Basically he was proposing the most stupid idea known to man.

He wants every team to have 13 on-field players, 4 subs and 2 'reserve' players.

If a player gets sent off, the team can then use one of the 'reserve' players. i.e. always having 17 players vs 17 players.

This was not a joke. He was deadly serious.

It's outstandingly bonkers! Imagine the tactics teams would employ with rules like those! Employ a couple of local nutters from an amateur club, get them to 'takeout' the opposition's best players and then replace your nutters with proper players.

They're a bit like our tactics now minus the new rule suggested (I thought I'd get that in first).

Isn't that the Wigan way ?

It must be a take.

This isn't a new idea.
It did the rounds 10-12 years ago with John Kear as the main proponent of it.
I think it came about due to teams losing games after having a man sent off when later it was found not to be a sending off offence.

I think it got discussed when the "On Report" system kicked in, there was going to be a status where the probabality should have been a red card but not 100% certain, so the suggestion was to remove the "guilty" player from the game but to replace the player by one of the subs. But I think they started to use the video ref a bit more.