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The Death of Sport in the R.C.T

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Cobi Uren
11 years ago

This should not be allowed to happen, destroying activities which provide fun and health benefits for all involved!

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ryan day
11 years ago

kids need this to develop. it will only put kids on the streets sniffing meow meow and setting bins on fire.

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nicky batchelor
11 years ago

Adding charges for children to access what should be a basic human need for health and development both physically and socially growing up means that parents who are already on tight budgets would be stretched even further. If they can't play sports then what else will they have left to do now the swimming pools are also closed but to gather on the streets leading to antisocial behaviour that could add more of a cost to the council in the long run. That is on top of the potential cost in future years for treating people from the increase in obesity and its associated health problems.

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Rhian Davies
11 years ago

With the current stats on childhood obiesity we should be encouraging sports participation in the community not putting financial pressure on these clubs to pay fees and therefore decrease these awesome dedicated clubs!

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Deri Mason
11 years ago

Another way to ruin what little we already have

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Richard Mathieson
11 years ago

riduculous idea

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Liam Batchelor
11 years ago

Clubs will not survive giving young kids nothing to do

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Darren Tucker
11 years ago

just a shame they are ruining kids sports just for greed

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luke
11 years ago

this is disgraceful. RCT needs to sort this out and allow sports teams to carry on using pitches for free. Take the dole money from the local junkies instead

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david matthews
11 years ago

it will be the death of many sides .how do you keep the youngsters off the streets when the council are doing this .and where did 34 home games come into it for one team i wonder ,do your calculations again !!!

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T kemble
11 years ago

sport is an opportunity for young people to safely express themselves, without being cess a safe environment to participate it may have a detrimental effect on our local society.

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Paul Jenkins
11 years ago

2012 Olympic Legacy they said. Inspire kids to be the next sports stars. Now they're pretty much getting rid of the only way kids can get into sports.

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Gary Evans
11 years ago Featured

Disgraceful false economy this short term proposed policy by RCT will if children in RCT are denied sports activities will, create a legacy of obesity, ill health, anti social behaviour that in the long term will cost the country millions of pounds to address !

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Ben johns
11 years ago

we need to save Saturday and Sunday league football. a large part of my youth was playing football and still now. what are kids supposed to do instead? shocking from rct

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Gary Bartlett
11 years ago

Thus is an appalling decision and should not be allowed to proceed. Sport on the community is the lifeblood of the community.

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Helen Evans
11 years ago

There's nothing for children to do at the moment around RCT and now this what a joke

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Christian Jones
11 years ago

disgraceful

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tammy williams
11 years ago

the kids have nothing as it is and looks like they will have even less if you continue with this

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paula Davies
11 years ago

Absolutely disgusting!!

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beth Morris
11 years ago

disgusting.