I AGREE that squad sizes need to be reduced, as do the number of replacements in the professional game.
I’m DoR at Old Centralians RFC; we compete at Level 6 and over the last few seasons we have been playing with three replacements and eight interchanges. This works well and all the squad get plenty of game time.
It was introduced partly due to the perceived shortage of front row forwards to enable clubs to field more than one team each week with competitive scrums, but from my experience the shortage is not caused by the lack of props but by the hoarding of the resource by the ...