Reply With QuoteI went to loads of reserve games in the mid 90's in the Pontins League, please forgive me but I even went to watch Forest reserves as well with school friends. Remember seeing a very young Paul Scholes rip us apart one game.
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Went last night with the old man and we were chatting about old fashioned Reserve Team Football.
He said he used to take me and my brother and remembers us once seeing Bryan Robson playing for Man United Reserves against us.
I’m nearly 35. I don’t remember going to any Reserve Team games but have a memory it was a thing and through reading and listening to a variety of football podcasts, am aware it was a genuinely worthwhile thing. It seemed to act as a pathway for youngsters, minutes in legs for those returning from injury and minutes for those on the edges of first team squads. It was also genuinely competitive too.
Guessing there are various factors, but how did Reserve Team Football essentially die?
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I went to loads of reserve games in the mid 90's in the Pontins League, please forgive me but I even went to watch Forest reserves as well with school friends. Remember seeing a very young Paul Scholes rip us apart one game.
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I used to attend most reserve games at home back in the 80s and enjoyed the quiet and the chance to hear the shouts between players, coaches and each other.
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I never went to reserve games but it was called "The Central League" and included reserve teams from the North as well as Midlands - the likes of Man United, Liverpool, Man City and Newcastle along with Fword, Derby and Leicester. It had two divisions but we did spend some seasons in the top tier. I should do a table of our ups and downs at reserve level in the 70s, 80s and 90s. I think the final tables were included in the Rothman's yearbooks.
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In the 70s it was called the North Midlands League, and I went to quite a few games. It was great watching the likes of Pedro and Benji develop from raw kids into first team regulars.Originally Posted by upthemaggies
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A reserves team sheet from 7th November 1989 (the season we first went to Wembley for the play off final). The one name I don't recognise for Notts is Morris.
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Another one from 1983....
Hurrel?
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Some decent players there for both sides!
A reserves team sheet from 7th November 1989 (the season we first went to Wembley for the play off final). The one name I don't recognise for Notts is Morris.
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Think it says Norris rather than Morris. Bit of google search comes up with name of Stephen Norris played 1 game on loan for us in 1989. Lots of guesswork on my part but this Norris is credited as playing for Scarborough in previous years so maybe someone known to Neil Warnock and came as a result of that contact but didn’t work out?
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