Of course they will just like any season reserves will be vital ... Say If Newman get's injured then Poole will have say Smart and Richings or such like meaning they will score next to nothing from reserve and have zero chance of winning the league .
As I said your not going really going to see how vital it is intill it happens
As I said before if your main reserve get injured you goose is cooked no matter who you are under the current rules . I guess people will only understand when this happens to there team .
No one expects them to Beat the Danes Poles etc ...what they do expect is to ride to standard when don't get beat by the likes of Latvia and the Usa etc like they did under Middlo ...so if Rosco can do that most will be happy .
Could you imagine if the scores were level in a match letting the away teams points count double ? or if a rider hit the tapes letting someone from the other side get a chance to have a go at scoreing free points .
To be fair Adams at no time ever looked like being World champ great club rider but was never hard enough and never took enough risks to be a World Champ .