Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon 14:37 - Sep 25 with 5225 views | SitfcB | Alan Nixon ••• 凸 Share Blackburn Rovers will be ordered to play Ipswich Town again over a full 90 minutes by the EFL. Rovers wanted the 1-0 scoreline to stand after the match was abandoned in 80 minutes - with the Tractor Boys down to ten men. But this was turned down. And their appeal to only replay the final stages with that advantage has also been tossed out by the EFL board. The eight-person committee, featuring three Championship clubs, decided there was no precedent for playing out the final stages that way. Blackburn are unhappy with the result and now have to start again and find a date in their diary. It is a huge relief to Ipswich who lobbied for the full replay after pushing for the game to be called off on Saturday. [Post edited 25 Sep 14:38]
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Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:39 - Sep 25 with 3055 views | baxterbasics | huzzah! |  |
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Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:40 - Sep 25 with 2985 views | Chris_ITFC | He’s such a tool. “Ordered” “Huge relief” “Pushed for the game to be called off” He’s devoid of reality… He even says there was no precedent for anything else! |  |
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Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:41 - Sep 25 with 2924 views | portmanking | Get in there. Now we can focus on making it back-to-back league wins on Saturday... (!) |  | |  |
Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:42 - Sep 25 with 2899 views | _clive_baker_ | Pushing for the game to be called off. What an absolute fanny, it shouldn't have even got beyond 45 minutes let alone anything close to 79. The pitch was a circus. |  | |  |
Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:42 - Sep 25 with 2886 views | Ipswich_Crazy | Is this official? |  |
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Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:44 - Sep 25 with 2815 views | franz_tyson | You're alright really, Zoe. |  | |  |
Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:46 - Sep 25 with 2722 views | homer_123 | "...after pushing for the game to be called off on Saturday." Didn't realise KM was managing and ref'ing. |  |
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Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:47 - Sep 25 with 2671 views | Chris_ITFC |
Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:42 - Sep 25 by Ipswich_Crazy | Is this official? |
North west football journo. |  |
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Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:47 - Sep 25 with 2679 views | bsw72 | I hope their tears don't flood the pitch again . . . |  | |  |
Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:47 - Sep 25 with 2668 views | blueasfook | "Blackburn now have to start again and find a date in their diary"? Yeah that'll be hard with their league cup, FA Cup and Champions League fixtures I suppose. |  |
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Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:48 - Sep 25 with 2642 views | BiGDonnie | I'm off to the Blackburn forum for the rest of the afternoon. |  |
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Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:49 - Sep 25 with 2619 views | Dyland | "It is a huge relief to Ipswich who lobbied for the full replay after pushing for the game to be called off on Saturday." |  |
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Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:49 - Sep 25 with 2615 views | homer_123 |
Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:48 - Sep 25 by BiGDonnie | I'm off to the Blackburn forum for the rest of the afternoon. |
In all fairness to Blackburn, if it were the other way around I'm sure we'd feel annoyed as well. |  |
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Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:49 - Sep 25 with 2575 views | homer_123 |
Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:49 - Sep 25 by Dyland | "It is a huge relief to Ipswich who lobbied for the full replay after pushing for the game to be called off on Saturday." |
It's the fans fault - were we not chanting 'Call it off?' and cheering each time the ball stopped or didn't bounce. I guess that constitutes lobbying..... |  |
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Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:52 - Sep 25 with 2463 views | _clive_baker_ |
Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:49 - Sep 25 by homer_123 | In all fairness to Blackburn, if it were the other way around I'm sure we'd feel annoyed as well. |
I'm sure some would but genuinely I wouldn't. I'd like to think I would be balanced about it, if a fixture has the best part of 20 minutes left and the margin of lead was so narrow as 1 goal I just don't see how it could be concluded as a result. 4-0 in the 90th minute is a different story. |  | |  |
Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:52 - Sep 25 with 2444 views | positivity |
Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:49 - Sep 25 by homer_123 | In all fairness to Blackburn, if it were the other way around I'm sure we'd feel annoyed as well. |
true, but i'd hope that we'd be annoyed at the people who caused the postponement (those responsible for the drainage) rather than the efl or the other club! |  |
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Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:53 - Sep 25 with 2382 views | Denny32 | So if greaves red card stands..does that mean we have to start the full game with 10 men so ? |  | |  |
Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:54 - Sep 25 with 2383 views | positivity |
Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:52 - Sep 25 by _clive_baker_ | I'm sure some would but genuinely I wouldn't. I'd like to think I would be balanced about it, if a fixture has the best part of 20 minutes left and the margin of lead was so narrow as 1 goal I just don't see how it could be concluded as a result. 4-0 in the 90th minute is a different story. |
unless we're at least 4 up going into injury time, i'm still not taking the win for granted! |  |
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Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:55 - Sep 25 with 2342 views | MaySixth | Correct decision |  |
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Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:55 - Sep 25 with 2338 views | positivity |
Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:53 - Sep 25 by Denny32 | So if greaves red card stands..does that mean we have to start the full game with 10 men so ? |
no, and we also won't have to play with any injured players who happened to be named in the original starting 11. greaves is banned for the pompey game |  |
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Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:55 - Sep 25 with 2306 views | Chris_ITFC |
Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:53 - Sep 25 by Denny32 | So if greaves red card stands..does that mean we have to start the full game with 10 men so ? |
No. |  |
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Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:56 - Sep 25 with 2275 views | Chris_ITFC |
Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:47 - Sep 25 by blueasfook | "Blackburn now have to start again and find a date in their diary"? Yeah that'll be hard with their league cup, FA Cup and Champions League fixtures I suppose. |
And it’ll be the EFL who find / schedule the date… But that wouldn’t fit with Nixon’s narrative. |  |
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Same on 14:56 - Sep 25 with 2276 views | Dyland |
Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:52 - Sep 25 by _clive_baker_ | I'm sure some would but genuinely I wouldn't. I'd like to think I would be balanced about it, if a fixture has the best part of 20 minutes left and the margin of lead was so narrow as 1 goal I just don't see how it could be concluded as a result. 4-0 in the 90th minute is a different story. |
As someone else commented, the ire should be directed at the inability to fulfil the fixture i.e. at the owners. Rovers fans should also not forget the pitch made things farcical long before the actual abondonment. And that ref proves his incompetence yet again. Is it only in Town games? I'm not paranoid but... oh hang on, I actually am! |  |
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Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:57 - Sep 25 with 2262 views | SitfcB |
Full 90 minutes to be replayed - Nixon on 14:48 - Sep 25 by BiGDonnie | I'm off to the Blackburn forum for the rest of the afternoon. |
Link please. Shall we invade? |  |
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Thought he was a Rovers fan? on 15:01 - Sep 25 with 2037 views | Dyland | "Blackburn are unhappy with the result and now have to start again and find a date in their diary." It makes them sound so pathetic and amateurish. A sentiment I personally don't share of course |  |
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