[Chimer]

Reserve teams made more sense when you didn't have any / many substitutes. To run an adult reserve team in a regular competition these days you would need a total squad of over 30 with probably 4 goalkeepers. You wouldn't want to play any of the regular first team or bench in a reserve side if there was a first team game due in the next four days or so, and gates would be in the low dozens. Just couldn't make financial sense .... in my opinion.