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We’d also need Ipswich’s permission given the pricing plan we will have submitted to the EFL.

The issue we have at the moment is teams poorly replicating parts of a system used by the best team ever (2012 Barcelona). The first mistake they make is that Barcelona were able to play that way due to their personnel and over 20’yeara of honing their style. As an interesting aside, Barcelona scored over 70% of their goals through counter attacks which flys in the face of the notion they played around the back endlessly. In reality they won the ball back made a few combinations in midfield to draw the press and then created overloads. Secondly and a point of heard discussed a lot recently in podcasts and coaching articles is within football theory the aim is to simply score 1 more goal than the other team. The chances if Themis are highest when you are closest to their goal, the chances of conceding are when you’re closest to your goal so possession without intent means that at some stage you will lose the ball and risk conceding. Johan Cruyff said “always look the furthest pass and work your way backward”, he wanted forward passes as quickly as possible, we’re suffering a huge misrepresentation of the great man’s way of playing at the moment with the endless backward passing. Going forward is positive, sideways is neither good or bad, backwards is the opposite of the basics of football theory

And we can all be sure that once the rules change, the next time a game gets called off, Rovers will be 1-0 down, and he other team will be awarded the win

Really the penalty should carry over. Why be punished for one rule break and not another?

Not really...a player could have been guilty of a grievous assault for instance & would otherwise get off scot free.

Not if home fans charged the same...😜

Is he mixing it up with number 3 here..? https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/nov/07/joy-of-six-football-abandonments

is it against the rules to charge ipswich fans £ 50 quid for the replay,we are starting from the beginning again😁

That’s, as I may have said a number of time now 😁, a good reason for not awarding us the win. It isn’t, in my opinion, a good reason for replaying in full.

That's how we roll

The ban remaining for the red card just adds to the ridiculousness of the situation.

Hell will freeze and pigs will fly over the molten glacier it first.

The decision is as expected. Rovers were aware of the issues and had the opportunity to invest in pumps and the waste rainwater tank as advised by their CEO. Rovers refused to invest. There were over 10 minutes left plus injury time. The game was not done and dusted. Anything could have happened and probably would given our record on conceding late goals. There is not a hope that an appeal will succeed especially given there is virtually only the tea lady left who is capable of writing a coherent appeal.

I see the league statement says they will now consult clubs to look into new guidance for these scenarios. I had a feeling this would happen, we will get the processes changed for everyone else but we won't benefit. Typical.

Suspect that the rationale was along the lines that there was enough time left & a close enough scoreline to make the final outcome sufficiently uncertain. Frankly I agree with that logic...if that's what they used...😆

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