is on.

Because they pretend everything is normal

Tell me, it is not raining in Malta 😎

I tell you what put it in perspective for me..... National league Rochdale have started corrective work on their pitch due to issues, fair play to them. As a result they'll have to play a few games at Accy Stanley. League 2 Accy Stanley, who played 90 mins and extra time at weekend can accommodate their own games plus a few extra. Anyone fairly local will know Stanley had pitch issues for a while, I think they blamed run off from the coppice when it rained. League 2 Stanley FIXED their pitch issues and hey presto are now in a position where their pitch is MUCH better than ours. So there you have it, national league and league 2 clubs putting us to shame.

There is no mention of a 2pm Pitch Inspection on the Official site?

River is currently 60cm higher than it was at half time on Saturday

Average for first 5 years was £22.46 million Average for last 10 years was £10.77 million.

I think worse would have been a nightmare long journey away with no novelty factor - Brighton, Southampton, Portsmouth, Ipswich, Norwich, Swansea, Bristol City. At least with Hull it's not a difficult afternoon out for those who want to go.

Will HMS Rovers depart today?

I come here for the weather forecast. The football is incidental.

Looks highly likely to be off again this, but postponed rather than abandoned. If all other fixtures in the area are on, it will put more spotlight on the club and added pressure hopefully.

It's been really windy and rainy in Coventry so the weather en route from Oxford will be fun for any high sided vehicles. There may be accidents. I'm going to say the game will either be postponed or abandoned half way through. And I don't care about any point deductions, VI resigning or relegation. The club is a disgrace.

Midweek games for our loanees Tuesday 19:45 kick off O'Riordan - score/update Barrett - score/update Wednesday 19:45 kick off Olson & O'Grady-Macken - score/update Edmondson - score/update Boggan - score/update - this will be his final game unless his loan is extended

The club are introducing half season tickets. They aren't like the standard half season tickets though. With these, you're guaranteed to see half a match before it's rained off.

It would be interesting that is for sure , what would be more illuminating is to find out, who exactly is on the payroll. Plus, why don't they want to sell the club?? The answer could be the names on the payroll?

Yeah its absolutely rancid out there, worse than Saturday was for sure.

5:10am It's whacking it down

I agree. The more I stew on this, the more I think it's a complete con job. The Club were finally absolutely on the ropes with this one, no excuses whatsoever, even with the overwhelming majority of the LT brigade. Then after being holed up for a couple of days, no doubt desperately wondering what the fuck they could say, up pops Ismael to save the day by saying "It's all right lads - take it out of the transfer budget!". As RF 99 would say, they deserve no credit whatsoever for fixing the pitch. They have no choice but to do that now, otherwise we won't be able to fulfill our fixtures.

The worst. Of no real interest whatsoever combined with a fair chance of going out.

I bet there'll be quite a lot of the fan base on the LT comments section end of the scale who will be perfectly content if they see transfer activity reduced even further to fund pitch improvements because they saw that Ismael said it was ok.

They do or certainly did before the Court case "pump in" £x m p.a. I know they didnt and still don't deserve massive credit for that as it was only really covering losses at the level they chose to run at at the time. However you seemed to trivialise that financial support to the point where you almost pretended it wasn't occurring. They could for example have chosen to fund the Club from the very beginning at the sort of subsistence levels we are seeing now. I mean quite some time again now they were paying Mulgrew £20 k p.w to play for various League 1 Clubs after Mowbray fell out with him. Now we seemingly have a blanket wage cap of £10k p.w. for new players, even for the best first teamers. What you seem unable to grasp is that whether you like or loathe the owners, and no matter how calamitous their ownership had been previously, that original level of financial support provided was very significant and not to be sniffed at. Not many owners would have been able to provide that level of support without blinking and had we had better people on the ground over the years it should have yielded far more success. Responsibility for not employing the right calibre of people lies fairly and squarely with the owners of course. So ultimately any respect for the amount of money they were putting in is largely cancelled out by the fact they were ultimately pissing their money up the wall. Yet there was always that faint hope that if they could get the right people in........ What we needed was a JDT or a Eustace in for a decent period on Mowbray levels of support. Unfortunately it never quite happened and seemingly never will now under their ownership. I know we dont agree on this, so there's no point going back and forth endlessly like you and chaddy do. As you are uncomfortable with me at times, I'm similarly uncomfortable with your seeming desperation to exonerate anyone on the ground from any blame at all. Imo we've had a number of people in key positions over the years who were either only in it either for their own ends or who were fully "aligned" with whatever the project was at any given time. So for me, whether you're Pasha, Anderson, Kean, Waggott, Mowbray, Venus, Broughton, Gestede, or Ismael, imo you're fully on board and a willing accomplice. You don't get to evade all blame for the ultimate destruction of the Club, you signed up for it and went along with it for varying degrees of time. Edit: Anyone who was ambitious, railed against it, and tried to stand up for what was best for the Football Club as opposed to what was best for the owners or their lackeys (JDT and Eustace) should be lauded.

Yes exactly!! He is safe he is fine he he can actually say whatever he wants as long as he gets the message out that there will be no investment in the squad because the money is now needed for the pitch, no doubt this will be used for a few windows. The club will have to fix the pitch now either to avoid fine or further negative attention, further abandonments, which will probably be costly especially with the injuries etc etc so they will be forced to repair the pitch or at least spend money on investigating and reports etc which he and Rudy etc can now justify why we have no money for transfers getting VI to make it seem like there is now no money for transfers is genius from their perspective Don’t fall for the BS that comes out of the club

"If I can influence something, if we need to save money in the transfer market to add money to get a new pitch, I will be the first person to [do] it because I want to see fans coming into the stadium to make sure they can see the game. "If I have to make that sacrifice for the better of the club, I will do it." sorry I don’t buy this BS why VI do we have to sacrifice our transfers? Why is that an option? Are are you saying the club doesn’t have money coming from the owners? Why not? They are not under embargo so not the same excuse as last year we sold so many players recently why are you making it about players vs maintaining the pitch both are equally important and both are the responsibility of the owners

He is a yes man and he knows and the club knows that they can use this as an excuse as to why not invest any money into players and he’s making it sound like he is sacrificing the needs of the team for the club to have a playable pitch, like we can’t have both!! Joke He knows there isn’t he is using this as an excuse! Once we buy no players they can say it’s because we used money on the pitch repairs which he said he was happy to do it’s all a con Yes he knows they won’t give him a transfer budget hence saying he would be up for sacrificing it for the pitch repairs- all a con Exactly!!!!