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Didn't expect anything other than this as it covers the EFL. Taken them almost 5 days to make a decision. As fans we have to get on with it at our expense while the football so called body rule that despite being 1 0 up playng against 10 men with 10 minutes left, you must play the full game again to see if Ispwich can win which will help them get back to the premiership.

Pretty sure if that happened we'd be considered to have forfeited the match rather than an abandonment 😅

let them travel but hosepipe the river darwen on the pitch so it`s unplayable😆

That Rovers Shirt with the Coors sponsor is indeed a collectors item...worn only once I believe.

Rovers players have every motivation to win this (again)

Our players should walk off at 79 mins forcing abandonment and letting this debacle continue

Hopefully we’ll win the replay 2-0 and Ipswich then miss out on promotion/are relegated by 1 on goal difference. 😁

Going forwards, I do hope they just make any game that is abandoned at any point be restarted as soon as is practicable, from the same minute, with the same score, with they same number of players on the pitch etc * as long as the game can impact the table in any way, if not then the result can just stand as it is when the game is abandoned

Well I think Mr Plod would have a word in that circumstance… It just seems very odd to keep that one detail from a match that’s otherwise deemed to never have happened.

I suspect it'll be other clubs at the end of the season who may take action. Imagine if Ipswich win the replay and pip someone to promotion by 2 points. We also very well could win the replayed game by more goals and stay up / make playoffs on goal difference. I don't see how that sustains the leagues integrity more than replaying from where it was stopped.

We’d also need Ipswich’s permission given the pricing plan we will have submitted to the EFL.

The issue we have at the moment is teams poorly replicating parts of a system used by the best team ever (2012 Barcelona). The first mistake they make is that Barcelona were able to play that way due to their personnel and over 20’yeara of honing their style. As an interesting aside, Barcelona scored over 70% of their goals through counter attacks which flys in the face of the notion they played around the back endlessly. In reality they won the ball back made a few combinations in midfield to draw the press and then created overloads. Secondly and a point of heard discussed a lot recently in podcasts and coaching articles is within football theory the aim is to simply score 1 more goal than the other team. The chances if Themis are highest when you are closest to their goal, the chances of conceding are when you’re closest to your goal so possession without intent means that at some stage you will lose the ball and risk conceding. Johan Cruyff said “always look the furthest pass and work your way backward”, he wanted forward passes as quickly as possible, we’re suffering a huge misrepresentation of the great man’s way of playing at the moment with the endless backward passing. Going forward is positive, sideways is neither good or bad, backwards is the opposite of the basics of football theory

And we can all be sure that once the rules change, the next time a game gets called off, Rovers will be 1-0 down, and he other team will be awarded the win

Really the penalty should carry over. Why be punished for one rule break and not another?

Not really...a player could have been guilty of a grievous assault for instance & would otherwise get off scot free.

Not if home fans charged the same...😜

Is he mixing it up with number 3 here..? https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/nov/07/joy-of-six-football-abandonments

is it against the rules to charge ipswich fans £ 50 quid for the replay,we are starting from the beginning again😁

That’s, as I may have said a number of time now 😁, a good reason for not awarding us the win. It isn’t, in my opinion, a good reason for replaying in full.

That's how we roll

The ban remaining for the red card just adds to the ridiculousness of the situation.

Hell will freeze and pigs will fly over the molten glacier it first.

The decision is as expected. Rovers were aware of the issues and had the opportunity to invest in pumps and the waste rainwater tank as advised by their CEO. Rovers refused to invest. There were over 10 minutes left plus injury time. The game was not done and dusted. Anything could have happened and probably would given our record on conceding late goals. There is not a hope that an appeal will succeed especially given there is virtually only the tea lady left who is capable of writing a coherent appeal.

I see the league statement says they will now consult clubs to look into new guidance for these scenarios. I had a feeling this would happen, we will get the processes changed for everyone else but we won't benefit. Typical.

Suspect that the rationale was along the lines that there was enough time left & a close enough scoreline to make the final outcome sufficiently uncertain. Frankly I agree with that logic...if that's what they used...😆