150th Anniversary kit/celebrations

[Upside Down]

1 hour ago, J*B said:

That’s a truly horrible kit and whilst club staff continue to read this forum it’s worth hiding before they get any more stupid ideas. 

At least it's blue and white, these fucking brain deads can't even get that right.

[NeilInBristol]

4 hours ago, J*B said:

That’s a truly horrible kit and whilst club staff continue to read this forum it’s worth hiding before they get any more stupid ideas. 

It’s clever- distracts the opposition!

[Herbie6590]

12 hours ago, NeilInBristol said:

It’s clever- distracts the opposition!

Dazzle camouflage 😆

[DutchRover]

Birmingham for their 150th anniversary get the promise of a 62,000 seater stadium and owners who clearly plan to spend whatever it takes to become a Prem club...

We...can't even release an anniversary kit and will quite probably get relegated.

C'est la vie

[Mike Graham]

Does anyone know how the Rovers Museum we were promised is getting on?

Rovers* put in two National Lottery bids (the 2nd I am told was via the Community Trust) but were turned down.

The agreed fallback position was a dedicated museum space in a room in the Darwen End.  Perhaps Plan D was a couple more display cases that only the prawn sandwich brigade 🥟 and those on ground tours get to see?

It will be interesting to hear how much we have been let down 🧐

*why would the BIG Lottery Fund give a grant to a limited company owned by Indian big ‘hitters?

 

[Parsonblue]

3 hours ago, Mike Graham said:

Does anyone know how the Rovers Museum we were promised is getting on?

Rovers* put in two National Lottery bids (the 2nd I am told was via the Community Trust) but were turned down.

The agreed fallback position was a dedicated museum space in a room in the Darwen End.  Perhaps Plan D was a couple more display cases that only the prawn sandwich brigade 🥟 and those on ground tours get to see?

It will be interesting to hear how much we have been let down 🧐

*why would the BIG Lottery Fund give a grant to a limited company owned by Indian big ‘hitters?

 

Probably for the same reason that Liverpool FC were given money by the Lottery Fund.  

[RevidgeBlue]

5 minutes ago, Parsonblue said:

Probably for the same reason that Liverpool FC were given money by the Lottery Fund.  

Just had a quick look online and initial evidence there is to the contrary. AI says the Club has never received money from the National Lottery.

Do you have a source?

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

This could end up going the way of our ficticious all white Shirt!!!

[RevidgeBlue]

Just now, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

This could end up going the way of our ficticious all white Shirt!!!

Seemingly from the pictures on here one poor chap spent £90 on one. Looked like a crumpled old rag.

Could end up becoming an extremely rare item indeed!

[Mike Graham]

1 hour ago, Parsonblue said:

Probably for the same reason that Liverpool FC were given money by the Lottery Fund.  

What has happened to the museum proposal?

Why did the 2 lottery bids fail?

Why do Rovers marketing bods and the Community Trust fail to do any activities or building support outside of the BwD borders?

Edited 4 hours ago by Mike Graham

[Mike Graham]

1 hour ago, Parsonblue said:

Probably for the same reason that Liverpool FC were given money by the Lottery Fund.  

As someone who used to represent the staff at National Museums Liverpool (NML) I am aware that the Liverpool FC Museum is part of the publicly funded museums in the city rather than being run and controlled by the football club.  It is an effective partnership arrangement.

If Rovers were to have done similar they would have had to ensure a Rovers museum was part of BwD museums in order to receive public funding.

[Parsonblue]

2 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Just had a quick look online and initial evidence there is to the contrary. AI says the Club has never received money from the National Lottery.

Do you have a source?

Went to a Lottery Fund seminar in the Summer.  They stated that the Liverpool project was one of the most successful that they had funded in terms of feedback from the public.

[JHRover]

Is all this related to why the Rovers 150th exhibition was based at Blackburn Museum (oddly ending months before the actual anniversary) rather than at Ewood Park?

[Parsonblue]

The exhibition at the Museum was a Blackburn Museum event.  The club did loan them a number of items which was acknowledged by the Museum at the time.  The Museum plan events well in advance and the Rovers exhibition was always due to end when it did as the Museum had another event which directly followed it.

[RevidgeBlue]

5 minutes ago, Parsonblue said:

Went to a Lottery Fund seminar in the Summer.  They stated that the Liverpool project was one of the most successful that they had funded in terms of feedback from the public.

Seems they might have provided funding to the Liverpool Foundation rather than the Club.

[Parsonblue]

If memory serves me, it was for a portable Liverpool FC memory bus with various memorabilia inside.

[RevidgeBlue]

11 minutes ago, Parsonblue said:

If memory serves me, it was for a portable Liverpool FC memory bus with various memorabilia inside.

Imo if the bus was going to all parts of the City that's one thing (even though Liverpool are more than capable of funding it themselves) but Im not sure why any professional Football Club should expect funding for an exhibition on Club premises.

[Parsonblue]

58 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Imo if the bus was going to all parts of the City that's one thing (even though Liverpool are more than capable of funding it themselves) but Im not sure why any professional Football Club should expect funding for an exhibition on Club premises.

If you read what the Heritage Lottery funds, it's clear that they are there to preserve heritage wherever they may find it.  Sadly, they have a limited amount of money and an avalanche of worthy applicants.  At the seminar I attended they made it clear that they welcomed bids from any sporting club - amateur or professional.

[RevidgeBlue]

17 minutes ago, Parsonblue said:

Sadly, they have a limited amount of money and an avalanche of worthy applicants.

Precisely. 

For that reason I certainly wouldn't consider Liverpool FC to be worthy applicants and probably not Rovers. It's a bit like Bill Gates asking for a charitable hand out.

Whether or not we SHOULD have received funding though isnt really relevant.

If we were turned down, what else have we done about it?

I think we can guess the answer.