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No point going out to compete in any game if that's the attitude. Might as well accept thirty points from the next thirty games without going through the hassle of playing them and just play five or six games to determine promotion and relegation.

That in itself is also inherently extremely unfair. Who's to say you can't pull back a 1-0 deficit with 15 mins to go? What if you needed a point to go up or stay down on the last day of the season and the game was stopped in that position through absolutely no fault of your own?

I think most of us agree that the wilful neglect of the infrastructure was likely a major contributory factor on Saturday. To play devils advocate, it is also a fact that the railway line between Blackburn and Bolton was closed around teatime on Saturday, due to flooding

I guess the issue with having an arbitrary x minute = rule is it would increase the pressure on the referee. As the said minute approached the losing manager would be imploring the ref to call the match off whilst the winning one would be insisting it continued. Of course once that minute went by both managers would immediately pivot to the other opinion without a hint of irony… We could have saved all this bother by just sorting the bloody drainage out.

Well we'll see if/when we do the Rovers thing and lose the replay. A point for no game might not sound as daft then.

Assuming we're not getting awarded the points, whilst a part replay is obviously the ideal scenario from our point of view a full replay would be second best. I can't believe any other Rovers fan would not rather take the "risk" of ending up with nothing balanced against the chance of getting three, as opposed to merely accepting a point.

Replay the game... it's the Blackburn Rovers ownership (or the clowns in charge at Ewood) that has cut essential ground maintenence and is too blame for the rainfall not draining off.

Agreed - but somewhere within the framework which already exists. They couldnt order the new game lasts 120 mins for example because games last 90. Similarly they couldnt realistically say that we get one point and Ipswich none or we get two points and Ipswich one as that's not a combination of points anyone can get as the rules stand.

Why would you want to lose a replay or go through another fixture crammed in 95+ mins and get....... 1 point. They should never have scrapped the result stands after 75 mins rule that was black and white. The lines are now blurred so it seems any suggestion is viable and if that is the worst i'm Henry the 8th. Too much fuss and faff with everything these days and how do you sort this and make everyone happy ? You can't so minimise it on both sides.

The EFLs interpretation of their rules to allow Guiu to be eligible for Chelsea in the Carabao cup shows they can be flexible when they want to be. I doubt there’s a chance we’re one of the clubs they’d want to favour though…

Why would anyone want that?

There’s no chance we’d accept a point you’d just take the risk and go for all 3, Ipswich wouldn’t accept that result either. Never mind it’s changing the entire notion of 3 points for a win and 1 for a draw. Everyone is just throwing suggestions out but that is objectively a bad one for all. Then again I think a full replay and giving us 3 points are also bad decisions so the only real one is play out the last 15 or so

Yep, then just wait ‘til we lose said replay…

It's the fairest way on both clubs to just see the 10 mins out but they won't order that so we'll all gnash the teeth when a full replay is ordered. I'd grab 1 point and not have to replay it right now if it was offered and i'm sure plenty would but it's to simplistic for the officials.

If they’re not willing to look at each case individually they should remove the flexibility to do so from the rules.

I think Ipswich will moan at anything other than a full replay. As I said earlier, I don’t think either side can be justifiably unhappy with carrying on from where the match was halted.

Yeah most on here would rather just moan when the game is ordered full replay 11 v 11 because their is no middle ground that rewards us for our efforts but doesn't make it as big an advantage as the full win. So come on lets ram in another game from 0-0 and take the bigger risk of getting fuck all.

Yet people are suggesting play ten mins v the ten men, replay the full game but we are 'allowed' to score, play the full game but their sent off man leaves the pitch at the same point etc etc. Come on it sounds like nothing is off the table.

We aren't in primary school that's rather obvious but surely a middle ground suggestion is feasible because whatever the outcome nobody will be happy unless the result stands. One point to Rovers limits the gripes a bit at least.

Go full Super League; the traditional once at home, once away is just to award a shield. The actual trophy goes to whoever wins a knockout competition based on those standings... Interestingly, the National League model turned into a farce last year as the 2nd/3rd placed teams had so long off between the end of the league and their play off fixture that they were both disposed by the teams who had played in the 4th v. 7th / 5th v. 6th play off who were more match ready.

We brought him in from Palace in 2022, his contract was extended during the summer (surprisingly in my opinion), he has been called up for the senior Pakistan team once or twice which think says more about the lack of quality in their squad than it does his ability

Although funny enough, the only precedent in English football I could find of doing anything other than a replay (if promotion or relegation was still on the cards) was from non-league. The professional leagues always seem to go for the replay. You were totally right in your other post where you said the rules don't suggest you have to do a replay at all. In fact I'd argue they imply (tacitly) that after 75 mins you should either call the match as is, or play the remaining minutes at a later date. But despite that, precedent has shown the EFL always order a full replay so it would be a massive shock if they did anything else. Might even open a legal can of worms over previous judgements from other clubs.

Is the keeper a relation of Suhails? As bad as I've seen at this level.

And yet that's the craziest one I've seen.

Problem is you couldn't expect as high as portion of Ipswich fans to travel relative to the usual following, as Rovers fans, for 15 minutes of football. Free ticket or not. I think you'd have to make it behind closed doors (something else Ipswich couldn't complain about, if anything that gives them an edge vs the real game) and perhaps stream it for free somewhere (not sure if the rights allow for that, but just let Sky show it if they want).