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 yesterday at 20:34 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 yesterday at 20:44 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 23 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 for the 150, it would win a number of prizes for fiction, no one would believe it was real.

Edited 13 hours 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.

[Mike Graham]

Supporters have been the biggest part of Rovers 150 year history.

Sadly fans, apart from sales and money making opportunities, do not feature at all in the 150th celebrations.  So very wrong and very sad as well.

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Blackburn Rovers is the Towns club. 

The fans club.

They'll never know how it feels to be part of something as big as us despite their fortune. 

Love over money. 

 

[Gutted]

1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

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.

Has it actually been confirmed that we are going to wear that white shirt?
I honestly can’t believe we will.

My hopes were raised yesterday when I saw the trailer for the ‘legends’ game showing our one and only traditional kit embossed with gold. I will be so disappointed if we turn out in a shirt there is no evidence that we have ever actually worn.Rovers have only ever been seen in throughout history in our home blue and white.

[StHelensRover]

Still can't get my head round how wrong they got the shirts this season. Last season I think they did a good job. I personally like and bought the green away shirt. But they still missed a big trick with that one (imo) in not putting the town crest on, it would have looked great and would have made the choice of colours more obvious, and wouldn't have needed a white rose.

The gold shirt I just can't warm to. The railway station, a bridge over the railway and Darwen tower. Not sure what any of that has to do with 150 years of football in the town. Boring and doesn't look brilliant (imo).

The home shirt is the biggest clanger for me. The 150 years logo on the neck is something they've slapped on as many things as they can in the shop and looks naff. They couldn't even get the layout of the halves (quarters right)

We've been outdone by *checks notes* Port Vale, who also celebrated 150 years and they came out with the best shirt of the year across the divisions (imo).

I'd be really interested to know how they and Macron drummed up and finessed the ideas for this season, coz it's clear they engaged with fans then ignored pretty much everything fans said.

Edited 12 hours ago by StHelensRover

[B16Rover]

16 minutes ago, StHelensRover said:

Still can't get my head round how wrong they got the shirts this season. Last season I think they did a good job. I personally like and bought the green away shirt. But they still missed a big trick with that one (imo) in not putting the town crest on, it would have looked great and would have made the choice of colours more obvious, and wouldn't have needed a white rose.

The gold shirt I just can't warm to. The railway station, a bridge over the railway and Darwen tower. Not sure what any of that has to do with 150 years of football in the town. Boring and doesn't look brilliant (imo).

The home shirt is the biggest clanger for me. The 150 years logo on the neck is something they've slapped on as many things as they can in the shop and looks naff. They couldn't even get the layout of the halves (quarters right)

We've been outdone by *checks notes* Port Vale, who also celebrated 150 years and they came out with the best shirt of the year across the divisions (imo).

I'd be really interested to know how they and Macron drummed up and finessed the ideas for this season, coz it's clear they engaged with fans then ignored pretty much everything fans said.

Give them some respect.  It's not like Blackburn is home to some kind of international fashion designer who would be happy to help is there 

[Hasta]

45 minutes ago, Gutted said:

Has it actually been confirmed that we are going to wear that white shirt?
I honestly can’t believe we will.

I can’t believe professional footballers will wear that in a game. Most don’t like long sleeves anyway.
 

I think there’s more chance that the Lengends will be wearing it.

Edited 12 hours ago by Hasta

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46 minutes ago, B16Rover said:

Give them some respect.  It's not like Blackburn is home to some kind of international fashion designer who would be happy to help is there 

Lmao I second checked that and was about to comment.

I know right what happened to using our own and being Blackburn through n through 

[waynerovers]

Does anyone have a list of the legends playing today 

[RevidgeBlue]

Is the shirt with the gold bits going to be going on general sale?

Not sure a gold transfer of the badge next to the actual badge really works.

Looks what it probably is, last minute thing cobbled together without any thought.

[BlackburnEnd75]

So what happened to the white strip then?

[RevidgeBlue]

30 minutes ago, BlackburnEnd75 said:

So what happened to the white strip then?

Allegedly been shelved until after Christmas.

Hopefully permanently