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.

Rovers played well today and a good win. Though I do feel Leicester were wasteful and should have scored and offered more. Does this mean I have to go to the Derby game now! 🫣

The fanbase need a united front - no other club of comparable size would tolerate this ownership. The "Get Behind the Lads" brigade have a severe case of Stockholm Syndrome! The lads they want to back are being exploited by the regime, hung out to dry as part of a poorly composed squad. The lads take the flack for the Venkys' failings! They're "backing" and abetting this exploitation of genuine, hardworking young footballers!

Yep, and this is the one we managed to win! The irony is just when you think it's safe to go back in the water Rovers will inevitably start losing again! 😂

Yep, in the PL days we'd get 20k home fans vs United. Now it's more like 10k. That's 50% of the fanbase who've left. That's shocking tbqh. A lot of it is a quiet boycott, myself included. Rovers fans need to get serious. It may be difficult to achieve but get home crowds really down closer to 5k. Stop buying merch and food like Wednesday are doing. The fanbase, I'm sorry to say, have been a soft touch and we need a serious plan to safeguard the future of our club. Protests, boycotts, hit them in their pockets, media. A multi pronged move on the ownership.

Exactly this, we need proper organisation and eloquent speakers to get the message out: • The club has been systematically mismanaged • This has gone on too long (15 years) • This cannot go on • We will not subsidise the owners any more.

I really cannot bring myself to go ATM. It's just a way to waste £30 and an afternoon. You're lining the pockets of the owners. I do not aim my ire at the players or Ismael at all. They're the ones who bare the brunt of this when the people who created the problem can hide away. This run of form and lack of goalscoring is really concerning. I was thinking we'd be just about ok. Tonight showed though that we're in big big trouble.

Exactly this, people who know me know I love the game but I grow more and more cynical. I was a season ticket holder as a kid in the 2000s and looking back at family pictures I have some great memories following Rovers since I was tiny - FA Cup Semi Finals in 2005 and 2007, beating Burnley in 2009 at Ewood. You go nowadays and it's a husk of what was.

Rovers fans have been very tame. This mismanagement would not be tolerated by most peer clubs.

It seems the performance today, for the raw technical ability of the squad, was ok - so we can't fault application. The individual weaknesses would be carried and helped by an otherwise competent squad so we shouldn't hang the players out to dry. As was said earlier, a change in management would merely be shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic. Until the ownership changes, we will live this groundhog day over and over. Maybe League 1 will force them out. Three or four seasons in the bottom half of League 1 with Bolton and Wigan then we can hopefully spend the following ten years climbing back up the leagues. It's wasted breath to expect anything different under this ownership. This season really is as expected - bottom half flirting with relegation. It's still early days so win the must wins and we may well be ok. However, to be cynical, are we just postponing the inevitable if we do survive? We have to be pragmatic and accept from where the club is today it's a long road back in any scenario. Ultimately, the darkest days for Blackburn Rovers may still be to come in the next few years as the chickens come home to roost.

Been a bit slow to this story. Let's not beat about the Bush here. This is another salami slice off the club, or the temperature of the frog's water rising slightly. The club is being destroyed one inch at a time. The LT should be able to comment freely on the nonsense that has been going on. The club simply don't want negative attention on their mismanagement. I've said this before, but whenever Venkys sell (which could be years and years away) there won't be a club left to support. It'll be so withered, the fanbase so shrunk and clinging to a PL era in the 2000s, languishing at the lower end of League 1. The fans need to pull together and realise they need to act. It's a farce.