The reserve league used to be a Under 21s league with no more than two over 21 players now.

Since last year it became a full fledged reserve league again (for the first time since 2001), and is open age. The Academy league (Under 18s) starts first weekend in April.

Richie Mathers and Tim Smith certainly aren't reserve players or were never signed as reserve players.

Paul Prescott and Darrell Goulding you could argue are too good for the reserves.

Reserves should be first team squad players that aren't in the starting 17, plus the higher ranking Academy players working to get in the firts team.

Agree they're one sided, but that's not going to change until we loan players out.

Well they've been dropped, so they are reserve players.

For Wigan at the moment they are but they are not under 21.

Its not the U21s though anymore?

Yes they are your still in last year its not under 21s any more its reserves the ones that are not playing in the first team

I believe you can play up to nine players per game over the age 21 in the reserves league.

It's just a name change - you would think the same rules apply.

From the RFL website;

If theyre not getting a game for the first team what should they do? Whinging about not having competition for places and now he have it its stopping other players playing. Laughable no wonder the rest of the league laugh at people on here.

Any news on how they all actually played - regardless of the name?

I will take that as a direct response to me.

No-one is whinging about competition for places - why would they?

But the point I was making is don't get too excited by that scoreline as we had "first team" players in the side. The first team players will be keeping some of the Juniors out of the reserve side and some lads wont even get a game.

Seems everyone has missed this

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Cheers, but i'd seen that already. Was hardly the most descriptive report so was wondering whether anyone had turned up early to see how mathers, smith and goulding had responded to being dropped. Always a good test of a player's character.

From a Leeds perspective but our sister site Southstander.com has a report........ leeds.rlfans.com/readarticle.php?article_id=1147

From a Leeds perspective but our sister site Southstander.com has a report........ leeds.rlfans.com/readarticle.php?article_id=1147

You can't pick a full side of players over 21 you can only select 8.

Quote ="Bilko"From a Leeds perspective but our sister site Southstander.com has a report........ leeds.rlfans.com/readarticle.php?article_id=1147'" A very good match report that. Sounds like Richie Mathers and Lee Mossop had good games.

Quote ="Bilko"From a Leeds perspective but our sister site Southstander.com has a report........ leeds.rlfans.com/readarticle.php?article_id=1147'" A very good match report that. Sounds like Richie Mathers and Lee Mossop had good games.

They did as did goulding and smith controlled things!!
You were just too big,too quick and too strong for our lads but 90% of them are 18 or under so they'll learn and hopefully come back bigger and better.

Yeah I know that now. However its not likely that any side would ever be able to have so many over 21 reserves.

Caught the last 5 minutes of first half and all the second. Mathers played pretty well, didn't notice Goulding, Smith was ok but nothing extraordinary. Prescott played well, Marsh seemed pretty quick.

Notice Luke Ambler named at 8, how did he go?

He's a good prospect imo but the wigan pack were just too big for us so he didn't really get chance to show his talent in this match which in all honesty none of the leeds lads did it was one of those games!

Saw the last 20 mins and agree that the Leeds lads looked a lot smaller and younger than the Wigan team.
Wigan did benefit it seems from having Mathers, Smith & Prescott in the squad. When Prescott scored he looked massive towards the rest.
Looks like Wigan are treating it as a reserve side and Leeds maybe as an U21 team.