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At the risk of sounding pedantic, there is a time in the season where other results absolutely do matter (it's idealistic to say otherwise). That time isn't now though. Loads of time to go, we have no idea what part of the table we'll be competing in at this stage.

Looking on street view, this church is on the corner of Leamington Road and Granville Road. Perhaps the reporter was a bit deaf and heard Wellington instead of Leamington…

Any idea what happens in the hour between the games yet? Have we managed to muster XI "legends" yet?

I remember a real buzz around the 125th, this time, well…

O'Riordan interview from local press in Doncaster - posted below Connor O'Riordan says no discussions have been had over his immediate future. The centre-half arrived at Doncaster Rovers in the summer on a loan arrangement from Championship side Blackburn Rovers. That agreement is set to run for the entirety of the 2025-26 campaign. However, as Rovers chief Grant McCann has referenced in the past, virtually all season-long loan agreements have January break clauses for either club inserted into them. Given O'Riordan's fine form since arriving in South Yorkshire - only ever-present skipper Owen Bailey has racked up more league minutes - there's been a concern among some Rovers fans that his parent club could potentially recall him. But Blackburn's decision to allow him to feature in the FA Cup last weekend - meaning he's now unable to play for another team in that competition - gave a strong hint at their intentions And when asked by the Free Press if he's had any chats about what happens in the New Year, the 22-year-old says it's just business as usual for him. "No, I've had no conversations about that," said the defender. "I don't really tend to worry about that stuff anyway. I just need to keep my spot in the Doncaster team and that's all I'm thinking about. "Blackburn seem to be really pleased. I speak to the loans manager (Jordan Rhodes) quite a lot and they're happy with me. "He chats to me quite a lot and tries to get to as many games as he can. On a Sunday he'll have watched clips back of my performance and we get feedback. Anything I feel I need help with I can always ask him and he always gives me good support. "There's a few of us (out on loan) at Blackburn and so if any of us is going through stuff we can speak to each other because we're all going through the same experiences." Speaking of experiences, O'Riordan has had plenty since graduating through the famed Crewe academy. He made his debut at 18 - ironically against Doncaster - and has played in all three divisions of the EFL. There was also a short but memorable loan stint up in Scotland at second tier Raith Rovers. He says that that five-month period in Fife laid the foundation for the big-money move that followed to Blackburn. "I honestly think that move was the best thing in my career, going there," he recalled of the half-season stay in the 2022-23 campaign. "At Crewe my whole life was there so to go up to Raith it really brought me out of my shell. I'd always tell any young player, if they get the opportunity to go out on loan and play at a decent level then it's a no-brainer. "For me, it was a life experience too. I was only 18 when I went and it was about five hours from Crewe and I went there by myself so I had to learn how to cook, live by myself, do my bed! "It really made me mature as a person and I really enjoyed my time there and it just helped me kick on in my career because when I went back to Crewe I was ready to go and play in the first team."

At least they didn't put us in Claret like Netflix did... If they came out on Saturday in the shirt, carrying leather balls with caps on, it would probably be something different and look memorable. My issue is this just seems a very lazy attempt, a missed opportunity for some positive PR and sales. It also looks cheap and rubbish and its rumoured to be £90. Its an open goal and they've done their usual. Even if we did play in that and I can't say either way, they could have still made it more retro looking or sell it as part of a packaged box with replicas of the minutes or something, something different. The whole anniversary so far has felt a bit 'meh'. We're one of the few clubs in world football with a history this good and we're just coasting with this rarest of milestone years. I don't want to hear about well for the 100th/125th we didn't do much. The world has moved on, football and its place in the world are different, look at other clubs around us, even in non-league do more. This anniversary should have been a PR mana from heaven opportunity to restore some of the damage from the last 15 years and it all seems like an afterthought. We've had some caps given to whoever was around presented to a few thousand in the rain. A "legends" game against a team who beat us , being played after a 1st team game and a debatable special kit that's not even on sale alongside a official book of our history that doesn't mention it! The website promises the below for Saturday : live entertainment, commemorative memorabilia, special guest appearances, fan activations and stirring tributes to the club’s rich past. Its in 2 days and unless I've missed something, can anyone tell me what any of this will look like befitting of our great clubs celebration? WTF is a fan activation? Conjures up images of Suhail whispering a codeword that triggers the Blackburn end into a ritualistic dance.

Just a stark reminder that similar was fluffed around about a Mr Sayed who then actually got his foot through the door at Ewood. Dan Williams existed but was a bit of a faker like Sayed although obviously not wanted by Interplod.

The other downer is him getting tapped up players from other clubs whilst he’s away. Apart from during the Jack Walker era Rovers players getting international recognition has been great for the players involved, not so good for the club.

Buy yourself one of the Rovers all white shirts and pretend you are a Derby fan.

Hahahah classic

It's a one off shirt. Our 125 year anniversary shirt was blue and white halves, I don't see the problem in going all white if that was how our history started. As for the badge, I won't get into that one 😄

Re Hedges, theres no player in this division who isn't limited in some way. The key to getting out of a league like this isn't assembling a squad of premier league quality players. It's getting players in positions where their strengths are accentuated and their flaws are not as relevant. Thats more straightforward with a competent back office/owners, but VI seems to have done that with a few players regardless, eg Hedges, De Neve, Cantwell, Miller. It's in no small part due to him being willing to make a significant change to our formation, which isn't the kind of flexibility you often see from modern coaches, with JDT immediately coming to mind.

The club would probably argue that all who want to attend can do so (we’ll move it to a bigger room if necessary). That of course is a nonsense (but probably fulfils the badly worded regulation) as above a certain number makes it impossible for everyone there to contribute as they’d wish to. A further issue with the regulations is they mention the meetings are to discuss ‘significant issues’ but don’t say what sort of things this should include. One more while I’m at it, the regulations don’t detail what the consequences of a breach are. Lip service.

I thought the leak was going to be a wind up, i shouldn't have been surprised that the administration could monumentally cock up something which was an amazing opportunity. I am sure anyone alive to buy one has only ever seen rovers play in blue and white. You could ask 10,000 fans what colour it should have been and they all would have said blue and white. Venkys "Lets put out an all white shirt and save a few quid on production costs of using colour"

Yes that more or less fits with my understanding of dates etc. I reckon that the 'club badge' now used is probably quite awkward to produce on kits (which is why today we often get the monochrome plastic version used as it is much easier than stitching it with the detail and different colours). So whilst it started appearing in the 60s on print programmes, signs and stationary transferring it onto kits was seen as unnecessary or difficult. Then in the late 80s / early 90s someone realised that this was actually a pretty unique and perfect badge for us to roll out on our kits, at a time when most other clubs were adopting modern designs and where it has remained since.

I am reminded of what Kenny Dalglish said to Guy Havord, when he was being quizzed about Shearer's hepatitis.. "What? Are you a doctor now, all of a sudden?" Hahaha

If i were you, I'd get a ticket for the game. It will be a happier atmosphere, after a hat trick of wins, and hopefully we can send you home happy, with a win.

That's the only downer, losing one of our star players, for 5 or 6 games.

Let's leaven the mood by remembering this...

That’s a sobering thought. I think you already know the answer! It’s my 5 year old’s birthday unfortunately otherwise I’d be coming up for this one.

Don't forget the "I say old chum" side parting.

This was the club badge when I first started going to Ewood in the 60's - it was on decals in the Nuttall St stand for sure & started being used on the programme (replacing the town crest) in 67/68. The Tudor rose badge is the first (non-town crest) badge I recall on the shirt - replaced eventually by "the club badge".

We're pretty unusual as far as I can tell in the badges that we've had during our long history. There's the uncertainty / confusion / lack of evidence around the Maltese cross, but even if it was adopted and used it wasn't really a club badge and certainly doesn't appear to have been worn for very long, maybe the first couple of years or so at most. Then - I hope I am right - we didn't have any emblem or badge through most of our history from say the 1880s until the 1970s - aside from special occasions like the 60 FA Cup final when we wore the town coat of arms on the shirt Then from the 70s into the 80s we had a boring and limited effort of the 'red rose' badge with simply 'BRFC' underneath. I would be interested to know the background to this - I suspect a decision was made in the 70s in keeping with the direction of travel in football that we needed an emblem or badge and this was the easiest/quickest thing they could come up with. I also suspect that by the late 80s they realised with the rapidly changing world of design, trademarks, kits and everything else that the red rose badge wasn't acceptable in the modern era and we needed to get ourselves a proper badge with the club name on it, which is how we ended up with the current badge. The current badge - which has been through a few different forms and reincarnations - has a confusing history too. As per the above this appeared on club programmes as far back as the 60s, but not on the shirts until the late 80s/early 90s. Strange that we would design and adopt a badge to use on programmes and letterheads etc. but not use it on kits and then use a totally different badge of the red rose on kits - maybe because that one was cheaper and easier to transfer to shirts than the quite complex design of the current one. It probably all comes back to the uniqueness of the blue and white halves which have always been the club's USP and for what it is known around the world and this previously negated the need to have a badge. Obviously in the modern era we need a modern badge that meets trademark requirements and can be mass produced. Back to the anniversary, I'd have preferred either for us to 'update' the current badge for the occasion or if we wanted to go traditional either not have a badge at all for the special kit or perhaps use the town coat of arms version for the special occasion.

Anyone seen the alebiosu thing. Could potentially miss 6 games if he proves eligible to be Nigerian. Possibly more games if Nigeria progress beyond the group stages in afcon. Would be a big blow because it’ll be a jampacked schedule

The evidence for the white shirt only came to light in recent years with the discovery of the minutes in a programme from 1909.