To disagree with kids club matches and event being cancelled as a mark of respect -

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How is it respectful to have rugby match for an early teen cancelled and a hockey event cancelled for a tween?

I very much doubt the queen, who loved sport, would have wanted children missing out of exercise and being outside playing team sports

They’re being cancelled all over our county in the SE.

daft in my opinion

oh well

Yea ours have too. Very disappointed children but I guess it is what it is.

I agree... my sons footy training and match cancelled, yet the classic car show locally still going ahead... cannot fathom the decision making

YANBU

It's pointless and a bit weird quite frankly

Although I find the outpouring of grief in general a little

Damned if they do eh?
I'm old enough to remember the outcry of things NOT being cancelled on both 9/11 and when Diana died.

The real reason the big games have supposedly been cancelled is to ensure there is enough security to cover the royal family and funeral, foreign representatives etc.

But they say it is out of respect to give the illusion they are in control and it's not a matter of security.

However, this has the trickle down effect which means schools and grassroots events have to cancel as they will be perceived as being disrespectful as being led by the top.

I'd have a lot more respect of they gave the honest reasons rather than hiding behind bullshit respect.

People will lose money over this, children opportunities, cancelling the local events will not make her any less dead.

Sorry to be crass but she was 96 and passed in comfort. A lot luckier than many of our own elderly come winter no doubt.

Royal family are an absolute relic and until we get rid of them we are holding up inequality and condoning it in this country.

All of this.

The Queen was a remarkable woman, who did so much for this country over decades but she was 96 to be fair to her.
I can't understand the sobbing in the streets. We've all known this was coming. People can pay their respects of sign books of condolence if they want, but I can't imaging for one minute she would want sport to be cancelled all weekend.

I agree as the official guidance on the national mourning period is that 'organisations and individuals' are not required to mourn.

Just tell your kids it is a big deal nationally and after the funeral things will return to normal.

It’s absolutely ridiculous

I am not “sad”. This was a very old woman who led a full and fantastic life and appears to have died swiftly and with limited suffering.

She would be angry I suspect if she knew children were mooching around at home rather than playing team sports this weekend as a “mark of respect” for her.

I agree. The youth club I help at is shut for 2 weeks 'as a mark of respect '. I'm pretty sure if the Queen was as benevolent and lovely as she is reported to be she would have wanted the kids to have their club.

If it's a random training session it's not so bad, though I still don't agree with it. But there is a poster on another thread saying her son has lost a chance to qualify for a team/championship and that's rubbish and should not happen.

Nothing non royalty connected should be. Enforcing this on everyone else is selfish and totally out of touch with the times. Anyone who wishes to not do stuff has that choice.

YANBU. Kids' football matches are being cancelled by the FA. It's very silly.

All matches/training at my son's rugby club are happening as normal. There will 2 minutes silence at the beginning as a mark of respect

Neither England Hockey or Rugby have advised to cancel matches or training.

It’s bl**dy ridiculous. I could go to a pub this weekend, even a nightclub, go shopping…yet children can’t play football.

It’s like Covid all over again. The young and children always come off worst.

The Great North Run is going ahead.

BUT the junior race is not as "a mark of respect".

This is like during the pandemic when sports days were cancelled but adults could meet in the pub.

I totally agree, some of my kids events have been cancelled but not others, it doesn’t make sense. And they’re presumably going to miss a day of school as a mark of respect for the funeral too, so it seems OTT to cancel sport too. I’m so over their lives being disrupted over the past few years.

I agree. My nine year old son was going to a frame football national tournament (he has cerebral palsy) on Sunday at St George's Park where the England team train. Just been postponed and who knows when they will fit it in the schedule now.

I've just spent several hours contacting the participants of an event our sports club was running in a next week which has had to be cancelled. Not our decision - the facility owners have cancelled everything. We would have gone ahead and included a 2 min silence or something. I don't think that cancelling community events really achieves anything. Ok, maybe not street parties or stuff like that, and I wouldn't run anything at all on the day of the funeral but I don't think there is any need to put all normal life on hold until after the the funeral. Especially not children's events - they've missed enough over the last couple of years as it is. I think the fact that the official guidance does not ask for grassroots sport to be cancelled indicates that the royal family probably don't think the Queen would have wanted it either. In fact she probably let them know in advance. We know her husband had made his wishes re his funeral etc very clear and The Queen never seemed like someone who left anything much to chance either. If there has been no request to cancel things then I don't think we need to.

Kids activities and sports should not be cancelled. Kids missed enough during covid.