Nice idea but who would they get proper competitive match experience against?
Part of the problem with the last setup was the kids were just playing each other in that development league - that doesn’t help them to progress. Look at all the colt teams getting pumped in the challenge cup - the kids simply weren’t ready to play “proper mannies fitba”.
Going back to reserve leagues is right. A youngster will learn more playing with or against a hairy arsed veteran in a competitive game than they ever would playing other kids.
The problem is we’re just going back to a lot of what we were doing 10 years ago - so that’s been another 10 years wasted.....