27.6.17

Glengarry OPDP impact statement (team official)

Written June 20

This is my first year in the ERSL and I'm very disappointed we aren't playing teams of equal calibre. At this point we have played 5 of the 6 teams in our league and in all cases we have dominated play. All games have been a 4 goal differential or more.

After last night's game a number of my parents were questioning whether it would be like this all summer.

My girls will be fine but honestly I feel bad for the teams we are playing. It is no fun for a kid to drive over an hour to play in a game where the other team is much stronger. What their own clubs have done to them is surprising.

This spring I applied to play in the highest division available and games were to be played on Sunday nights. I even informed my parents that we would play on Sundays. Then I was informed this league was not going to be formed. However, I then received an email about a meeting for clubs who were playing in the Sunday night league. That meeting was cancelled a few days later.

The formation of the Sunday night league that did not allow everyone to participate is disappointing to say the least. Can this really happen in 2017 in Canada? The process is exclusionary and discriminates against small rural clubs like ours.

Glen Campbell

Glengarry Hearts U12 Girls

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous28/6/17

    No one who has been around the OSU organization should be surprised that they would do this to their own teams. Most of us have witnessed the 2nd class treatment the OSU White teams receive - having their schedules changed on short notice to accommodate the OSU Black teams, belittling children on OSU White by telling them why they aren't on the OSU Black teams,...it goes on and on. BUT, the OSU Blue and Power teams are nothing more than a means to an end for the club - generate additional cash for JL, BM and CS, without a second thought about how those children are doing or how they feel.

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  2. Anonymous29/6/17

    There needs to be an assessment process for teams signing up onto Tier 1. This problem #1.

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