Keighley will give hooker Will Armitage a late fitness test before their SSE Yorkshire Division One match at home to Heath on Saturday.

Armitage suffering a shoulder injury deep in the second half of last week’s defeat at Ilkley but Keighley’s director of rugby Graeme Sheffield is optimistic that he will be available.

Sheffield explained: “We have named Will in the squad but just in case he does not feel up to hooking, we have also picked Paul Rossi, a student from Leeds University, who can hook.

“If that is the case then Will can also play back row and he would provide us with cover there.”

Sheffield added: “We have two props who are head and shoulders above anyone else at the club, and with George Fletcher needing game-time to develop as a prop in the second team, we have named the experienced Steve Heal in the first-team squad.

“He is an old-fashioned prop who has been with us for four or five years and is around 30 years of age.

“Steve won’t let us down if he has to come on. He played for half the game against Knottingley when Ollie Sugden was injured and functioned perfectly.”

Among the backs, Keighley welcome back Danny Price, who has missed two weeks with concussion, and Sean Kelly, who has finished a one-week suspension imposed by the club for his dismissal against Pocklington.

Keighley are eighth in the table with five points after a win and two defeats.

Heath, meanwhile, are among four teams with 100 per cent records and lie behind the east-coast duo of leaders Bridlington and Driffield but ahead of Castleford.

Sheffield said of Heath: “They have started very well but we beat them at home last season and lost to them narrowly away so I am expecting another close game.”

Keighley (home to heath) from: H Titley, L Carter, D Price, M Ferrazzano, A Horsfall, D McGee, D Lester, C Spencer, W Armitage, O Sugden, R Clarke, J Hannah, S Inman, S Dyson, L Sugden, P Rossi, S Kelly, S Heal.