Blackburn Rovers Women

[Bronzed A Donis]

Short sighted, deliberate sabotage.

[RevidgeBlue]

1 hour ago, Bronzed A Donis said:

Short sighted, deliberate sabotage.

Not downplaying what has happened to the women but the same thing (in essence) thats happening to the men, albeit the dismantling of the men's side is being done rather more subtly.

Edit: Jackson seems to like doing fluffy PR pieces on all aspects of the Club. Perhaps he'd care to do one on the women?

Edited 11 hours ago by RevidgeBlue

[bluebruce]

On 18/08/2025 at 21:27, Upside Down said:

Don't forget that they were offered funding from outside to keep the women's team going and they turned it down. 

Really, who offered that?

[RevidgeBlue]

Just now, bluebruce said:

Really, who offered that?

Allegedly Waggott sourced potential backing for the women's team from a Company which in return would have wanted to acquire a stake in the same but the owners refused.

As it was a good news story about Waggott which emerged more or less immediately after he got potted I'd treat it with a lorryload of salt myself but whether or not that part is true it does seem to be the general consensus he didnt want to take the blame for the women's team being binned off.

[Mattyblue]

Come on Rev, don’t start slipping back into your old ways now.

Occam’s Razor. There is no pro women’s team here because the owners don’t want to fund a pro women’s team.

Edited 10 hours ago by Mattyblue

[RevidgeBlue]

2 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Come on Rev, don’t start slipping back into your old ways now.

Occam’s Razor. There is no pro women’s team here because the owners don’t want to fund a pro women’s team.

Never said anything different.

We dont however know the full story behind this alleged offer of outside investment.  Even if it existed, the terms being offered might might have been completely unrealistic.

Bottom line is I dont think the owners really want to own a men's or a women's team any longer. The only job for Gestede and Pasha et al is to extract any remaining value whilst keeping themselves in lucrative employment for as long as they possibly can.

Id say they're merely finishing off the process initiated and perfected by Waggott over many years personally,  but like a player who's injured for a long time and who suddenly turns into Pele in the minds of the supporters in their absence, Waggott seems to have turned from public enemy number one or maybe two to Sir Stephen of Sandwich Kent on a galloping white steed or something since he was potted.

[Bronzed A Donis]

2 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Not downplaying what has happened to the women but the same thing (in essence) thats happening to the men, albeit the dismantling of the men's side is being done rather more subtly.

Edit: Jackson seems to like doing fluffy PR pieces on all aspects of the Club. Perhaps he'd care to do one on the women?

Agree, 1 by decapitation,  1 by a thousand cuts. Same result.

[arbitro]

1 hour ago, bluebruce said:

Really, who offered that?

It was rumoured to be Dakota Biotech who were the shirt sponsor last season. From the stills I have seen it doesn't appear that they have a shirt sponsor this season.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/july/05/rovers-women-confirm-new-front-of-shirt-sponsor--/

[RevidgeBlue]

2 minutes ago, arbitro said:

It was rumoured to be Dakota Biotech who were the shirt sponsor last season. From the stills I have seen it doesn't appear that they have a shirt sponsor this season.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/july/05/rovers-women-confirm-new-front-of-shirt-sponsor--/

I might be wrong but I thought the article reproduced on here suggested it was a Company  which specialised in investing in women's football in return for taking a stake.

 

[DeeCee]

I seem to remember that @glen9mullan posted this a while back (please correct me if I'm wrong) that SW had sourced outside funding for the ladies team as it would cost £600,000.00 per season to keep us adhering to the division's ruling.

This may or not be before SW was potted, but I believe it was before.

(To clarify, I loathed SW).

[Upside Down]

10 hours ago, Bronzed A Donis said:

Short sighted, deliberate sabotage.

Sums up venkys entire tenure at the club.

[Mike E]

2 hours ago, DeeCee said:

I seem to remember that @glen9mullan posted this a while back (please correct me if I'm wrong) that SW had sourced outside funding for the ladies team as it would cost £600,000.00 per season to keep us adhering to the division's ruling.

This may or not be before SW was potted, but I believe it was before.

(To clarify, I loathed SW).

Around the same time it was disclosed that SW was sorting something out with Adidas re: club shop refurb, shirt sponsor, collab with Gary Aspen etc, I think?

Then the women’s team issue was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

I didn’t like Waggott for many reasons but at the very least he was trying to increase income, whereas Pasha et al seem to just seek cutback after cutback.

[chaddyrovers]

22 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Around the same time it was disclosed that SW was sorting something out with Adidas re: club shop refurb, shirt sponsor, collab with Gary Aspen etc, I think?

What deal with Adidas and Gary Aspden? 

Edited 2 hours ago by chaddyrovers

[Mike E]

4 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

What deal with Adidas and Gary Aspden? 

All I remember is what I’ve described in that post. Can’t remember if it was something on here or if I was told in person by someone, but I was at least made aware.

I believe it ties in to the potential breaches of contract with Macron that have been alleged elsewhere.

[Tom]

To be fair the 8-0 loss to Chorley wasn’t so bad after all 

The official report says 2 of the goals could be argued as fouls 

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/september/08/match-reflection--chorley-women-8-0-rovers-women/

“It should have just been 6-0, you’ll never sing that”

[chaddyrovers]

1 hour ago, Mike E said:

All I remember is what I’ve described in that post. Can’t remember if it was something on here or if I was told in person by someone, but I was at least made aware.

I believe it ties in to the potential breaches of contract with Macron that have been alleged elsewhere.

Thanks for the reply