Quote Originally Posted by mjp View Post
It doesn't have to be a one-for-one change. Just get the closest bloke off, get him on and work it out from there. Seriously - are interchanges really that hard? The ball was pinging everywhere last night - both sides of the ground...I think he was off for 10 minutes.
With your coaching experience, you would know better than most Mike. Is it because players don't want to come off so they "just happen" to looking anywhere but toward the bench while everyone on the bench are all waving their arms madly trying to get the player's attention?

Much the same way that we used to run in the opposite direction of the runner when we knew that the coach had sent him out to drag you for making an error or breaking a team rule? In the case of swapping off surely teammates notice the bench waving and point it out to the player concerned?