Steve Waggott

[LeftWinger]

I'm going to write him a limerick.

There was an old man called Steve Waggott......

[Parsonblue]

11 hours ago, Waggy76 said:

Does he ever attend games ???

I don't think , I would recognise him if I saw him....

He attends every game - home and away - as one would expect him to do.  Usually at Leyland for all Under-23 games.

[JBiz]

13 hours ago, damo100 said:

I'd like to discuss fans opinion of Steve Waggot and how he runs the club.

1) Concourse/catering etc

2) ST prices

3) Matchday prices

4) Away fans at Ewood 

5) Brockhall Academy 

More I'm sure.

What are your thoughts?

1) Concourse/catering etc

£8 for a pie and pint in Blackburn is scandalous if you ask me. £7:50 was tbf. I would pay that sat in a decent bar / restaurant, but not for poorly managed beer / an average sodexo pie. Seems more frustrating when there’s plenty of decent local brewers and bakeries.

Also - 1 game back, one customer lossed (as the queue was longer than half time!)

By making some effort here, and not simply paying some scouse company to look after it, we’d be making more money. Lack of effort.

2) ST prices

Gradually got worse under SW but at least those who’d signed up in 20/21 received a discount. Needs a complete rethink, should be giving 5000 seats away to schools, community groups… comped tickets for low income families etc.

Distinct lack of effort

3) Matchday prices

£32 for an afternoon that’s now probably costing you minimum £50 and if you’ve got kids + chips and drinks, nearly a £100. Just putting people off and when you lose the habit, it’s hard to get it back.

4) Away fans at Ewood 

No real issue with their seating or how many we allow, but I feel this is potentially where the lazy accountancy comes in - SW can probably justify charging a team that’ll bring 2000+ away fans £30 because the ticket turnover would be higher than the extra 1000 home fans you’d get at £20 instead.

To me it seems like actual creative pricing and some improved match day fare would improve turnover quicker than simply boosting the price of tickets, but then when you look at Bolton selling 10k season tickets at a minimum of £200, SW probably thinks he’s justified selling 6500 of ours at a minimum of £400 each.

5) Brockhall Academy 

More I read / hear, the more it sounds like a good thing the people of whalley/langho put a stop to it.

 

Overall - Mr Waggott you’ve got a reputation as a lazy CEO, who’s not that bothered as you’re seemingly not culpable or responsible to the owners.

Hence why their perilous vacuum is to blame ultimately. Once again, all cheques and no craft.

Its entirely fixable however - I’m not convinced Waggott would ever listen though.

[tomphil]

Best post on the subject @JBizbravo.

[matt83]

10 hours ago, LeftWinger said:

I'm going to write him a limerick.

There was an old man called Steve Waggott......

There once was a man named Swag.

Who paid for Mowbray’s big flag.

He’s shit at his job.

We think he’s a knob.

300k! Must be a gag. 
 

 

[DeeCee]

Boom Boom! 👍

[1864roverite]

Waggot can not allow this to continue, Mowbray is out of his depth and this result tonight is an absolute disgrace and embarrassment to BRFC and it fans

[MarkBRFC]

Who on earth at the club is going to remove Waggot from his duties?

He will be here until he decides he doesn't want to be anymore, just like Mowbray.

[Makrover]

My problem really isn’t with Mowbray I think he’s done a good job with the development of our younger players as well as bringing stability to the club when it was manic and got the owners to trust him and see what the team could become and although controversial I believe that with a different CEO he potentially could have the club in a better place than it is at the moment. 
 

sadly as a younger fan I was either too young or wasn’t alive to see the club in a better place and can only remember the last decade that has been like a rollercoaster. However believe that the owners of the club do care about the club and the support that they have shown not only in the past year throughout the pandemic as well as backing us with the funds for two big money signings and with a better CEO again could have put the Club in a better position. 
 

when we compere ourselves with other team ranking 7 in attendance out of 10 with the other teams below having smaller stadiums you have to think without a change somewhere at the top of the club tree that it is only going to get worse year by year with waggott trying to compensate for dwindling numbers with higher prices it has really showed that he doesn’t know what he is Doing and the fans are starting to lose hope with the lack of plan and communication from the club
 

if we look at Brentford for example who have looked at players across the world and have staff such as directors of football ( Which could potentially ease the work load on waggott )and could help us make signing to make us competitive without spending as much as we would with players from the prem who cost considerably more than players from Europe but without another key member of staff in a European scout and the lack of urgency to replace him I doubt that we will be making many signings from Europe which could be cost effective such as kaminski who came for a low Price an won player of the year. 
 

to put it bluntly lack of new ideas in the backroom staff ,wild and clueless negotiations and clever spending, for example spending 5 million on a Southampton youth player when we could bring in someone at half the price from Europe and still have the funds left over to buy other players who we could get on the cheap like Brentford I really don’t see the situation getting better for the club and the fans which hurts for someone who has never really had  the opportunity as a sort of grown up to see Ewood packed and rocking and without a change soon it looks like I might not be able to see it in the near future 

 

[JohnGo]

15 minutes ago, Makrover said:

My problem really isn’t with Mowbray I think he’s done a good job with the development of our younger players as well as bringing stability to the club when it was manic and got the owners to trust him and see what the team could become and although controversial I believe that with a different CEO he potentially could have the club in a better place than it is at the moment. 
 

sadly as a younger fan I was either too young or wasn’t alive to see the club in a better place and can only remember the last decade that has been like a rollercoaster. However believe that the owners of the club do care about the club and the support that they have shown not only in the past year throughout the pandemic as well as backing us with the funds for two big money signings and with a better CEO again could have put the Club in a better position. 
 

when we compere ourselves with other team ranking 7 in attendance out of 10 with the other teams below having smaller stadiums you have to think without a change somewhere at the top of the club tree that it is only going to get worse year by year with waggott trying to compensate for dwindling numbers with higher prices it has really showed that he doesn’t know what he is Doing and the fans are starting to lose hope with the lack of plan and communication from the club
 

if we look at Brentford for example who have looked at players across the world and have staff such as directors of football ( Which could potentially ease the work load on waggott )and could help us make signing to make us competitive without spending as much as we would with players from the prem who cost considerably more than players from Europe but without another key member of staff in a European scout and the lack of urgency to replace him I doubt that we will be making many signings from Europe which could be cost effective such as kaminski who came for a low Price an won player of the year. 
 

to put it bluntly lack of new ideas in the backroom staff ,wild and clueless negotiations and clever spending, for example spending 5 million on a Southampton youth player when we could bring in someone at half the price from Europe and still have the funds left over to buy other players who we could get on the cheap like Brentford I really don’t see the situation getting better for the club and the fans which hurts for someone who has never really had  the opportunity as a sort of grown up to see Ewood packed and rocking and without a change soon it looks like I might not be able to see it in the near future 

 

For a young man you have an old head on your shoulders.

[RevidgeBlue]

19 minutes ago, Makrover said:

My problem really isn’t with Mowbray I think he’s done a good job with the development of our younger players as well as bringing stability to the club when it was manic and got the owners to trust him and see what the team could become and although controversial I believe that with a different CEO he potentially could have the club in a better place than it is at the moment. 
 

sadly as a younger fan I was either too young or wasn’t alive to see the club in a better place and can only remember the last decade that has been like a rollercoaster. However believe that the owners of the club do care about the club and the support that they have shown not only in the past year throughout the pandemic as well as backing us with the funds for two big money signings and with a better CEO again could have put the Club in a better position. 
 

when we compere ourselves with other team ranking 7 in attendance out of 10 with the other teams below having smaller stadiums you have to think without a change somewhere at the top of the club tree that it is only going to get worse year by year with waggott trying to compensate for dwindling numbers with higher prices it has really showed that he doesn’t know what he is Doing and the fans are starting to lose hope with the lack of plan and communication from the club
 

if we look at Brentford for example who have looked at players across the world and have staff such as directors of football ( Which could potentially ease the work load on waggott )and could help us make signing to make us competitive without spending as much as we would with players from the prem who cost considerably more than players from Europe but without another key member of staff in a European scout and the lack of urgency to replace him I doubt that we will be making many signings from Europe which could be cost effective such as kaminski who came for a low Price an won player of the year. 
 

to put it bluntly lack of new ideas in the backroom staff ,wild and clueless negotiations and clever spending, for example spending 5 million on a Southampton youth player when we could bring in someone at half the price from Europe and still have the funds left over to buy other players who we could get on the cheap like Brentford I really don’t see the situation getting better for the club and the fans which hurts for someone who has never really had  the opportunity as a sort of grown up to see Ewood packed and rocking and without a change soon it looks like I might not be able to see it in the near future 

 

Unfortunately the boat has temporarily sailed for a Club like ours in terms of signings from Europe. 

We dithered and dallied in terms of setting up some form of European Recruitment for at least 18 months to 2 years then by the time we finally got something set up Brexit had happened.

Fairly typical of the shambolic  inertia within  the Club.

[Makrover]

2 minutes ago, JohnGo said:

For a young man you have an old head on your shoulders.

Hoping that this is a compliment 😂😂. But I feel that with all the talk of us trying to oaky modern football it’s hard for us to do that with the rest of the club stuck in the past

[simongarnerisgod]

there was a silly man called steve

who made entrance prices obscene

he could`nt glean,why the fans were not keen

so he decided to leave the scene (hopefully)

 

[1864roverite]

Maggot is still missing in action. Silence from this utter slug of a CEO and total ignorance to the fans of this great club

[islander200]

Sharpe saying on his Twitter feed that he has been trying to speak to Waggott for ages with no joy.

Every time I read the minutes from fans forum his answer to questions 9 times out of 10 is "I'll look into it"

Absolute joker.

[tomphil]

Yet i get told by a 'sooperfan' on twitter that i should email Steve or attend the forums to air my views. Then he'll get back to me or answer in person. My reply was it's a bit pointless and i don't really think i'd fit in they wouldn't like my line of questions, to which i got no straight answer only some abuse from a big man hiding behind his keyboard and alias name account.

Very odd bunch some of our lot, nodding dogs you might say.  

There's a reason neither he nor that venky stooge in the shadows will front up and there's a reason they were hiding the STC stuff.  Because they can't lie straight in bed let alone in front of people who don't swallow the company spiel. Although quite why he'd swerve the LT and their soft ball questioning iv'e no idea.

 

Edited August 20, 2021 by tomphil

[Mattyblue]

Hardly said a word in public in his whole time here, the compete radio silence throughout the lockdowns was particularly striking… until the Brockhall disgrace emerged, and he was then straight on the club’s media spouting some mealy mouthed platitudes.

Sums up his priorities.

[BRFC4EVA]

No more needs to be said except scumbag of the highest order

Edited August 21, 2021 by BRFC4EVA

[Gone to seed]

there was a old scally, Steve Waggot

Whose only approach was to blag it

He priced out each fan, put the club in the can

Bleeding Rovers to death, the maggot..

[47er]

16 hours ago, islander200 said:

Every time I read the minutes from fans forum his answer to questions 9 times out of 10 is "I'll look into it"

 

The Mirror Man!!

[StubbsUK]

He's done a very poor job as CEO since he took the job. His approach to making money seems to be either sell it off or increase the price. It's like he's never heard of the price elasticity of demand!

There's been no effort made to capitalise on the return of fans to football, no special offers, other than the feeble "Back to Live" ... campaign? Can you call a few social media posts a campaign?

There should have been cut price tickets to the first 10 games, which would have seen an increase in numbers, especially given the fact we haven't had an awful start to the season.

I would have made the 1st home game a "pay what you like" game, ensuring a good crowd and boosting the revenue from concessions. (Stats show that most people still pay the full price, and the increase in sales more than makes up for those that don't.) Even just the novelty of it would have brought people in.

There's been no attempt to cash in on Breretonmania except a couple of piss poor t shirts in the club shop. With travel restrictions like they are it's hard to arrange a friendly but something could have been done, we didn't even have Chilean national shirts in the club shop!

I would have liked to have seen a novel approach to season tickets too, rebranding them more like the "all you can eat" offers from cinemas where you get to as many films as you like. Make the season tickets a flat price (less than what they are now) and if you want to go in the posh seats you pay an upgrade per game.

The new ticketing system is a disaster, I've not been able to buy a single ticket through it yet. First it said tickets were all sold out, then it kept them on sale to season ticket holders longer than it should and now it won't accept my credit card, even when I ring up and use the same one, it accepts that.

[StubbsUK]

On 20/08/2021 at 21:24, tomphil said:

Yet i get told by a 'sooperfan' on twitter that i should email Steve or attend the forums to air my views

Can you DM me his email address I'll send him my ideas above.

[arbitro]

16 minutes ago, StubbsUK said:

He's done a very poor job as CEO since he took the job. His approach to making money seems to be either sell it off or increase the price. It's like he's never heard of the price elasticity of demand!

There's been no effort made to capitalise on the return of fans to football, no special offers, other than the feeble "Back to Live" ... campaign? Can you call a few social media posts a campaign?

There should have been cut price tickets to the first 10 games, which would have seen an increase in numbers, especially given the fact we haven't had an awful start to the season.

I would have made the 1st home game a "pay what you like" game, ensuring a good crowd and boosting the revenue from concessions. (Stats show that most people still pay the full price, and the increase in sales more than makes up for those that don't.) Even just the novelty of it would have brought people in.

There's been no attempt to cash in on Breretonmania except a couple of piss poor t shirts in the club shop. With travel restrictions like they are it's hard to arrange a friendly but something could have been done, we didn't even have Chilean national shirts in the club shop!

I would have liked to have seen a novel approach to season tickets too, rebranding them more like the "all you can eat" offers from cinemas where you get to as many films as you like. Make the season tickets a flat price (less than what they are now) and if you want to go in the posh seats you pay an upgrade per game.

The new ticketing system is a disaster, I've not been able to buy a single ticket through it yet. First it said tickets were all sold out, then it kept them on sale to season ticket holders longer than it should and now it won't accept my credit card, even when I ring up and use the same one, it accepts that.

I had an idea for a twenty (or something) game season ticket for shift workers and schoolchildren who can't always get to night matches. You buy the seat and use it for any twenty games and give the club seven days notice if you can't go and they can then sell the seat. Anything over the twenty games have to be paid for but perhaps some concession on the price.

[rigger]

19 minutes ago, arbitro said:

I had an idea for a twenty (or something) game season ticket for shift workers and schoolchildren who can't always get to night matches. You buy the seat and use it for any twenty games and give the club seven days notice if you can't go and they can then sell the seat. Anything over the twenty games have to be paid for but perhaps some concession on the price.

Everything is price dependant. Waggot would probably charge £20 per game, which would work out as the same price as a full season ticket.

Edited August 23, 2021 by rigger

[tomphil]

4 hours ago, StubbsUK said:

Can you DM me his email address I'll send him my ideas above.

I don't know it mate but i'm sure someone will oblige.