4th subs for FA Cup extra time...

[AndyC]

Teams will be allowed to bring on a fourth substitute in extra time from the first round of the FA Cup this season, the Football Association has announced.

Last season, a fourth substitute was allowed from the quarterfinal stage onward and the idea is part of a two-year trial approved by the game's law-making body, the International Football Association Board, in 2016.

Teams will still select a maximum of seven substitutes and be able to use three of them during normal time.

So, a good initiative or a bad one ?

 

[Huyton Layne]

Seems fairly logical and sane. Will give teams the chance to go balls out for an equaliser then back to a more normal formation for extra time.

 

[wilfjacko]

Who gives a flying feck.

 

[Kurt.]

Bad idea... football has lasted for a long time without all the changes that they are trying to make to it these days.

 

[bignev23]

Gives the big teams an advantage of bringing on another superstar to ensure they progress.

 

[wilfjacko]

Gives the big teams an advantage of bringing on another superstar to ensure they progress.

TV channels

 

[mmmmsnouts]

Gives the big teams an advantage of bringing on another superstar to ensure they progress.

No manager would tank the original game and then the first 90 minutes of the replay just so they could throw out a wild card in extra time to win it. OK, Mourinho would but no one else.

 

[SteveSC]

Gives the big teams an advantage of bringing on another superstar to ensure they progress.

To some degree perhaps...

But it also gives teams a chance to swap out a jaded player or a player who keeps cramping. Or if its likely to be a draw and penalties loom maybe take a defender off and get someone in who can hit a ball from the penalty spot.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Teams will be allowed to bring on a fourth substitute in extra time from the first round of the FA Cup this season, the Football Association has announced.

Last season, a fourth substitute was allowed from the quarterfinal stage onward and the idea is part of a two-year trial approved by the game's law-making body, the International Football Association Board, in 2016.

Teams will still select a maximum of seven substitutes and be able to use three of them during normal time.

So, a good initiative or a bad one ?

Replays
Not at Wembley
Sunday on the BBC
Not Sky

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Good. I'd like to see managers be able to sub all 11 if they're playing pyar turd

 

[degsy]

Gives the big teams an advantage of bringing on another superstar to ensure they progress.

There is this though

 

[KaiserEFC]

Make them suffer.

 

[Khalekan]

Teams will be allowed to bring on a fourth substitute in extra time from the first round of the FA Cup this season, the Football Association has announced.

Last season, a fourth substitute was allowed from the quarterfinal stage onward and the idea is part of a two-year trial approved by the game's law-making body, the International Football Association Board, in 2016.

Teams will still select a maximum of seven substitutes and be able to use three of them during normal time.

So, a good initiative or a bad one ?

What happens if you only use two subs in normal time, Andy?

Can you then fetch another two on in extra time?

 

[gonetomorrow]

Sensible policies for a sensible Britain.

 

[AndyC]

What happens if you only use two subs in normal time, Andy?

Can you then fetch another two on in extra time?

As I understand it Khal, the 4th sub can only be used in extra time IF three have been used in normal time.