Youth team now in different league

Hereford United's youth team change leagues this month to the Merit Division South Division Three.



Last Saturday the young team were defeated 5-0 at home by Rushden and Diamonds. They finished bottom of the table of nine clubs.



The Football League describes the change as follows: The Conference phase of the Football League Youth Alliance has now come to an end and the Merit Division phase begins this weekend. Clubs have been split into Merit Divisions on the basis of how they performed in the Conference phase. The Merit Divisions form the most demanding and testing part of the season, it is felt that by pitting teams of similar standard against each other it aides the development of the players involved and also makes the competition more demanding as clubs are getting a variety of fixtures rather than playing clubs local to them repeatedly in one season.



Other clubs in this league are Cheltenham Town, Cirencester, Gillingham, Newport County, Northampton Town, Southend United, Swansea City and Wycombe Wanderers.



The youth team's first fixture in the new league is on Feb 19th against Cirencester at home.

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