davulsukur

It's going to be a record low attendance tonight, surely.

So as there is a 30% chance the game will go ahead and probably at least a 15% chance we might get the full 90mins in, back to the horrific news that we'll probably have to field Sidnei Taveres from the start, as Tronstad, Forshaw, Montgomery are all injured and Ismael confirmed that Bradji won't be starting anytime soon. --------------------Pears ------Miller-----McLoughlin--Riberio Alebiosu--------------------------De Neve ------------TGH--------Taveres -------------Cantwell/Mori -----------Ohashi----Gudjohnsen Someone should probably get a rain dance going because we aren't winning this game with that lineup, I don't even know if Pratt is fit to play.

Thread only started yesterday but 7 pages already, normally a game like this wouldn't get much pre-game chatter going. 7 pages, all talk about if the game will go ahead, pitch drainage, ownership incompetence and now the manager stepping out of line and probably signing his own P45. Rovers under Venky's, all the talk is about something other than the football.

The future is pretty bleak if, due to their own incompetence, the club can't keep hold of managers of the calibre of Valerian Ismael.

The hierarchy are now pushing the poorest of managers around to the brink. Absolutely incredible work tbh.

More home abandonments than Home league wins. The club is a complete and utter joke.

Ha, I'm no expert. I generally have very little to contribute to the forum but I do work in Civil Engineering, albeit not in drainage. I have limited knowledge of drainage but some at least.

It would be very interesting/telling to see how much water is coming out of that outlet, when there has been/during a heavy downpour of rain.

Fair enough. I'll bow to your superior knowledge on the landscaping/turf, I have no idea on that.

If they don't rate/Don't want Gueye, they'd have just been bring Tyjon off the bench, at the very least his value might have gone up.

I thought so, yeah. So we've already reduced the wage bill down this summer but it seems that wasn't enough, they are still looking at shipping players out and replacing them with cheaper alternatives to bring it down futher. We must have the lowest wage bill in the league.

In theory yes, but I suspect it couldn't as you'd have machinery chewing up the remaining turf and although I've no knowledge of being a groundsman, I would imagine the turf wouldn't bond (can't think of a better word) well with the newly laid sections. You'd have to redo the lot but again, it's only backfilling/top soil and reseeding. Shouldn't be crazy expensive, not for Billionaire owners anyway.

No idea on the cost but the video is 7 years old. All they've done is placed pipes at 3m centres along the pitch, and the water is distributed to the edges of the pitch and into a drainage system, backfilled and reseeded the pitch over the top. Wouldn't be earth shattering in terms of cost but that's assuming the drainage system it distributes into is existing. The system at Ewood probably isn't up to scratch and would need replacing along with the pitch pipework, which would be expensive.

Nixon suggesting that moving Gueye out is largely down to getting the wages down even more! Unreal, the players we've signed must be on less than all the ones that left.

The lack of apology alone shows a significant lack of class from the club. I'd expect nothing else from those in charge though, I highly suspect they aren’t taking any blame, nor putting any on the owners either. What you've written is the bare minimum I'd expect from a football club in this situation. Absolutely no chance with these clowns in charge though.

Gutted for the lad but of course, a rare ray of sunshine for us.

I do wonder if discussions between Rovers and the EFL had taken place following the Ipswich abandonment, regarding Rovers mitigating against this in future. Had any such discussion taken place, presumably The EFL would have had to accept our proposals, which failed spectacularly yesterday. In any case, I'd like to think The EFL would now be demanding Rovers properly invest in the infrastructure with works to be carried out at an appropriate time (the club would likely argue the summer for this). Failing to do so after that time would result in punishments. All depends on if any discussions have taken place. As much as I think the club deserves to be punished, it needs to be given an appropriate chance to rectify the problem.

If nothing else, it's yet again, another spotlight on the poor ownership we're under to the wider footballing world. For years we just had the line of "WiThOuT vEnKy'S yOuS cOlLaPsE" well now the infrastructure is literally collapsing infront of us. It's dragging these clowns back under the spotlight and people are starting to look beyond the immediate issue, as noted by the Sheffield based Journalist in his article (posted in here by another poster) Their ownership is truly baffling, don't want to invest, attend or have any interest in the club whatsoever. And yet, they still won't sell.

I didn't say it would resolve it but would help to a point.

Bolting on a pipe wouldn't be expensive in the slightest. Although the flow of the drainage now goes with the flow of the river, the pipe looks so small it would probably be restricting the outflow.

100% we are going down. And when shit happens like it has done today, feels deserved.

Our football club is the pits, the absolute pits. Fucking state of us under these clowns. Embarrassing.

They didn't blame the river levels last time tbf. Just the pitch couldn't handle the amount of rainfall.

Another absolutely turgid performance from Rovers at home

Boro 4 up and cruising away at Hull. Hull looked dreadful in that opening 45.