wilsdenrover

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

Nope, we should want the rest of the match to be played. The result stands vs full replay are not the only options.

and we’d be wrong for doing so.

If we hosepipe the river won’t our drains then work properly? 🤔🧐

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.