Farking B teams again

[RicoS321]

Looks like the Dons are set to join in the ruination of Scottish football, this time the Highland league. Making a complete cunt of the pyramid so that our young players can all play together every week. Once again we jump into bed with the scum.

[BigAl]

59 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Looks like the Dons are set to join in the ruination of Scottish football, this time the Highland league. Making a complete cunt of the pyramid so that our young players can all play together every week. Once again we jump into bed with the scum.

Disappointing that we look to play a part in this.

Would rather we went back to a proper reserve league, with an allowance to introduce injured first teamers to play in limited numbers to get match fitness when returning.

[Jute]

Reserve league is clearly they way forward and worked for years before the Glasgow bigots killed it. 
 

Really unhappy we are yet again siding with both these cunts on this as they do nothing that is for the good of Scottish football just themselves. How does relegating 200 teams down the pyramid help Scottish football. Some of these teams have put a lot of money time and effort to work their way through the pyramid. Now they will be getting relegated just to accommodate the bigots and their hangers on like us. It’s just not right. 
 

[manc_don]

https://www.afc.co.uk/2023/05/15/aberdeen-reject-conference-league-invitation/

[baggy89]

Good.

[Jute]

Right end result if not a ringing condemnation of a stupid idea. Hopefully others will now follow and we can get this idiocy in the bin. 

[BigAl]

7 minutes ago, Jute said:

Right end result if not a ringing condemnation of a stupid idea. Hopefully others will now follow and we can get this idiocy in the bin. 

Pretty much my thoughts as well Jute 

[RicoS321]

2 hours ago, Jute said:

if not a ringing condemnation of a stupid idea

This. They go someway towards addressing the point, with important mentions of the Highland and Junior leagues, but a more scathing attack on the structure of the game would have been worthwhile. The wider point being made was about what was best for Aberdeen, and I think we need to look way beyond that selfish and insular approach if we're to really make things better in Scotland. That said, it's a strong decision, likely to have been taken under considerable pressure from the power holders, so well done AFC on reaching the right conclusion.

Next up, refuse to allow VAR back into Pittodrie.

[Madbadteacher]

I see they've withdrawn the vote.

 

Good. fucking. Riddance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Until the next time......

 

 

[RicoS321]

Good stuff. They're still peddling the myth that it was about player development of course. I hope that we don't get an expanded loan system either like the Dons suggested, where we could send half a dozen players to one team. That'd be shite. The available reserve league, coupled with loans is absolutely fine. We risk diluting the other leagues with anything else. These teams have identities and supports, they don't need to be an afterthought.

[Jute]

On 05/06/2023 at 20:04, RicoS321 said:

Good stuff. They're still peddling the myth that it was about player development of course. I hope that we don't get an expanded loan system either like the Dons suggested, where we could send half a dozen players to one team. That'd be shite. The available reserve league, coupled with loans is absolutely fine. We risk diluting the other leagues with anything else. These teams have identities and supports, they don't need to be an afterthought.

Pretty much what I was going to say other than I would like to see original reserve league set up return with senior players returning from injury playing alongside youngsters. 
 

Also Maxwell should go for all bullshit he was pushing on this but he won’t. 

[Jute]

Tribute Act withdraw their B team from lowland league in a spectacular toys out the pram reaction to the conference league not going ahead. 
 

 

[OxfordDon]

Another year, another shot.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c4gx2yjyjd7o

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Celtic and Heart of Midlothian are the only two Premiership clubs to have their B teams in the current Lowland League, with Rangers having withdrawn their young side last season.

However, Clement thinks there is merit in having such sides higher up the Scottish football pyramid, citing his own experience with Club Bruges in his native Belgium.

"I think what this country misses is that the B teams can play in the second league," he said. "That would help a lot and you see that in countries where a lot of young players get chances and can grow.

"You get also more players who are at the age of 20/21/22 who are ready to play in the first league because they played at 17/18/19/20 games in the second league and they could make the step in between."

Clement reckons that it is "a big step that people are not open for yet" in Scotland.

He considers B-team football superior to sending young players on loan because the parent club has more control over their development, pointing to Rangers midfielder Alex Lowry's experience with Hearts last season.

However, he stressed that it would not only be the clubs who have B teams who would benefit but also other clubs who would be able to sign players from the top clubs who are more ready for first-team football.

"In Holland, they have been doing that for a long time," he pointed out. "And, in Belgium, it took also a long time before the teams agreed to do it because in the beginning everybody was also afraid of it.

"Now everybody's winning out of that."

 

[RicoS321]

33 minutes ago, OxfordDon said:

Another year, another shot.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c4gx2yjyjd7o

 

Yep, the BBC once again showing its impartiality. Let's ask two teams how they think Scottish football can improve youth development. Two teams who always want what's best for Scottish football.

[Jute]

They should just admit scrapping reserve football was a stupid mistake and bring it back but they won’t.