15 Oct 2021 14:56:47
What’s happening to the “Great game” that used to be eleven a side? Pep wants five substitutes ( in case he picks the wrong team) some are concerned players are playing too much, although most Clubs have over twenty International players to pick from, some players want to play every minute and as often as possible while some are happy coming off the bench for five minutes. Do they really think fans have paid to watch endless substitutions, breaking up the flow of the game? Why does the game have to stop to make substitutions anyway? We’ve already got fans who walk out when the “added time” board goes up and one team’s trying to hide in the corner with the ball for five or six minutes, if we’re going to have ten substitutions breaking up the whole of the second half we might as well all give up.


1.) 15 Oct 2021
15 Oct 2021 17:40:02
Quite agree oxley, the game as we know it is being slowly changed to suit those who don't want competition. The time wasting we've seen this season, the diving, feigning injury, VAR delays and keeping the ball in the corner all destroy the spectacle we pay to watch. It'll be 4 quarters next with entertainments in between with managers asking for time outs. Seriously the game isn't the football we grew up with.


2.) 15 Oct 2021
15 Oct 2021 18:37:20
I've always thought VAR was actually a natural break to have a fag. Obviously I was wrong!
Substitutes in my opinion should be for injury only not for tactical reasons. But then again I'm old and out of touch. It used to be a game of contact for grown ups!


3.) 16 Oct 2021
16 Oct 2021 00:26:35
In terms of the breaks in fairness I don't think it would make a difference because when five subs has been used elsewhere it usually has to still come in three changes. The real problem is that what this actually represents is yet ANOTHER way the biggest clubs want the odds stacked in their favour! The only teams with a strong enough bench to have five subs which could actually change a game are of course the biggest 4/ 6 clubs in the league! Do they really expect us to believe that City/ Pool bringing on five players from there bench has the same impact as five of our bench or say Burnleys?! As always they are just shameless! ?.


4.) 16 Oct 2021
16 Oct 2021 07:32:18
But the thing is though despite our moans groans and general displeasure with the morphing of the game away from the shadows of real football my now innate passion for Wolverhampton wanderers will never wane. I'm sure a time when we are long gone will come when it's lads playing digital league matches being watched by anyone on their mobile devices or 3D Coffee type tables streamed into homes.

At a price paid to media bypassing any club administration. But for now it's the vile v wolves and emotions will peak and trough for 90+ minutes tomorrow, hopefully with us being triumphant and carrying those indescribable bragging points. This passion keeps football alive and I can't imagine those feelings being lost. So COYW.


5.) 16 Oct 2021
16 Oct 2021 08:31:50
I have felt in recent years that various changes to how football is played and controlled seem to be the slippery slope towards a USA franchise style of operation. In this way the top clubs are eventually ring fenced with all the money centred on them. It is slightly more advanced in Premiership rugby, but had the latest top six arrangement been sanctioned, it would have been a huge step in that direction.


6.) 16 Oct 2021
16 Oct 2021 12:00:58
I am correct when we won the fa Cup in 1960 there was no substitutes?

Dave Whelan broke a leg and Blackburn had to play the remainder of the match with 10 men?

Going on the theme of this feed I guessing back then men were real men and watching the big match revisited and the YouTube videos of wolves in the past I see the crowds were awesome and a lot better than today.
But on the downside back in the 70's and 80's football hooliganism was extreme and maybe that played a part in another area of how football has changed.

I agree with the comments above.


COYW.