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Just before the ground was fully redeveloped..remember it well stood on the old Nuttall st Enclosure.

Being positive, that was a decent performance.

So McKena engaged in some gamesmanship. So what? Boot on the other foot and Ismael did the same then we would all be lauding him and having a laugh at our opponents' expense. It's painful but it's a feckin professional sport not a Girl Guides' Jamboree. Think all the blame lies with our owners and executive management who, IMO, continue to sell the club short with their crass management

It was the 3rd of January 1994. I was there (as a 10 year old), watching Jones and co doing Klinsmanns on the pitch through the gates.

And their manager went mad about Rovers players exaggerating their slips and falls, in order to get the game abandoned..

I might have been better informed as to whether or not they game had been abandoned if there had been a reporter there, that's why I believe it is relevant to this thread. Don't you think.

Embarassing. After a quick look at one of their forums they aren't happy with performances so this might be a season highlight. And I didn't realise Will from the Inbetweeners was an Ipswich fan!

2025 - today's game called off after 80 minutes due to a waterlogged pitch 2024 - Rovers v Portsmouth postponed due to a waterlogged pitch 2022 - Rovers v Millwall postponed due to snow 2021 - Rovers v Swansea postponed due to a waterlogged pitch (2 days after this game Rovers release a club statement acknowledging issues with the pitch and blaming 'extreme weather' and a high number of games 2012 - Rovers v Brighton postponed due to a waterlogged pitch Now I'm relying on the power of Google and my memory but I cannot recall a game being cancelled, abandoned or postponed due to the weather prior to 2012 in my lifetime, and I was born in 1990. Maybe someone can confirm if I am not correct there. Let's focus on games affected by the rain or snow. There has always been a river running past the ground into which the pitch drains and yet strangely this didn't seem to be a chronic problem for 20+ years, it seems to have become a major issue, particularly in the last 3-4 years. I'm sure that some will claim that this is because of 'climate change' and we are suddenly getting a lot more wet weather than we used to. Or maybe it is actually because Rovers have failed to invest adequately in maintaining and improving their facilities, which I think is pretty evident from a simple visual observation of Ewood Park, and this is one element of it biting us in the arse. Edit - our match with Aston Villa in the Cup in 2010 was postponed due to snow and ice

Did we have one called off mid game away in league one? I wasn’t there but feel it was somewhere like Gillingham in absolutely freezing looking conditions

RG?

I was still in the old Nuttall St stand at the time so I doubt it was.

That game never started .

Like everyone I expected the worst with the massive turnover but still to see any real discernable deterioration compared to last year. Obviously could change when injuries come in etc. But balanced against that we are yet to see much of Gudjonsen and Baradji. Toth alone is a massive upgrade on Pears, and TGH was very decent today. Really like Mori and Alebiouso, McCloughlin.

We played at Leeds Rd Huddersfield 83/84 in a snowstorm and that was worse than today ! But we won 2-0 !

Who is responsible for that?

That was actually in the Prem era - around 1993/4.

Me too! I was telling Bill Fox to get the ******* off the pitch!

I do not remember one abandoned , once had an away game abandoned at Luton 75/76 ice bound pitch , New Year game.

It'll be this seasons designated £10 a ticket game....

Very well - a big upgrade on Tavares.

He was alright, a step up from Tavares.

Save that for a different forum.

And them doing ‘Klinsman’s’ in the puddles, I was only a lad but got very angry in the Walkersteel!

So there player won't be punished for a dangerous tackle.... Whay if the tackle had caused an injury

It was hilarious as the only team that was using the wet pitch to slide into the opposition was them. Yet he was moaning to the referee about it being dangerous. Ref should have told him to stop his fucking players from doing it then.