v Sheffield Wednesday (h) - 06/12/25, 15:00 k/o

[Exiled_Rover]

1 hour ago, MarkBRFC said:

Weather is showing a bit of rain tomorrow afternoon, nothing on Monday, then rain until 11am Tuesday morning with it remaining clear for the rest of the day.

Tuesdays game will be fine, if it was 3 days of non stop rain I would agree.

Well I'm not going to risk it.

[Andy]

15 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

I assume you're being sarcastic because if not that is absolute nonsense and the daftest of any conspiracies.

Where's the conspiracy?

That's the exact point that the family stopped engaging / visiting.

By all accounts, they are proud people and see us as underlings who should be grateful to them.
Why's it a stretch for that exact incident to be the point where they said 'right, fuck them then'?

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Wonder if Ismael is under instruction to keep his gob shut?

[yankfan]

The rain today and for the Ipswich match hasn’t been 100 year storm try stuff, no different than other years, so what’s the reason for the poorer drainage now?  What changed this year vs others, or has the efl just decided to highlight the lack of investment by our owners?  

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

2 minutes ago, Andy said:

Where's the conspiracy?

That's the exact point that the family stopped engaging / visiting.

By all accounts, they are proud people and see us as underlings who should be grateful to them.
Why's it a stretch for that exact incident to be the point where they said 'right, fuck them then'?

Very plausible Andy tbh.

[den]

Look at the device.

 

[Tomphil2]

37 minutes ago, Andy said:

Where's the conspiracy?

That's the exact point that the family stopped engaging / visiting.

By all accounts, they are proud people and see us as underlings who should be grateful to them.
Why's it a stretch for that exact incident to be the point where they said 'right, fuck them then'?

Give over.

There might have been a knee jerk reaction for a bit but beyond that it's way too far fetched.

It was one expensive snowball for them.

Edited 28 minutes ago by Tomphil2

[yankfan]

23 minutes ago, London blue said:

I don't want relegation either fella. 

The fixture will be replayed. I would imagine there will also be either a punishment or an ultimatum from the EFL.

Invest or sell…wouldn’t that be something? 

[Tomphil2]

7 minutes ago, den said:

Look at the device.

 

Some AI work of a dingle surely. 

[wilsdenrover]

13 minutes ago, Andy said:

Where's the conspiracy?

That's the exact point that the family stopped engaging / visiting.

By all accounts, they are proud people and see us as underlings who should be grateful to them.
Why's it a stretch for that exact incident to be the point where they said 'right, fuck them then'?

They’ve put in around £160 million since the snowball.

I know they’re supposed to be very rich but that feels like a very expensive grudge.

 

[wilsdenrover]

14 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Wonder if Ismael is under instruction to keep his gob shut?

Let’s hope so.

[Elrovers]

6 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

Some AI work of a dingle surely. 

Won’t be surprised

[RevidgeBlue]

1 minute ago, wilsdenrover said:

They’ve put in around £160 million since the snowball.

I know they’re supposed to be very rich but that feels like a very expensive grudge.

 

Yep, they didn't spare any expense when we got relegated to League 1 under Mowbray.

The worst of the problems started with the advent of the Indian Court case.

[Tomphil2]

9 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

They’ve put in around £160 million since the snowball.

I know they’re supposed to be very rich but that feels like a very expensive grudge.

 

Exactly.

They'd have just left us rotting in lge 1 for years and halved the funding if that were the case.

There are many ways they could have punished for a snowball if they'd wanted to. Waiting over ten years then starving the club of money is an odd way to do even by their standards.

Quite simply above all else they've let a set of self serving incompetent clowns run the show.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

A view from the away end...'water rollers' and all.😲 

 

 

[Tugay-is-God]

No matter what this regime does, they'll never take this club from me. 

One of only six clubs to win the Premier League, founder member of the Football League and the Premier League, only club to win the FA Cup three times in a row. Only English club to win major honours across three centuries. The most successful town club in the world. That is nothing to sniff at, we are Blackburn Rovers. 

We are a proud historic institution. And we still will be long after they're gone. 

[Elrovers]

41 minutes ago, den said:

Look at the device.

 

To call that significant investment is absolutely absurd. It’s like rolling SpongeBob square pants along the bottom of the ocean and that pipe, my god that is the size of my kitchen sink drainage pipe. We are such a clown show.

[simongarnerisgod]

2 hours ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

I think there has historically always been a problem with the Ewood pitch and the surrounding water table level.The Ground literally sits in a trough of a small surrounding Valley.

Remember the Old Riverside Stand had to be demolished due to the Foundations literally having rotted away!.

the old riverside was condemned because wooden stands got outlawed after the bradford fire,it was in remarkably good condition when they pulled it down,id`e say years of underinvestment on the pitch and drainage  has caused our current problems,the river darwen was at normal levels when i walked past at 2.40pm.absolutely nothing to do with the river imo,the rain was`nt torrential it was just constant

[jim mk2]

The league will be scrutinising us now and I think some sort of heavy fine is inevitable and probably welcome if it forces the Ewood hierarchy to act and buy or hire proper equipment to keep the pitch playable. In the longer term the pitch clearly needs relaying in the summer.

The worry is if another match is called off this season, and then the risk is that league might consider docking us points, which would be a disaster given our current position. 

It's just another sign that the club is slowly being run into the ground, as the reporter from the Sheffield Star noted. Ewood is being starved of investment and tired and shabby, and it looks it.

Even in the posh seats in the Jack Walker Stand it's noticeable. We had a meal there a few years ago and the whole place looked like it needed a revamp. The toilets, quite frankly, were disgusting.

This is also so sad ....... and the torment of these despicable owners shows no sign of ending

 

 

  

 

[simongarnerisgod]

7 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

This is also so sad ....... and the torment of these despicable owners shows no sign of ending

i doubt venkys even acknowledge they own us these days,they`ve given pasha the club and all he is interested in is drawing a fat renumeration every year

[wilsdenrover]

6 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

The league will be scrutinising us now and I think some sort of heavy fine is inevitable and probably welcome if it forces the Ewood hierarchy to act and buy or hire proper equipment to keep the pitch playable. In the longer term the pitch clearly needs relaying in the summer.

The worry is if another match is called off this season, and then the risk is that league might consider docking us points, which would be a disaster given our current position. 

It's just another sign that the club is slowly being run into the ground, as the reporter from the Sheffield Star noted. Ewood is being starved of investment and tired and shabby, and it looks it.

Even in the posh seats in the Jack Walker Stand it's noticeable. We had a meal there a few years ago and the whole place looked like it needed a revamp. The toilets, quite frankly, were disgusting.

This is also so sad ....... and the torment of these despicable owners shows no sign of ending

 

 

  

 

The EFL should charge the club with the resulting disciplinary outcome being an order to invest in better drainage etc.

They should make clear if we don’t and there’s another abandonment they’ll charge us again and this time there’d be a points deduction. 

[den]

The high tech water removal system.

 

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

12 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

the old riverside was condemned because wooden stands got outlawed after the bradford fire,it was in remarkably good condition when they pulled it down,id`e say years of underinvestment on the pitch and drainage  has caused our current problems,the river darwen was at normal levels when i walked past at 2.40pm.absolutely nothing to do with the river imo,the rain was`nt torrential it was just constant

The Foundations of the Roof Struts were Corroding away seriously.There was also danger to the Roof in high winds...it wasnt in good condition when it was closed.

[Herbie6590]

2 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

The EFL should charge the club with the resulting disciplinary outcome being an order to invest in better drainage etc.

They should make clear if we don’t and there’s another abandonment they’ll charge us again and this time there’d be a points deduction. 

A suspended sentence might be in order…