One of the new changes this coming season is that Premier League 2 will now be an U21 competition so U23 will disappear. Rules regarding overage players have been relaxed a little. See the below entry from the club's website

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Thanks for this doombear.Doesn't seem like much of a change in reality, as 6 of the u21 XI can be over age.

I'm always baffled by how many fully grown adults are employed to play reserve team football only. Youth sides used to be full of skinny, spotty kids waiting to fill out a bit. Our u23s have looked like a bunch of grizzled veterans at times over the last few years, with bearded, tattooed, fifteen stone and six foot two inch 'development prospects'.

As I've said before on other threads, most players in every youth age group are kept around simply so that the one or two that might make it have someone to play matches with. I understand that, as I'm sure do the players themselves. What I don't understand is employing a group of 22 and 23 year old men seemingly for the purposes of fulfilling reserve league fixtures.