Mattyblue

That kit wasn't that light. Certainly not 'Cambridge Blue' The year before was...

The red and blue blocks of the Riverside finally get their day in the sun... oh it's a 'heritage' kit, must be shutting down then

Used to really annoy me when the likes of Andy Sinton and Steve Stone used to get in squads over Ripley and Wilcox.

"f*** sake, why do I always have to launch the kit?"

‘The lighter blue design last appeared on Rovers’ home shirts during the 2014-15 Championship season and famously featured in the 1991-92 campaign, when Kenny Dalglish’s side triumphed at Wembley to secure promotion to the newly-formed Premier League.’ The kit wasn’t a particularly light blue in 91/92, are they not getting confused with 90/91?

Where’s the zebra?

Perhaps pre match on Thursday there will be some sort of official launch at the club shop?

The club does seem to be very good at the cloak and dagger stuff these days. Often no inkling of a signing until he’s sitting at the boardroom table with Mogga smiling proudly behind. So it does makes me less concerned than in previous years, but the clock is ticking...

He'll be nearly 26 by the time he returns to Chelsea - never played a game.

It's all about being the best you can be, he's defrauding himself and the club.

Sure I heard the roof had to be kept on as the game has to start and finish in the same conditions...

You still can - Everton had Chang until 2017, the marketing budgets are obviously biggest in the gambling world...

Social media is a cesspit and that’s reflected even in Rovers releated posts. However, the kind of fans that travel to Port Vale for a friendly in July, are committed fans and Evans should have kept his mouth shut.

Whatever happened to booze sponsors? McCewans, Matthew Brown, Newcastle Brown Ale, Labatts, Holsten Pils, Coors, Carlsberg, Carling Premier League, Worthington Cup

‘F*** sake, we always run into fans’ He did say it, as I know people personally that heard him. Pretty ill thought out thing to say in earshot of fans who are giving up another weekend (pre season as well) to follow the team. Away travelling fans don’t expect much, a clap at full time, quick chat if they run into their heroes, it will make their day - especially young fans. So they certainly shouldn’t accept an outburst like that, it’s poor stuff.

From the LT article chaddy posted on the links thread: Caddis is unavailable at the moment for fitness reasons really. He is working twice a day every day and he’ll be ready soon.”

Very serious. I'm telling him why they aren't going to go on general sale. The club will believe that the away end will sell out (rightly or wrongly) and they don't want their fans in the home ends. Plus there are thousands of glory hunting Liverpool fans in modern day Lancs, and some of those may well try and get a ticket too, so it is made database only as standard for this kind of opposition, pretty simple really.

Because it's Liverpool and they will in all likelyhood sell out their allocation, they won't go on general sale to stop the home ends being full of their fans.

I’ve seen tweets from at least half a dozen fans that I know for a fact go to every single game. I’ve had the quotes confirmed by my supporters club that were at the services, I know them personally and they are the absolute best of our fan base who spend a fortune and a hell of a lot of time supporting the club every single weekend, so they were rightly upset by a disgraceful outburst, considering they were just chatting politely to the rest of the squad. So please withdraw your posts BDS.

I know plenty that heard it directly as they travel with the supporters club I go with regularly. He said it, it wasn’t tongue and cheek and those at the services heard it loud and clear. Many of those at Port Vale spend a fortune, every weekend, ten months a year supporting those lads and that outburst was bang out of order and massively out of step with the atmosphere that Mowbray has helped create between players and fans. So I imagine Mogga is as annoyed as anyone.

Plenty in the Darwen End, I’d imagine, not many elsewhere.

I’d wager you are in a small minority on that one, but fair enough, wouldn’t do for us all to be the same.

Yes, proper fans. Not a glory hunting United fan who’s never been to Old Trafford, so he’s no real connection to his club side. Or someone with a loose connection to Rovers, who doesn’t really give them much thought, but as they are the local team would identify with the club. Those two types of person I would expect to put England World Cup over club success. Alternatively, Rovers nuts, like the saddos posting on a club forum on a Saturday night - vice versa.

I would say most on here would share my view, as would most Rovers fans I know. Players are largely mercenaries, so of course they would see the World Cup over success for one of the half dozen clubs they flit between. To be honest, until this debate got going I assumed most ‘proper’ club fans, I.e not those that come out of the woodwork for a £10 Oxford ticket or those plonkers walking around in United shirts were of my view too, a fair assumption to make considering the ZERO interest in the England team until a month ago, so I’ve learnt something from this thread.

Blackburn Rovers is a major part of my life, part of who I am. I’ve lived and breathed the club everyday since being about 6 years old. I watch them home and away, I know dozens of like minded folk and it is our absolute passion. England, don’t give them much thought, but do enjoy watching the summer tournaments and hope they do well. So why on earth would I prefer success for that team over the betterment of Blackburn Rovers? I just don’t think of that institution in the way I do the Rovers. It’s not a binary choice, both co-exist, but there’s only ever one winner in my life.