Losing players during a game

[Dave Omsby]

I think if a player is ruled out of the game by a neutral doctor a sub should be allowed .

 

[Knox Harrington]

didn't affect essendon Friday night.
Four players down and still got the job done.
Play on.

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

The coaches will run players into the ground in the first half and then fein an injury... to replace them with a fresh player.

 

[StillWaiting5689]

The coaches will run players into the ground in the first half and then fein an injury... to replace them with a fresh player.

Maybe one way to counter act this would be if you sub a player off with injury he cannot play the next week. Could see this causing some issues but would remove some of the usage of it by the coaches as a tactical weapon - or will we just see more fringe players have injuries in the last quarter...

 

[PAFC_1870]

They insist on only playing one ruck.

How many play multiple rucks???? You and Freo are exceptions. Guess who we lost close games to conveniently when Ryder went down...

That's shit luck as much as anything. If Ryder and co didn't go down, we wouldn't have found ourselves in the tight situation.

 

[the harry]

How many play multiple rucks???? You and Freo are exceptions.

How many have a ruckman that regularly finishes games on the bench in a tracksuit?

 

[PAFC_1870]

How many have a ruckman that regularly finishes games on the bench in a tracksuit?

Regularly? Ironic given you have NicNat...

That's a stretch. How many play a Ruckman who averages under 2 marks a game? Probably explains why you play 2...

 

[nahnah]

I've always liked the bball way where you can sub on anyone on at any given time. makes the game fairer, would allow teams dominating to get minutes into kids and get stars out of the game to keep them fresh or uninjured. But tradition...

 

[PerthBoy86]

Yesterday we saw Port lose to WC purely because they lost multiple players during the game, Sydney today are currently 2 players down at HT, this is happening every single week, what can we do about it? Do we need to drastically reduce interchanges or do we need to bring a sub back?

Purely? So everthing else was irrelevant? I mean it was probably a factor, but many other things happened.

 

[Furn2]

Why does a sub have to be for an injury only?

 

[the harry]

Regularly? Ironic given you have NicNat...

That's a stretch. How many play a Ruckman who averages under 2 marks a game? Probably explains why you play 2...

I'm not the one sooking about injuries and the need to substitutes. Your coach chooses to play injury prone players with little rest and you complain when they don't stand up.

Both NicNat and Paddy are out for the season though, but that's only two games for you guys.

 

[DrJon]

We didn't even start with our FF and AA quality ruckman.

There's no easy solution to losing players. If you have a sub it just becomes a tactical change late in the game, players don't like being the sub and clubs didn't like using them because they'd rather get players full games at the lower level.

Sydney still got it done today. Sometimes you just have to deal with these things.

Not starting with a player vs losing a player during the game is hardly the same thing.


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[HTT]

It’s almost as if the sub rule was actually the perfect solution, but people would rather bitch and moan than think about things logically.

The sub rule still had the same issues...

 

[Tbonefreo]

Has it been the worst injury year ever?