The multi-ball rule will have a larger bearing on us. When it helps its great, but when your trying to close a game out, it can be a real pain in the arse! That said, how many times did we see it abused in L1 last season, loads!
I suspect the underlying financial reason is that a lot of players get appearance bonuses. For many an appearance bonus is won even if you are only selected to be on the bench, even if unused. Therefore reducing the number of players receiving the appearance bonus is reduced.
The League said it is because some teams struggle to fill bench..tough. On Sky, said managers had no idea and one said that it would stop them giving youngsters the chance to travel away with 1st team. About what we've been saying really.
But considering most of them will be youth players, it really would have been minimal, bar a coupe of exceptions.
Think its a real shame & detrimental to developing & testing youth products. Last season inexperienced players were given the luxury of being brought on to run the clock down & taste first team football. This will never happen now as with only 4 choices ( Plus goalie) this restricts the options managers can use. Players will need to use the loan market more & go out on loan more to gain match experience.
Think back to a few years ago and many teams were opposed to having seven substitutions. It seemed that it was only brought in to help out teams like Man U who had large squads to appease their peripheral players on high wages. Now it is the other way around and it will make the bigger teams in the Championship suffer. With giving the youngster chances, it may not make much difference as they are likely to get more time playing for the reserves than warming the bench, but I understand they do not get the flavour of first team football.
I echo these comments. Stupid, idiotic and senseless decision. No-one forced clubs to fill their bench if they didn't want to, so any club that only wants (or is only able to have) 5 players on their bench already had that option. Youth players will now struggle to break through even more, which damages both them, the clubs, and English football as a whole. Player loyalty will decrease even further than it already has - it will be harder for those players who aren't nailed-on starters for their clubs to get regular playing time, and thus they are more likely to want to leave. Managers will have less flexibility to change a game. It doesn't match up to other competitions (the JPT aside - but then again, Championship clubs dont partake in that). I just do not understand the decision to change this.
Football Manager, it's a game for the PC where you are the manager - you pick the team - you pick squad numbers - you do transfers & contracts - you do training - you manage games - you do press conferences etc i probably done a bad job of explainging but I suppose they're the basics
My son used to play it. Hot needles and eyes come to mind for some reason. Never got beyond Pacman myself.
