Premier League B teams to enter JPT

[Kingsley Valiants]

Seen it mentioned a few times over the internet but nothing official.

 

A tweet today from AFC Wimbledons supporters trust says that the football league have agreed to let premier league b teams enter the JPT.

 

So we could end up facing Man Utd or Arsenal youth sides who are unlikely to be allowed to play at their first teams ground.

 

Wimbledon were the only League 2 side to vote against it.

 

Surely not?

[valiant58]

Sounds like ******** to me

[chrissy_g]

That would be me finished with the competition if so. They might as well scrap it completely anyway.

 

I reckon the subject of the meeting was 'How can we make this tournament ****ter?'

[robf]

That's rubbish if that's the case - but then again the PL do have the "incentive" of not increasing or reducing the solidarity payments (I think Vale get £300,000 per year from the PL/Sky) if the FL don't agree with them.

[Bernie's evil]

Well, the FA may as well mess this trophy up, they have messed the FA cup and League cup to the point hardly anyone goes to watch the games unless its the final stages !

[jjvale_03]

That'll be me done with the competition. I'd hope that we, as a club, would respond to this by playing our own youth team instead of lowering ourselves to the acceptance that we're only worthy of playing against a team of foreign 17 year olds.

[robf]

I'd hope that we, as a club, would respond to this by playing our own youth team instead of lowering ourselves to the acceptance that we're only worthy of playing against a team of foreign 17 year olds.

 

[Bert Llewellyn]

That'll be me done with the competition. I'd hope that we, as a club, would respond to this by playing our own youth team instead of lowering ourselves to the acceptance that we're only worthy of playing against a team of foreign 17 year olds.

 

We'd probably get fined the way the numpties at the FA run the game!

[boltonsno1]

Play a team with the sole intention of crocking the Prem youth reamers. The Prem clubs will pull out quick enough if their "stars of the future" are being put at risk.

[aspins-revenge]

Does any-one really care about the JPT. All league clubs play fringe players in it anyway.

 

The JPT is a pretty redundant and poorly supported competition. Why not liven it up with age restricted B teams from the PL.

 

It'd benefit some young English players and give lower league clubs a chance to scout some young players in opposition against 'men's teams'.

 

Personally, I like the fact that I saw Paul Scholes make his full debut for a Man U B team against the Vale in the League cup in the early 1990s.

 

Or, how about PL under 21's against FL under 24's for example.

[Bald Eagle]

Thin end of the wedge, JPT first then FL and the death of many a club.

[davidatpreston]

Thin end of the wedge, JPT first then FL and the death of many a club.

 

 

Absolute NO to this - fans from all the clubs in L1 and L2 need to get together and BOYCOTT EVERY GAME where a B team are drawn in the match the first season it happens.

 

Id rather have it played starting in January after most teams have exited the FA and League Cups and there would still be something to play for, but it is a sad thing that the one thing VALE have won (twice) is about to be ****ed up beyond recognition.

 

I am really angry a this stupid proposal and cannot belive why teams have voted for it, if the Daily Mail is to be believed (probably got it wrong, they usually do).:mad::mad::mad:

[beasty77]

I think the last JPT game I went to was when we won it..

[cheshirevaliant]

I'll look forward to England winning the World Cup in 2022 now a load of foreign youngsters are getting game time against the reserve teams of League 1 and 2 clubs.

[robf]

Does any-one really care about the JPT. All league clubs play fringe players in it anyway.

 

The JPT is a pretty redundant and poorly supported competition. Why not liven it up with age restricted B teams from the PL.

 

It'd benefit some young English players and give lower league clubs a chance to scout some young players in opposition against 'men's teams'.

 

Personally, I like the fact that I saw Paul Scholes make his full debut for a Man U B team against the Vale in the League cup in the early 1990s.

 

Or, how about PL under 21's against FL under 24's for example.

 

I don't agree. If the PL clubs need to develop their youth players then they can do so by buying less expensive foreigners and playing more English kids in their first-team.

 

I would argue that Scholes, Beckham and the Nevilles didn't get the required experience from the odd league-cup game against Vale. It was because Man Utd invested in and trusted in local(ish) youngsters and brought them through to the first-team.