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Guest wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 9:32 am sounds like everyone is going to EPIC to get away from this nightmare ....

Serious question? Do you think any of the volunteers who run Elgin give a crap who leaves? They spend hours volunteering their time, to make the organization run. They don’t care who comes, who goes or whatever in between. As long as their kid gets max minutes and preferred treatment they don’t have a care in them. Bye bye

Open borders should crush organization like this ..EMC has had one of the most self serving boards the last 10 years

They don’t an the coaches don’t either, this is why so many players are running to London and other places next season. Elgin could have done better but has done nothing to retain talent since borders open

I don’t think many are running to LJk as most LJK are running to EMC and done say they have already been approached to play on the team. What will happen most of the mid players will be looking after first group is signed. They will not wait to get a home in U18AAA. The teams that might get the opportunity to get better players are Sarnia and Brantford.

DM has already promised spots to HPL boys.

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sounds like everyone is going to EPIC to get away from this nightmare ....
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Serious question? Do you think any of the volunteers who run Elgin give a crap who leaves? They spend hours volunteering their time, to make the organization run. They don’t care who comes, who goes or whatever in between. As long as their kid gets max minutes and preferred treatment they don’t have a care in them. Bye bye
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Open borders should crush organization like this ..EMC has had one of the most self serving boards the last 10 years
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They don’t an the coaches don’t either, this is why so many players are running to London and other places next season. Elgin could have done better but has done nothing to retain talent since borders open
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There are alot of good well intentioned people that serve on boards. They have zero self interest and are simply giving back to their community. Yes these type of people do exist. Then there is elgins board. Filled with self serving garbage. The problem is the parents/membership treats the good and bad board members exactly the same way-With hate - contempt and suspicion. Everyone assumes the worst in every decision that is made. Board members are instantly hated and marked for destruction. Heres the rub - the truly evil people can weather it because they are first to give it out. They are only on the board for their own political agenda and know how to manipulate members and coaches so their weak kids get preferential treatment . The good well intentioned board members and coaches will always get blind sided by the evil - and their kids will pay the price. Why would any decent person want any part of it? They wouldn’t!. This is why boards are full of evil self serving people. Open borders will make boards even worse. Thankfully you can shop around orgs now.

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 10:58 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 7:39 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 6:35 am

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:33 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 5:00 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 9:32 am sounds like everyone is going to EPIC to get away from this nightmare ....

Serious question? Do you think any of the volunteers who run Elgin give a crap who leaves? They spend hours volunteering their time, to make the organization run. They don’t care who comes, who goes or whatever in between. As long as their kid gets max minutes and preferred treatment they don’t have a care in them. Bye bye

Open borders should crush organization like this ..EMC has had one of the most self serving boards the last 10 years

They don’t an the coaches don’t either, this is why so many players are running to London and other places next season. Elgin could have done better but has done nothing to retain talent since borders open

I don’t think many are running to LJk as most LJK are running to EMC and done say they have already been approached to play on the team. What will happen most of the mid players will be looking after first group is signed. They will not wait to get a home in U18AAA. The teams that might get the opportunity to get better players are Sarnia and Brantford.

DM has already promised spots to HPL boys.

They must have ugly blonde moms.

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Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 6:35 am

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:33 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 5:00 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 9:32 am sounds like everyone is going to EPIC to get away from this nightmare ....

Serious question? Do you think any of the volunteers who run Elgin give a crap who leaves? They spend hours volunteering their time, to make the organization run. They don’t care who comes, who goes or whatever in between. As long as their kid gets max minutes and preferred treatment they don’t have a care in them. Bye bye

Open borders should crush organization like this ..EMC has had one of the most self serving boards the last 10 years

They don’t an the coaches don’t either, this is why so many players are running to London and other places next season. Elgin could have done better but has done nothing to retain talent since borders open

There are alot of good well intentioned people that serve on boards. They have zero self interest and are simply giving back to their community. Yes these type of people do exist. Then there is elgins board. Filled with self serving garbage. The problem is the parents/membership treats the good and bad board members exactly the same way-With hate - contempt and suspicion. Everyone assumes the worst in every decision that is made. Board members are instantly hated and marked for destruction. Heres the rub - the truly evil people can weather it because they are first to give it out. They are only on the board for their own political agenda and know how to manipulate members and coaches so their weak kids get preferential treatment . The good well intentioned board members and coaches will always get blind sided by the evil - and their kids will pay the price. Why would any decent person want any part of it? They wouldn’t!. This is why boards are full of evil self serving people. Open borders will make boards even worse. Thankfully you can shop around orgs now.

The board has some good people. The “evil” is executed at the coaches level. Its the coaches that ultimately fk with the kids. Alot of the board are scumbags but the worst they can do is manipulate the process to get a shitbag coach in. The true evil starts when the coach is picked. Some of the worst human beings ive ever met have coached in elgin. And we are getting a couple more evil all stars for next year.

Does anyone know how the team picking is going to work? Will the whole team be signed or part?

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 6:30 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 11:07 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 6:35 am

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:33 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 5:00 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 9:32 am sounds like everyone is going to EPIC to get away from this nightmare ....

Serious question? Do you think any of the volunteers who run Elgin give a crap who leaves? They spend hours volunteering their time, to make the organization run. They don’t care who comes, who goes or whatever in between. As long as their kid gets max minutes and preferred treatment they don’t have a care in them. Bye bye

Open borders should crush organization like this ..EMC has had one of the most self serving boards the last 10 years

They don’t an the coaches don’t either, this is why so many players are running to London and other places next season. Elgin could have done better but has done nothing to retain talent since borders open

There are alot of good well intentioned people that serve on boards. They have zero self interest and are simply giving back to their community. Yes these type of people do exist. Then there is elgins board. Filled with self serving garbage. The problem is the parents/membership treats the good and bad board members exactly the same way-With hate - contempt and suspicion. Everyone assumes the worst in every decision that is made. Board members are instantly hated and marked for destruction. Heres the rub - the truly evil people can weather it because they are first to give it out. They are only on the board for their own political agenda and know how to manipulate members and coaches so their weak kids get preferential treatment . The good well intentioned board members and coaches will always get blind sided by the evil - and their kids will pay the price. Why would any decent person want any part of it? They wouldn’t!. This is why boards are full of evil self serving people. Open borders will make boards even worse. Thankfully you can shop around orgs now.

The board has some good people. The “evil” is executed at the coaches level. Its the coaches that ultimately fk with the kids. Alot of the board are scumbags but the worst they can do is manipulate the process to get a shitbag coach in. The true evil starts when the coach is picked. Some of the worst human beings ive ever met have coached in elgin. And we are getting a couple more evil all stars for next year.

Take a good look at the coaching and the abuse of power that takes place at Elgin, and the board picks these people. You are paying to have your player developed, you don’t have to stay if you don’t want to.

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 8:33 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 6:30 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 11:07 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 6:35 am

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:33 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 5:00 pm

Serious question? Do you think any of the volunteers who run Elgin give a crap who leaves? They spend hours volunteering their time, to make the organization run. They don’t care who comes, who goes or whatever in between. As long as their kid gets max minutes and preferred treatment they don’t have a care in them. Bye bye

Open borders should crush organization like this ..EMC has had one of the most self serving boards the last 10 years

They don’t an the coaches don’t either, this is why so many players are running to London and other places next season. Elgin could have done better but has done nothing to retain talent since borders open

There are alot of good well intentioned people that serve on boards. They have zero self interest and are simply giving back to their community. Yes these type of people do exist. Then there is elgins board. Filled with self serving garbage. The problem is the parents/membership treats the good and bad board members exactly the same way-With hate - contempt and suspicion. Everyone assumes the worst in every decision that is made. Board members are instantly hated and marked for destruction. Heres the rub - the truly evil people can weather it because they are first to give it out. They are only on the board for their own political agenda and know how to manipulate members and coaches so their weak kids get preferential treatment . The good well intentioned board members and coaches will always get blind sided by the evil - and their kids will pay the price. Why would any decent person want any part of it? They wouldn’t!. This is why boards are full of evil self serving people. Open borders will make boards even worse. Thankfully you can shop around orgs now.

The board has some good people. The “evil” is executed at the coaches level. Its the coaches that ultimately fk with the kids. Alot of the board are scumbags but the worst they can do is manipulate the process to get a shitbag coach in. The true evil starts when the coach is picked. Some of the worst human beings ive ever met have coached in elgin. And we are getting a couple more evil all stars for next year.

Take a good look at the coaching and the abuse of power that takes place at Elgin, and the board picks these people. You are paying to have your player developed, you don’t have to stay if you don’t want to.

Any abuse of power is perpetrated entirely by coaches. The board only makes crooked decisions because they are getting manipulated by the coaches- the coaches prey on the weak board members and promise them the moon- so they are more than willing to get the crooked coaches in. It always comes back to coaches - even if the board is full of brain dead conmen.

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Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 8:33 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 6:30 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 11:07 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 6:35 am

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:33 pm


Open borders should crush organization like this ..EMC has had one of the most self serving boards the last 10 years

They don’t an the coaches don’t either, this is why so many players are running to London and other places next season. Elgin could have done better but has done nothing to retain talent since borders open

There are alot of good well intentioned people that serve on boards. They have zero self interest and are simply giving back to their community. Yes these type of people do exist. Then there is elgins board. Filled with self serving garbage. The problem is the parents/membership treats the good and bad board members exactly the same way-With hate - contempt and suspicion. Everyone assumes the worst in every decision that is made. Board members are instantly hated and marked for destruction. Heres the rub - the truly evil people can weather it because they are first to give it out. They are only on the board for their own political agenda and know how to manipulate members and coaches so their weak kids get preferential treatment . The good well intentioned board members and coaches will always get blind sided by the evil - and their kids will pay the price. Why would any decent person want any part of it? They wouldn’t!. This is why boards are full of evil self serving people. Open borders will make boards even worse. Thankfully you can shop around orgs now.

The board has some good people. The “evil” is executed at the coaches level. Its the coaches that ultimately fk with the kids. Alot of the board are scumbags but the worst they can do is manipulate the process to get a shitbag coach in. The true evil starts when the coach is picked. Some of the worst human beings ive ever met have coached in elgin. And we are getting a couple more evil all stars for next year.

Take a good look at the coaching and the abuse of power that takes place at Elgin, and the board picks these people. You are paying to have your player developed, you don’t have to stay if you don’t want to.

Any abuse of power is perpetrated entirely by coaches. The board only makes crooked decisions because they are getting manipulated by the coaches- the coaches prey on the weak board members and promise them the moon- so they are more than willing to get the crooked coaches in. It always comes back to coaches - even if the board is full of brain dead conmen.

Its the coach mentors particularly who are getting manipulated by coaches and abusing power. Dave warren was the absolute worst - he manipulated the entire association for his loser son. Then brain dead williams comes in to act as dbs puppet. The biggest mistake elgin made this year was picking dm for u18. This was because williams was told to do it by bd.

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 10:58 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 7:39 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 6:35 am

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:33 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 5:00 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 9:32 am sounds like everyone is going to EPIC to get away from this nightmare ....

Serious question? Do you think any of the volunteers who run Elgin give a crap who leaves? They spend hours volunteering their time, to make the organization run. They don’t care who comes, who goes or whatever in between. As long as their kid gets max minutes and preferred treatment they don’t have a care in them. Bye bye

Open borders should crush organization like this ..EMC has had one of the most self serving boards the last 10 years

They don’t an the coaches don’t either, this is why so many players are running to London and other places next season. Elgin could have done better but has done nothing to retain talent since borders open

I don’t think many are running to LJk as most LJK are running to EMC and done say they have already been approached to play on the team. What will happen most of the mid players will be looking after first group is signed. They will not wait to get a home in U18AAA. The teams that might get the opportunity to get better players are Sarnia and Brantford.

DM has already promised spots to HPL boys.

cmon OHF..... get in there with ya new tampering policies!!! Oh wait.. what? prove it? uhh. you dont know how to police this other than big threats?!? damn. ok. Well if it looms like a . smells like a . Guess what. It's a fkn . Good job EMC. Ya just cant write this stuff. Just when ya think the bull cant get any worse ya pull this..... See ya at the new epic centre!

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Guest wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 8:31 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 8:33 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 6:30 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 11:07 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 6:35 am

They don’t an the coaches don’t either, this is why so many players are running to London and other places next season. Elgin could have done better but has done nothing to retain talent since borders open

There are alot of good well intentioned people that serve on boards. They have zero self interest and are simply giving back to their community. Yes these type of people do exist. Then there is elgins board. Filled with self serving garbage. The problem is the parents/membership treats the good and bad board members exactly the same way-With hate - contempt and suspicion. Everyone assumes the worst in every decision that is made. Board members are instantly hated and marked for destruction. Heres the rub - the truly evil people can weather it because they are first to give it out. They are only on the board for their own political agenda and know how to manipulate members and coaches so their weak kids get preferential treatment . The good well intentioned board members and coaches will always get blind sided by the evil - and their kids will pay the price. Why would any decent person want any part of it? They wouldn’t!. This is why boards are full of evil self serving people. Open borders will make boards even worse. Thankfully you can shop around orgs now.

The board has some good people. The “evil” is executed at the coaches level. Its the coaches that ultimately fk with the kids. Alot of the board are scumbags but the worst they can do is manipulate the process to get a shitbag coach in. The true evil starts when the coach is picked. Some of the worst human beings ive ever met have coached in elgin. And we are getting a couple more evil all stars for next year.

Take a good look at the coaching and the abuse of power that takes place at Elgin, and the board picks these people. You are paying to have your player developed, you don’t have to stay if you don’t want to.

Any abuse of power is perpetrated entirely by coaches. The board only makes crooked decisions because they are getting manipulated by the coaches- the coaches prey on the weak board members and promise them the moon- so they are more than willing to get the crooked coaches in. It always comes back to coaches - even if the board is full of brain dead conmen.

Its the coach mentors particularly who are getting manipulated by coaches and abusing power. Dave warren was the absolute worst - he manipulated the entire association for his loser son. Then brain dead williams comes in to act as dbs puppet. The biggest mistake elgin made this year was picking dm for u18. This was because williams was told to do it by bd.

No one wants to jump organizations but if you’re this upset it may be the best option for you. Elgin will lose players because they have a greasy reputation, and are ok with bench drama, they don’t seem to understand what good coaching is, it’s more than winning, it’s a culture. Sarnia and London are so close it just makes sense to go if you’re not happy.