Player recruiting will NOT be tolerated in the Eastern Region.

Coaches and players or parents may not directly interact to recruit players for teams in the Eastern Region. Discussions between communities on transfers of players may only be done on a President to President level. If a player or the player's parent wishes to have the player tryout for another association they MUST approach their own Association President for permission to arrange the tryout. Completion of the ORA Tryout/Release Form M-F-07 will be accepted as having met that condition. If a coach wishes to make contact with a player to play in the coach's community, the coach must contact his/her own Association President to approach the player's Association President with the request. If the player's Association President does not contact the player or player's parents in a timely fashion (48 hours) the Regional Chair may be requested to intervene.

The Tryout/Release form M-F-07, ORA Appendix, must be signed for each association that the player will be attending tryouts with. Players/parents that do not comply with these two requirements may be denied release by the region.

ORA has a policiy that a player may only be transfered to the Closest Association that has the level of play the player aspires to. The ERRA provides a policy regarding what constitutes a Closest (or Neighbouring) Community for the purpose of Player Transfers.

Eastern Region Policy - Closest (Neighbouring) Association 
(ERRA Regional Two Year Pilot Policy )

From time to time in the past, players, parents and/or coaches have approached each other regarding tryouts or playing for a given Association. This is NOT allowed. There must be no direct contact between coaches, players or parents until proper documentation has been provided.

Action to be taken should a coach approach or be approached by a player or parent to play for that coach's team.

If the coach is approached by a player or parent they must immediately tell them that they may not discuss transfers or tryouts and direct them to their Association President to arrange the proper paperwork. The coach should immediately contact his/her own Association President to report the contact and details of the conversation.

If a player or parent is approached directly by a coach, they should tell the coach they may not discuss transfers or tryouts and ask the coach to have his Association President contact their Association President. the Player or Parent should immediately contact their own Association President to report the contact and details of the conversation.

A disciplinary hearing will result if the above policy is not followed.