Coalisland don’t enter a 3rds team - they did for one year and it didn’t work out.Believe it or not the ideal world you talk about happens in Tyrone. Errigal Ciaran, Coalisland and Donaghmore all have a 111s team
in the league. They are called 111s because you have the senior team and the senior reserves. Then you have the 111s team and their
reserves. The two sets are treated as two separate entities. If a player is to move from the 111s up to the seniors or vice versa they have
to go through a formal transfer that there would be between any two clubs.
This is the proper way to accept a club putting another team into a league by one of the stronger teams as obviously there is no
alternating players as suits other than within the proper transfer time limits'
It's noticeable that Clan Eireann <if they are so strong with numbers>don't even enter a reserves team in the reserve league and while
Cross do they do not seem to contest many reserve league or championship playoffs. Surely it should rank senior team, reserve team and
then your 11s team with the 11s team being a separate entity.
Tyrone reserve leagues (unlike Armagh) are graded, rather than organised geographically. Hence, presumably why CE, Cross etc don’t see much point in field reserve sides when they’ll have a plethora of DNFs or cricket scores against clubs who take a more “social” approach to reserve football.
I agree though that the county board should probably make Cross, CE & Killeavy treat their IIs as completely separate entities - no chopping and changing throughout the season unless a transfer is granted. I genuinely don’t know enough about the ins & outs of fielding a IIs team and had always assumed that this was the case anyway.