150th Anniversary kit/celebrations

[Jimmy612]

I feel really sorry for the former Rovers players that will have travelled for what is going to be an absolute non-event. There’s some great servants to the club in there, and I’m afraid they’ll be playing in front of about 1,000 people, perhaps max!  I just don’t think the day will feel like a celebration at all, which is such a huge shame. But, the club have brought it on themselves. Rovers fans can’t just turn off 15-years off disdain for the ownership. 

I just cannot see people hanging around for an hour to watch a 40-min game against Old Etonians. It’s not gonna happen. 

[Herbie6590]

Any truth that the club motto is to be changed to “Due to unforeseen circumstances” from Arte et Labore ? 🤦‍♂️

[Mattyblue]

Still don’t know why it couldn’t have kicked off pre, say, at 11.10am, then clear the pitch at 11.50 and do the medals, honour caps etc at half time. 

 

Edited 12 hours ago by Mattyblue

[Tom]

Couldn’t organise a piss up in a stadium!

The incompetence is lengendary!

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3 minutes ago, Tom said:

Couldn’t organise a piss up in a stadium!

The incompetence is lengendary!

Hahahaha WHAT A LENGEND!

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11 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

Any truth that the club motto is to be changed to “Due to unforeseen circumstances” from Arte et Labore ? 🤦‍♂️

What would that be in Latin I wonder... had to look

 edit. .

went full geek on this

Edited 12 hours ago by ...

[Salgados Hair]

37 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

Any truth that the club motto is to be changed to “Due to unforeseen circumstances” from Arte et Labore ? 🤦‍♂️

Another contender might be Numquam scienter competens. 😐

[RevidgeBlue]

You couldnt make it up about the Club making a big thing about people supposedly being allowed to drink in sight of the pitch for the "legends" game then being forced into a humiliating u turn 2 days later.

If this idea was on the cards it should have been sorted and either cleared with the relevant authorities or discussed and dismissed as a non starter weeks ago.

At this point it comes over as if they're actively trying to antagonise people with the white smock and now this.

Edited 8 hours ago by RevidgeBlue

[Upside Down]

This is promising to be so hilariously shit. 

[StHelensRover]

Someone forgot to press send for Lewis O'Brien

Someone forgot to press send on Duncan Maguire

Someone forgot we're famous for playing on blue and white halves, not school polo shirts with a blue cross ironed on

Someone forgot to check we're legally allowed beer in seats before pressing send

Someone seems to have forgotten they told us there would be an anniversary shirt, even though it seems to be a shite looking one that they haven't released on the anniversary.

Everything is fine though because we got a video from Alan Shearer.

You could release a full-length hard back glossy photo book of all the absolutely stupid shit these idiots have done in the last 15 years just like the one they've released, it would win a number of prizes for fiction, no one would believe it was real.

Edited 1 hour ago by StHelensRover

[RoversClitheroe]

How the hell can we have a 150th anniversary game and not be playing in it?

It's an absolute disgrace. The hierarchy are the definition of incompetence.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

When you have people running the Club who are not Supporters and just go through the motions.........

[Mattyblue]

Reading the first page of this thread and Bill Fox was quoted about how blue and white has always been our colours, imagine the conversation with him over basing our whole 150th on Maltese crosses (and white smocks if they ever actually get round to having a commemorative shirt).

But then he was a Blackburn and Rovers man through and through, unlike whatever that place is supposed to be now.

[JHRover]

They expected to fill Ewood Park with home fans which is why they limited Derby to half the DE. That's right, a 12:30pm Championship kick off after everything they have done to humiliate, degrade and alienate and they seriously thought the floodgates would open for fans to come today.

As it happens there will of course be over 10,000 empty seats for the biggest milestone in the Club's history. 

Something for them to pat themselves on the back over.

I have no doubt whatsoever that the planned release of the anniversary shirt has been postponed either because they want to first sell off the remaining stock of the 3 main kits or because someone is annoyed that the anniversary shirt has been leaked online this week and is making a point not to release it now.

Of course logically having FOUR different kits this season, none of which are particularly impressive efforts, was always going to stretch budgets and luck. The home shirt is the most boring effort I can imagine and has the halves wrong, the gold one I don't understand why pictures of the railway station and Wainwright bridge are being used and the green one has no connection to our history and includes a white rose of Yorkshire, but apparently matches a shade of green contained on the town coat of arms.

But even if you loved all three buying them all and then being asked to cough up another £90 for a white shirt with an ironed on cross was a lot to ask.

Naturally of course they should have done what was suggested on here - have a proper anniversary home shirt that was released in the summer and worn all season - an all white one if necessary - and then a decent away one like all gold to honour the occasion. Job done. Two unique shirts for a one-off season. No need for fiasco or confusion.