Hello Altrincham fans, i hope your summer is going well and you have invested in new players to bring in to the club for the forthcoming season.
i just wanted to ask about reserves football. what league is it that your ressies play in?
because for the first time since 1999 we are getting a ressies side back at FGR and they have been entered in to the football combination & wales reserves league. which is quite a high level with the other nine teams being: cardiff city, bristol city, swindon, bournemouth, yeovil town, plymouth argyle and two other league clubs.
and i was thinking that these sides are all league sides and have huge squads eg. cardiff, plymouth. and then there is a tiny club like ourselves with a first team squad of 18. the manager wants us to play our under 18s in the reserves so they get a taste of the higer level of football between south west under 18s and blue square premier league. but surely we are going to get whacked all over the place with teams like cardiff who will have first team players recovering from injuries playing in the team etc. and then we will have some under 18s and possibly some second string players.
do you find the reserves team helps altrincham fc? or are they playing at not a particulary high level so the gap between reserves and blue square premier is too big a jump?