A man who coaches under-14s soccer and GAA has said competition is good for children, but has to be managed.
He was speaking after an Irish Examiner column suggested that playing to win is the wrong philosophy.
It also questioned whether the GAA is too competitive for younger children.
Paul told Lunchtime Live everyone should get a fair chance.
"Yes competition is good, but I think it has to be managed," he said.
"I've seen it in situations where players that are considered weaker are left on the sidelines.
"My opinion would be that if they're not getting gametime, they're never going to improve.
"So my philosophy is [that] everyone gets a game.
"My rule is: if you don't start this week, you're promised to start next week.
"It doesn't matter how good or how bad a player is; I keep to that promise to the best of my ability.
"It depends how many players show up each week".
'Having fun and enjoying it'
Peter, who is also a GAA coach, said it should be more about skill development.
"I come from a GAA angle of things, and especially the girl's side of underage coaching", he said.
"I wouldn't be a great believer in the element of the number one and number two teams.
"To me, up to under-18, it should all be about skill development and playing with your friends and having fun and enjoying playing.
"I've seen an element creep into one or two GAA clubs where... there's an element of coaching where they become obsessed with chasing trophies, rather than the development of the actual players themselves".
'Unbelievably cruel'
Mags said she doesn't mind competition, but it can be exclusionary.
"My daughter does gymnastics, she does a competition a year," she said.
"It was in Blanchardstown last weekend... and they have really divided each category up into very small sections, where children can compete at their own level.
"Though sometimes it ends up that there's only a few competitors in each level.
"It happened at the weekend that there was only four in my daughter's category, and they all were from the same club.
"I presumed when I saw four [they'll] surely do a joint third - but they didn't.
"They did a first, second, third and they left her out by herself.
"They had the three girls up on the podium... and they had left that child on her own, looking at them.
"I actually couldn't celebrate my own daughter's success I was so gutted for that child.
"It was just unbelievably cruel, it was on another level of cruelty," she added.
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