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The Who - The Kids Are Alright

Good points, although as I said earlier, any compensation we might eventually receive would only head one way, which is fair enough as no-one ever told the owners that ownership of a football club is a costly business, and doesn't guarantee a European brand boost. This wasn't made clear enough to the poor Venky's when the PL was rushing to rubberstamp the fit n proper owner (and agent) credentials. Bless..

Julia Jacklin - Don't Let the Kids Win

Glen, the Coalition and WATR are silent and have been for weeks. Something must be brewing 🧐

I agree. The decision and the laughable explanation make the EFL look corrupt, spineless, and utterly devoid of integrity.

If I were at the club I would be demanding an explanation from the EFL about why the fairest outcome was so impossible to sanction? The EFL statement suggests they’ve ‘comprehensively’ considered all the options and made their decision in order to ‘maintain the integrity of the league’. I would say awarding us the 3 points would be the least fair option followed by the full replay 11v11. Clearly the fairest option would be to play out the remaining minutes 11v10. Surely the fairest option upholds integrity the most? So if they have considered the options ‘comprehensively’ what is it that makes the part replay so impossible to do?

Tragic: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5jye4v64no

Yes, we are not what we were as a result of the Indians and the fact that our fan base, infrastructure and spirit has been decimated by 16 years of neglect. However, I refuse to believe that Ipswich Town are a bigger club.

I remember my older cousin telling me about this game, which he attended. I would be 9 years old and he was in London awaiting demob after WW2. He said Rovers missed an absolute sitter late on and Charlton went straight down the other end and scored to win 1-0. They went on to beat Dingles 1-0 in the cup final. I also remember going to the last league game of that season, which was extended due to to an awful winter. I was excited at seeing cup winners Charlton. It was played on Whit Monday morning to avoid a clash with East Lancs’ game in the Lancashire League that afternoon. Rovers won 1-0

If it was the other way round, I suspect that may have been the decision. The bigger clubs, if you can call Ipswich that, have more power.

Lots of factors in their favour now: - Huge psychological advantage - Superior squad, they should beat us 11 v 11 most weeks - Likely to be in an evening game and we do not do well in those as we cannot rotate our squad like they can - Gives them a chance to build up some form. They will be near the top come the end of the season and will inevitable click at some point soon

Frankly, the EFL decision is an absolute scandal. This decision should not be about finance or logistics or precedent, just about transparency and fairness and only restarting the game and playing it out from the point of abandonment satisfies that criteria.

McKenna and Ipswich got exactly what they wanted from the game being called out. The game should have been restarted from 80 mins. Fairiest thing to do.

**** ipswich and the efl,make them wait till april,i take it both sides have to mutually agree on the date,lets be as arkward as possible,they`ve done us up like a kipper,so lets reciprocate

We can always say hey come to us and we let the clock run down to the day 75th minute then take on player off and you still have your chance

As I walked off the ground on Saturday I just presumed it would be a full replay. The surprise is it has taken us 5 days to get here.

Ipswich can wank off...this shit is rigged by the efl..had enough..... In which way does this suit us? It only suits Ipswich...foookers

Can't believe the mass outrage online, it was always gonna be a full replay but a lot of people were obviously expecting different. So many possible repercussions down the line not just for us/Ipswich but other teams too. Imagine if a couple of our key players got season ending injuries in the rematch. I doubt we've heard the last of it given how close the championship has been in recent seasons....

Need a full house full intimidation mode and grant them 500 seats.

Of course we would want a full replay but I don’t think anyone with any common sense or decency would be disappointed if the game was restarted and finished from the salient point of abandonment. The only sensible and equitable solution but one ignored by the EFL, fucking ridiculous.

Then play the last 10 minutes and stoppage time out, 11 v 10 and the resultant outcome removes any uncertainty.

As Rovers fans, its hard not to think that this decision is going to come back to haunt Rovers later on in the season. However, I hope that this decision rallies the players for the next few games, and also for the eventual replay whenever that happens. Knowing the EFL and their logic they'll probably place it during a particularly hectic period of fixtures.

Exactly so. Despite the inherent unfairness of the ruling I was expecting it - what I wasn't expecting was for that unfairness to be compounded by the possibility the vote only went against us due to several panel members abstaining! Ludicrous! Given the owners seem to love a good Court case and their previous predilection for throwing away obscene amounts of money in legal fees on seemingly lost causes, now we have an arguable case I hope they go full frontal and appeal and as you say preface it with the threat of legal action as above. The EFL deserve for us to lose the replay and go down by less than three points and for Ipswich to be promoted by less than three points and for them to have the arse sued off them by both us and any other aggrieved Club.

Even though we knew the game wasn't going to be restarted, we hung around on Saturday just out of curiosity. Never been to an abandoned game before I don't think, so it's one for the memory bank. The good news is we hopefully get another home game to go to. It'll certainly be a strange one.

Apparently, the EFL and PL rule used to be 75 min, and this may still be a UEFA rule. I heard that the new EFL rule is that if 45 min has been played in both halves, the result can stand. Anyway, we all saw the wording of the decision, there may now be a review of these rules, but it will be of no use to us...