Herbie6590

The green highlighting isn't mine... ! It's in the original screen grab

For absolute clarity, my original post was in response to the comment in the screen grab... I haven't compared Mowbray to Lambert (or anyone else specifically)... just a statistical response to the comment referencing "high success rate" - then I realised the graphic was out of date...so I updated it...& for good measure I acknowledged the different divisions involved...

Well it’s not MY measure...it’s stats & after I posted it, I also realised it wasn’t up to date so I posted an update which I attach here for completeness...

This is a bit more utd than the one above...

Different divisions involved obviously but....?‍♂️

I’ve just retweeted some WBA fan comments...(see the Home page if you are not on Twitter) - they bloody love him. I assume he has developed quite a lot since we sent him back. The raw 17y/o has developed it seems...

Well it did lead to relegation...so yes...but now we have won promotion the reinvestment is s/t different FFP rules...

Any value “taken out of the squad” has been subsumed into working capital to fund the income shortfall following relegation. Due to FFP the wage bill has to be a proportion of T/O (at least in the Championship).

Contractually I have to do this now....?

Harry

I jumped the gun with this last Friday...but it’s now live...???

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 ? ?

I like Umbro as a brand but I agree that Rovers don’t exactly have a global reach these days & so the advantages of such a tie in aren’t what they once were. Last season’s Aston Villa deal was an interesting one along on the lines you suggest but even then, they have reverted to going with Kappa now back in the PL. I suspect the fear would be in venturing into an industry without the requisite contacts, network & knowledge. Imagine if “Rovers Leisure” was set up & then lost money...we’d all be calling for Waggott’s head (what a name for a pub that would be...) so I fully understand why hardly any clubs do it these days. Perhaps we could bring Wayne Hemingway on board...he’s done stuff for Rovers before now...

For what worth, I would imagine that Umbro plan a rollout schedule with each of their clubs so that each club has its moment in the sun as it were & Umbro have something to publicise at regular intervals. I once read that kit designs are agreed a long time in advance, production schedules determine availability. Remember, Hearts kit was out weeks before Hull/Brentford/Derby etc. I suspect our position in the queue is at least in part due to commercial reasons i.e. we won’t sell that many (relatively speaking) so our kit comes out later. ?‍♂️

Each deal is different but the manufacturer usually pays a fee to licence the kit & takes the lion’s share of the mark up...I dare say Rovers negotiating power is somewhat lower than Man Utd’s ! https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/premier-league-transfer-news-epl-cristiano-ronaldo-shirt-sales-fee-net-worth-contract-how-long-a8456191.html

Just a random former Cov player selected to illustrate the er...”hilarious” satirical point I was making...I’m not advocating nor predicting his arrival BTW ?

“So Tony...you’re bringing in Rhian Brewster on loan, Britt Assombalonga, Oliver Burke and Scott Dann...you must be delighted...” ?

BRFCS is delighted to announce that renowned Rovers historian & author Harry Berry (A Century of Soccer, The Blackburn Rovers Miscellany, The Men Who Made Blackburn Rovers since 1945) has given us access to his archive records of Rovers first team players. The initial batch of records representing players with surnames beginning with A have been loaded & can be accessed from the new Home Page &/or by following the link below :- https://www.brfcs.com/mb/index.php?/player-archive/ Our sincere thanks go to Harry for sharing this content, over time the record will build up to cover all players with a first team appearance but rather than wait until all the records are complete, we thought we would load them in instalments. Thanks also to @OnePhilT who once more has done a sterling job building the infrastructure to house these records and has single-handedly loaded this first batch of records. Hope you enjoy using this as a reference point for all your Rovers player enquiries...

Hold that thought... @OnePhilT is working on something that could turn into a Rovers archive section of the site...announcements as soon as we have something to share...??

It looks fine when treated sympathetically with the kit colour scheme like WBA away last season for instance

That URL...?????? Talk about SEO engineering

Umbro “going off on one” here with Derby’s home shirt. This is a classic training/warm up/away kit template in my opinion...not many clues here for Rovers I suspect...

We commissioned* @sharpysharps86 to do this one based on the West Ham template...I’d buy this (& I haven’t bought a shirt for 15 years...) ??? *asked politely ?

So let the fans vote on the stock options...?

Halves should always be reversed on the back & sleeves contrast at the front (halved sleeves EVEN better...) but it shows what Umbro can do when they bring out their A game...??