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Guest wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2024 3:47 pm Is there something wrong with Georgian Shores? Why would they jump so far to Collingwood?

Guest wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2024 1:39 pm People protect their small town organizations.

In Kawartha Lakes we have 6 centres that operate as BB to C rep centres with double cohort years and they dont seem to want to merge and create one centre for rep programming with AA and A hockey. Same number of kids would be playing rep hockey and they would be playing with equal talent at a higher level. Makes no sense not to.

If 15 players on a team playing rep hockey the numbers are like this

U11, U13, U15 & U18 Rep teams
Woodville - 0 Players (no rep teams)
Sturgeon - 60 Players
Kawartha - 60 players
Lindsay - 60 Players
Mariposa - 60 Players
Manvers - 0 Players (no rep teams)

If Merged (U10 AA & A, U11 AA & A, U12 AA & A, U13 AA & A, U14 AA & A, U15 AA & A, U16 AA & A, U18 AA & A)
U10 - 30 Players
U11 - 30 players
U12 - 30 players
U13 - 30 players
U14 - 30 Players
U15 - 30 players
U16 - 30 players
U18 - 30 players

Both scenarios have 240 players playing rep but pooling the best with teh best at each age. Think of how much better development for the kids would be and then COW woudl have two feeder AA programs and help strengthen their program at AAA as well.

Just a no brainer as each of the centres would keep their Local League programming and their U9 and below development.

Guest wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2024 2:06 pm I think some of these decisions or lack there of, come from old school board members not wanting to lose that team name at the rep level through amalgamation. There are some smaller associations that have been around for 50+ years with the same team name. Not justifying whatsoever but i think that plays a part