marbles wrote:Trader wrote:Those unexpected variables are great, it increases the game time for the remaining 24 players!
It's rare with D-graders that you make it through a half without an injury, let alone the full game.
Normally by 1/4 time the ruck rotation has already moved to the forward pocket with the first injury.
d graders sure, seven 40 year olds on the bench, its a good thing for them to just play 2 quarters
but a cgrader side full of 18/19 year old kids how long ya think theyre gonna stick around getting splinters in their ass every week
and then consider the 19 year old individual.... trains twice a week, sacrifices these 2 nights for his club, goes to a physio (spends $50), maybe goes to a chiro (spends $50), buys socks, shorts, doesnt go out on a friday night for footy sake, then pays a match fee ($10), pays petrol to get to games & to training.... and ALL so he can spend 47 minutes on the ground in an 88 minute football game, spending the remaining time on the bench depressed as f##k
is it really worth the effort busting your ass all week for 2 quarters of footy
In my opinion if we didnt have 25 players on the bench we would lose a number of players altogether. The beauty of the bigger bench is that in D8R especially you have room to put on that guy that is really not all that good and he just wants to play footy. If we had 21 as in other grades over the two sides 8 players get no game at all. Could argue that if you have 8 left over there is only another 13 and you have an E grade, but who has these numbers except a few clubs. Im 36 years old and slowing down rapidly - having the extra bench gives me a chance to play a few more years before the cook gets her way and I retire! Getting rotations is hard but most make it work as far as I can see.