4 hours ago, Upside Down said:

Great to see there is so much written about the club and that it comes from many different eras.

 

Can we now definitively pin down what shirts we played in at the very beginning of the club's history? It's something that's really been bugging me for a while as I've read conflicting things. Some say it was white shirts with the Maltese cross and others say it was always blue and white halves.

The best resource around for this kind of thing…

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Blackburn_Rovers/Blackburn_Rovers.htm

12 hours ago, Oldgregg86 said:

Sorry to throw the thread off but i didn’t want to waste starting a new one but I was wondering if anyone has any photos of the fans in the pre season friendly against Sparta Prague in Austria they could post on here

Try posting in Nostalgia Thread as well 👍🏻

3 hours ago, lraC said:

Its still hard to believe in my mind that it was Venkys money that bought the club in the first place and the great mystery as to why theY keep on funding us, could have answers buried deep back to how the original purchase was really funded.

Playing this thought experiment through to its logical conclusion…why would “organisation X” provide money to enable  “organisation Y” to buy an asset over which “organisation X” had no explicit, direct, legal control ? 

That is a tad risky on the part of “organisation X” isn’t it ? 
 

https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/sound-of-the-season-19945-with-ian-moore/208

This is a terrific listen. A wry look back at 1994/95 through the lens of France-based Rovers fan, the comedian & author Ian Moore.

Stream or download right here:-

https://sound-of-the-season.zencast.website/episodes/ian-moore-1994-95

1 hour ago, Nuttall is lost said:

Do you have the 92-93 season review? 

I dont think so…I have another crate in the garage though…so watch this space !

There are over 40 highlights videos from 92/93 on the YouTube channel though…

Make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel...loads on there already...many more to come...

https://www.youtube.com/c/BRFCSdotcom/videos

1 hour ago, Miller11 said:

I know a few questions got sent in specifically about his involvement at Rovers. Be interesting to see if they are asked!

Don't hold your breath...

This is worth a listen @Miller11

3 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

And these figures have been validated? 
 

 

Obviously not, but FWIW here's the source from the link in my original post...

https://capology.com/club/blackburn/salaries/

Back once again to 1989/90 & Don Mackay's men toy with the Tykes at Ewood...

2 hours ago, Miller11 said:

I’m going to wait until the end of the season before I decide. Could be anywhere between a 3 and a 9.

As a slight aside though, I’m really sick of seeing people justifying our current collapse by saying “we are overachieving”.

Bollocks.

Just because people thought we might struggle this season doesn’t mean it would have been remotely acceptable to be in a relegation battle. Our aim should always be to get back into the top flight, and as supporters we shouldn’t accept that being one of the 26 best teams in the country is completely beyond us. It just goes to show how badly run we are that so many people are now really happy to accept mediocrity. Some even embrace it.

Waggott, Mowbray and everyone else make enough excuses of their own without us doing it for them. Injuries, FFP, parachute payments, referees or anything else aren’t the issue - being badly run from the top down is. We could have had the one single acceptable season since Venky’s came along, but it seems like we are going to throw the opportunity away.

On the point of “overachievement”…there is a strong correlation between wage bill and league position…I’ll let the statisticians argue causation.

https://sqaf.club/how-much-do-championship-players-earn/

Anything higher than 17th therefore could be argued as overachievement.

7 hours ago, Nuttall is lost said:

Enter Paul Jewell🤣

Is that another of his home movies ? 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/paul-jewell-backed-in-sex-video-725083

9 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

The fat Lady is a singing Longers!

Gargling at this point but we can but hope she takes the stage quite soon…

https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/they-played-for-both-rovers-and-the-royals/102
 

https://www.planetsport.com/soccer/news/how-many-days-since-every-top-flight-club-last-won-a-major-trophy/?bc-1

4 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

The owners shouldn't be interfering with footballing decisions. End of.

The owners should lay down the parameters within which the club should operate (& that they are willing to fund); then clearly *should* also appoint the right people to execute their chosen strategy.

https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/final-whistle-lament/199

Backs up my opinion of JPVH, who seems to have taken the Fulham game as a cathartic experience resulting in a transformation into a proper footballing defender.

21 hours ago, arbitro said:

They have made a right mess of the players whose names don't correspond with the pictures. 😁😁😁

It’s one of my go to quiz questions with Rovers fans…which players were correctly named on this photo ? 😉

My first Rovers glory…thanks to Gordon Lee…

1 hour ago, Gav said:

They came into the club with the remit to get wages under control, they sacked Nelson, Salgado and many more towards that aim and look where we are.

They should write off the debt they created and sod off, hand it over to the fans, I agree with you on that point J*B.

 

If they were hand it over to the fans; what price would you charge for a season ticket & how many would you expect to sell at that price ?

5 minutes ago, Miller11 said:

Having got the latest copy of the magazine, I’m not surprised it isn’t selling. At 6 quid it works out at about 20 pence per word. It’s really poor.

I reckon there may well be a market for a “magazine” - 4000 Holes & Turnstiles testify to that (see also The Blizzard for general football writing); the issue is the content.

Match day programmes obviously can’t compete with the interweb world in terms of topicality so a magazine worth reading needs to contain sufficient “timeless” pieces with perhaps a modicum of reference content e.g. fixtures, appearances, stats, PSAs etc in order to make it a worthwhile purchase.

The reason that 4KH & Turnstiles can be published successfully is that the contributors aren’t paid & the editing/production is done as a labour of love. I dare say if the issues were charged to cover commercial rates of all those involved the cover price would be hefty.

I’d consider buying a quarterly if the content was more akin to the long reads in The Blizzard/The Athletic. 

@tonyoz A defender heading a goal bound shot off the line…is the maximum score for this 4 ? Similarly say…keeper saving a penalty ? 

5 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Is that an accountant speaking ?

A data geek…😉

11 minutes ago, arbitro said:

So Mowbray and Waggott already know their budgets for next season? That's strange because in seasons gone by they didn't find out until the summer prior to the season starting.

I would be surprised if there isn’t at least a basic rolling budget for planning purposes, with versions predicated on promotion & non-promotion.