wilsdenrover

Hopefully we’ll win the replay 2-0 and Ipswich then miss out on promotion/are relegated by 1 on goal difference. 😁

Well I think Mr Plod would have a word in that circumstance… It just seems very odd to keep that one detail from a match that’s otherwise deemed to never have happened.

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

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.

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

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.

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…

With those 3 points turning out to be significant.

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

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

Nope, the three Championship club representatives are from PNE, Norwich, and Middlesbrough.

There is, or certainly shouldn’t be, a default decision. The regulation isn’t x happens unless y it’s any of xyz are possible. As I said earlier, why have flexibility in the rules if you’re always going to make the same choice.

The decision may have done many things but it certainly hasn’t upheld the integrity of the competition. By agreeing to develop new guidance they’ve as good as a admitted the current position is unacceptable.

Majority not unanimous decision.

Pasha will now be checking whether an appeal involves an admin fee.

Confirmed where?

I imagine he’s made it up.

Re the bit in bold, yes - in my opinion, what the two clubs want should be irrelevant (so far as the EFL is concerned).

I would argue there is nothing unfair in continuing the match from where it left off. Ipswich will be in exactly the position they were, a goal down a man down having travelled from Suffolk that morning (I’m assuming that’s what they did and what they would do). We’d also be in the same position, one up a man up and ten(ish) minutes to see out. Of course there would be differences, for example they’d have time to plot how best to get something out of the game but equally we’d have time to plan against this. I can’t think (but maybe others can) of any advantage to one team that wouldn’t be offset by an advantage to the other.

Whilst I’m at it 😁 In my opinion the EFL shouldn’t have engaged in getting the opinions of the two clubs. They were probably hoping both would suggest the same thing but it’s beyond obvious they’d each favour the option which favoured them most. You’re the body in charge, just make your sodding decision.

Why have three options available to them but only ever use one of them. Ludicrous (them not you).

Apart from the duration, how is any of that different than a full replay? Even the fixture being split is still effectively true, 80 minutes which won’t count and 90 which will. I also fail to see how a full replay has any form of sporting integrity linked to it. It might be the easiest option for the EFL to take but let’s not pretend it’s the fairest one.

If I’m the EFL I’m making a decision without taking representations from either side. All that will happen now is they’ll be accused of listening to one side over the other.