davulsukur

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.

Speaking of The Dingles, one of their lads is now banned for 4 games for spitting at fans. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cq5q3jdn6w4o

He's no stranger to the treatment room either tbf but the reduction in quality of the squad now has us bemoaning the loss of Ryan Hedges. De Neve will start in his place 100%

Really, really not looking forward to this. When do Rovers EVER do anything the easy way? Was only the other season we really needed to beat Sheff Wed at home to give us the best chance of staying up (might have been enough to keep us up?) and we turned in an absolute horror show and lost 1-3. Instead we went and drew with Coventry and then turned champions Leicester over in their own back yard to secure safety.

Who on earth would pay £35 to go and talk to Valerian Ismael? Apart from Rudy Gestede.

Sadly, I don't think it would take Bannan much effort to get the better of Sidnei Taveres

Celtic have appointed Wilfried Nancy as their new manager. Didn't really know anything about him but read a couple of articles on him yesterday, sounds like this would be another Ange type appointment, where attacking is the main focus of his set up. Plays a back 3 and the 2 "wider" centre backs often find themselves higher up the pitch than you'd expect. Wingbacks are basically attacking wingers and its all about overloading the opposition in attacking areas. It'll probably work out really well for Celtic (domestically), as they are a cut above the rest of the league but like Ange, if he gets a move elsewhere in the UK, I'd expect it fail spectacularly. Certainly one to keep an eye on. BBC article, for anyone who's bored for 5mins: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cdegj67p1z2o

Gudjohnsen won't be nearly half as productive in his goals return without Yuki doing all the running he does.

I'm surprised they are willing to write that statement, or even someone is willing to approve/accept it. It would probably take north of circa £200m investment into the first team, to get promoted and then stay up.