Quote from: BG_Gael on February 01, 2024, 11:12:31 AMQuote from: GaaGPT on January 31, 2024, 10:49:05 PMSurely the reserve start will be reconsidered. Clubs will be playing a lot of seniors throughout there reserve teams
Hopefully. Personally I think it's a terrible idea. In theory from someone looking from the outside in it could work. When you get down to the nuts and bolts of it, it won't.
1st. You can't just give a months notice and say oh yeah reserve leagues start then. Managers and players have plans and schedules made up and in place gearing towards an expected May start like the last 2 or 3 years. Training will now be impacted with the smaller clubs will be down 10 or 12 senior players training as will leave the training having to be split.
2nd, when are these games going to be played? Friday night suited most players well as gave the option of Sunday off. But if they are Friday night again that means Sunday won't be free as how can a team train Friday night if half the team are away playing a game, which means can't train Thursday night, so Sunday's and Tuesday will be the only option to get an entire squad training together.
3rd, the reserve players will lose out, senior managers will be using them games as glorified challange matches to see senior fringe players in action.
4th, the small club will suffer again as once the reserve leagues are run off the reserve players will not bother training with the senior team and numbers fall and training suffers as a result.
So like I said, in theory it could work, in reality it will just make life more difficult for the smaller club
I believe that 12 out of the starting 15 players of the championship game last played by the clubs may not play. However as mentioned this reserve league would be used more as boosters for senior fringe players. Ruins the reserve league really