Steve Waggott

[Exiled_Rover]

9 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Again, its not the position he has left us in. Its the position that VENKYS have left us in.

It's both.

He's hated at Charlton and Coventry. The man is a cancer. 

[roversfan99]

2 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

We'll have to agree to disagree on this point as always. I've no idea why you have always dismissed Waggott's contribution as completely irrelevant.

If that's the case when we might as well not bother having a CEO.

Ive never said its completely irrelevant and I am glad hes gone.

But this idea that hes gone renegade to ruin the club for whatever reason (now even suggesting that the owners became disinterested because of the damage he has done, if that was the case surely theyd have just sacked him long ago if he went off script?) is nonsensical.

I just find your continious attempts at deflecting blame away from Venkys across a number of years to be totally bizarre. 

[roversfan99]

1 minute ago, Exiled_Rover said:

It's both.

He's hated at Charlton and Coventry. The man is a cancer. 

Hes a symptom of the cancer. That cancer remains.

[Exiled_Rover]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

But the lame 'American Badass' version.

[chaddyrovers]

3 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

From the story  I heard on the radio I'm not sure Chelsea sought the investment as such, some Celebrity or other expressed an interest in buying a stake in their women's side and a rather arbitrary valuation of £200m was placed on the womens side of the Club by Chelsea.

Even for a team that has dominated the WSL that sounds a fairly optimistic figure to me. And much lower down the food chain I'm not sure it's possible to assign much of a monetary value to Rovers women's side at all.

Still entirely the wrong decision to downgrade in the prevailing climate though. The communication aspect whilst displaying our customary lack of class is entirely secondary and of course the decision begs the question of what will be the next thing we've previously taken for granted to face the axe.

I said how I find out. As I said earlier I don't follow women's football at all. 

I think Rovers have made a mistake by getting rid of the women's team

[wilsdenrover]

3 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

From the story  I heard on the radio I'm not sure Chelsea sought the investment as such, some Celebrity or other expressed an interest in buying a stake in their women's side and a rather arbitrary valuation of £200m was placed on the womens side of the Club by Chelsea.

Even for a team that has dominated the WSL that sounds a fairly optimistic figure to me. And much lower down the food chain I'm not sure it's possible to assign much of a monetary value to Rovers women's side at all.

Still entirely the wrong decision to downgrade in the prevailing climate though. The communication aspect whilst displaying our customary lack of class is entirely secondary and of course the decision begs the question of what will be the next thing we've previously taken for granted to face the axe.

I think the £200 million was the price Chelsea’s holding company paid last year to buy the women’s team from themselves to (I’ll be polite) ‘work around’ FFP rules.

The more recent investment is the  £20 million purchase of shares by the Reddit chap (Serena William’s husband).

Edited Monday at 18:21 by wilsdenrover