Cardiff V Rotherham to be replayed

[cambridgeshire canary 7,797]

https://www.efl.com/news/2023/march/efl-statement-rotherham-united-v-cardiff-city/

 

Given Cardiff were winning when the match was called off I'm not sure they will be too thrilled about this.. Although the footage of Rotherham staff pushing water back onto the pitch at half time was pretty funny

[Commonsense 802]

4 minutes ago, cambridgeshire canary said:

https://www.efl.com/news/2023/march/efl-statement-rotherham-united-v-cardiff-city/

 

Given Cardiff were winning when the match was called off I'm not sure they will be too thrilled about this.. Although the footage of Rotherham staff pushing water back onto the pitch at half time was pretty funny

This is not really news is it?

Every game which is abandoned in England is replayed in full. The only exceptions have been if there are 2 or 3 minutes left eg because of crowd trouble.

[It's Character Forming 1,204]

2 hours ago, Commonsense said:

This is not really news is it?

Every game which is abandoned in England is replayed in full. The only exceptions have been if there are 2 or 3 minutes left eg because of crowd trouble.

happens all the time 😂

Edited March 31, 2023 by It's Character Forming
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[Branston Pickle 4,144]

It was called off after 50mins or thereabouts, not enough to call it a ‘given’ result, so it should definitely be replayed.  There’s no way Rotherham ‘played’ for the postponement - re sweeping water, I imagine it’s far more likely to drain through the pitch if any pitch side drainage is overflowing.

Re: replays, when the Oxford-Binner match was in danger of being fogged-off after c75min, I’m pretty sure they said the 1-1 result would have stood. That Oxford went in to win was just one of those happy outcomes!

Edited March 31, 2023 by Branston Pickle

[essex canary 621]

1 hour ago, Commonsense said:

This is not really news is it?

Every game which is abandoned in England is replayed in full. The only exceptions have been if there are 2 or 3 minutes left eg because of crowd trouble.

If we go back 50 years we had one abandoned through fog with 6 minutes left and a 3 goal aggregate advantage. It still got replayed albeit we kept the 2 goal advantage from the first leg.

Edited March 31, 2023 by essex canary

[cambridgeshire canary 7,797]

23 minutes ago, It's Character Forming said:

happens all the time

No, matches do tend to get called off but getting called off at half time is pretty rare thesedays more so with pitches being far more advanced than the mudpits they used to be prior to the 2000's.

Then again maybe we have become a little too soft.. Pretty sure pitches in this state would be deemed illegal thesedays

 

[CANARYKING 707]

Derby’s pitch was something else

[Don’t be Krul 452]

I always thought that the threshold was anything less than 76 minutes on abandonment forced a replay

[Satriales 993]

3 hours ago, Don’t be Krul said:

I always thought that the threshold was anything less than 76 minutes on abandonment forced a replay

That sounds about right. Doesn't seem to happen much these days like it did in days gone by, probably why we can't remember.

[cambridgeshire canary 7,797]

1 hour ago, Satriales said:

That sounds about right. Doesn't seem to happen much these days like it did in days gone by, probably why we can't remember.

Thankfuly as I said it's only nowadays the older style stadiums that get flooded or bad conditions as the modern ones are supposed to be designed to avoid it. Which makes this whole situation stranger as of course Rotherhams stadium is modern having been built in 2012 so you would have thought their stadium would have built in protection from flooding

[wcorkcanary 4,779]

9 minutes ago, cambridgeshire canary said:

Thankfuly as I said it's only nowadays the older style stadiums that get flooded or bad conditions as the modern ones are supposed to be designed to avoid it. Which makes this whole situation stranger as of course Rotherhams stadium is modern having been built in 2012 so you would have thought their stadium would have built in protection from flooding

Even modern drainage systems require occasional maintenance Cambridgeo, a single blocked major leg of the pipework could easily cause flooding. With modern camera technology its not expensive to check all is in working order every now and then.