Cut the number of subs to see the game improve

JEREMYGUSCOTT
OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK

No more of this: England captain Dylan Hartley is substituted after 57 minutes against Ireland
PICTURE: Getty Images

I’m on a mission to make Rugby Union an 80 minute game for players again. The best way to achieve that is for the number of replacements to go down to four or five initially, and then to move back to the old system of having injury only subs.
Some people will get jumpy and say why, but I say why not? We continually change the laws, so why should replacements be any different? Let’s take the number of s...

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