No Reserve Team entered in league next season - from Club

Oh, and they also say that Dirk Hartog is gay.

 

That's odd

What do we gain from that? The reserve thing I mean, the positives of Dirk being gay are manifold, obviously.

 

if that welsh idiot played fringe 1st teamers in the reserves

then the academy lads would have to play twice a week, what a *****

 

My gayness is manifold ?

Yer fckers.

 

RE: if that welsh idiot played fringe 1st teamers in the reserves

Completely agree. I think the Hudds game last week was first time 1st team fringe players made up the majority of the team.

Real shame. They only play about 3 times a month anyway. So injured players won't have any games - unless they arrange ones behind closed doors - and call upon academy to make up the numbers. Full circle! (doh)

I've also seen reserve games as good way to introduce kids into football to see if they like it - test the water so to speak. That has gone downhill this year a bit though with playing on academy pitches - they don't see inside the ground

 

* No second level footie for academy players to step up to.

* No second level footie for our fringe players to stake a first team claim.

* Nowhere for our players to get match fitness after injuries.

I'm struggling to see the positives of this move.

 

so where do the academy players move onto when they are too old

other clubs probably, may as well scrap it

 

More Here

The 'increased demand' of one reserve match every couple of weeks (doh) (doh) (doh)

http://www.barnsleyfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10309~1608288,00.html

 

I do not agree. I have been to reserve team games very infrequently because they are meaningless. Teams consist of a mix of players. !st team fringe players trying to get their touch back after being dropped or trying to regain fittness after being injured, but at the same time they are pulling out of tackles because they do not want to get injured and put themselves out of contention for a first team spot. With small squads like Barnsley's we cannot afford to have players injuring themselves and putting themselves out of contention for a first team spot. Academy players just cannot play two games per week and I would rather see them be competitive on a Saturday rather than in a meaningless reserve team game.

 

Norwich did that this season

They instead play the occasional 'reserve' friendly against mainly local non league and semi professional sides with the occasional bigger team when they can attract them.

A lot of their fans believe it has only harmed the club because they can only arrange reserve games about once a month and it gives the fringe players no chance of match practice or to impress. The particularly felt tht if the manager fell out with a player in training then their career at the club was all but over as that player would have no opportunity to show the manager that they were good enough. I think thats especially important with barnsley considering Daveys alleged reputation for falling out with players in training.

As a season ticket holder can I have a free shirt next season please Mr Cryne? To make up for the reserves league tickets you're taking away from me. Ta very nicely

 

That reasoning is baffling

"Because of the small squad of players and to avoid increased demands on the Club's Academy scholars"


How about you play the fecking seniors that aren't getting a game for the first team then instead of putting 16 year olds in the reserves?

Luke steele has made how many reserve appearences this season? Oddjop? Rigters? Mostto? How many has Devaney made or Van Homoet and El Haimour?

Stop pissing about saying 'we know what they can do' and put the RESERVE players in the RESERVES. Leave the academy lads to play in the academy.

**** me sideways barnsley make the simplest of things complicated don't they

 

it smacks of not wanting to hurt fringe players feelings

by sticking them in the stiffs

 

reserves only played 16 games this season nt

 

surely 16 is better than none at all! nt

 

sounds more to me like trying to cut down on the workload

for the team management.

Branson has been running everything below the first team while the likes of ryan kidd do erm well i assume they do something apart from 'assist' davey (doing a grand job at that too).

We should leave the academy manager to manage the academy, the first team manager to manage the first team and the assistant manager assisting the first team manager and managing the reserves with the three of them having regular meetings to discuss players etc.

Davey doesn't seem interested in the academy or reserves at all. He's got his few players and if they aren't good enough he'll go out and gamble on another loan signing or foreigner from youtube.

 

my point is noone is playing twice every week nt

 

Halifax, grimsby and scarborough have historically been the norm...

how many have come through and gone onto "greater things"...

not many of late.

 

haven't they taken reserves games away from a lot nowadays

by playing them in the day time when most of us are at work???

or am I thinking something else here

 

You're right they did but i'm not sure if they're still played during the day

or if they're now played at night. I would have thought most of the team that plays in our 'reserves' would still be at school during the day. Davey said anyone who got detention would have to play for the reserve team to keep him his job

 

big mistake

so now the club expect our 16/17/18 year old scholars to make the jump from acadamy football to the championship (hopefully) via a few reserve friendlys here and there!