" I KEEP GOING ON and ON ABOUT THIS "

Until We have A RESERVE TEAM, to get players like Koumas etc and Chops soon back to full fitness, we Will Never Have A GREAT SQUAD WEEK IN WEEK OUT.

JONES WE NEED A RESERVE TEAM NOW .

is it on to jones to sort this? do have enough reserves to make a team??
genuine questions btw not sarcasm

is it on to jones to sort this? do have enough reserves to make a team??
genuine questions btw not sarcasm

With all the players who do not play 90 mins, plus those coming back from injury etc plus a lot of our Under 19's etc DEF.

someone get TG on the blower

totally agree , it's ridiculous really having all the players picking up a wage and playing no football and losing out on match fitness , man utd have 1 , chelsea have 1 there squads always match fit not just starting 11

i think it was rafa benitez who said before that britain should adopt A and B sides like spain, i think the b sides have a leauge too? that would ensure fitness alright.

I guess its all about cost.
So instead of commiting to 30+ games a season why not agree to play 10 league of Wales teams at pre-agreed points throughout the season at their ground? Each club would agree as they would sell 300/400 tickets, they could keep the revenue and City could give their players a run out. Great marketing opportunity and a free run out for fringe or injured players.

Have to agree, DJ tells us that players need game time to get match fit yet the only games they can play in are the ones that matter. He tells us it will take time to get up to 100% as a team yet the players are not playing enough games to get up to that 100%. A reserve team would be the answer to that one.

well said annis mate, after the last two games u can see the fitness isnt right and players dont look intersted, if there not playing football how are they supposed to get fit?? dave jones sort this out NOWWWWWWWWW

I think the reasons we disbanded the reserve team were because:-

a. The quality of the reserve league was very low so we weren't really getting much from it. The reserve teams of Exeter, Plymouth, Hereford and co shouldn't be good enough competition to keep our out of favour players sharp.
b. A lot of games were getting called off by the opposition due to them not having enough numbers for both a reserve and first team.
c. We also don't really have a big enough squad to run two teams, filling it with U18s is not the answer as they have their own league to play in. The U18s league is possibly a better standard for them to play in being as they're playing against mostly premier league teams academies rather than playing against players who can't get into the first team at League 2 clubs.

I do agree that we could do with a reserve team but I don't think we have enough bodies to fill it and I don't think the league we would get entered into would be of good enough standard for us to gain anything from it. I don't see how coasting it to a 4-0 win over lower league opposition or League of Wales opposition will do anyone any good, it certainly wouldn't be at a decent intensity in order for our players to work on their match fitness.

I agree we need some sort of reserve league/side to get players returning from injury match-fit, but there probably won't be any sort of side such as this because of the reasons stated in the post above !

If we aren't in the reserve league for reasons DJ believes or if it's cost then we should be arranging more friendlies.

That's one way we could definitely go about getting players match-fit !

If we aren't in the reserve league for reasons DJ believes or if it's cost then we should be arranging more friendlies.

Luke, we were offered, carl will tell you all about it, in next weeks update.

Until We have A RESERVE TEAM, to get players like Koumas etc and Chops soon back to full fitness, we Will Never Have A GREAT SQUAD WEEK IN WEEK OUT.

JONES WE NEED A RESERVE TEAM NOW .

Agree 100%

Until We have A RESERVE TEAM, to get players like Koumas etc and Chops soon back to full fitness, we Will Never Have A GREAT SQUAD WEEK IN WEEK OUT.

JONES WE NEED A RESERVE TEAM NOW .

Agree 100%

Thankyou Voice of Reason

Surely better to get a run out playing a LOW team and winning 3/4-0 than playing nobody until you come up against a Championship team then bollox up another three points? And in fariness the run out against Llanelli down the Vale wasnt a walk over.

Surely better to get a run out playing a LOW team and winning 3/4-0 than playing nobody until you come up against a Championship team then bollox up another three points? And in fariness the run out against Llanelli down the Vale wasnt a walk over.

Carl,will update you all on this on Monday night.