AvRover

Eflood Park init?

Lol, BRFCS is now basically the Met Office 😂

This needs raising with SW fans on their forum. The football community supported them in their hour of need. Hopefully they'll be happy to repay the favour to another club in trouble.

We have to hope we're inching towards the end of the Venkys era as these factors add up. Remember: regimes collapse slowly slowly then all at once. God help us with whatever comes next!

I know this is gloomy but unless the club gets a massive, massive slice of luck I feel it is destined for decline. I think you've got to be exceptionally optimistic to believe a return to the Premier League is ever on the cards, even in 30 years.

I can forgive extraordinary bad luck if it was just this year. It's practically every year now! It is beyond happenstance. Swansea game in 2021, Millwall in 2022, Portsmouth 2024, Ipswich 2025 and Sheffield Wednesday 2025! If we were a film saga we'd be on "Episode V: The Puddle Strikes Back". We're truly a basket case club withering into history yet never seen able to escape this purgatory and be put out of our misery.

I for one won't be going for the foreseeable now. It's a disgrace and I won't subsidise it. Change is needed.

It's funny how you're unlucky when the club's planning and management is poor. Equally perplexing how lucky clubs are that are managed and plan well!

It's been pretty apocalyptic the rain today, make no mistake. You'd expect Sunday league in the park to be squelching around in mud and called off However, it's the Championship, this is supposed to be one of the top 40 football venues in England. PNE, Fylde and Accy managed to play. In the vicinity without issue. Further afield City and Everton played too! It's a recurring pattern now, it's not happenstance! The drainage needs renewing and maybe covers too. It's as simple as that.

As you say, of all of those I think Wigan is the only viable option really. You have to be careful to not go too far away that the fans walk en-masse and won't drive an hour to Salford. If that happens, there's no income from tickets and the club folds - like Wimbledon FC.

Prove me wrong but I think that's beyond the pale even for the owners. Where would the club even play that meets league regulations and isn't toxic from a rivalry perspective.

There can be absolutely no excuse. We didn't have games called off in the 2000s/2010s due to weather once a season. Accrington and PNE completed their fixtures today in the same conditions. The problem is failure to renew the drainage which was last done over 30 years ago. End of story.

Odd how Blackburn always gets more rain than anywhere else within a 10 mile radius and those weather fronts that move across the county magically deposit their rain within 1 square mile of Ewood Park 🤔 The government ought to do something about this surely?

My mates who don't know about football have joked to me about the "Ewood Park Puddle" after I bemoaned the postponement versus Swansea in 2021. Now The Puddle™️ *is* an actual meme!

Absolutely! When the injuries and fatigue hit in January the usual slump will commence. We need breathing space above the bottom three by then. Please no one get carried away because we've won a couple of games. Do not forget this season is about survival and we're going to finish bottom half. The squad is very thin. We're still going nowhere and the purgatory of the Venkys era continues. The club has a habit of getting results at the right moment to paper cracks.