At the end of the day the club is sticking up for its own fans and kicking back at the clubs who rip us off. The club have openly stated they’d be happy to enter into reciprocal arrangements with other clubs and agree a set price of £20.

1875 members will pay around the same as last season.

and put simply:

* Go to more than 3 games - join 1875 and you’re in profit

* Go to more than 10 games - get a season ticket and you’re in profit

Heard the same thing from 3 separate people - we are planning on bringing in Joe Hart with Forster as plan B. Both can go for free. The hold up in the Raya deal has been getting up front number high enough to give to the replacement as a signing on fee to bring their wage to a level we can tolerate.

Looks like Adam is the player ‘whinging he was going on trial at Blackburn’ someone overheard on holiday, can’t seem to find the post now?

We will regret selling Raya. We will regret it even more if there isn’t a decent fee and a big sell on.

Gallagher - Mowbray always played him on the right, has 2 years sat on the bench prepared him for 46 games up top? Because we’ve enough strikers who we play out wide instead. Where the hell does it leave Brereton??

Without wanting to really bug anyone, it’s worth pointing out, Hull’s kit has been released about the same time as it was last season.

Ours was announced on 18th July last season and went on sale that day, away kit same deal but 1st August. That said 10Bet were late to the party.

13 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

Back in the Asics days in the 90’s I seem to recall that we wore (or at the very least launched) the new kit last home game of the previous season...I want to say 1993/4...am I imagining it ? ? 

We did this once in 2006, Lonsdale were the makers of the previous and next kit, Tugay got sent off against City at home.

Just now, Dr X said:

Lol that's a great analogy. 

Downing is a beer goggles beauty. 

More of a mutton dressed as lamb? 

Strong rumours over in Rochdale are we are close to agreeing a fee for Callum Canps.

6 hours ago, sharpysharps86 said:

Sure thing. Also here's an away concept as well,  based on the grey rumours that were floating around...

Nice!! Navy is growing on me

13 hours ago, sharpysharps86 said:

Thought I'd have a bit of fun mocking up a home shirt design that I'd personally love to see.

For me it has to be royal blue with a red and navy trim. Any feedback is welcome

As it’s supposed to be a navy halves shirt with royal blue trim, could you mock that for us?

Where have all our photoshoppers gone??

So we’ve had one of the lightest ones from our history, now for the darkest?

Agree re: not renewed.

Agree Smallwood and Mulgrew will have been told they won’t play much. Nuttall on a season long loan somewhere to be expected.

Also imagine  Williams, Nyambe, Evans and Graham (but will have a big role to play) will have been told he’s looking to sign ‘strong competition’ for their places.

So the latest rumours for the away kit are two different shades of grey (sounds like a rubbish knock off of a film) in a halved shirt.

Meanwhile, at Ewood several new scarves have been seen (not the ones below) with a navy blue (similar to the colour used on this site and the colour of the dark blue seats at Ewood) and white design that had a royal blue trim. Could this be a sign that the kit will be the darkest blue halves we’ve ever had, commented by a royal blue trim? 

*UPDATE - club shop is featuring a noticeable number of navy blue and white items! (I’ve attached some)

God of photoshop do your thing.

Must be time for this thread, ideas, wants/ do not wants.

For me a return to the correct sides for the halves, a return to Rovers Royal Blue, white shorts, Blue socks.

Away - Same as above but Red and black halves! Then keep this years yellow if required e.g. vs Brentford.

On another note, Northcotes smaller company that held their Ribble Valley Inns was sold recently, then a little while later Northcote itself has been bought by the same people, all for a incredible amount. 

Noises are already being made about 2 training sites not being sustainable or in the best interests of the club itself. 

Can’t believe more hasn’t been made of the Brereton transfer (financially), strikes me as odd, I may be wrong but it looks like we’ve paid the majority of it in one full hit in August. That hasn’t been standard practice for any club or many years. 

Why the mad rush to get it paid in that accounting period? Could it have just been a gamble (player wise) and, if done in the financial period we were predominantly in League one, get around Championship FFP rules?

On 05/11/2018 at 21:36, 47er said:

I'll finish with this one Paul.

First of all you have never said I'm an idiot but you must think I'm one if I believed that trip to Pune involved sacrifice.

Second, I do not ignore the fact that the FF is not an elected democratic body.You seem quite happy with that and want it to continue this way or so I assume? The whole basis of my post is that this is wrong! It should be democratic or it should cease to exist.

Third, I appreciate that people who give up their time and energy to improve things for Rovers fans are admirable but they should do it within an open, democratic and inclusive framework. 

OK? That's it from me on this issue.

Anyone can join? Would you like to?

11 hours ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

That is my own opinion exactly. A strange buy, in our circumstances.

That said, I was rooting for him to have a good moment to encourage him, as soon as he took the field. I really want him to succeed and I don't buy for one second that anyone wants him to fail...or won't accept him, just because of the price tag.

 

I don’t think it’s strange at all, Mowbray is one of few managers afforded time. As newbies to the league even us as fans aren’t expecting much. We’ve got a solid squad that will at least survive. Therefore we aren’t in need of quick fixes to keep us up or push us over the line, we are able to look to the next couple of years and build a squad that would be capabale of a sustained promotion push. Brereton coming in now is with a view to him being key to that in a year or two.

Oh what could have been. The kit looks class without the sponsor. Feel sorry for Umbro to be fair. Their hard work has been undone by a silly logo! 

The only positive with that sponsor logo is it’s like a sillouete of our badge but sideways (I’m clutching at straws!!)

More Umbro offerings:

19 hours ago, JHRover said:

Leeds and Preston will have been moved due to the ridiculous safety advice, the same advice that allows 5,000 Rovers fans to travel to Preston on a Saturday for a tea time game and the same advice that allows both Rovers and Burnley to play at home on a Thursday night on TV.

I hope that Sky Sports come along and pick one of those for live broadcast (with Leeds it is highly likely) and the game is then moved back to 5pm. Then it show just what a joke the whole thing is.

It’s all based on a risk rating system. This is predominantly focused on the away support and is a combination of clubs previous history of trouble, % of arrests to number of fans attending, amount of fans expected etc

Unfortunately for us Leeds and Preston fans have a high % of arrests to number of travelling support. Therefore a boost to their numbers poses quite a high risk.

On a side note, what have Huddersfield done to their badge?????!!!

Looking forward to this kit, hopefully yellow and blue away too like this

Anyone able to mock this up as our home kit? Love the paler blue myself, would imagine it'll be white socks next season too since it was blue last season.

10 hours ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

100%.. This frustrates the hell out of me-along with the lack of advertising/sponsorship over the last few years.

It was if they just couldn't be arsed. Then to play the FFP card.. Well it just won't wash...

Again, you have to wonder why...

Previously I think there has just been a lack of organisation that led to no sponsorship - namely the first season in the Championship.

I think we are in a very different place as a club and structure now though and imagine that the fact Dafabet signed a decent deal (money wise) with us for 3 years with an option of an extension, coupled with us being in league one and not knowing whether we would go up is the reason this time.

Dafabet would’ve held the cards and we would’ve been waiting on them. The fact the club said at the fans forum they’re just decided between a few now shows they haven’t just waited for Dafabet to decide but have got alternatives in place for when they said  no. Actually quite organised for once.