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Alari Naylor

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  1. 9 hours ago, StephenCronin said:

    @Alari Naylor - Out of interest, is there any reason why Second Teams are still used rather than Reserves? I get that Second Teams could play games before Reserves could, but now that Reserves can play games, I wonder why they can't just be Reserve Teams (with the appropriate name obviously).

    Not only is this (always off-season) a problem for Second Teams, there are other problems. For example, you don't get feedback when you offer a player out (eg "no interest in player X" or "several clubs showed interest" etc). If you want that, you have to move them to the first team while you sell them... That's still a problem this year (I just tried with Moriba in Barca's B Team). 

    There were other problems last year (not sure if they still exist): At some clubs players would have messages about needing better facilities or staff, even though the first team had top facilities and all Gold Natural coaches (I guess the second team had dodgy facilites and coaches and no way to upgrade them). And leaving a player in the second team saw almost no improvement, even if the second team was playing games (whereas they improve a lot better in a Reserves team). And if you loaned them out they hardly improved, so you had to leave loanees in your first team. And if you did demote someone loaned out, then there was no way to promote them again. 

    As I say, I have no idea if those are still a problem this year. I probably should have reported them last year instead of just compaining about them over on Vibe. 🙂 I'm gonna try to do better this year.

    But none of these things are problems with Reserve clubs, so a simple solution might just be to do away with Second Teams and make them all Reserves. If there is a good reason to keep them (and I get that there very well could be), it would be great if you could please make Second Teams as alike to the Reserves as possible.  

    If you could add a separate thread with these issues please it would really help with tracking. It will be the research team who have control over whether these are set as second or reserve teams, though.

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