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Subs and Fixtures?

Can anybody tell me what the substitute situation will be for the Premier next season? There has been a lot of talk about 'seven on the bench' but were the rules changed?

When will the Premier League fixtures for next season be announced..... next week?
Glen Strachan, Oaxaca, Mexico Posted 28/05/2008 at 15:25:22

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Jimmy Millican
1 Posted 28/05/2008 at 15:58:28

No ruling has been agreed for changes to the current situation.

Chris Cook
2 Posted 28/05/2008 at 16:17:34

Next season, Premier League teams will be alowed 7 subs on the bench but only allowed to use 3 of them, much like the European competitions.

Tony Williams
3 Posted 28/05/2008 at 16:37:14

And if Septic Bladder gets his way three of them will have to be transvestites in tight shorts and one will have to be legally declared dead......or something like that.

Steve Flanagan
4 Posted 28/05/2008 at 16:49:40

I believe an announcement was made at the end of the season - which Chris has correctly stated in that 7 subs will be allowed on the bench but only 3 can be used - as per the Uefa competitions.

Also, the fixtures will be announced on 16th June - so I?m reliably informed.

Andy Hudson
5 Posted 28/05/2008 at 16:52:46

Septic Bladder?!! LOL! Quality, Tony ? I?ve literally pissed myself!

Adam Carey
6 Posted 28/05/2008 at 17:27:13

7 Subs! Bloody hell, there were times last season when we could barely name 5!

Still, at least we’ll get to see what the youth team look like and Andy VDM might actually get to watch the game from the bench?

Chris Cook
7 Posted 28/05/2008 at 17:47:51

coulld always drag Chris Woods to be a sub keeper like he suggested when we had that keeper crisis a few seasons ago

Albert Dock
8 Posted 28/05/2008 at 17:46:40

Seven subs!

That’s more than the Royal Navy has. And one of them is crocked.

Nick Entwistle
9 Posted 28/05/2008 at 18:17:11

Didn’t it used to be two named subs and two subs it is? In the days when squads were about 16 players...

Andy Callan
10 Posted 28/05/2008 at 19:12:04

Yep that’s right 7 subs - fuckin ridiculous innit?

I don’t know why we don’t have a ten minute multi-ball at the start of each half as well.

Mark Griffiths
11 Posted 28/05/2008 at 19:40:04

On a slight;y different subject, WTF is the deal with the new kit, i went into JJB today and the manager said it is out 10th June, but he has no idea what it looks like, no pictures have been released??

Is that a bit odd considering it comes out in less than 2 weeks?

mike kennedy
12 Posted 28/05/2008 at 20:29:42

The 7 subs ruling came out at the same time as the announcement about the 39th PL game so was completely overshadowed. It’s basically designed to give the Big 4 even more of an advantage.
Firstly they can keep more big name stars happy at their clubs by putting them on the bench and secondly it obviously gives those clubs more options. Whilst Chelsea may have 7 Schevchenkos on the bench it will be interesting to see if all PL teams actually bother with 7 subs and if they do they may have to resort to plundering the youth teams in times of injuries.
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Keith Glazzard
13 Posted 28/05/2008 at 21:16:03

Mike K - very good point.

Some of the Sky 4 have already shown the disaster that ’rotation’ is by trying to keep their overpaid stars interested. And this obviously suits the rich at the expense of the poor. (National sides, rich or poor, should be different). Perhaps we should really be watching out for the day when they say more than 3 subs.

Tony Williams
14 Posted 28/05/2008 at 22:10:47

Ahhh, remember the good old days of one sub only, no goalies just Alan Harper

Debbie Nixon.
15 Posted 28/05/2008 at 23:56:48

The fixtures are out on Thursday 19th June.

Mike Coates
16 Posted 29/05/2008 at 02:10:07

VDM for bench warmer of the year 08/09! ;)

Moyes will need to spend even more to fill the bench.. more Anthony Gardners on the way... lol

Rob Bentham
17 Posted 29/05/2008 at 13:37:56

I remember when there were no subs. Well not really, but I did watch that docu on Beeb 4 about the 57 cup final between Villa and Manu. McParland clobbered the Manu keeper in the face after 6 minutes, he didn’t know what planet he was on. Anyway no subs so when he eventually came around about they sent him back on to play outfield.
Ah them were the days.