Quote ="Juan Cornetto"Other coaches have other squads and have prepared their game plans to suit their players or prepared their players to suit the game plan. I too do not always understand Mac' use of subs either but often circumstances in a game mean that your pre match plan of timing for substitutions goes out of the window and you have to decide which 13 offer the best chance of a win.
I am not a fan of players being prepared to just put in short spells. It is generally the case that props only play in shorter spells by there are exception like JP for instance. In a tight game would you choose to bring on Walters or keep the likes of JP, JJB and Ablett out there? On other occasions you have a young player on the bench that you wanted to give 10 minutes to but the way the opposition are playing makes this too risky. Other coaches also sometimes do not use all their bench.
BM's record suggests he gets things right for most of the time'"
I take your point but you could put your worst player on for say 10 mins at the 50 min mark and then have your best team on the park for the final quarter.
If Mac doesnt trust a player to play 10-20 mins in a league game then they shoudnt be in the 25 man squad
