v Ipswich Town (h) - 20/9/25

[yankfan]

15 minutes ago, Wheelton Blue said:

We're 1-0 down on the last game of the season, we need a goal to stave off relegation.

The game gets cancelled with 15 minutes to go because of freak weather. After a hearing, the EFL decide to award the opposition the 3 points.

We are relegated.

So we just sit there and say nothing?

Not the same. Part of the “review” should be all the facts. Like the game that was an abandoned and not replayed because it was meaningless, the more meaningful the match is should be part of the decision. At this point the match is meaningful but not yet known how much so. 

[Silas]

Install a switch that blocks the drainage pipes on demand. 

Everytime it rains heavy, and we're a couple goals down with half hour to go, activate it, and waterlog the pitch.

Get out of jail free card, we get to restart the match like on a computer game.

We might finally have a chance of getting in the playoffs via that method. 

[Exiled_Rover]

1 hour ago, Herbie6590 said:

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...😆

It could have been the 91st minute of 93, they'd have demanded a full replay.

They didn't use logic, they just fell back onto their old archaic rules. 

[Elrovers]

My bad if this has already been mentioned but to basically scrape everything off from that game but the red card still stands meaning he’ll be suspended for their match this Saturday? That is ridiculous. Efl are just a bunch of fuckwits following their shitty ass rules. Honestly!

Edited 2 hours ago by Elrovers

[Exiled_Rover]

58 minutes ago, NeilInBristol said:

Rovers players have every motivation to win this (again)

We all know we're going to get dicked in the replay. 

[toogs]

I think the pitch was higher, possibly by a couple of foot - around the time the ground was redeveloped. 
 

There was a significant drop off once over the touchlines which could be a bit dodgy for the players and made taking corners difficult.

So if the pitch is now lower, it would explain why we are seeing more problems than we used to. Water table is now higher. 
 

It could be put right with some engineering and owners prepared to pay for it. But we all know the problem there. 

[simongarnerisgod]

the efl have now set their own precedent and will have to follow it up ,there are certain to be some abandoments in the future,will they act in the same manner as they have done here????thats the big question,tbh,i thought the old rule of over a certain time the result stood,it seems they`ve changed the rules without telling anybody

lets see if they apply their "Logic" to future abandonments

[bluebruce]

1 hour ago, Gamst said:

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

He should at the least be banned specifically from our game. But that's not how it will work.

[wilsdenrover]

12 minutes ago, DE. said:

I'm curious as to whether the same decision would have been made if we'd have been playing at Portman Road and the game had been abandoned in the same circumstances, albeit it would have had to have been for a different reason as Portman Road would likely have been able to withstand the rainfall. 

I think that's where any appeal will fall down. It was at our ground and it was Ewood that was deemed unplayable. A full replay is obviously not even close to the fairest decision, but I think if we appeal the EFL will simply point to our ground being inadequate and that will be that. Probably best to just move on and hope our players and management are doubly motivated to smash Ipswich in the replayed fixture. 

If our ground is inadequate (and I’m not saying it isn’t) shouldn’t the EFL be insisting we remedy this?

[bluebruce]

12 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

It could have been the 91st minute of 93, they'd have demanded a full replay.

They didn't use logic, they just fell back onto their old archaic rules. 

Not even the rules, just an irrational set of precedents. The rules allowed them to replay part of the game, something they're apparently not willing to do at all.

[DE.]

1 minute ago, wilsdenrover said:

If our ground is inadequate (and I’m not saying it isn’t) shouldn’t the EFL be insisting we remedy this?

Yes. As I said in my last post, they are as complicit as we are if they don't go any further than just ordering a replay. 

[sharpysharps86]

Not surprised at all with the outcome, but its an absolute disgrace that it took this long to get to the conclusion that was probably always going to be the way it went.

The red card still standing makes for a future pub quiz question somewhere.

[bluebruce]

24 minutes ago, Elrovers said:

My bad if this has already been mentioned but to basically scrape everything off from that game but the red card still stands meaning he’ll be suspended for their match this Saturday? That is ridiculous. Efl are just a bunch of fuckwits following their shitty ass rules. Honestly!

Some other team can benefit from the suspension though, whilst we repeat the whole charade and get zero reward for our endeavours, so that's lovely right?

[Herbie6590]

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

 

 

[RevidgeBlue]

1 hour ago, KentExile said:

Going forwards, I do hope they just make any game that is abandoned at any point be restarted as soon as is practicable, from the same minute, with the same score, with they same number of players on the pitch etc

* as long as the game can impact the table in any way, if not then the result can just stand as it is when the game is abandoned

Spot on.

[GHD]

2 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

Not if home fans charged the same...😜

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 😀

Edited 1 hour ago by GHD

[RevidgeBlue]

2 hours ago, wilsdenrover said:

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.

 

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

[Herbie6590]

1 hour ago, bboy said:

In theory 

 

If we loosing the replay. Can we just leave the sprinklers on at half time and not turn them and claim there's a technical fault?

 

Keep replaying the game til we win? 😀 

Save & reload 😆

[RTM08]

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. 

[Herbie6590]

4 minutes ago, GHD said:

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 😀

Suhail…welcome to the forum…😆

[Leonard Venkhater]

2 hours ago, wilsdenrover said:

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

Lol...As if..

[pentelrobot]

1 hour ago, Gamst said:

NASA put people into space and the EFL can’t organise a shorter football match. 

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

[dallydally]

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

[norwichblue]

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.

[GHD]

33 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

Suhail…welcome to the forum…😆

😂