SUB COMMITTEE’S RECOMMENDATION FOR NEXT SEASON’S PLANS AFFECTING THE JUNIOR TEAMS Reviewing the general position for next season, we feel that a change in the 'set up' is desirable concerning our Junior teams. In the past we have been running seven teams, the 1st & 2nd, and the "A" "B" "G" "D" and Colts, the latter being an age limit side of under 20. In the Junior field, the principle has been that each season we have endeavoured to sign a complete team of ex-schoolboys to form the Colts team, and then move up all the other placers one team. Any new intakes, other than ex-schoolboys, have been placed in the appropriate team, according to what we have considered to be their standard. The success of this has been fairly satisfactory but, in the main, as the season has progressed, we have realised that a number of the boys are far below the required standard. In view of our fixture obligations, however, we have been forced to retain these boys until the end of the season concerned. The result of this has been that our sides have not been as balanced as we would wish and, in the training session, we have had too many training to enable us to devote the necessary attention to those boys whom we consider to be good tones. Our recommendation is that for next season we only run three Junior sides, the "A" "B" and "C". The "A" to play In the Lancashire League, Division 1, the "B", which will be an age limit side of under 21, to play in the Lancashire League, Division 2, and the "C" in the West Cheshire League, Division 1. The function will then be that only the outstanding local schoolboy players will be recruited and these, together with the potentials from our present Colts and "D" teams, will go to make up our "B" team in the Lancashire League, Division 2. From there the boys will progress via the "C" team, who will be playing in a good standard in the West Cheshire League, to the "A" team. This will mean that the boys who show promise will probably be playing in the "A" team at 18, which is the appropriate age if they are going to make the grade with us. There will, of course, be exceptions to this rule but we are quoting the general principle. Also, it will help to decide quicker whether a boy has failed to measure up to what we require.