Offside Monkey wrote:
I'm all for it. Id go so far as to move to 6 substitutions.
Why? What good will it do?
Will having fatigued players cut down the severity of the collisions? No. Will it cut down the messing about and lying on? No. All it will mean is players facing MORE big collisions and doing it when fatigued, so their technique and timing will be off. I reckon it will cause more injuries and cause burnout for more players as they will be forced to do bigger minutes.
Teams will continue to get round it, like they've already started to do, with the concussion check rule. There have been several this year where the player going off isn't even slightly injured.