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It would sent a very interesting precedent for any team needing a point for promotion/relegation in their final game…👀

There does seem to be a growing 'victim culture' in football with fans of many clubs believing the authorities are against them. After conceding a blatant penalty last week Burnley fans were chanting 'Premier League, corrupt as f***)', a chant which I have heard many times when decisions go against teams.

Gary Aspden also wanted us to have a Spezial kit and to be first team to do so, but Pasha vetoed it 😅. Can’t wait for us to have some low quality Castore kits instead though….

The reaction of the Ipswich players coming on before any announcement was a disgrace to the game. If they'd have come on after the announcement i.e. to thank their fans for support I can understand that. But to come on before indicated "we were 1 0 down with ten men but we've managed to void the game". Unprofessional, unsporting and a disgrace to football.

Here’s the rule:

Fair enough, hard to tell these days with some people seeming to believe the EFL is intent on destroying us!

Seems like a common sense approach to me. I don't think the EFL will do common sense though. They will hide behind their (inadequate) rule book.

I know - would require a special kind of idiocy (or biased) to advocate that the pitch was playable. Was just a laugh but i noted that the choice of wording by Rovers is "consulted" - sounds much better (to our fans) than "agreed"

Highlights. The difference between the pitch at the beginning and at the end is chalk and cheese.

As an alternative , how would people feel with 3 points on offer, 2 points for us, 1 for them, everyone kind of wins?

Telling Ipswich that they have lost the game when they were only 1-0 down with possibly 15 mins left to play would be completely out of order. Ipswich had done nothing wrong.

Apparently our case to the EFL is either for us to be awarded the win or play the final 10 minutes only. Makes sense I suppose, there's no reason the club should advocate for a full replay, although it's a bit cheeky to ask to be awarded the win when our pitch was the reason the game got abandoned in the first place. If you don't ask you don't get, though, so they probably figured it was worth a shot.

The EFL statement clearly states both managers agreed. Neither Rovers nor Ismael have contradicted that statement.

Sunderland very impressive today, first time I've seen live. Well organised team. spent well

Not entirely sure that Val would be in agreement with ending the match - that is a very nuanced view of that the referee consulted both managers. Can imagine the conversation was roughly: Ref: Little Mac - what do you think? McKenna - call it off - somebody think of the children players - somebody could lose an eye leg. Plus the ball doesn't roll or bounce and our highly trained professionals only do rolling and bouncing balls. Ref: Big Val - what do you think? Val: play on - no worries. Our players play keepy uppy in training all the time so they can don't need to play it on the ground. McKenna: Ref - remember it is all on you if someone gets injured and our players actually cost more than a Big Makc Ref to everyone else: ok - both managers consulted. I'll just check to see if it has dried up in the last 25 minutes of pissing rain... Ref: Little Mac - Big Val: see you again in a few weeks

Don’t know why Ipswich couldn’t have stayed an extra night and get the final 10 played this morning /afternoon. That to me would be the fairest thing so you get as near to the same conditions as possible. As it is I think we all know it’s going to be a full 90 mins replay and it’s a completely different game

I think its a water level thing though as the outlet is below the water level when heavy down pour occurs the outlet becomes submerged rendering it useless. Another option would be to run pumps prior to the games and throughout or begin them during a heavy down pour game and have the water dumped out further down Alum house brook. The Ewood park outlet is closed to avoid back up. Simple but costly

no one is bitter and twisted again @roversfan99. I and others just disagree with the decision. Also people are unhappy with McKenna's reactions, his post match comments and the way him and his players celebrated after the game was called, you might not seen a problem or any issue with his actions but plenty do.

If I had travelled around 250 miles to watch my team, I would expect them to show some appreciation for that

That's Leonard who went Peterborough, that'll be why you thought that.

Well no, I have just not become so bitter and twisted over an admittedly frustrating situation to the point where my posts (and dishing out of thumbs down emojis) come across as petulant, bitter and twisted beyond sensible reasoning.

McKenna got what he wanted, his posted match interview, patting the ref on his back. Their celebrations at calling the game off were embarrassing yet you are so quick to defend them every time.

The frustrating part is with how the club is ran there are potentially simple solutions to this that have NOT been explored. Would that surprise anyone? The consensus will have been..... "how often does it stop a game going ahead? No." That's the level of excellence now riddled inside Ewood. No pride or passion for the club to be the best it can be. Who would even have the authority to make a call on a ground improvement like that. The imaginary CEO or the intern one? These kind of fixes are significant but not an issue for our owners if they were present.

If Ismael did agree with that decision then I disagree with him

Yes, I am sure that he is laughing his head off that his masterplan of causing the pitch to be totally unplayable due to a waterlogged pitch came to fruition. They came out at the end to clap their fans who had travelled a long way. The pitch was unplayable. End of story.