Here's a thought

[scotman]

At the moment each side can use 3 substitutes per game. For the English premiership that is 114 per season.
How about changing it to a system where they start the league season with 114 and use them as they see fit. When they are done they are done. It would allow coaches maximum flexibility during a game in the knowledge that they would have fewer available at the end of the season, or they could them up for the end games.

[rowanwitch]

football is complicated enough.....and you would then expect the poor dears to be able to count to 114 they only have 10 fingers

[mike11111]

If we followed your idea, Newcastle's season would come to an abrupt halt in mid-October, leaving thousands of members of the Toon Army free to wreak havoc in the Bigg Market every night of the week, not just Friday and Saturday.

[bibblebub]

Use a similar system to that used in rugby league - in that sport of 13 a side, 17 players are named for a game and the manager can interchange between them 10 times during a game i.e. at any given moment of the game any 13 out of the 17 can be on the field of play. That way a player can be given a rest for a few minutes and brought back on later, or the formation can be changed several times during a game by changing the personnel.

[mxyzptlk]

Radical thought here, but why not leave it as it is, it works!