| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 19:07 - Sep 25 with 720 views | LeoMuff |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 19:02 - Sep 25 by PhilTWTD |
A lot of opinion coming from people who weren't at the game. Abandonment looked on the cards from the first half. I half-jokingly suggested we look up the referee's record on abandonments. |
I would argue that pen would never have occurred in normal conditions and Greaves clearly slipped for the red. Farce of a game, consigned to the rubbish bin as it deserved |  |
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| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 19:11 - Sep 25 with 709 views | SheffordBlue |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 19:02 - Sep 25 by PhilTWTD |
A lot of opinion coming from people who weren't at the game. Abandonment looked on the cards from the first half. I half-jokingly suggested we look up the referee's record on abandonments. |
Without naming names or identifying anyone can you give us a sense of what their local journos were thinking about it at the time? |  |
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| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 19:15 - Sep 25 with 699 views | cressi |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 17:21 - Sep 25 by squiz |
surprised at this take from him.
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| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 20:21 - Sep 25 with 598 views | jayessess |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 17:21 - Sep 25 by squiz |
surprised at this take from him.
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I mean, in his hypothetical it wouldn't be a "no-fault abandonment", it would be a failure on one party to control their supporters (a thing that teams can already be sanctioned for).
Of course this match abandonment was only partially "no-fault" in that Ewood Park's unaddressed drainage issues are well known. If you mandate that the result in any incomplete matches should stand then another, far likelier, scenario comes into play, where any underdog home team can merrily let their pitch deteriorate, safe in the knowledge that it will at least be a leveller and maybe might just force an early abandonment with some sort of result in their back pocket. |  |
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| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 20:26 - Sep 25 with 587 views | blueislander |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 15:17 - Sep 23 by FrimleyBlue |
Everyone loves a bit of conspiracy so I'm gonna chuck one in.
What if the efl have asked for extra time to discuss it as they're fed up of Blackburn not sorting the pitch out and are thinking of rewarding ipswich the win with Blackburn being forced to forfeit the game. |
Yoou need to post that on a Blackburn site. | | | |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 20:35 - Sep 25 with 568 views | Pique |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 17:21 - Sep 25 by squiz |
surprised at this take from him.
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Genuinely fascinating to see how this issue has prompted normally very sensible and measured commentators like Henry Winter to abandon all reason. What a deeply silly thing to post. |  | | |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 20:41 - Sep 25 with 550 views | jayessess |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 20:35 - Sep 25 by Pique |
Genuinely fascinating to see how this issue has prompted normally very sensible and measured commentators like Henry Winter to abandon all reason. What a deeply silly thing to post. |
Presumably nobody had this sort of meltdown about the various other times where games were abandoned in the second half because none of them pay very much attention to football below the top tier (and a bit). | |
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| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 20:48 - Sep 25 with 525 views | Pique |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 20:41 - Sep 25 by jayessess |
Presumably nobody had this sort of meltdown about the various other times where games were abandoned in the second half because none of them pay very much attention to football below the top tier (and a bit). |
It's been deeply weird to read normally sensible people make the argument, in all seriousness, that a team that's only 1-0 up with 11 minutes to go (and in reality with at least another 5-10 minutes on top of that) somehow 'deserve' the points and that it's 'harsh' they're not getting them.
As if it was a charity match, or an Under 7s game, rather than the fifth richest league in the world.
It really seems to have warped some people's minds. | | | |
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| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 21:59 - Sep 25 with 432 views | Freddy |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 15:21 - Sep 23 by Illinoisblue |
Henry Winter has also had a say but his stuff is behind his own paywall. Mad that this game has got so much attention. Simply has to be replayed. Them’s the rules. |
His long tweet about it isnt behind a paywall, he doesn't agree with the efl decision | | | |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 22:02 - Sep 25 with 424 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 21:59 - Sep 25 by Freddy |
His long tweet about it isnt behind a paywall, he doesn't agree with the efl decision |
It is on Twitter though, which I’d like to think people would steer clear of given it’s owned by a white suprematist |  |
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| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 22:40 - Sep 25 with 361 views | Kievthegreat |
I think personally replaying the last 10 minutes plus stoppage time would be the fairest, but it's also without precedence to do so. This is why the EFL have decided on a full replay and why it should be a shock to precisely nobody.
What I find bizarre is the framing that Blackburn arguing for being awarded points is anything but batsh1t crazy. It's the least fair of all the scenarios. We were more threatening than them when the game was abandoned. It's entirely plausible we could win it. For the EFL to decide the results on paper negates the point of playing on grass. |  | | |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 22:56 - Sep 25 with 323 views | Suffolktractor |
I am as biased towards my team as anyone on here, but hand on heart if that had been Portman Road with us 1-0 up with 10 mins to go and heavens opened and ref abandoned the game, I would just have assumed the game would be replayed. I would feel that we were unfortunate but would just expect that to be the outcome.
How many games when we are 1-0 up with 10 to go do you feel that is a nailed on win? | | | |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 23:16 - Sep 25 with 275 views | Vaughan8 |
Winter is a senior and well established journalist and he's spouting this rubbish.
There really wasn't any other option. Fans running on the pitch and floodlights going off are totally different (unless there is a location power cut, but I'd expect teams at this level to have some sort of backup).
Maybe I've missed it, but has there been weather related abandonments that the result has stood?
Also, we're forgetting, or not realising this weather didn't come on all of a sudden. The pitch was like that for ages. It probably should have stopped about half time. | | | |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 23:59 - Sep 25 with 214 views | pointofblue |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 17:21 - Sep 25 by squiz |
surprised at this take from him.
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If one set of fans force abandonment then the opposition are given a 3-0 win. See Blackpool v Huddersfield from a few years ago. And there is precedence of a full replay if an "act of God" forces a game to be abandoned. Has he done his research or is he just ranting for the sake of ranting? | |
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| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 00:03 - Sep 26 with 205 views | norfsufblue |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 22:56 - Sep 25 by Suffolktractor |
I am as biased towards my team as anyone on here, but hand on heart if that had been Portman Road with us 1-0 up with 10 mins to go and heavens opened and ref abandoned the game, I would just have assumed the game would be replayed. I would feel that we were unfortunate but would just expect that to be the outcome.
How many games when we are 1-0 up with 10 to go do you feel that is a nailed on win? |
Absolutely this, Ive already said exactly the same somewhere else... Really cant believe theres any suprise or issue with the obviously correct decision. |  | | |
| Bit of harsh editorialising from the BBC on this comment on 07:25 - Sep 26 with 1 views | Churchman |
It’s really simple and I’m struggling to understand why journos and others are making a fuss. Wounld they have made the same noises had Blackburn been 1-0 up on an unplayable pitch in a cup game against beloved Chelsea or Man City? Of course not. They’d have advocated awarding the game to the big boys on the basis Blackburn had done nothing about their pitch problems for decades if ever.
The reality is it’s a 90 min game plus stoppage time (injury time to me). There was 20 mins to play. The pitch was a boating lake and the game was a farce. Replay it. Disappointing for Blackburn, but tbh, had the snow game against Leicester been abandoned at half time with us 3-0 up, it’d have been disappointing for us, but I don’t think we could have complained too loudly or argued that we were certain to win the game so give us the points.
A replay is the only option, though I’d fine Blackburn heavily and award costs to ITFC for staging a game on an inadequate swamp.
I’ve never been to Ewood boating lake. Been to Blackburn a couple of times through work. What an absolute dump. |  | | |
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