Nigel,
I agree that there needs to be some sort of accountability, however, I don't agree that this is the venue to do it. It has bothered me because often times, it is adults who are belittling kids on the internet. In my opinion, that's just plain wrong. Like when a kid throws a fit on the mat and singling him out. To me that is terrible.
What it seems to me is that sometimes this forum has been abused as a way to vent on how a person feels "cheated".
I also don't like the fact that some have used the forum as a way to attack the credibility of an adult. There are a few coaches, parents, and officials out there that I have no respect for whatsoever. However, that is a private matter between me and the person I lack respect for. Nine times out of ten, the person I don't respect doesn't care, so the point is useless. Posting on the internet doesn't make me more right and him more wrong, it makes me a jerk for posting my personal bias on the net.
As for accountability and credibility, in the perfect world, you would hope that we would be. The reality is that we're not. You would hope that a club would remove a coach that was behaving improperly, but it doesn't happen.
