Reply With QuoteI nominate you for law maker of the EFLOriginally Posted by aclem
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As it seems likely we will have to replay the Rotherham match after the embarassment of the sprinklers and groundstaff lack of performance on Saturday there is a way Rotherham can gain some credibility.
At kick off Rotherham should be sporting and let us run the ball into the net ( as long as our strikers don't miss ! ). Then at least we can have decent match afterwards played in a sporting manner.
I nominate you for law maker of the EFL
TBH they don't need to gain credibility.
While they were clearly inept they only need be concerned about getting the game on.
Forget the cancelled fixture and move on.
Miss?...Two of our lads missed the player's entrance on Saturday.
Some how, I don't think Rotherham will be up for letting us walk the ball into the net.
Rotherham should just forfeit the match.
If they had any decency, they would.
Having said that, would we, in their position?
As much as I hate this shit, it happens.
If we were in their position, we may well have pulled the same stunts.
It's not nice to see, but that's life, everybody trying to get a little bit of everybody else's, if you live in that world...
Hopefully they get docked points for being shithouses.
Why should they forfeit a game they didn't lose? The game was abandoned by the referee.
Who knows if they even have the right to forfeit?
I think the most we can hope for is a fine for not having adequate match day ground staff. Which won't even affect Cardiff.
Game will be replayed as usually happens when a match has been abandoned and i don't expect we will get our tickets refunded as it was not Rotherham's fault that it rained.
There may be a wrist slap for Rotherham for a half arsed effort but nothing more.
Restarting game from 48 mins, Rotherham forfeiting, points deductions, match awarded to Cardiff etc are are nonsense.
Best we can do is beat them when the game does go ahead. If it means relegating them at the same time then even better, but that's the best we can hope for.
They won't, obviously. No club would.
Therein lies the problem though, they were pulling shit, left, right, and centre.
They'll never willingly forfeit 3 points, and we wouldn't either if we were in their shoes.
However, shit like that should absolutely be punishable. This is the EFL though, they'll get a slap on the wrist and get away with it.
Which is farcical.
There is no way on god's earth will they let us score.
There is too much at stake for them.
Would we be expected to let them score if roles are reversed.
We have to be on our game in the replay
The pitch was completely waterlogged. A team of 100 prodding it with forks wouldn’t have made a difference.
When’s this game happening anyway??
It's a new match, no way should they be giving us a goal.
Their pitch was a joke, the response from the club to clear the pitch a farce but the water wasn't going anywhere anyway.
A fine for having next to no drainage and 3 lazy groundsmen with brooms is all can be expected.
Even that likely won't happen.
a great idea, but football has no morals, none
I don't think that anyone has said that it wasn't waterlogged or that it was wasn't unplayable at the time it was called off. The issue here is the pathetic and inadequate efforts of the ground staff to clear it, the apparently wilful attempts to try to make sure it wasn't restarted and the fact that the drainage system failed so badly in the first place, after a 15 minute ‘storm’. Those are the matters the EFL need to sort and adjudicate on. In Cricket, if a pitch is deemed unsuitable or unplayable, the cricket authorities have the right to fine, dock points and award games to opposing teams and have done so on many occasions. If this issue at Rotherham is so ‘cut and dried’ as some people are making out, then why are the EFL still even thinking about it and not made the announcement to replay the game in full. There must be at least some doubt in their minds that there isn't a case to answer by Rotherham.
They'll do nothing, they cheated the game the first time by making no effort to clear water but did add to it, and they'll go hell for leather and try and take advantage of a nil-nil 90-plus minute match.
We need to smash the crap out of them, injure a few and stuff them!
After 40 minutes of natural drainage and a bit of pushing and prodding from the four half-arsed Rotherham ground staff the pitch had improved. Given another hour and a bit of human effort it should have been playable. It couldn't have started at 4.45, but probably could have at 6.00.
I'm not sure what the rules are for suspension or postponement, what discretion the referee has, and how much consideration is given to fans who have crossed the country to watch the match and might be delayed for 2 hours.... or even if there are rules (the 75 minute 'rule' that some have referenced for a score to stand is not a rule at all).
My guess is that the EFL are waiting a few days before making an announcement on a new date (starting from 0 minutes and 0 - 0 score) just to give the impression they are seriously reviewing the state of the Rotherham pitch drainage and ground staff response.
Either that or they are so immersed in deciding whether and when to apply a 6 point penalty on Reading - trailed 3 weeks ago but still no outcome - that they have no time for anything else.
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