This smaller roster is gonna be a nightmare all season particularly with covid
It will prove to be a more and more ridiculous decision as the league goes on. It is going to undermine the league this season, there's no two ways about it.
I appreciate that the league is in a delicate state, but the decision already looks to be a shortsighted one. This will cause a lot of controversy in coming months when games are either called off at short notice or teams are having to play when severely weakened. It really does impact the integrity of the game.
There are going to be games going ahead this season with paying public to watch contests that are essentially flawed.
I'm hoping they'll revise this somehow before the start of the season, but I'm not holding my breath.
As far as I'm aware, the league still hasn't even gone ahead and officially announced the new roster requirements. Amateur hour...