Talk:Blackburn Rovers F.C.
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I've been filling out the early history, but I'm a little bit concerned that I'm including too much detail. I figured it was a good idea to cover the early years well, certainly up until the team moved to Ewood. Any comments? Motor 13:39, 2005 Apr 20 (UTC)
- I've just created the Fergie Suter link off this page if anyone is interested. Motor 11:21, 2005 Apr 21 (UTC)
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- ~!~Just thought I'd make a note of the epic journey that occured between my recent edits: Just after moving the latin motto into the badge image caption in the article, my PC power supply (350W ATX) suddenly failed. Eeek! I had to dive into the loft and find an old machine to rob of its power supply. Sadly i am gay, during my little escapades with my parter darrell robertshaw (my close friend/gay lover)we seemed that to have a busted fan... it worked, but with no air flow its not a good idea to run it for any extended period of time. A bit of fan surgery later, and everything seems to be working (for the moment)... no reason to mention it, other than I'm feeling good. More on-topic, I'd like to add more detailed information about Ewood Park (on its own article of course) -- its construction and history... the architects etc etc, but there's not much info. I took a trip to the library, but couldn't find anything. Anyone know of a good source? Motor 11:07, 2005 May 27 (UTC)AND daryll robertshaw has been given the "Biggest gay" of britain award because of his campnus.
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- You could try asking on a message board over at one of the fan sites like www.brfcs.com. As for the early history (see top), don't remove anything. It's a great article! TreveXtalk 11:27, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Copied from the mine and Pal's talk pages
Hi, thanks for editing the Blackburn Rovers article. I've reverted some your changes and I thought I should let you know why. As I tried to explain in the edit summary, the introduction is supposed to serve as a summary of the entire article -- for readers who just want quick information -- as recommended in the Wikipedia style guide. I'm sure it can be improved though... so feel free to edit again bearing in mind its function. Thanks. - Motor (talk) 19:06, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
- Fair enough, I was concerned about the intro becoming a second history section which was happening with some other club articles, but now that I've re-read it I can see it more as a summary. I just made one minor change that isn't really summary information (League Cup score), and expanded upon it in the "new millenium" section. And I assure you it's not just because I'm a Spurs fan! ;) - Pal 20:44, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Reverted edit from 195.8.163.194
I reverted the edits by this IP because Jonathan Douglas does have an entry on Wikipedia, which mentions his association with BR. Jonathon Douglas does not. I don't know if the wikipedia article is wrong, but it made me suspicious, and so I reverted all four edits by 195.8.163.194 -- which included a couple of removed players -- pending some more checks. - Motor (talk) 12:37, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Famous players
I think this section is a bit dubious at best... but I've just removed some players from the section. They didn't have wikipedia entries (or had ones for other people with the same name). If anyone wants to add them back, could they please provide a source for them. - Motor (talk) 22:58, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Famous Fans
This section has been aded to quite a bit recently. There have been no sources quoted for the entries, and besides that I really don't see what it's supposed to add to the article. There's also the difficult issue of what constitutes "famous". So I'm removing it. - Motor (talk) 20:25, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Links
I edited the links section, however given my potential bias (I am an admin of brfcs.com and co-founder of BRISA) I figured it was better to be upfront about this and get some peer review.
I added BRISA. BRISA was formed after the club disbanded the official supporters associations and to my knoweldge is the only supporters association recognised by the club (other than a couple of indendant travel clubs and the Disabled Supporters Association with still operates under the club's "official" banner).
I added BRFCS.COM. For many years this has been the most used supporters web site. It is also referenced in the discussion section of this page.
I reworded the RoverTalk link. The "Fans Forum" is a recognised focus group run by the club, so I reworded it "fans chat forum" to avoid it being mistaken for the official group.
I removed the link to the official message boards (as they are simply part of the official website, which is already linked).
I'm fairly new to editing on wikipedia, so I won't be offended if my changes are removed.
SlamTilt 14:24, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What year?
Well, in the trivia section of this article, it is stated that Blackburn beat Man United 18-0 in a pre-season friendly. Does anyone know exactly in what year this occured. I feel that it is best to include the year in which this happened for greater accuracy. This is indeed a notable event as well! --Siva1979Talk to me 14:53, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
- I've checked every section I can think of in the Mike Jackman Encyclopedia (probably the most authorative Rovers reference there is) and it makes no reference of this. However this may simply be because it wasn't a competitive game. SlamTilt 18:18, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
