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Confirmed where?

Obviously. If the rules were there there'd have been no need for nearly a weeks pontificating for nothing.

The club needs to make admission free for home fans and fill the ground giving Ipswich the upper tier of the Darwen End

Well it is what it is, the good news is it’s a level playing field and we can just go and beat them as we were on track to do.

If ut was about being fair there is only one way that makes it fair and that is to complete the match from where it ended and with the same line ups score cards everything. As we thought full replay which we will duly surrender. Hope we can get it played quick and not have to wait too long to put this to bed.

No surprise there!

I have never seen an abandoned game on Ewood until last Saturday, I can go back long before Simon Jordan.

Full replay confirmed.

Has there been anymore on Carter’s injury, other than Ipswich pre-match he sustained “a knock”?

All the boring hipster rubbish just turns me off football. New edgy names for existing things like 'low block', 'double pivot', a '6' or an '8'. Shite.

As an Ireland fan I can tell you I was a lot more entertained in the Quarter Finals of a World Cup playing long ball, then getting batterd by Armenia while watching a clown fiasco where successful passes were more by luck than design. Play the style that wins you points, winning is the entertaining bit!

Great stuff, really appreciate this. I knew I remembered something about us being the first live non-final game. Thanks pal 👍

Your mention of that game out me in mind of another game which finished early due to a pitch invasion. https://www.fulhamfc.com/news/2013/september/19/throwback-thursday Fulham appealed but the FA (not the Football League) threw it out. Given it was the last match it certainly wasn't a dead rubber. There was plenty at stake as Fulham could have been promoted and Derby relegated. Slightly different circumstances here but the remaining 11 minutes of this match were played behind closed doors. https://www.theoldhamtimes.co.uk/sport/20089516.efl-issue-statement-oldham-athletic-v-salford-city/

Or perhaps when George Courtney cut the match short because Palace fans were on the pitch side on the fateful day in May 1989. Replay in full and Rovers going up.

I imagine he’s made it up.

Put the new lad in upfront. Hes not been signed as a bench warmer. Toth Albieousi Miller Wharton Ribiero TGH Tronstadt Moreshita Cantwell Yuki Gudjohnsson

Yeah I remember that one, it was around December 93/January 94. It was postponed just before kick off. The game Simon Jordon is on about was apparently in 1997 with us already 2-0 up, no idea where he has plucked that one from.

We did have a postponement against Wimbledon it would have been before 97 though. Can't remember what the score was or if it even started but I remember Fashanu, Wise, Jones et al doing belly slides all over the pitch and pretending to swim after it was called off

I understand where you're coming from but my worry is that clubs would start gaming the system and we end up in interminable legal processes when clubs don't agree on the outcome - which could be most of the time! What happens if it's the last game of the season - how long would the process take when it could involve relegation / promotion issues affecting a whole host of clubs? No system will be perfect because, as you rightly point out, there are so many different scenarios. Maybe some system which at least lays out the options (e.g. full replay, complete the match from the point it stopped, result stands, points awarded to one team or the other) - and some guidance as to what the likely outcome is in different circumstances - might help to speed up the process and mean fans are better informed.

Re the bit in bold, yes - in my opinion, what the two clubs want should be irrelevant (so far as the EFL is concerned).

I would argue there is nothing unfair in continuing the match from where it left off. Ipswich will be in exactly the position they were, a goal down a man down having travelled from Suffolk that morning (I’m assuming that’s what they did and what they would do). We’d also be in the same position, one up a man up and ten(ish) minutes to see out. Of course there would be differences, for example they’d have time to plot how best to get something out of the game but equally we’d have time to plan against this. I can’t think (but maybe others can) of any advantage to one team that wouldn’t be offset by an advantage to the other.

Ooh, nice! Didn't know you guys were on youtube. I'm on it! Just looked, I'm already subbed. So, edit - I forgot you guys were on... 😆

It was called off just before kick off wasn't. I remember big fash doing a pre-klinsmen klinsmen.

The score could be significant. Anything can happen in a flash at 1-0. I feel we'll beard done by.