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Caddy, you are away with the fairies on this one. That pitch became totally unplayable beyond the 75th minute

Can you please show me where your answer to my question is

As a referee there is absolutely no way that game could carry on, once the ball stops rolling, and a manager shows concern for the safety of players (as mckenna did). Not a chance a referee can take that risk. The right call albeit a frustrating one. However not half as frustrating as having to replay 11v11 for 90mins.

We need the adjudicating panel to be fully paid up members of the climate change club then they will accept it was just a freak act of nature and something that could be getting worse because of man made problems. Otherwise they'll just blame Rovers for not fixing a recurring problem and punish accordingly.

What about BB4? We are also part of the Teacake world.

Totally stand by my original points on the game being called off and it should have carried on. McKenna got what he wanted and its a shame that the ref bottled it again given what we seen regular with poor standing of referring at all levels. Any replay game will favour Ipswich much more again given we were leading 1 nil and 11 players vs their 10. Personally Rovers should be given the win by the EFL board but they won't. Ipswich and McKenna knew that a game being called out would suit them.

I for one can only imagine the full support the ref would have received on here if he’d called it off at 2:55pm or abandoned it at half time…👀

I did answer your question with a similar point about having to replay the game when they are different form potentially and us missing key players potentially

Can’t see anything other than a full replay I’m afraid. I would be gobsmacked if the league decided anything else. I recall going to Luton in the 70’s when we were 2-0 down on a frozen pitch. The ref called the game off in the second half after Rovers players started slipping and sliding! I think we lost the replay 4-0.

Liverpool did a nice write up for us, shame our own club haven't bothered yet with anything beyond a graphic https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/u18s-match-report-liverpool-suffer-heavy-defeat-blackburn Did realise at the time, but Patrik Farkas' brother was on the bench for Liverpool https://www.anfieldwatch.co.uk/liverpool-fc/news/exclusive-meet-the-15-year-old-liverpool-wonderkid-who-has-england-fighting-for-him/

We sit low down in the JW so it might have looked different from up top, but apart from a couple of slips, the pitch played fine into the second half. I thought the ref was right to start the game, and right to stop it when he did.

Flip the teams around - with it being only a one goal lead, you'd want your side to at least be given the remaining 10 (probably 15 with added time) remaining minutes to try for an equaliser. It would feel unjustified to have that taken away from your team, the way we feel it woutbe unjust to have the goal and many advantage taken away

Reaching the point in my recovery at which I can tolerate watching some Championship football. Just a bit.. None of the relegated trio look impressive- all seem to have recruited badly but nobody else as badly as Sheffield United have done. 🤑 None of the promoted trio should struggle. Charlton look the best balanced and are good enough for JRC to be absent. Wrexham and Birmingham look good enough to beat anyone but not (yet) gelled into the sort of outfits that grind out promotion winning results week in, week out. Coventry should have won at Leicester and they alongside Bristol City, Preston and Swansea have impressed me the most as carrying a forward line that can really cut through the opposition. Stoke look to be able to ride their luck (except at QPR) while Boro are efficient and competent rather than frightening - a team full of Callum Brittains if that makes any sense! Wide open this year. Interesting to hear what others think now we are 6 (5 for us) games into the season.

Under 18s won 8-3 at Liverpool

One thing I would say on this, promotion and relegation was decided on an incomplete season during the Covid season, in two of the EFL leagues. This is 10 minutes of a game, where we had a huge advantage with a man up and a goal up, so logic says, award us the game.

Was there that night. The penalty against us was as diabolical as any I have seen. As for the pitch, the drainage now is better than it was in those days but that was our undoing yesterday. After the 75th minute the drains and under soil structure flooded by the rising water table- It was why forking it was pointless and actually counter-productive. I bet the surface looks immaculate when Swansea and Stoke come to Ewood.

It is permitted but I doubt that will be their ruling.

With a replay we'll have gone from a 95+% of getting the three points to <50%. Ipswich had practically no chance of winning that game and yet now have a very decent chance of walking away with three points. Hardly seems fair.

No he didn't initially. In fact I got a bit optimistic when the ball was rolling fine but then he dropped it and there was zero bounce. It was after that he went over to where there was standing water on the surface.

Folk not from a BB1 - BB3 postcode. SEND EM BACK!

And utterly ignores that we already played 80 minutes of the game and almost had it in the bag with a man and a goal advantage. As I say, finishing the game is the fairest option. The least fair is to punish the team who had worked hard to be in the lead and reward the team who had very likely fucked the game up, and to replay 90 minutes for the sake of 10.

Were you in the stadium today? There was standing water on the pitch in the warm up, it had rained for hours and the forecast was that it was only going to get worse.

But to say that a result is final based on an incomplete game is conclusive. To replay the game is at least open ended.

For me, if I take Blackburn Rovers out of the equation and look at it like this... Which is fairer? Telling a team who were 1 nil up against 10 men with 10 minutes plus injury time remaining that they have to do the whole thing again against 11 men and starting at 0-0? Or telling a team who were 1 nil down with 10 men and 10 minutes plus injury time left that they have to accept the defeat they were thoroughly on course for? To me it's very obvious that the second one is vastly fairer. The actual fair outcome would be to have a behind closed doors game to finish the 10 minutes plus injury time with 11 vs 10. Ludicrously, that doesn't seem to be permitted in the rules. And with the way our luck goes I'm sure we will instead be punished by the far less fair outcome of replaying the whole thing.

It’s never occurred to me in all these years but the flat stretch of land between the hill up to the railway and the one up Liberty Branch Road looks a lot like an old flood plain, which doesn’t leave much scope for drainage. Once the raging River Darwen rises above that pipe, its head pressure must be many times that of the water coming down the pipe, which perhaps is why the pitch seems to just stop draining.