But all free to play in the semi due to the reserves fixture



Less the boiling of the p%@s commence!

Other clubs fans all complaining saying they obviously want Wigan in the final, although Wakefield have used this loophole several times this year.

To be fair French has been an ever present in the Reserves this season more or less.......

All 3 were going to play in the reserves game Stu, I can assure you of that.

I’ll throw my hands up, it’s a joke but it’s a joke loophole loads of other teams have benefited from before and I don’t think we have. We were due a go and a go we have got!!

Getting quite a rap sheet together now though is Mr French. If he's not throwing players to the ground he's committing another offence.

With a bit of luck next season he'll have all this previous go against him and will be like Sironen/Matautia and Knowles and missing a few games.

That's a game more than LMS and Makinson got for similar incidents, I am sure the clowns on the Disciplinary Panel throw a dice.

Didn't realise the reserves had a fixture this weekend (bearing in mind the reserves GF was played yesterday).

Bonus if true like.

If the Disciplinary Panel were taking previous into account Stu then those three would have found themselves warming the seats in the stand a lot more often. BTW, I think Ellis falls into that category. The system is a complete joke.

That was the Academy GF

Reserves GF is Wigan v Saints on Sunday at Robin Park. 12pm I think

Different offences. French is totting up a few now though.

The Academy GF was played yesterday, the Reserves play this weekend.

https://www.rugby-league.com/article/62 ... view-panel For anyone who is interested in reading the minutes.

https://www.rugby-league.com/article/62 ... view-panel For anyone who is interested in reading the minutes.

Ah cheers. Must be my age.

Are tickets available for the reserves GF at all?

It was so daft on his part to touch the ref. They’re extremely precious nowadays the officials but the players know that. His other offences are for tackles that would’ve been deemed crackers only a year or two ago and he will have to learn but I’m sure he will. I doubt he’ll end up a repeat offender over an extended spell but we’ll see.

I was expecting bans for Ellis and French but for the life of me I have no idea what Hill did.
Has anyone got a link of the incident?
Thanks in advance

I’m sure fans of every other club would be outraged but rest assured would do exactly the same thing.

What it shows yet again is how flawed and not fit for purpose the system is.

Loophole will be closed now cause we've done it no doubt. Even though other clubs have used this.
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Is it really so difficult to implement a rule of, here we go, if you get banned in the first team game, you have to serve that ban come what may. Banned in the reserves, you're banned for them first and foremost and the firsts till its served. I can understand why if you got banned for the reserves it can't be reserves only as senior players could go carte blanch in the reserves..

And yeah, it isn't the Wigan club us fans elsewhere are laughing at/grumbling. It's, and not for the first time, the sports governing rules.

Will Ellis and French especially turn up and play about 30 secs too ? Or do they just have to be named in the 21?

Just turn up mate and pay a fiver.

LMS got a one game ban for touching the Touch Judge in last years Grand Final

Been told only one player can serve their ban in the reserve game

This is a tragedy. Really feel for Kaide and Bevan as I know how much playing in the reserve grand final meant to them.

A complete farce but so is the whole system. Plenty of clubs have both benefitted and been punished by disciplinary nonsense over the last few years - whether it's the appeals process, inconsistent enforcement of the rules, pedantic interpretations and now this.

Even more ridiculous when more than half of SL doesn't even give a toss about reserve grade.

We've at least got a reward for bothering then. Interesting to read Saint 71's comment above that only one player can do it. That isn't what the Rugby League journos are saying but we will see.

IF that's true, no idea either way then I'd use it for Ellis, reckon we can cope pretty well with one of French/Field missing but losing another prop would be a disaster.
I know he seems to get picked out every week but Ellis really needs to get his technique sorted, he's just leaving himself wide open to bans through sloppiness more than anything.