You can have 9 on the Bench, bring 5 on, which i new, but you can only use 3 opportunity's to bring the 5 on. i didn't know that.

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General time wasting would be one consideration another would be to have the possibility to use one an extra substitution to break up the oppositions momentum - much harder if you only have 3 points to interrupt the game.

Yes. Apparently back in the day he bought the singles by 'The Who' and 'Clout'.

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