CyberPieMan wrote:
But aren't you then risking games with error strewn final 20 minutes, which can only be magnified towards the end of a season? Also, won't conditioning end up biased for stamina & not strength? At the extreme, you'd end up with nothing much more than touch-rugby.
I'm sorry, but I don't see this as anything more than another step in the sanitisation of the game.
We used to play with 2 subs and 4 interchanges, games weren't error strewn, the way it is now has driven out an Andy Gregory or a Martin Dermot, clever players who relied on skill, not speed and power. There are no individuals now, just teams of guys who all look and play the same. Removing the skill which is what has happened with the 10 metre rule and 10 interchanges has forced the game into a possession and territory based game, skill has become second fiddle.