reserve-grade

adjective

1. denoting a sporting team of the second rank in a club

Example Sentences

People simply don't want to end up in a quarter full football ground with nil atmosphere, miles from home, without any chance of getting to work the next morning, watching reserve-grade rubbish.

From The Guardian

Is this really what English rugby has come to: trying to keep the margin down against scrummagers who would struggle to hack it in a reserve-grade side back home?

From The Guardian