O's plan to loan out goalkeeper Phillips

Leyton Orient manager Richie Wellens says goalkeeper Noah Phillips will again be made available for loan, despite playing in five of the club's first eight matches in all competitions this season. The 21-year-old helped the O's win two penalty shoot-outs last month, in the EFL Trophy against AFC Wimbledon and the EFL Cup against Walsall, and deputised for the injured Nathan Baxter in three League One games, keeping two clean sheets. But Phillips was left out of the squad entirely for the 1-1 draw at Luton on Saturday, with the fit-again Baxter reinstated to the starting line-up and Oliver Dovin, a deadline-day loan signing from Coventry, on the bench. "It was a tough decision for me," Wellens told BBC Radio London . "I see Noah at this moment as a young goalkeeper, making his way in the game, and I see Oliver and Nathan as the finished article at this level, so it would be stupid of me to not put them in. "My plan with Noah is to loan him out because he's had that taste of first-team football, and I want him to continue that so that in six months, a year, or 18 months, he's ready to be our first-team goalkeeper." Phillips has previously had loan spells at Hornchurch, Bishop's Stortford and Dorking Wanderers. All the latest Leyton Orient news