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(Sir) Roger Jones.

Rudi Gestede

He did do a very good job last season to be fair after the mess of Gary O'Neil.

??? Can we just not pick who we like? 🤣🤣

I’ll go first to get things going….. Gordon Cowans next up G or C please! 🙏

A bit of fun! Rules of the game: Nominate a Rovers Classic or Cult Hero. Use either the first letter of the first name or surname from the previous poster! Post a picture of them too! examples: Georgios Donis the next post you could have Gary Flitcroft / Bradley Dack / Derek Fazackerley

Again,so many early references to our formation being 1874...they cant all be wrong.We started playing our first recorded matches in 1875 The article in 4000 Holes certainly does nothing to solve this mystery! What baffles me is why this has never,to the best of my knowledge,been challenged before.. One thing I do know for sure is the shysters and non- supporters ruining our club couldn't give a sniff either way.

No.

I am a fan who is often called “doom and gloom” I just want the best for the club and want a brighter future with a better ownership who care, that is all.

yep, a month ago https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c7v1rv1v2nno

Second this and when they finally leave, that first game will be party of the century and hope you're there

Yes. As someone else said before - we can see who blinked first. Don't get that post from Jackson above stating he's been made Rovers manager. Is it a running of a Computer game? Either way its completely unfunny and sounds a bit desperate. On the bright side the LT site is now randomly allowing me to log in so I can use the comments section. That is if I've not already been barred for my opening response to RoverEnd who was praising RG to the rafters for saving the Club tens of millions of pounds in transfer fees and wages.

That's what I think is most likely. Ed: I just checked and according two Wiki we're the probably 11th oldest club in England, we could be 10th but it's not clearly exactly when Big Club Birmingham were formed. So even if it became end of 1874, it would only make us the tenth oldest. We appear to have the 6th longest longevity in terms of names. We've only ever been Blackburn Rovers. Several of the 'older clubs' had completely different names or were repurposed cricket teams or shinney teams. We've always been BRFC, always been a football club.

Great post.

I dont really see the need for handwringing about whether we were formed in 1874 or 1875. At best it seems the first meeting of any sort took place between Christmas and New Year 1874 so there's only a few days difference. Just theorising here, could the initial meeting have led to an informal group gathering/playing together initially with the first formal meeting leading to Incorporation etc only taking place in November 1875?

Was it not the last game of the season where Szmodics got a brace?

Yes. You are right. I have an old souvenir print that states "BLACKBURN ROVERS DIVISION 3 CHAMPIONS 1974/75 In their centenary year." I see it is referring the the calendar year 1975 rather than the season 74/75

Our last trip to Leicester was the FA Cup victory under Tomasson - a brilliant night. I'd take that result again. It's an early start and with the dire form (despite last weekend's aberration) I'm not sure we can summon up the enthusiasm. If it's pay on the gate it'll be a late decision

Time to pick up the season now. Leicester away isn't going to be fun but they are a bit down and will be fancying this one to put them back on form, draw or a win nothing less.

Must admit its bizarre how this has taken to splitting fans opinions on the venkys. This is where we fail as a fan base. Total respect for Sheffield Wednesday for uniting and look what they've come to now after their unity. New owners on the brink and pumped 500k into the club from fans alone. There's enough of us left for us to culminate this type of approach but it's just not gonna be everyone

Recruitment was crap full stop but it certainly wasnt part of the plan to build it for the current formation. If you play 3 centre backs, you really need 6 in total. We have Wharton and McLoughlin, 2 who are not great and both left footed. Carter is a waste of time. Miller isnt the best. And that is literally all we have, so not only is there not enough quality but absolutely no depth. 1 injury and we have to change formation. Up front, we have 2 strikers, one comes off and we have to change or stick midfielders up front.

Haven't the Club recently extended his contract? Mental if so.

I just got the latest 4000 Holes in the post today and there is a great article on the ins and outs of this debate in there that I just read on my lunch break. What seems most likely is that a group of mates/associates/etc were playing football together in 1874 and 1875 and that they officially announced/codified their team name, colours and players in November 1875. So when people asked these former players, founders et al, many years later about the history of Rovers, some of them inevitably conflated or misremembered different events. All the evidence for 1874 or early 1875 is anecdotal, I believe this the likely explanation for the confusion. They might even have been calling themselves "Rovers" but it wasn't official or codified anywhere. I don't think it's a good idea to have an official record of when we were founded based on something which isn't official or a record, as opposed to just what someone roughly remembers or reckons. For that reason I think we must stick with Nov 1875. Would be like having loads of kickarounds with your mates and eventually deciding to enter a 5-a-side league, you might forget exactly when you officially became a team and misreport that years later, assuming you became a famous five-a-side team 😄 I've been doing a load of genealogy research in the last few years, looking at old census records and all sorts of things. You'd be surprised how often people forgot, misremembered or incorrectly recorded pretty important information back then (we're lucky that so much is digital now in some ways).

As bad as we are, see this one as strangely winnable. Leicester have been desperately poor thus far all things considered.

Well judge Rhodes on the job he does here. He has experience of loans during his career. On the job experience there. Is that worth more than coaching experience?