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HellBilly
Oh yeah, let’s vote for something that ultimately benefits larger wealthier clubs....
feck NO
feck NO
"Sub when you're winning, you only sub when you're winning..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5IJQ23HmPo
To this melody? Struck me instantly as perfect to replace the chorus "you die young, you die when youre young"
I am. I thought it would benefit the 'big' clubs, and it does to degree. But it also benefits managers that are able to re-think tactics mid-game. There were several times last season, after the restart, that I though Potter was excellent in using subs to change a game.
In fact, I wonder whether the 'five subs' rule is one of the reasons that the latter part of last season was one of the best periods in our Premier League time. It is the one period under Potter that we played well whilst also picking up decent results.
No I do not like the idea of nearly half of the team being changed in the life of a game and we are already seeing 5-7min added time being the norm with 3 subs so don’t want that extending either. Three is more than adequate to change or influence a game
Oh yeah, let’s vote for something that ultimately benefits larger wealthier clubs....
feck NO
It obviously will favour the big clubs with stacked benches, but just as importantly I think it 'dumbs down' the tactical side of the game.
You're playing Man Utd, they're having an off-day, it's 0-0 and Solkjaer can't break down that stubborn defence, so he brings on Cavani, Van Der Beek, Greenwood, Mata and Daniel James. So that's 10 offensive players a manager needs to counter in his planning, rather than 8.
Its bobbins. Any manager who feels the need to change HALF THE TEAM during the game, has fundamentally gone and picked the wrong team.
Look, I get the arguments about muscle injuries etc (although that reason in itself is completely blown out of the water by the two loud main protagonists for this scheme only making 3 subs between them on Saturday, but I digress). This is a weird season. It started late, just 25 minutes after the previous season finished, they're cramming games in all over the shop to get it done and dusted before a (possible) Euros next season. Now is not the time to make alterations like this in such strange times - alterations that we would inevitably end up stuck with.
3 subs is plenty. 5 subs is just a nonsense as far as I'm concerned.
For me, these are exactly the reasons why I am in favour of allowing 5 subs, for this season only, until normality returns in 2021-22 (hopefully).
Good piece in yesterday's Guardian about how more players are suffering more 'soft' injuries this season - and a list of club-by-club examples (our very Leandro Trossard was one of them) - presumably as a consequence of the short gap between the end of last season and the start of this, and the number of games being crammed-in to finish the late-start season before the Euros. Plus the number of international games, including ridiculous 'friendlies', that some players are involved in.
As a result, too many players' bodies are under more strain than in a normal season, with less recovery or resting time between games, following a shortened summer-break. Hence they are more susceptible to injuries.
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...the-injuries-caused-by-a-remorseless-schedule
Its bobbins. Any manager who feels the need to change HALF THE TEAM during the game, has fundamentally gone and picked the wrong team.
Look, I get the arguments about muscle injuries etc (although that reason in itself is completely blown out of the water by the two loud main protagonists for this scheme only making 3 subs between them on Saturday, but I digress). This is a weird season. It started late, just 25 minutes after the previous season finished, they're cramming games in all over the shop to get it done and dusted before a (possible) Euros next season. Now is not the time to make alterations like this in such strange times - alterations that we would inevitably end up stuck with.
3 subs is plenty. 5 subs is just a nonsense as far as I'm concerned.