Ghost7

Ipswich wouldn't accept it. In a game they were going to get zero points in, they know they've a high chance of 3 in the replay. No way they'd agree to 1 point. They will be desperate for a replay because they were going to lose that game and now 3 points is on offer with a replay. It's part of the reason they pushed for it to be abandoned, the 3 points had got away from them. They know what they're doing and will get their way but the ref had no choice.

The frustrating part is with how the club is ran there are potentially simple solutions to this that have NOT been explored. Would that surprise anyone? The consensus will have been..... "how often does it stop a game going ahead? No." That's the level of excellence now riddled inside Ewood. No pride or passion for the club to be the best it can be. Who would even have the authority to make a call on a ground improvement like that. The imaginary CEO or the intern one? These kind of fixes are significant but not an issue for our owners if they were present.

The club should have spent the money by now on a better solution.

I don't see how you can replay a game that made it to the 80th minute... That's surely too late in the day to abandon and replay it. It should be abandoned and the result at the time of postponement stands.

I need to stop reading this thread. Madness.

The penalty give away is Sunday league stuff. He wasn't even on the ball.... I had no idea La Liga was this poor. 9 mins in for those that want to see.

I think it's safe to say Lewis Miller is a right back, who can play centre back, which in reality isn't what we needed to replace Hyam. At this level, I'd rather my centre backs were centre backs... Particularly given how often the ball is in the air. The problem will be visible in about 10 - 15 games time, despite what Rudy Gestede thinks.

Watched the Gestede interview... Arrogant and out of his depth. We are in trouble.

Has anyone established what the situation is with Moussa Baradji??? When will he be able to train? Bizarre communication.

I can't believe we haven't gone all out for a free agent centre back. We are insanely short.

pretty poor when you're struggling to put a defence together at the very beginning of the season.... and injuries will come. We will be down there come Christmas.

Never been more disengaged with the club. Reckless transfer business in defence... going into an extremely physical 46 game Championship season. The only conclusion you can make is they don't care where we are in the league come January 1, and perhaps the beginning of May too. Selling Hyam without a replacement felt like a slap in the face to paying fans. A better centre back partner for him with quality is what was needed but we didn't take that seriously either.

Unplayable against West Brom last year. I've haven't seen Yuki look unplayable in almost a year....... or ever.

Well none of us wanted George Hirst to start and he did fine in the Prem, so I'll give this guy a full season or two before judging... Good luck to him!

Plenty of positives and frustrations from today's game... a major frustration being I've wanted them to sign a strong athletic centre back all summer but we ended up with McLoughlin and the reality is Modibo Sagnan who we started the summer off "in advance talks with" according to Jackson.... and Steve Kapuadi probably wouldn't have been beaten for pace as easily but we wouldn't pay the money needed. You need more ambition at this level. Buy cheap, buy twice. Suspect that might be the case with many of our cheap signings that aren't quite good enough... Gueye and Ohashi from last seasons business are probably prime examples. We're still in the market for strikers. Those smaller fees add up, just pay the money needed for the right quality Suhail.