Long and pointless which league is better wanking thread

You obviously don't watch much football.

 

lol it was in reference to your primary school like retort. Nvm, bit slow on the take up Ridd.

 

The only thing I dislike about the English structure is the lack of reserve sides for top level clubs. It's one of the reasons I think some of the current continental sides are so strong, they have lower league sides that play the same style and form combinations as part of development, rather than almost forcing clubs to loan younger players out if they want a standard of football they should be playing at.

 

It's a really crap set up though.

 

Yeah, just not the same structure that I'd prefer. A random mesh of juniors, injured and out of favour players playing in a reserve squad against a similar side just doesn't seem to have as much worth to me.

 

I disagree, because it actually lets those sides prepare for a side with some similarity to what they might face upon promotion. It's also a much better way for them to identify talent that they may want to poach who would never reach the highest level for whatever club they're at. It might deprive players of not making it to that level, but if they're not better than a youth player at a big club then do they really deserve to?

 

I don't get why there isn't just a Premier League Reserves competition who play before the Firsts game?

I assume sorting Reserve competitions by the clubs geography was done for economic reasons but surely we're past that point now where clubs can afford to fund their own Reserve Grade sides.