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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP.  My premise wasn’t that subbing on the fly would necessarily increase scoring.  Hard to say how that would play out.  But one of the more interesting parts of the game is when players play with pace regardless of whether they score.  I’d like to see more of that and less of a tired midfielder playing horizontally or backward to conserve energy.  It’s a great game to watch either way.  Not knocking soccer at all or saying other sports are better.  Just wondering if allowing more substitutions would increase the pace and more creative and exciting soccer.[/quote]

I don't think there is any doubt that more subs would lead to greater pace and more scoring.  Offensive minded players tend to use more energy than defenders, so their performance drops during the game. More liberal substitution would level out offensive production through an entire game. On average of course.[/quote]

Interesting.  I’m a casual soccer fan so don’t have a good sense of this.  But do fans generally view the fitness aspect as an essential part of the game?  An analogy would be that in golf, many fans would rebel if they allowed professionals to ride carts because they view walking as an essential part of the game even though you could plainly play a round of golf in carts and that is the most popular way for weekend golfers to play.  On the hand, for example, when basketball and lacrosse added the shot clock that dramatically sped up the game and there was some grumbling from traditionalists, but now the vast majority of people agree both games were improved by speeding up the pace even though it removed some tactical elements of the game, particularly in the last few minutes.  Would a sub change rule strike soccer fans that a golf cart rule or like a shot clock rule?[/quote]

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