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Originally Posted by ja_shotta
personally I think its a load of shit that Prem teams can only list 5 subs on the bench . Why the great limitation ?? Its part of the reason the reserves and youth players don't get any chance to play for the first team. The small number of bench players allowed means that in addition to the reserve GK there can only be 4 outfield players and coaches don't want to take that risk of naming the fringe players on the bench incase they get an unexpected challenge in a game .
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Couldn't agree with you more. I hadn't thought about the sub situation in that way before, but now that you say it it makes perfect sense to argue its case like that. England complain about not having a good enough youth system anymore (one wonders if they ever did, lol) yet something like this would create some more opportunity for the youngsters to be on the bench. You never know how a game is going to pan out and if you're up 4-0 you can afford to blood a few youngsters.