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browna · 07-31-2024, 11:19 PM

The report today in the dismissing of the Canadian appeal of the 3 points, lead to some emails between Priestman and her staff, which the CSA provided Fifa.

The CSA also in the same documents and explanation threw Herdman very specifically under the bus unequivocally.

https://www.tsn.ca/westhead-tribunal...CS%2FMIX%2FRFY

… We suspect that the practice of using a drone stems back to John Herdman when he was the head coach of the women’s national team,” Canada Soccer wrote to FIFA on July 27, according to the FIFA document. “In other words, this was a practice started by one person – John Herdman – and continued by Bev Priestman. It was not facilitated by the federation. New Canada Soccer administration is supporting a full independent investigation of this issue and has already taken steps to ensure that this scouting tactic does not happen again.”

Unreal. First of all they "suspect"? It was or it wasn't, but why not speculate and defer and blame and easy scape goat, which the CSA has no trouble in finding... it's the same blame game they've gotten good at for so many decades in blaming each other in the organization internally and in turn wasting time and getting nothing done for the game.

Fine, maybe it was him. But to have the utter nerve to follow that by saying "It was not facilitated by the federation" is absolute trash. So for 13 years, including all the emails that the CSA submitted between Preistman and others at the CSA, and the years and years, the CSA never provided any "facilitation" for the spying program ? No CSA employees knew about it, or their role was to do this? The CSA is saying they had zero idea any of this was happening right under their nose, and it was a mastermind covert operation by a rouge head coach who kept it all a secret.

CSA has and never will change. Maybe a coach brought it in, but the CSA knew about it, had employees as part of the program of spying on teams, did nothing about it for a decade, but now claim complete innocence once caught and naivety and faux shock about it and suspect they should blame a single person for it.

07-31-2024, 11:19 PM	#6143
browna Franchise Player Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Calgary Exp:	The report today in the dismissing of the Canadian appeal of the 3 points, lead to some emails between Priestman and her staff, which the CSA provided Fifa. The CSA also in the same documents and explanation threw Herdman very specifically under the bus unequivocally. https://www.tsn.ca/westhead-tribunal...CS%2FMIX%2FRFY … We suspect that the practice of using a drone stems back to John Herdman when he was the head coach of the women’s national team,” Canada Soccer wrote to FIFA on July 27, according to the FIFA document. “In other words, this was a practice started by one person – John Herdman – and continued by Bev Priestman. It was not facilitated by the federation. New Canada Soccer administration is supporting a full independent investigation of this issue and has already taken steps to ensure that this scouting tactic does not happen again.” Unreal. First of all they "suspect"? It was or it wasn't, but why not speculate and defer and blame and easy scape goat, which the CSA has no trouble in finding... it's the same blame game they've gotten good at for so many decades in blaming each other in the organization internally and in turn wasting time and getting nothing done for the game. Fine, maybe it was him. But to have the utter nerve to follow that by saying "It was not facilitated by the federation" is absolute trash. So for 13 years, including all the emails that the CSA submitted between Preistman and others at the CSA, and the years and years, the CSA never provided any "facilitation" for the spying program ? No CSA employees knew about it, or their role was to do this? The CSA is saying they had zero idea any of this was happening right under their nose, and it was a mastermind covert operation by a rouge head coach who kept it all a secret. CSA has and never will change. Maybe a coach brought it in, but the CSA knew about it, had employees as part of the program of spying on teams, did nothing about it for a decade, but now claim complete innocence once caught and naivety and faux shock about it and suspect they should blame a single person for it. Last edited by browna; 07-31-2024 at 11:22 PM.