07-09-2024, 05:50 AM
(07-08-2024, 11:37 PM)madbluboy link Wrote:The injury sub is supposed to be just that, to cover injury. The whole supersub coming ont he last quarter and turning games is fantasy, it has hardly happened.
Considering we can cover every player but Weitering and our one ruck, the sub should be Young.
Suddenly people start to see the value in having Silvagni in your team. He can basically cover any position we need if we get desperate.
But yes, the idea of the sub is to cover injury.
Looking at how many talls vs how many smalls we have, the chance of an injury coming to a small is higher than in injury coming to a tall.
Its the same logic i used when i said at the start that you should NEVER put a ruck as your sub. Other people disagreed. Early on some clubs tried it, but everyone eventually got on the same page as me and realised its pointless.
With the chance of an injury occuring to a ruck is 1 in 22, the likelyhood of that ruck sub helping you is very small. Yes, on the odd game it can make a big difference. But in every other game it will end up hurting you.
So play the odds.
Pick a small as a sub.