The Football.....

[Accy cyclist]

Hence the name of The Riverside Stand! It's nearly 51 years since I first stood on that then terracing, and it was peeing it down that day If I remember rightly.

Portsmouth fans aren't happy about yesterday's game being called off. https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/...ng-preston-will-go-ahead-blackburn-rovers-fan
https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/...joke-a-disgrace-deduct-them-points-portsmouth

Looking at photos of the raging river next to Ewood Park, caused by the heavy storm and melting snow you'd think the referee might've called the game off on Friday night, to save the expected 2000 Portsmouth fans from making the long journey up here. Having said that If I'd have been one of those Portsmouth fans I think I'd have stayed at home and

Do you know what time they called it off? I pity those Pompey fans who'll probably have set off at 5am to 6am, then found it was off, many hours into the journey up here!!

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4 hr 29 min (265.8 mi) via M6

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cvg0zn2l3kwt

Oh the irony of it all!!!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cq8v9gg2lnzt

 

[AndyRM]

You can't call a match off the night before, unless something truly cataclysmic has happened. Match day conditions are what count.

 

[PaulSB]

Portsmouth fans aren't happy about yesterday's game being called off. https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/...ng-preston-will-go-ahead-blackburn-rovers-fan
https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/...joke-a-disgrace-deduct-them-points-portsmouth

Looking at photos of the raging river next to Ewood Park, caused by the heavy storm and melting snow you'd think the referee might've called the game off on Friday night, to save the expected 2000 Portsmouth fans from making the long journey up here. Having said that If I'd have been one of those Portsmouth fans I think I'd have stayed at home and

Oh the irony of it all!!!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cq8v9gg2lnzt

This is the timeline from Rovers of the Portsmouth game being called off. The river didn't rise until Saturday morning. As @AndyRM said above games can't be called off the night before unless the circumstances are exceptional.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/november/26/pitch-update/

 

[T4tomo]

Portsmouth fans aren't happy about yesterday's game being called off. https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/...ng-preston-will-go-ahead-blackburn-rovers-fan
https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/...joke-a-disgrace-deduct-them-points-portsmouth

Looking at photos of the raging river next to Ewood Park, caused by the heavy storm and melting snow you'd think the referee might've called the game off on Friday night, to save the expected 2000 Portsmouth fans from making the long journey up here. Having said that If I'd have been one of those Portsmouth fans I think I'd have stayed at home and

Oh the irony of it all!!!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cq8v9gg2lnzt

watch carefully on 21st December, Blackburn are away at Millwall. I expect the laws of holy trinity and perfect triangles to apply and MIllwall find a reason to postpone at the last second just as Blackburn fans enter the uLex zone in their fleet of dirt fume belching transit vans...

 

[Dave7]

LFC did well last night.
They are doing well on all fronts but TBH that was the first time I have really been impressed by them.
Our young RB Connor Bradley is looking very good.

 

[Poacher]

LFC did well last night.
They are doing well on all fronts but TBH that was the first time I have really been impressed by them.
Our young RB Connor Bradley is looking very good.

That tackle...

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l1Iw0VzuGGs

 

[T4tomo]

swings in form:

my local non league (NLS) team Hemel Town were top of the table at end of September having won 6 and drawn 3 in Aug & Sept games.

since then they have lost 11 and drawn 1 in Oct & Nov league games.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Not bloody Sheff Utd and Burnley AGAIN!!! It's looking like both clubs are going to buy their way back up to the Premiership with their astronomical unfair competition parachute payments!! We just know that if they do, come this time next year both clubs will be filling the bottom two places of the Premiership AGAIN. Surely it's time to end these payments to relegated clubs from the Premiership!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/burnley/table

 

[Red17]

Not doing Luton much good

 

[Accy cyclist]

Not doing Luton much good

Maybe Luton are spending their parachute payments on ground improvements, sensibly realising their limitations, instead of the constant promotion/relegation cycle of the above two clubs I've mentioned.

 

[T4tomo]

swings in form:

my local non league (NLS) team Hemel Town were top of the table at end of September having won 6 and drawn 3 in Aug & Sept games.

since then they have lost 11 and drawn 1 in Oct & Nov league games.

And they lost 5-0 yesterday to round out November

 

[PaulSB]

Maybe Luton are spending their parachute payments on ground improvements, sensibly realising their limitations, instead of the constant promotion/relegation cycle of the above two clubs I've mentioned.

I forget which season it was but the first time Burnley were promoted to the PL this is the approach they took. Debt paid off, Gawthorne refurbished and other spending for the longer term.

This was under a different ownership and it remains to be seen how the new ownership works. I believe the new owners saddled the club with debt as a part of the purchase. Similar to the way the Glaziers funded their Utd purchase.

 

[PaulSB]

Not bloody Sheff Utd and Burnley AGAIN!!! It's looking like both clubs are going to buy their way back up to the Premiership with their astronomical unfair competition parachute payments!! We just know that if they do, come this time next year both clubs will be filling the bottom two places of the Premiership AGAIN. Surely it's time to end these payments to relegated clubs from the Premiership!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/burnley/table

I agree parachute payments give relegated clubs an unfair advantage and I would like to see these end.

How realistic this would be is questionable. For many Championship clubs promotion to the PL means significant spending on players to have any chance of being competitive. Without parachute payments relegation would potentially bankrupt those clubs.

Take Rovers as an example. We don't have a single PL quality player. We're a decent Championship team but if we went up this season without significant spending the first PL season would see us relegated. Probably very badly relegated! I'm not sure I want to watch that.

If Rovers went up I hope 50% of the increased income would be spent on the squad. The other 50% used to pay down debt and make the ground improvements that are badly needed.

The issue has been created by the established PL clubs, the ridiculous transfer fees and wages they pay and the uncompetitive nature of that league. I don't think there's a solution. Turkeys don't vote for Christmas.

 

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