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Pep has said Kev needs time and to treat games like pre-season to get himself back to full fitness.

It got me thinking, why do teams not use the reserves anymore to give players coming back from injury some minutes? It was common when I started following football in the 90s that a couple of first teamers would play for the reserves to improve fitness. Why isn’t it done now and when did it stop?

we don’t have reserve team games
that pointless u23 league replaced it

Nigels Tackle wrote:we don’t have reserve team games
that pointless u23 league replaced it

But I think first teamers can play in the EDS can’t they? I’ve seen the rags utilise theirs a few times giving people minutes.

Nigels Tackle wrote:we don’t have reserve team games
that pointless u23 league replaced it

But overage players can play in it though. I have a vague recollection of the rags celebrating a title, a few years ago admittedly, where a number of first team players would regularly play for them for one assumes the purpose of getting match fit