Quote Originally Posted by sapdad View Post
I did hear over the weekend from people that know these things that NPL youth will go to home and away for phase 2 and reverting back to the cup/trial group format of 2 years ago.
That is correct heard from people who were at the PYL meeting last week that home and away for phase 2, so a longer season to free up 2 weekends, the mid-season cup will be abolished. The Pre-season cup is back and will be the same format as the Champions League. This means there will be 29 matches for players next year.


Also common sense has prevailed and 18s will remain in PYL at least for another year, apparently a lot of TDs and youth coaches who have been coaching for many years were in this meeting and overwhelmingly spoke against the proposal to split it from the PYL.