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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...

Yes, and we'll be awarded £50m in compensation, of which £1m will go back into the running of the club...

Not surprised - but if I were Rovers I would tell the EFL that if the loss of three points mean we get relegated (or less likely) miss out on the chance of promotion we reserve the right to take them to court for loss of earnings.

There are no direct precedents for this decision, but I assume if anyone at the board meeting floated(pun intended) the argument/suggestion that any other decision could lead to clubs being tempted to allow waterlogging of the pitch when losing an important game, this would be difficult to argue against. Also, the solution of playing remaining minutes would become farcical if only one minute remained... However, in terms of actual fairness, the whole debacle is weighed 100% against Rovers (apart from the wet Tuesday night in Stoke argument...). For example, and I'm sure this has been mentioned in this thread, Ipswich like Rovers lost many of their best players over the summer but, unlike Rovers, they invested £50m+ in replacements, after a net spend of £100m the previous summer. Inevitably, the improvement in their performances as the new squad gels and develops will favour Ipswich more than Rovers as the season progresses. I hope natural justice prevails but, although it will be a bloody good game, with added national focus, I fear we will be happy with a point based on Ipswich's results over the next few weeks. Hopefully, the sheer sense of injustice will bring another 500 thro the gate and squeeze us over the line...

Picture this, it's the replay. We've lasted till the 89th minute. Szmodics on. He bags. Immediately, They go on to win it. Rate your anger on a scale of 1 to 10

It wouldn't have done -they have a proper pitch.

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There really can’t be more than say 15 or 20 absolute tops in existence…

Can’t help but feel like if this happened at their place it would have had a different outcome. 5 games in and our luck has already been atrocious. Nothing we can do now but swallow the bitter pill and get on with it. Hope it lights a fire in the player’s bellies. On to the Valley we go.

Completely disgusting but not surprising! The EFL should be ashamed of themselves

Nor can billionaire owners fix the drainage problems which have been ongoing for years and years.

Lol...As if..

Suhail…welcome to the forum…😆

This was always going to be the outcome so I'm not going to get mad at it. We just have to hope we can actually turn up for a midweek fixture for once. If anything I'm more annoyed at our complete inability to provide an adequate pitch - obviously there are limits with drainage etc but lets not pretend like the pitch hasn't been an issue in general for years now.

We need a good win to put this last result with the efl behind us. Another 0 3 will do.

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I saw Herbie's reply before and was going to post exactly the same thing but you've beaten me to it! 🙂

So open both end uppers, and charge £50. Charge whatever for the Blackburn end lower tier and don’t open the Darwen end lower. No one would buy tickets for the BE upper, job done 😀

Spot on.

Contributed to the debate with what I thought was a creative suggestion to use ChatGPT…see what answer it came up with…👀

Suspect we'll find out more from Ismael after his pre match presser, but the silence from the club possibly suggests that he's out for another sustained period of time.