I couldn't for the life of me work out how to quote multiple posts into one reply (and I build websites for a living!) so bear with me.
Football forever wrote:
> West are blackmailing OLE players, saying if you don't play for West you can't be part of OLE.
The partnership between Wests and Ole is no secret. It's been like this for a good few years now and neither entity is shy of telling everyone how it is. If you don't know how it works before approaching either than you clearly aren't doing your homework on the partnership and how it works.
whatever wrote:
> Gee youth players have to pay out serious coin to go to Ole and then Ole stand over them to play for Wests. If the youths refuse, kick them out and Ole loose income.
In the four years our son has been at Ole the annual costs, when broken down to a session basis, have been significantly less than our other kids swimming lessons, music lessons, singing lessons and the math's tutor. We paid more for our eldest to play college netball last year and be coached by a parent clearly out of her depth.
A couple of years ago my son was 'invited' on a trip to Aussie to play in a tournament. The costs involved in those seven days alone were more than three years at Ole.
For every person wanting to leave there are dozens wanting to sign up.
CBFryingpan wrote:
> Its entirely about this. They have never had 'rules' for the handful of girls that they coach... until now it seems.
I don't know what's going on with the womens team but it seems perfectly reasonable to have no rules when only a handful are involved but once you start running a proper full team you bring in some structure around it. I just don't see how that is even worthy of discussion.
whatever wrote:
> There is an act of Parliament called The Bill Of Rights where people have the option of choice
Oh dear god. If you don't like their expectations, don't sign up. Everyone has a choice in that.
Some very interesting choice of words in this thread 'standing over', 'forcing', 'blackmail', I think some people need to get out more.