I thought the days of womens teams at clubs being marginalised were long gone. Undoubtedly two sides to the story but the lack of any response to date by Western Springs has left them in a bad light.
Apart from inequitable access to facilities (particularly sad in view of the FIFA cash WSAFC have received) the most interesting comment to me was about player "payments" - $50 per week for the women and up to $400 per week for the men.Firstly , they are not supposed to be payments but reimbursement for expenses . I can't see that men would incur more costs than woman ? Secondly I am not sure about the upper limit on these reimbursements - wasn't it $150 ?
Anyway the longer WSAFC takes to respond the worse they will look
Apart from inequitable access to facilities (particularly sad in view of the FIFA cash WSAFC have received) the most interesting comment to me was about player "payments" - $50 per week for the women and up to $400 per week for the men.Firstly , they are not supposed to be payments but reimbursement for expenses . I can't see that men would incur more costs than woman ? Secondly I am not sure about the upper limit on these reimbursements - wasn't it $150 ?
Anyway the longer WSAFC takes to respond the worse they will look
WSAFC have responded in an email around the club. Unfortunately it's not a very good email and they dig the hole deeper by disputing some of the claims in the Herald article.
My sources in the club say that the Herald article is actually not accurate in places in that it takes as fact certain things the Women's Prems are saying in the heat of the moment that are exaggerations. But the club are to blame to letting things slide to this point, and their current statement shows they don't understand that their garbage communication is the real problem here.