TEENAGE reserve players are being lined up by Sheffield Eagles to step up if the forward injury crisis deepens.
"We've got some good young kids coming through which is a massive positive," said coach Mark Aston.
"The reserves are playing at Hillsborough at the weekend and they might have a pack full of 17 and 18-year-old players."
Aston has lost a comple
te pack of forwards from the squad that started the season – mainly through long-term injuries.
Peter Green, Michael Haley, from Doncaster, and Papua New Guinea international Trevor Exton, have been added to the squad but forward cover is limited.
That could open the way for forwards Dan Hawksworth and Eddie Battye, who signed as professionals last year with Battye making his first team debut in the final game of the season.
"Dan and Eddie are starting to get established at the reserve level – we're developing young players which what the club has to do," added Aston.
The young Eagles face Doncaster in the reserves derby, at Hillsborough Arena, Middlewood Road, on Saturday, kick-off 2.30pm.
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