| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Simon Davies | |
| 2 | Louise Davies | |
| 3 | david bevan | totally agree |
| 4 | Anonymous | Why are young football players being penalised when athletes, tennis players, even chess players under the age of 11 can have competitive tournaments? Children are naturally competitive and this will destroy their ambition before they reach 11 a side football |
| 5 | James Tanner | |
| 6 | Karen Burrows | I can honestly say i have never heard of anything more ridiculous than banning competition in football. What next take the goal posts away? |
| 7 | Mike Jones | Professional football clubs hand pick players from mini football sides to play in Centres of Excellence and Development. Surely this is competitive, so what is the difference? |
| 8 | david thomas | |
| 9 | Mr Stephen Wood | I firmly believe if the decision is not reversed, then academies, like excellence or development football should also be from Under 12,s upwards. There is far more disappointment for an individual than a team. |
| 10 | Nigel Williams | I feel the FAW decision is very discriminating to footballers, as other children’s sports are played competitively e.g. Netball, Swimming Gymnastics, Dancing, etc. Also with the introduction of age discrimination in October 2006 I would like the FAW to argue their case in a court of law. |
| 11 | Anonymous | totally agree with the Petition, clubs use tournaments/festivals as a means of fundraising, without this, players/parents must dig depeer as training facilities/permits costs are on the increase. Some clubs canot survive without them, then if teams fold because of this, players are deprived of playing regular football, is that fair? Plus, tournaments/festivals are an open invitation, teams are not forced to attend. If the league are trying to stop competition for under 11 age groups, then what about school sports days, swimming galas, chess tournaments and tennis tournaments, should all these school run sports be affected to??? |
| 12 | D. Dubois | |
| 13 | colin thirlwell | |
| 14 | Steve Webber | |
| 15 | John Edwards | Mini football does give my child and many othersan opportunity to meet make friends and learn to play football, in a stable family orientated manor.
are the FAW saying they cant play football and should be allowed to go out onto the streets instead and get into trouble? |
| 16 | C. Drew-Jones | The real world is competitive and the younger children are when they learn to accept sometimes you win, sometimes you lose the better. Isn't it better for children to learn to accept losing in amongst their team mates then hitting the adult world where inevitably they won't win everything and then sometimes being on their own. They lose as a team not individually and I feel this prepares them for the real world. Isn't it bad enough that schools have banned competitive sports. (e.g. sports day) Yet children compete academically. Sport is a chance for sometimes the not so academic child to shine. |
| 17 | Simon Stranaghan | Totally agree with the petition, as a Parent, Coach, and Club Secretary. We have had to cancel our major source of income, our Annual Tournament, due to lack of interest in "non competative" Tournaments. Teams will only go to 1 or 2, rather than 6 or 7. Parents will not stand around all day for games with no meaning. FAW not in the real world, always out to "hold back" Junior Football Clubs. |
| 18 | Anonymous | |
| 19 | Anonymous | |
| 20 | Shelley Miers | |
| 21 | Lisa Barba | |
| 22 | Kris Jones | Competition is healthy, theres no achievement in playing friendlies every week. There's no overall goal to work for. |
| 23 | Anonymous | |
| 24 | Anonymous | |
| 25 | Andrew Birt | |
| 26 | andrew howe | |
| 27 | zoe bevan | |
| 28 | kim manning | competition is healthy |
| 29 | simon merchant | |
| 30 | Alex Davies | |
| 31 | Paul Davies | i coach an under 14's football side who have won the league this season and are in the cup final. I've coached mini football and to ask young children to be non competitive is ridiculous. Kids love to play football and they all play to win. |
| 32 | Poppy Burrows | Thats not fair! There's no point of training and working hard and then not being able to get through to finals and semi finals and things. I'm ten years old and I play for lots of teams and I enjoy having a competition once in a while. |
| 33 | Emma Morgan | |
| 34 | Ian Drew-Jones | Enforcing this ban only leads to mediocrity in later life. Football is AND SHOULD REMAIN competitive AT EVERY AGE. |
| 35 | Anonymous | I fully understand the needs of organisations to cover themselves and not leave themselves open, but the FAW needs to fully understand the impact on the fundraising options for clubs. For many clubs a Tournament is THE fundraiser and without it many clubs will cease. I hope the FAW takes this into account. I don't know so much. |
| 36 | Catherine Baker | |
| 37 | adrian smith | |
| 38 | richard scott | |
| 39 | jack davies | |
| 40 | Peter Jones | |
| 41 | Joeseph Wood | |
| 42 | Richard Parry | Couldn't agree more. Life IS competitive. If experiencing the highs and lows of sport are removed from sport, it ceases to BE sport! |
| 43 | kerry morgan | typical faw |
| 44 | Victoria Ford | |
| 45 | Tim Ford | |
| 46 | anthony huxtable | sport is and always should be competetive especially when the clubs need the funds to spend on the children now and in the future.taking part is important but without a winner the game of football will be the loser. |
| 47 | Adam Tucker | |
| 48 | Huw Parry | Tournaments in the summer months are what keep young children interested throughout the close season,and football by its nature is a competitive game. |
| 49 | STEPHEN BLOOMER | Two reasons for competitions;
1) The kids love them. I bet that at no stage in coming to their ridiculous decision did the FAW poll those who would be most affected, the kids.
2) These tournaments provide the majority of funds to run clubs for the next year. In one day approximately 5k can be made. Will the FAW make good the drop in takings? If it truly believes that events will not be affected with loss of revenue then t should make such a guarantee. |
| 50 | Gareth Howe | |