Opposition to Changes to GPS sport Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/opposition-to-changes-to-gps-sport.html Online petition signatures en-us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:41 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition MR Kayu mehta [Signature #187] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7765015?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 May 2010 06:51:00 UTC 7765015 Mr Ritchie Hale [Signature #186] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7763557?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 May 2010 04:32:50 UTC 7763557 Tim Kennedy [Signature #185] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7749119?utm_medium=rss It is clear upon viewing the geographical location of the current petitioners that the majority of Brisbane parents are unaware of the proposed changes. The GPS Association has an obligation to facilitate consultation with ALL stakeholders, particularly the various Parent Support Groups that are vital in running and financing the respective GPS sports. Without the support of these Parent Groups it would simply become unviable to conduct several GPS competitions.

]]> Tue, 25 May 2010 06:24:41 UTC 7749119 Anonymous [Signature #184] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7738872?utm_medium=rss Mon, 24 May 2010 06:51:40 UTC 7738872 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #183] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7738846?utm_medium=rss Mon, 24 May 2010 06:46:43 UTC 7738846 Mrs Kim Litzow [Signature #182] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7730451?utm_medium=rss I think GPS Sport should probably stay in the same terms.(why change?) However most boys would be looking for a sport in Term 4, other than Track-n-Field, which is limited to numbers and ability, where Tennis could be played then. Boarders especially need weekend sport!! I understand space is running out for both Rugby and Soccer to played on the same day, maybe we can play some games in & around Toowoomba.

]]> Mon, 24 May 2010 02:13:16 UTC 7730451 Mr Craig Whip [Signature #181] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7711182?utm_medium=rss The proposed change adversely impacts the opportunities offered to children in the various GPS competitions. Full details of the grounds of my concerns are contained in the letter from the President of the BGS Parents and Friends letter of 20 May to the Headmasters.

]]> Fri, 21 May 2010 05:57:04 UTC 7711182 Carolyn Wilson [Signature #180] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7679339?utm_medium=rss Tue, 18 May 2010 05:00:19 UTC 7679339 Mr Matt McMahon [Signature #179] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7679298?utm_medium=rss Tue, 18 May 2010 04:55:35 UTC 7679298 mr richard moore [Signature #178] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7675979?utm_medium=rss This will force children to choose between cricket and rugby. As they will not cancel rugby preseason matches. This also puts pressure on children from coaches who expect the child to committ totally to the one sport.

]]> Mon, 17 May 2010 08:45:07 UTC 7675979 Mr Colin Forster [Signature #177] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7674703?utm_medium=rss Mon, 17 May 2010 06:05:27 UTC 7674703 Mrs Liz Woodhill [Signature #176] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7664859?utm_medium=rss Mon, 17 May 2010 03:43:18 UTC 7664859 Angus Rathie [Signature #175] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7660586?utm_medium=rss Not enough thought been given to preseason training with players forced to make choices between sports by coaches To give room for preseason activity have rugby start half way through T2 to mid T3, soccer mid T3 to T4. Are other team sports getting consideration for the "barron" term 4 - ie touch footy, AFL which at least can cater for larger numbers of players unlike some other sports. Know of many boys who would like to play certain sports but drop out because cant get a game

]]> Sun, 16 May 2010 05:21:08 UTC 7660586 Mr John Hays [Signature #174] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7659776?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 May 2010 03:58:59 UTC 7659776 Mrs Sandy Bartlett [Signature #173] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7652638?utm_medium=rss We feel strongly that tennis should be at the same time as football, not rugby.

]]> Sun, 16 May 2010 03:24:53 UTC 7652638 Miss Amanda Purvis [Signature #172] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7572750?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 May 2010 08:08:49 UTC 7572750 Heidi Begg [Signature #171] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7572551?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 May 2010 07:32:12 UTC 7572551 Mr Ross Christie [Signature #170] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7538497?utm_medium=rss I have a son who doesn't know what sport to choose in Term 2, Tennis, Rugby or Cross Country. Are they able to do both, can the times of these be later in the day say for Tennis? May-be Cross Country could go on a Friday afternoon?

]]> Thu, 6 May 2010 05:29:57 UTC 7538497 Mrs Deanne MacFarlane [Signature #169] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7538448?utm_medium=rss Thu, 6 May 2010 05:23:58 UTC 7538448 Mrs Janet Timbs [Signature #168] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7533584?utm_medium=rss Do the players themselves really want to play both rugby and football if already committed to one/or other, but feel pressurized to now do both. What happens combining elite rugby and football players. Sadly it seems the remaining sports will get squeezed out of the equation.

]]> Thu, 6 May 2010 06:44:42 UTC 7533584 Mrs Kim Revell [Signature #167] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7530721?utm_medium=rss I am concerned about limited choice of sport in 4th term.

]]> Wed, 5 May 2010 08:55:46 UTC 7530721 Dr Mark Marshall [Signature #166] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7522384?utm_medium=rss Changing the sport terms to separate Rugby and Football disadvantages those boys who choose to play football and not rugby in term 2 and basketball in term 3 by removing an entire sport choice from them with football and basketball in term 3 together. There is no field team sport offered in term 2 for those boys who choose not to play rugby.
This change seems to be geared to offering maximum choices to Rugby players at the expense of those boys who participate in other sports.

]]> Wed, 5 May 2010 05:01:47 UTC 7522384 Cameron & Susan Gray [Signature #165] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7521910?utm_medium=rss Wed, 5 May 2010 03:25:14 UTC 7521910 Miss Georgia Peard [Signature #164] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7521809?utm_medium=rss Wed, 5 May 2010 03:01:21 UTC 7521809 Mrs Sally West [Signature #163] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7521179?utm_medium=rss limiting the amount of time for sports such as rugby, football and tennis will effect the competitive nature of all these sports. Tennis is a sport that can be played at any age and with very few players . Students from remote and regional areas will have more exposure to tennis if they return to regional areas after their schooling is complete, it is proven as a social connection for all age groups male or female in regional Australia

]]> Wed, 5 May 2010 12:25:45 UTC 7521179 Mrs Carole Lansdowne [Signature #162] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7520791?utm_medium=rss Tue, 4 May 2010 11:26:42 UTC 7520791 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #161] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7519365?utm_medium=rss Tue, 4 May 2010 09:21:22 UTC 7519365 mr Anthony Jackson [Signature #160] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7516118?utm_medium=rss Tue, 4 May 2010 05:42:15 UTC 7516118 Robyn Ivey [Signature #159] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7509293?utm_medium=rss Tue, 4 May 2010 12:16:50 UTC 7509293 mrs Lindy Lewis [Signature #158] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7507320?utm_medium=rss Mon, 3 May 2010 04:39:57 UTC 7507320 Mrs Cathy Whyte [Signature #157] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7503696?utm_medium=rss Mon, 3 May 2010 08:08:02 UTC 7503696 Mr Andrew Webster [Signature #156] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7502463?utm_medium=rss The worst decision ever due to:

a) Marginalises certain sports with shorter season ie. basketball and tennis.

b)Track and field is the only term 4 sport which is only for top athletes. No opportunity for those less talented to have fun playing in lower teams.

c) Where does chess fit in?

d) Rugby season starts earlier in the heat.

e) The only possible justification for this is so that boys can play both rugby and soccer which achieves little. Are the problems worth that?

]]> Mon, 3 May 2010 03:34:16 UTC 7502463 Kate Webster [Signature #155] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7502237?utm_medium=rss Mon, 3 May 2010 02:42:42 UTC 7502237 mr Jonathan Carson [Signature #154] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7500049?utm_medium=rss Sun, 2 May 2010 07:49:27 UTC 7500049 mr alex barnet [Signature #153] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7499972?utm_medium=rss Sun, 2 May 2010 07:31:49 UTC 7499972 Mr Anonymous [Signature #152] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7499497?utm_medium=rss Sun, 2 May 2010 06:02:59 UTC 7499497 Mrs judy cox [Signature #151] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7499303?utm_medium=rss Sun, 2 May 2010 05:27:53 UTC 7499303 Mrs Liz Speed [Signature #150] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7495439?utm_medium=rss Sun, 2 May 2010 05:00:12 UTC 7495439 mrs amelia carmichael [Signature #149] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7495034?utm_medium=rss Sun, 2 May 2010 02:29:36 UTC 7495034 mr peter carmichael [Signature #148] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7495029?utm_medium=rss Sun, 2 May 2010 02:28:14 UTC 7495029 Mr Anonymous [Signature #147] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7494475?utm_medium=rss Sat, 1 May 2010 11:12:37 UTC 7494475 Anonymous [Signature #146] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7486660?utm_medium=rss These changes will not let boys have their trail games and Rugby/Soccer camps losing the completive edge for As and Bs teams etc. It will also disrupt the long lasting and successful winter season sports and it will lose it's publicity and excitement and the long awaited Grammar Downlands Day will be a costly loss to the students and parents community. Overall this is a terrible mistake and I should be thrown out the window COMPLETELY.

]]> Sat, 1 May 2010 12:48:25 UTC 7486660 Alex Johnson [Signature #145] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7486653?utm_medium=rss These changes would disrupt the tradition that the gps schools have in sporting competition. It would lose publicity reputation and excitement.

]]> Sat, 1 May 2010 12:47:15 UTC 7486653 Mrs Christine Lockrey [Signature #144] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7476172?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:46:26 UTC 7476172 Mrs Caroline Underwood [Signature #143] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7475856?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:51:47 UTC 7475856 mr. Anonymous [Signature #142] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7475812?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:45:26 UTC 7475812 mrs Anonymous [Signature #141] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7475805?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:44:15 UTC 7475805 Andrew Bell [Signature #140] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7475483?utm_medium=rss As a past student and a member of the 1st 11 and the 1st 15 in my year 12 year, i feel this changes to the sporting calender will effect not only tennis whick I also played in the younger grades but the ability of boys like myself to play in both sports. In my year there were actually a few boys who played in both first teams and this would probably not be possible under the proposed changes.

]]> Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:45:24 UTC 7475483 Mrs Vicki Bell [Signature #139] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7475451?utm_medium=rss As a mother of 2 boys who were/are boarders and had in 1 year the ability to play cricket, rugby and tennis I feel strongly about this change. It will mean a lot of weekends later in the year when boarders will have a whole weekend without sport. These weekends can become very long and boring without this physical outlet. I can see leave issues arising in the future is this is passed.

]]> Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:39:40 UTC 7475451 mr Richard Bell [Signature #138] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7475411?utm_medium=rss I feel a number of stake holder sports are going to be disadvantaged by the change and can only see one sport as benefiting and that is soccer. Are the other sports to be the sacrificial lambs for the benefit of one group. Given the profile of rugby it will encroach on cricket and tennis will become the forgotten sport.

]]> Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:32:26 UTC 7475411 Mrs Rachel Rohde [Signature #137] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7474975?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:30:26 UTC 7474975 Mrs Jacinta Fromm [Signature #136] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7467993?utm_medium=rss Tennis should remain as Term 4 sport option. Offering only track and field will limit the number of students involved in sport in term 4. Please do not oppose tennis and rugby - peer pressure will result in most boys opting for rugby regardless.

]]> Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:48:02 UTC 7467993 Mr Alan Brett [Signature #135] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7467522?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:43:02 UTC 7467522 Mr Anonymous [Signature #134] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7467223?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:59:36 UTC 7467223 Mrs Elizabeth Moore [Signature #133] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7466160?utm_medium=rss I strongly oppose the changes to GPS Tennis. Having 3 sons who played both GPS Tennis and GPS Rugby, and a grandson who has played both, I feel this change will be the beginning of the end to GPS Tennis.

]]> Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:38:20 UTC 7466160 mrs keren longbottom [Signature #132] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7466077?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:15:01 UTC 7466077 MR JIM MILSON [Signature #131] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7465768?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:03:15 UTC 7465768 mr Anonymous [Signature #130] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7464587?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:49:29 UTC 7464587 Mr Nick Houston [Signature #129] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7464572?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:47:31 UTC 7464572 Mrs Hayley Cowan [Signature #128] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7464557?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:45:30 UTC 7464557 Mr Geoff Warriner [Signature #127] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7464439?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:28:34 UTC 7464439 fMrs Claire Warriner [Signature #126] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7464431?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:27:40 UTC 7464431 Mrs Belinda McClymont [Signature #125] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7464205?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:59:27 UTC 7464205 Mrs Grania McAlpine [Signature #124] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7463329?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:09:56 UTC 7463329 Ronnie Adamson [Signature #123] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7458692?utm_medium=rss This proposal is appalling. Not only will it marginalize tennis, it will severely reduce the importance of rugby to our school and elevate soccer. This has been done in a most underhand and devious manner without due consultation with rugby and tennis parents. The Downlands/Grammar match is not only of traditional but also financial importance to the school.

]]> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:02:23 UTC 7458692 Mr Doug Gibson [Signature #122] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7458681?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:00:03 UTC 7458681 Mr. Peter Prosser [Signature #121] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7458536?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:31:41 UTC 7458536 Mrs Bettina McClymont [Signature #120] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7458287?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:26:12 UTC 7458287 Mr Ross Stiller [Signature #119] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7457853?utm_medium=rss I chose a gps school so my son could play rugby, he already only gets half the games he did playing junior leage, if its not broke don't fix it. He now has the best choice of different sports across the year.

]]> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:50:59 UTC 7457853 Mr & Mrs Robert & Sally Houston [Signature #118] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7457702?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:58:54 UTC 7457702 Mrs Leesa Moore [Signature #117] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7456250?utm_medium=rss I believe that soccer and rugby should stay together to allow those boys that don't play rugby an alternative team sport to participate in.

]]> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:03:48 UTC 7456250 Donna Atherton [Signature #116] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7456177?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:55:05 UTC 7456177 Scott Atherton [Signature #115] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7456168?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:53:56 UTC 7456168 MRS JO TURNER [Signature #114] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7455620?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:43:11 UTC 7455620 mr david turner [Signature #113] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7455601?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:40:39 UTC 7455601 Ms Sally Lahey [Signature #112] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7455496?utm_medium=rss Tennis should not be made to compete with football (either soccer or rugby) as the boys should have the opportunity to play some form of football as well as tennis. To make the tennis compete with the rugby is saying that tennis is not as important. Tennis is a wonderful sport that should be encouraged but the majority of boys also like to play some form of rugby for the team spirit and physical contact. I strongly object to tennis being made a term 2 sport, leave it in term 3.

]]> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:23:08 UTC 7455496 Mr Andrew Innes [Signature #111] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7455272?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:43:10 UTC 7455272 Mrs Sally Prosser [Signature #110] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7455256?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:40:29 UTC 7455256 mrs Anonymous [Signature #109] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7455227?utm_medium=rss Why change the sports fixtures around as they are working so well and have so for many, many years. What is the sense in the change???

]]> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:32:59 UTC 7455227 Mrs Kerry Gibson [Signature #108] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7455126?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:17:18 UTC 7455126 Mr Graham Russell [Signature #107] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7455069?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:08:28 UTC 7455069 Mrs Kim Litzow [Signature #106] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7454854?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:35:42 UTC 7454854 Mrs Meredith Barrett [Signature #105] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7454809?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:26:05 UTC 7454809 Cyril Close [Signature #104] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7450513?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:39:10 UTC 7450513 Mrs Pauline Innes [Signature #103] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7450490?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:29:26 UTC 7450490 Mr Belinda Christie [Signature #102] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7450442?utm_medium=rss We like you to reconsider putting tennis back to term 4, boys who are good at Tennis won't play in Term 2. There will be an over flow of boys wanting to then join rugby, it's rediculous. Please change tennis back to Term 4.

]]> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:12:31 UTC 7450442 Mr Richard Skene [Signature #101] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7450308?utm_medium=rss I WISH TENNIS TO BE A PART OF TERM 4's SPORTS COMMITMENTS FOR STUDENTS

]]> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:17:05 UTC 7450308 Mr andrew Douglas [Signature #100] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7450137?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:16:42 UTC 7450137 Mrs Susan Skene [Signature #99] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7450043?utm_medium=rss Would like to see tennis in Term 4 as there is currently only one other option (Track & Field).

]]> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:45:13 UTC 7450043 mrs Debra Carpin [Signature #98] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7449891?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:45:29 UTC 7449891 Mr Tony Davey [Signature #97] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7449800?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:14:55 UTC 7449800 Mr Scott Stallman [Signature #96] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7449778?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:08:45 UTC 7449778 Paul Ashford [Signature #95] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7449691?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:45:11 UTC 7449691 Mrs Kim Revell [Signature #94] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7449607?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:19:18 UTC 7449607 Mrs Robyn Gray [Signature #93] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7449484?utm_medium=rss Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:48:29 UTC 7449484 Mr John Storie [Signature #92] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7449456?utm_medium=rss Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:40:27 UTC 7449456 Murray Fuller [Signature #91] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7449104?utm_medium=rss Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:41:58 UTC 7449104 Mr Anonymous [Signature #90] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7448997?utm_medium=rss The GPS callendar should stay as is. The new changes will mean my son will only play one team sport as he has no interest in rugby and must choose between soccer and basketball and will have no sport in term 4.

]]> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:21:41 UTC 7448997 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #89] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7448994?utm_medium=rss Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:21:12 UTC 7448994 Mr Anonymous [Signature #88] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7448990?utm_medium=rss Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:20:14 UTC 7448990