They aren't.

I'm all in favour of criticising Radford's coaching, but lets base it on facts.

Maybe Ellis is only playing to help the progression of the younger lads. Everybody knows how much impact he had on the team when he played, so maybe he's just playing in the reserves to try and push Lane, Litten, Fash, etc up to the next level. Some of our younger players will have played very few/no games at all with Ellis so it will be good for them playing with such a big on field leader like Ellis.

I can't imagine Ellis playing in the reserves unless the club are exploring the possibility of him playing first grade.
Does this reserve game mean that Taylor only misses 2 SL games? Seems convenient that it was arranged at such short notice.

If those are the rules, fair enough. Especially if it was in the diary before Taylor’s ban.

However, if there’s to be a proper reserve league with regular fixtures next season, then they do need to look at increasing suspensions.

Already, I can imagine clubs who have players banned arranging games amongst their fringe players and kids just to mitigate bans, if that is allowed.

The suggestion that Ellis played just to be an on-field coach/leader, seems reasonable. Maybe he just had a itch to scratch and fancied a hit out as well. I’m not saying he won’t turn up on the bench in SL in an effort to snap your losing streak - a few have briefly come back out of retirement in recent years. However, there is that other plausible explanation.

Or maybe, it's just as he explained it himself. The 16s, 19s and reserves were all playing on the same day, plus we had a couple at Donny, plus a few injured/unavailable, and Radford didn't want the first team guys playing too many minutes. So Ellis stuck his hand up to make up the numbers. He is obviously still fit enough and probably fancied a blow out.

TBH though reading the report and the way he phrased certain things, it sounded like he was deffo contemplating a comeback at some point.

…. "should he be needed."

Is Jordan Cox still part of your reserves set-up?

I think so. I'm sure I saw him on some photos during the week from when the team went to play footgolf. Unless he was just invited along anyway as a mate.

thanks.

I don't know if he ever really was as such. I thought he was just training with us to help him find a club, like we did with Larroyer. He would have been involved yesterday if he was still with us, unless he has a knock.

Quote: Mr. Zucchini Head "I don't know if he ever really was as such. I thought he was just training with us to help him find a club, like we did with Larroyer. He would have been involved yesterday if he was still with us, unless he has a knock.'" Radford drew a distinction between Larroyer’s situation/goal and Cox’s at the turn of the year. https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... ox-2383758 However, with the way the reserves thing has panned out, maybe the club and/or player decided to go in another direction. I doubt there’ll be the 15 to 20 games that was anticipated then. On the other hand, maybe he just picked up a knock in training or something.

Quote: Mr. Zucchini Head "I don't know if he ever really was as such. I thought he was just training with us to help him find a club, like we did with Larroyer. He would have been involved yesterday if he was still with us, unless he has a knock.'" Radford drew a distinction between Larroyer’s situation/goal and Cox’s at the turn of the year. https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... ox-2383758 However, with the way the reserves thing has panned out, maybe the club and/or player decided to go in another direction. I doubt there’ll be the 15 to 20 games that was anticipated then. On the other hand, maybe he just picked up a knock in training or something.

…. 16 reserve games in the fixture list.

Ellis did say a couple of players dropped out late on, so maybe Cox was one of them.

Signed for Doncaster.

Apologies if I've missed anybody posting the answer to this, but, did the reserve game count towards Taylor's ban?