TimmyJimmy

Hate the club under this Gestede/Pasha stewardship but strangely encouraged by some of the new players. A team with Cantwell, Baradji, Gudjohnsen, Mori, Ohashi and Tronstad is a team should be exciting - yet it's not ('ish). The problem as I see it is that we have made a wall of good bricks but no cement, we're far too easy to push over. Yet getting these guys on the ball fills me with more optimism than say the Gallaghers and Dolans of this world that we had in previous seasons (yes I know Dolans doing OK this year). Things clearly haven't clicked and I'm getting tired of "mañana, mañana, always mañana". The cement was thrown out in the close season (now doing its work in Derby and Wrexham) to be replaced by flour and water paste. Stupid, hubristic, amateurish arrogance by you know who. Keeping the likes of Travis, Baath and Hyam and ADDING the new guys - I think we'd be in a totally different place by now. After 15 years I shouldn't be surprised by the arrogant incompetence but I still am. What could have been. We're going to be lucky to stay up.

Got my wish, black screen again. Goodnight all.

Skys back. Prefer the black screen to be honest.

Obviously some water got into the Sky TV circuitry. Silence is golden here staring at a black screen. Things just keep on getting better.

Game goes ahead and Oxford win - I can feel the pain now. Postpone it and get the injured players sorted instead.

Heavy ground plus too many games in too short a period = hamstrings. Good job we have a huge squad of top players (not). Balancing all considerations a 14:00 postponement is the best outcome for us. The rest day won't come amiss for tired legs. Live to fight another day.

Not a hope in Hell that it'll be completed even if it's played.

Agree totally that the drainage system needs updating. It's a close season job. Right now we need an intermediate solution and it's surely not rocket science. The pitch is only a 105 x 69 meter surface FFS. The Problem. Turf and soil have capacity for holding water beyond which the ground is 'waterlogged' and new rainfall sits on top. The Solution. Stop it from being waterlogged. No dry turf is going to get beyond its capacity with 90 minutes of match time rainfall no matter how hard it rains. Cover the playing surface days before and move the water falling on the covers. The pitch is raised and water falls downwards (are you sitting comfortably children). Wherever it pools buy a small made in China pump and move somewhere, anywhere, away from the pitch. It'll find its own way to natural drainage (witness Nuttall St isn't under water). It's like you need to talk to these 'directors' like 6 year olds. IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE PASHA/GESTEDE!! A 105 x 69 meter surface to look after and we piss 6 points up the wall because we hadn't realised rain in Blackburn could be an issue. Give me strength. Oxford, stay at home, it's goning to rain hard and we're f'ing clueless.

I used to love match days now I just think what's the f'ing point. Team sold, average unknowns bought, awful ownership, no money, decaying ground, abandoned game after abandoned game, directors who couldn't organise a bunk up in a brothel. We used to be Blackburn Rovers FFS. I'm embarrassed to say that out loud these days, I keep it secret. Win lose or draw this match will have no impact on anything, we'll survive this season by the skin of our teeth and then the whole circus starts again next year. Plus ca change and all that. Rovers 1:0 but game abandoned due to Venky/Padha/Gestede mismanagement .

In cricket, if it rains, they bring the covers on to protect the pitch. How much do tarpaulins cost? Covering just the centre of the pitch where most play occurs would help even if you can't afford more than one for the wings. Rain is forecastable days ahead. Covering the ground beforehand to stop the turf being totally saturated gives it the capacity to soak up 90 minutes worth of rain on the day. IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE! Organisation and a bit of forethought is all that's required n'est pas. Oh, wait a minute, this is Venky Rovers, I forgot, my bad.

Today there were 44 scheduled professional league matches in England across the four divisions. Two were abandoned. Charlton because of a spectator illness and ONE for a waterlogged pitch. For that club this is the second home fixture abandonment due to a waterlogged pitch. Elsewhere no other Prem/Championship/League2 match in England has been abandoned due to waterlogging THIS SEASON (Bolton's was down to a lights failure). Mr Gestede, please talk your way out of that. "We didn't think there was a problem" - then you're useless and you're fired. "The owners won't fund us" - they're worse than useless - they're fired. "We couldn't generate funds on our own" - Ahem, Wharton, Szmodics, the bus load of players that turned up in Derby and Wrexham - you're fired. Oh, you can't be arsed doing the boring day to day stuff like fixing fax machine, stitching and draining the pitch, cleaning and repairing the stadium - do us a favour, go away. PLEASE, and take that Pasha bloke with you.

If the drainage is shit then why hasn't the pitch been covered all week.

Calked it before kick off. Inevitable. Shocking lack of investment. Go figure. F'ing miserly crooks.

Wednesday players complaining. They'll keep on, eventually they'll get it called off. Inevitable I fear.

I know I'm considered an eternal pessimist but it's slashing down here and my weather app says another full centimeter before 17:00. Given the state of our drainage us this game even going to start never mind finish.