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The eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed that over the last couple of weeks we have launched some new affiliations, following negotiations with partners that we hope will prove to be useful to BRFCS members…you’re very welcome…🙂 ⚪️🔵 The Terrace Our main site partner is of course The Terrace and we will be working even more closely with them throughout this season to host competitions and special offers. In the meantime - using the discount code BRFCS will give you a 10% discount on your Terrace purchases. NordVPN We are delighted to welcome on board NordVPN - they have a special Black Friday offer running presently which can be accessed HERE. NordVPN have also given us a subscription to give away as a prize & details of how to enter the competition will be shared on our next podcast with links on here. A VPN can be very useful for accessing content whilst travelling as well as helping to protect your data. Classic Football Shirts Following the recent podcast we have secured a 10% discount with CFS which can be accessed HERE - ideal for buying all those classic Rovers shirts (& much more) that you wish to add to your collections. Thanks everyone for your continued support of the site - hopefully you can benefit from one or more of these deals as a Thank You from all of us at BRFCS Towers.

True - I’d also like to know the bona fides & motivation of the poster on Facebook who started this…

Coleen would be proud…

Let’s at least wait to see if it’s verified…that seems prudent before we start castigating all & sundry.

I despair…🤦‍♂️

The latter I presume…🤷‍♂️

That shirt eh?

Delighted to hear it…it’s a well-travelled shirt 👌

Much appreciated - thanks for supporting the site 🙂

We tried to start something a few years ago using material supplied by Harry Berry but changes in personnel in BRFCS Towers slowed it down then a software upgrade killed it off completely. We have the technical capability to resurrect it…just needs contributors… Rob Sawyer has been on our podcast. His mum was a Rovers fan from Blackburn. We’re his 2nd team. He wrote a book on Keith Newton a while back.

“Put Sidnei in the dog shit bag…” ”OK boss…”

There are a handful of these fine shirts left in stock - if you regret not buying one & you are either a M, L, XL or 2XL then we can still sort you out. Have it with you before the club’s 150th anniversary shirt is released…😉 Please PM me on here for a payment link - they will be £63 including postage to the UK. Don’t miss out…⚪️🔵 👍

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The one off shirt was being discussed in April 2024. They ignored many of our suggestions for this season’s kits though so who knows what will emerge… I expect the blue to be dark & the Maltese Cross to feature…

Fab that Gail is a Blackburn lass & is in tune with what we wanted so beautifully..

Some photos from my collection…Simon Garner used the first one as his Twitter banner for a few years..!

Don’t look at Part Five - that will blow your mind…😆 They aren’t literal - they are broad brush labels to attach to the lists…👍

This is an exciting project for us…it kind of takes the “Mount Rushmore” theme on here & injects it with steroids! It’s possibly important to emphasise the “tells the story” element here - in other words it’s not just the best players, indeed it’s not just players. There are many other actors in the Rovers story who have influenced the tale for better or worse…without taking the field. What we do with the final list is the subject of much discussion but the possibility of a special 4000 Holes edition - perhaps even a book (there’s an idea eh?) &/or other merchandise possibilities are all on the table. Please do get involved over the next few weeks…🤍💙

The Guardian

https://www.flashscore.co.uk/news/football-saudi-professional-league-exclusive-buckley-talks-wharton-blackburn-and-saudi-pro-league-switch/Y5SLxWCr/

https://www.football365.com/news/isak-crisis-demands-change-manager-sack-newcastle-star-sweary-outburst

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25539231.blackburn-rovers-address-ipswich-abandonment-ewood-park-concerns/?ref=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

Throughout this thread several posts have highlighted what was suggested by e.g. WATR. My view (again FWIW) is that (as @Parsonblue) highlighted - marking the league game closest to the anniversary is fine. Personally I think tacking on the extra match (especially in this form) is no more than paying lip-service to the idea of a celebration…it’s half-arsed. A pre-season friendly against say Athletic Bilbao would have been a great way to kick off (!) the celebratory season. The book in principle sounds great…but like many on here I fear for the quality/content & independence of the editorial. A special shirt again - sounds great, but I’ll keep my powder dry until I’ve actually seen it. In summary Chaddy - it’s less about the “what” but more about the “how” the club does things these days…

I did 1988/90 before moving with work to Birmingham. Wormwood Scrubs on a Sunday morning was quite the thing!

FWIW my take is that by tacking on a “celebratory match” of this dubious quality is symptomatic of the typically half-arsed efforts of the current regime who seem to know the price of everything & the value of nothing. The constant tinkering of the home kit to make it look more like a Grasshoppers or Feyenoord variant, the removal of the historic timeline outside Ewood, the shockingly bad 150th merchandise…the overwhelming sense is that nobody in charge cares enough. A match to celebrate the 150th…against a team that actually beat us in an FA Cup final…it just feels…shoddy.