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Will kill off a few of the "specialist" players though, and make it even harder for blokes of all sizes and shapes to make it in the AFL, which is one aspect of AFL that I love. Small forwards, shut-down backs and ruckman are already finding life difficult at the moment, and it'll be only worse with limited/removed interchange.
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It may help the 'specialist' players. There may be less full-on running and more playing in position.Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
"[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."Comment
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It could go either way, just I reckon with a limited interchange coaches are going to put a high price on versatility to ensure that the midfield has a good number of options at all times. Means you can change the midfield around if you're getting beaten, and when they're tired they interchange with the pockets instead of using up 2 interchanges to bring them off then back onto the ground.
I envisage that there might be more playing in position, but it won't be a specialist doing it, but versatile players who can swap between roles as their capacity to run goes up and and down during a match.
On the other hand football has the most limited interchange (3 per match and replaced players don't come back on) around, and every position is basically a specialist position, so you might be right. That's the other sport which has the most broad range of shapes and sizes even at the elite level.Last edited by Brandon; 14 April 2007, 06:05 PM.Comment
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Yes, football does cause fatigue.
It's a simple enough concept but to explain, different players train differently and attain different levels of fitness, so how fatigue effects them is different, from player to player.
Coaches implement different strategies that have differing effects on their teams as a whole.
I have also attached a wikipedia link to the definition of fatigue...hope this helps.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_%28medical%29
Nobody is saying that there should be no interchange.The eternal connundrum "what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object" was finally solved when David Hasselhoff punched himself in the face.Comment
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Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
"[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."Comment
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Leigh Matthews is saying no interchange. Extend the bench, but only to substitute. So no interchange is what he wants but have an extended subs bench.Comment
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An extended substitution-only bench would make for an interesting change in the game.
Or maybe only two interchange and four subs.Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
"[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."Comment
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I meant nobody involved in this conversation was saying no interchange.The eternal connundrum "what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object" was finally solved when David Hasselhoff punched himself in the face.Comment
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