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If you think that's the only logical decision, I'm sorry but your logic is fucking horrendous.

Agreed. But it's still fairer then replaying the whole thing. But yes by far and away the fair option is to finish the game. Personally I'm astonished there is any other option in any game where the scores and number of players are not even. Even if a game were 1 nil and abandoned after 20 minutes I'd still favour finishing the game from that point. Giving the losing side a get out of jail free card is ludicrous IMO.

We absolutely should appeal and sue the EFL. This is not like the futile appeal with O’Brien when we just missed the deadline! Due to the weather (drainage issues aside as that’s not the players, fans and coaches fault) we are being negatively impacted and these 3 points could define our season. It’s simply unfair and we should not just take the ruling lying down. Would LFC or Man City accept such an injustice? The EFL claim to have considered all options thoroughly but I fail to see how playing a 15 minute match 10v11 is such a logistical impossibility? How can we be awarded a penalty that now no longer counts? How can the player be suspended if the penalty and yellows no longer count? How are Ipswich being punished for the penalty and yellows now? They broke the rules. Why are the team who face Ipswich next benefiting from the suspension? The EFL shouldn’t need a precedent to do the right thing. If we always needed a precedent then there would never be any progress and as an organisation like the EFL are lacking the courage and imagination to change. They are probably doing this just because they feel it’s the path of least resistance and that is a poor way to run any organisation. They deserve to be sued.

Should there then not then be a rule that you can't be on the panel if the outcome affects a Club in your Division due to potential conflict of interest? You can't agree to go on a panel to decide something and then refuse to vote. Well, you can, but it shouldn't be allowed.

Can't see it happening but would be sporting if Ipswich allowed us a walk in goal at kick off. We get our advantage back, they have longer and no red card to try and get a result. That's the only way I can see it now being palatable.

It's beyond me how any Rovers fan believes that this is the "correct and only logical decision" But then again ...

Plus the hearing itself was an obvious stitch up. Three out of the ten declined to vote.

Re the bit in bold - that’s why Ipswich should get those remaining, 10, 15, 20 minutes it doesn’t justify them getting to start from scratch. ‘so late’ is clearly a relative term and in any event this was one of the three things I mentioned which in combination hasn’t happened before. Is it a choice between appealing or improving the drains or could we do both? I wouldn’t appeal by the way, I think you’re being optimistic in giving it a 1% chance of success.

Hope we appeal. This benefits no one but Ipswich. Ipswich the team who were losing gets a fresh start, they get their sent off player back. Rovers have been shafted. Playing the last ten minutes was the only fair option.

i did`nt exect any other outcome tbh,though that weasel mckenna can **** right off and wait for the game to rearranged at our convinience,we should pick a date that gives us an advantage,id`e make them wait till the end of the season

I dont want to come over as the guy who's a bad loser but those who predicted we'd get shafted by the EFL were correct. How can you have a panel where 30% of them can't/won't vote? It was supposedly by majority which means that the voting must have been 6-1, 5-2 or 4-3 and which also means that unless the voting was 6-1 the 3 abstentions were crucial! If I were Rovers I'd be appealing as a ppint of principle and demanding the vote is reconvened in front of 10 members who are actually willing to cast a vote!

Let's get this straight - there were at least 15 to 20 minutes to go ie 10 minutes normal time plus 5 to 10 minutes added time. That in my eyes is not an 'abandonment so late'. Football is a funny old game. How many times have we seen teams come back (even with 10 men) to either draw a game or win a game in the closing stages after being largely dominated for huge parts of the game. Ipswich were just 1 goal down - they were not dead and buried. However unpalatable to Rovers and fans, IMO, the correct and the only logical decision has been made. An appeal is 99% certain to fail and I think Rovers would better spend their time exploring options for the playing surface and its drains to ensure this never happens again.

I thought you meant me for a minute but then I remembered I’m never wrong. 😁

As others have pointed out there’s been no previous occurrence of a game being abandoned so late with one team both leading and a man up. I guess that’s the angle they’d be pushing given what else the club put in their statement. Won’t get them anywhere mind. The EFL hasn’t said they’ll change the rules, just that they’ll consult and issue guidance for any future occurrences. Cant see the point in that as surely the guidance won’t overrule precedence…

Isn't 'low block' the same as a team 'sitting deep'? Glad it's not just me that's sick to death with all this bollocks!

It's over, whether Rovers like it or not.

The problems at Ewood are well known in regards to drainage. It's happened before so the EFL can't claim ignorance. If they opt to continue ignoring this problem then they are as complicit as the club is in hurting the integrity of the league by having a pitch that can't handle heavy rain and has significant risks of postponements and game abandonments in future. The club will only act if the EFL begin to apply financial pressure. Otherwise it certainly appears they couldn't care less about our fans, other fans, managers, players or the integrity of the league.

On what grounds are we planning to appeal? The precedent for action in these cases is clear. Reminds me of when we embrassed ourselves appealing the O'Brien and McGuire transfers. It sounds like they'll change the rules now at least, which is long overdue because they're garbage. But that's too late for us.

With those 3 points turning out to be significant.

Pompous prick is wrong!

So, a full replay, as we knew it would be. And Rovers will lose it, as we all know they will.

I’d be interested in how the L1 and L2 representatives voted.

We will beat them in the replay. Worst case scenario turn the sprinklers on mid game / turn off the lights and get it abandoned again for a replay.

The EFL board decided: https://www.efl.com/about-the-efl/efl-board/

Ah right, I'm with you now, it was put to a panel rather than all members of the division, that makes sense. Also makes sense that they would all agree to abstain I suppose.