retired_princess160

I'm not sure I understand the whole concept of feeder clubs all that well, so let's start with my perception: two clubs enter in a relationship by which players from the higher placed club can be sent on loan to the lower placed club in order to get first team experience, thereby helping the lower placed club out because the players on loan are sure to be of superior quality in comparison to the lower placed clubs leagues players.

Right?

In the demo I simply tried to loan all the reserve team people from the club we are alledgedly in league with (No, didn't scout them. No time. I'd scout them in a real game of course, so don't start.) None of the reserve players was interested.

So it doesn't seem to work very well anyway, but the bigger question is: is this feature realistic at all? Does it happen IRL that players from large-ish clubs (just below EPL) go on loan to conference clubs?

marcus6363

Discussions going on in the Cherry popping thread at the mo.

I don't know of a real life connection between a PL and Conf team

retired_princess160

I thought it worth a thread of its own. Maybe we can distill a guideline here.

marcus6363

Fair play.

retired_solecito

Last season we (Halifax) had a player on loan from West Brom, and whilst Premiership loans are rare, for the weaker loan players happinging from time to time.

Most links I've been aware of tend to involve getting players from loans through staff connections and locality. Not aware of any formal links. Had many a Sheffield Utd and Bradford City youngster on loan at the Shay.

retired_amgine

It is moderately easy to loan a player from your feeder club from what

I’ve been told.

Personally in the spirit of LLM this is negative

Also, say for instance your feeder club offers you a player, under LLM

rules do you scout the player? before deciding to loan him or is an

exemption made?

retired_pmetzger1

What's with this double-line-spacing-not-filling-the-width-of-the-screen posting style?

retired_amgine

Sorry mkus

Just my writing style

retired_joysnow

Reading loan out a few of their junior players but they are all to different clubs AFAIK

Don't think there is any specific ties as such but they seem to have good relations with Brentford, due to the manager of the Bees being something to do with Reading's past. A few players have gone either way in the past couple of years.

retired_mujerenforma

It might also be because Brentford is only 20 minutes down the M4.