Is it Fair to be Fair?

Is it Fair to be Fair?

Recently there was a bit of a bust up at my brothers footy club. My dad is the manager and one of the mothers decided to pick a very picky arguement with him. Each week my dad starts out the game with his best team, a selection which often includes (unbiasedly) my brother and each week one of the mother hens ends up disgruntled because one of their sons hasn't been played. The thing is, my dad can't bear to see them loose so, naturally, plays a team to win. If, 15 minutes in they're winning 10 - 0 then he'll bring on other, how do I put this nicely, less abled players. Consequently, some players don't get a game. Now after this arguement - which, by the way was about the situation I just explained - my parents both came home and began their rants whilst I sat, listening, to the situation. Occasionally, I nodded my head and made comments in agreement with them (I so shouldn't have asked what happened at football). But later on I started to question where my allegiances lay. Is fair to be unfair or must we make sure everyone has equal and balance, well everything.

By playing his best team each week by dad was excluding some players from most games. How would I feel if I were in their shoes, turning up each week to training yet not making the A-team each weekend? At my gymnastics club we experience the same problem and similar arguements with better gymnasts being chosen to perform the 'big tricks'. And that time my mum sided with the underdogs: give them a chance, even if they aren't as good. Is that hypocritical or do ideas not translate smoothly between sports.

Another arguement: It's not fair on the people who are capable of winning, my dad says. By playing a politically correct team each week the clubs success will, inevitably dip, is this fair on the people who can win? But surely they could take one for the team? I am speaking in so many questions today, sorry. I am finding it hard to pinpoint a sure conclusion to the arguement. And I wonder what god would say about this? I don't know, I wonder, maybe if he would tell us to stop dwelling on something so silly an focus on something more important. He might say that or maybe he would say everyone should get a game. At the end of the day, it shouldn't be about who's the best or the worst, it should be about who works the hardest, who tries their best. Is it fair to be fair, i don't know. You tell me?