150th Anniversary kit/celebrations

[Wheelton Blue]

I'd lost track of the fact that the 150 game is this weekend coming, such is the dearth of info coming from the club and my indifference to it all these days.

Even on the club's own web site, there's little mention. It should be headline news, plastered all over the show.

What a damp squib it will be. It really is poor, a disgrace, but not expected I suppose.

They really are a bunch of charlatans.

[Tim Southampton Rover]

I live in Southampton and asked my Saints supporting friend what design he would do for Rovers 150 year anniversary. The first thing he said was "obviously, blue and white halves..." and then he went on to talk about having names of legends stitched into the shirt somewhere, mentions of the Lancashire rose. When I showed him the yet to be confirmed design, he just shook his head. 

My friend knows nothing about Blackburn yet he got it MORE right than the club. It's gone past the angry, frustrated and disbelief laughing phase. This is disrespecting everyone who has followed or represented Blackburn in the past 150 years. 

[Hasta]

8 minutes ago, Wheelton Blue said:

I'd lost track of the fact that the 150 game is this weekend coming, such is the dearth of info coming from the club and my indifference to it all these days.

Even on the club's own web site, there's little mention. It should be headline news, plastered all over the show.

What a damp squib it will be. It really is poor, a disgrace, but not expected I suppose.

They really are a bunch of charlatans.

We are 4 days off and they still haven't announced 11 players for the legends team. At this rate if Danny Batth doesn't get on in the main game, they'll probably ask him to play in it.

Even the names announced are lacking in real star-quality. 

Also, if the "legends" game kicks off 45 to 60 minutes after the final whistle, what are they planning to fill the gap? They are opening the bars, but you still can't take alcohol to your seats during the 45 to 60 mins gap.

Edited 7 hours ago by Hasta

[Tom]

Can’t wait for the article gushing over ‘the details’ 

[Lancaster Rover]

the one thing that is synonomous with Blackburn Rovers is halved (we know it's quartered) shirts, across the globe that would be the defining feature that your average fan would know about Rovers. To celebrate our rich history we've decided to ignore that which makes us almost unique

[Bronzed A Donis]

Even my wife said, "oh yeah, that does look crap, it doesn't look like its anything to do with Rovers"

If someone wanted to buy me the halved polo shirt for Christmas I wouldn't be disappointed. They should wear that on Saturday.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Fair play Ian Herbert but then just who the hell is responsible for making the decision on that all white aberration that went against all advice and idea?

The Rovers pictoral timeline outside the Stadium taken down,the Blues Bar gutted of its memorabilia and now this utter bollox...I swear its like they are taking the piss out the fans.

[rigger]

1 minute ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Fair play Ian Herbert but then just who the hell is responsible for making the decision on that all white aberration that went against all advice and idea?

The Rovers pictoral timeline outside the Stadium taken down,the Blues Bar gutted of its memorabilia and now this utter bollox...I swear its like they are taking the piss out the fans.

The galling thing at the moment, is that quite a few of the remaining fans seem not to care that the piss is being taken, and go along with it.

[StHelensRover]

Just had a quick look on the Rovers site to see how the crowd was shaping up for Saturday by seeing where tickets were available and sadly the £18 tickets don't seem to have put a dent in what will be pretty much a bog-standard attendance for us these days. We're a husk.

When we played Wolves in 2000, we were in the same division we're in now, except we were trying to compete to get out of the division and were run by competent people. The argument about it being the Jack Walker era can't be levelled because by that point the great man had passed on.

The attendance for that game was 20,400. I'm guessing Wolves at the time would have brought about 2k? What do we think for Saturday? 15,000 'officially' announced but nearer 11 or 12k? Sad 

Edited 5 hours ago by StHelensRover

[RevidgeBlue]

11 hours ago, Aqualung said:

I really can't see that all white shirt as being a 150th anniversary shirt. Someone's trying to wind you all up. And it's working! 

 

 

It's looking increasingly likely it isn't a wind up.

If it is, they'll have to knock one up for chaddy - he wants one!

 

[Salgados Hair]

2 hours ago, Polky said:

 

'Robbo' was in the year above me at school. Haven't been in touch with him since leaving X. Somebody tell him it's shite for me! 🙂

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Just got my Anniversary Book.

Good content but the two pages dedicated to the Rao's can go and get fooked,puts a real downer on it...the full page picture of the Brothers Grimm stood laughing cuts deep like a knife for me personally.

Edited 5 hours ago by SIMON GARNERS 194

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

BBE upper tier Seats on sale.

[RevidgeBlue]

20 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Just got my Anniversary Book.

Good content but the two pages dedicated to the Rao's can go and get fooked,puts a real downer on it...the full page picture of the Brothers Grimm stood laughing cuts deep like a knife for me personally.

You probably won't have had a chance to read it yet SG but Im guessing the 2 pages is like a "tribute" to the Rao's and not the summary of their 15 years of ownership?

I wonder what the over-riding perspective on that is in the book? Is it fairly critical or neutral?

[Herbie6590]

7 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

You probably won't have had a chance to read it yet SG but Im guessing the 2 pages is like a "tribute" to the Rao's and not the summary of their 15 years of ownership?

I wonder what the over-riding perspective on that is in the book? Is it fairly critical or neutral?

I want a thread on the factual errors/inaccuracies…👀

[RevidgeBlue]

10 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

I want a thread on the factual errors/inaccuracies…👀

Am I right in thinking the book is part of a generic series written by a Company who produce anniversary books for Clubs?

If so it would have been far better  to have been written by an eminent Club historian like Harry Berry or Mike Jackman.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Its been written by Michael Hodkinson Rev,Rovers fan who did the 'NO NAY NEVER' Book.

The bit from the Rao's is them gushing to say how proud they are to be connected with our Club,yadda,yadda yadda...quite gut wrenching tbh.

As you can imagine from around 2010 the Book err thins out a bit!

Edited 4 hours ago by SIMON GARNERS 194

[rigger]

40 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

BBE upper tier Seats on sale.

Why open the BBE upper, when the lower isn't sold out. Is there some propaganda angle ?

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Exactly my thought's rigger.

[Herbie6590]

21 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Its been written by Michael Hodkinson Rev,Rovers fan who did the 'NO NAY NEVER' Book.

The bit from the Rao's is them gushing to say how proud they are to be connected with our Club,yadda,yadda yadda...quite gut wrenching tbh.

As you can imagine from around 2010 the Book err thins out a bit!

20 pages on Doncaster (a) ? 🤨

[Herbie6590]

16 minutes ago, rigger said:

Why open the BBE upper, when the lower isn't sold out. Is there some propaganda angle ?

For the Old Etonian massive…

[RevidgeBlue]

23 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Its been written by Michael Hodkinson Rev,Rovers fan who did the 'NO NAY NEVER' Book.

The bit from the Rao's is them gushing to say how proud they are to be connected with our Club,yadda,yadda yadda...quite gut wrenching tbh.

As you can imagine from around 2010 the Book err thins out a bit!

Cheers SG.

I have that "No nay Never" book but haven't read it yet.

I would actually have been quite impressed if the contribution from the Rao's had been along the lines that things had not gone as they'd hoped during their period of ownership but they were determined to put it right etc.

[RevidgeBlue]

6 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

20 pages on Doncaster (a) ? 🤨

Been nothing else to crow about since 2010 has there?

[wilsdenrover]

35 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

For the Old Etonian massive…

Always looking down on us.

[chaddyrovers]

9 hours ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Plenty wont buy it because its horrible and a work of fiction and I can assure you the high price WILL also be a factor.

Not a fan of the shirt tbh. I hope its not 150th shirt. After reflection, I probably wouldn't buy it. Not down to Price but the look

Think the polo shirt posted by @StHelensRover is smart and that would be a much better anniversary shirt.