Really?




I beg to differ.

The wider benefits of sport and physical activity impact greatly on health (future burden on the NHS), childhood obesity, crime agendas, as well as sporting excellence. As someone who has been involved in sport development for the last 10 years i can tell you this will at some point have an impact on you.

Future questions about childhood obesity, crime figures and lack of achievement on the sports field will be attributed to these cuts.

That's twice you've told me that and still not answered why.

I'm very sorry you're losing your job. Genuinely. It's not nice for anybody to have to go through, but at the risk of getting into a political debate, we cannot possibly stop the over spending without making cuts somewhere along the line.

Everybody in every different governmental or sub-governmental department will have a reason why theirs shouldn't be the bit to get cut. Just like every charity would be able to argue why your £2 per month should go to them over the others. Unfortunately, whilst your personal plight is impacting you daily, it really isn't having as much of an impact on everybody else as you'd think. I genuinely am sorry that you're losing your job. Hand on heart. But we can't all help everyone all of the time.

All the best with your petition.

Whats that got to do with anything? Are we expecting a School kid trained by his pe teacher to compete in the Olympic games?

and which goverment sold off playing fields and made sport non competitive?

Pretty ignorant comment really.

The Olympic Legacy through the partnerships is to inspire children in sport and to be active for 2012 and beyond. The value of sport has a huge impact, see recent news articles (esp Observer last Sunday) where anger and support from health ministers and even members of the coalition reflect this.

This isnt just about a job.

and which goverment sold off playing fields and made sport non competitive?

Please reseach properly this information is misguided to say the least, over the last year an extra £1 million children took part in competitive school sport.

As an example a Badminton competition was set up nationally 5 years ago with just 300 competitors, through the School Sport Partnerships this figure is now 23 000 +, and this is just 1 sport. I am 1 of 225 competition managers accross the country.

Yes it is poor and not very good and will have a impact on several areas in future eg health nhs etc....

However the fact is massive cuts are being made and at this time funding for sports fits pretty low. Police numbers are being cut, nhs jobs being lost fire crew numbers being reduced all have a big impact on the hear and now and ssp must come below these in these times.

I may be wrong but I don't remember ssp etc when I was young but we were active, as is my child

Seth...

Not that I'm an expert in this field (pardon the pun) but your opening line, all on a little line of its own to make a great big statement was...



But you've then spent the next 3 posts pretending to be a policitian and not giving a straight answer to the question...

HOW??? There's 3 of us that have so far (at time of writing) contributed to your thread, and it seems very much (judging by Neil & Tad's reaction) that they couldn't give a sh[ii[/it either. (Sorry if that's not the case lads!). So basically, that's 3 people so far that don't think it will affect them. Currently 100% of the people who have felt the need to contribute, are unaffected by your personal plight, and yet you proudly boast...



Again... HOW?!

Because the school bell hasn't rung yet

What about me?!!!!

RR your post should read 4 people

Yes you bobbed up on the "New Posts" bit as I clicked Submit but if I'm honest I couldn't be ar[is[/ied changing it.

Sorry pal!

Perhaps, with the significant numbers of Community Coaches the RFL have out there offering coaching in schools, this will work in RL's favour.

I don't mean to sound harsh because redundancy is not nice and wouldn't wish it on anyone but 225 managers seems to be a lot of money for something that we never had as children but we were all active( in the majority)

Dammit!! Looks like it happened anyway!

My fault guys! Sorry!

I am an ignorant person.

I still do not understand the relevance of the particular comment. It will not have any bearing on the GB 2012 Olympic games medal count.

Perhaps Seth didn't mean the medal count, just the the Olympics in general.

Like if all these staff are made redundant the Olympics will have more Hot Dog Vendors and Glow-Stick salesmen.

Pretty ignorant to be so blase about cuts in funding in this area.

Even more ignorant to revel in such ignorance.

blasé. It's only a little more work to get it right.

I heard some news this morning. Discussions are to be held about training ex soldiers to be school teachers to give them little brats some discipline. That is worth a thread.

If you're going to be a pedant begin your post with a capital "B".

Fail.

I'd really like discussions about teaching to be on its own thread. That way I could rule out even having to read it at all. The Mrs. is a teacher, thus I have no desire whatsoever to discuss modern day teaching on here or modern day children on here!

I thought that myself, but I was directly quoting how you should've used the word. Meaning had I put "Blasé" in my post, that would've suggested that you too should've used the capitalised version in your post and that would've been wrong.

Granted it is subject to opinion but I'm sticking with the lower case "b" as the correct usage in this instance.

Thanks for picking up on it though. I do realise that by joining the "Grammar Police" (just out of interest it's the first time in my 200+ posts I felt the need to do so) I'm opening up my own grammar for criticism.

Seth has a serious point here if there's no access to thess sports or coaches where are all these kids gonna cocentrate their energy?
Do we really want our kids to be deprived of sport or facillities?
Whilst we all know the cuts are coming these WILL have a huge effect longer term if kids are no longer doing sports and then putting time into X-box ,Hanging around the streets etc etc plus as much as some mock where will the next Elite athletes come from?
My kids love doing sport in and out of school and these cuts threaten that so i'm all for the petitions and protests to protect these vital services as i am with immenant ones to protect the Emergancy services etc etc.