Papa John’s Trophy 2022/23

Drawn in a group with Wimbledon, Portsmouth and Aston Villa U21’s

This trophy needs to do something different I think to generate a bit more interest. I'm not even sure if I'm serious here but what if say the game starts with a penalty shoot out (so virtually guarantee to see lots of goals) and the winner (the pen shoot out can't be drawn) takes that penalty shoot out as the outcome for the result if they draw the match. Ok down side might be the team that won the shoot out sits back on a draw second half. But something has to be done as I agree with Creepy Crawley an u21 team in this doesn't excite me one bit.

Good idea Steve
Or even expand that to inlude Welsh and Northern Ireland teams. 
That would add some real UK wide interest into the trophy. 

Although it's been formally switched to under 21s this season (pretty much doing that in practice for years anyway), five rather than three overage players can now play

For sure, a nice place to visit, although I'm not sure the cliffs and beaches will be so attractive on a cold Tuesday night in October.

The manager of Arbroath, Dick Campbell, is a total legend in Scottish football and one of the funniest people I have ever heard talking about the game.