The rise.... and RISE of Marc Pittonet

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Caps on rotations, allocations left....its got literally nothing to do with this debate. All you need to realise is that a player can stay on the bench for longer, and get more of a rest when there is an extra seat available. No extra rotations used, just utilising the ones we have better and giving players more of a rest. The concept of rotations is not amount increasing the number of times people come on or off, but the amount of time they are off and resting..

10 or 20 minutes less bench time for one player doesn't mean 10 or 20 more 1 minute rotations for the rest because rotations are capped and time is limited. When applying your assertions to the real world game you would quickly exhaust rotations or end up with a game needing to go 150 minutes to achieve the bench time, which clearly exposes that the assertions are a fallacy because games do not go 150 minutes and the rotation caps are usually not exhausted.

Rotation limits and time are not made of rubber, they can't be stretched or shrunk to fit an argument, both are limited resources, this is not an infinite sum game.

The sort of thinking you are trying to illicit is the very reason so many clubs got the rotation cap wrong in the early days.

On the more important side of the ledger we can consider ground covered, and I doubt you will find much success linking kilometres travelled or metres per minutes without making some rather glaring exclusions. Because no matter how much time you think you can shift or stretch into the ledger players can only run so fast.

Most of the time when players like Pitto, SoJ, Young or TDK are on the bench it's because of a coaching preference for speed across the whole surface, not and issue of aerobic endurance.