Teenagers debut for Knights

11:50am Thursday 24th July 2008

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YORK City Knights will give reserve-team debuts to two teenagers tonight – including the son of assistant-boss James Ratcliffe.

The academy have been hit by injuries and unavailability recently but have now boosted numbers, with 17-year-old hooker/half-back Jake Ratcliffe and teenage centre Richard Bostock, a former Dewsbury Rams academy and Thornhill Trojans player, coming into the squad.

Bostock –the younger brother of Dewsbury’s Andy Bostock - will go up against his old team-mates as the Knights visit Rams Stadium for a 7.30pm kick off.

Also involved are centre Kain Seavers, a Scarborough Pirates and New Earswick All Blacks junior, want-away first-team winger Lee Mapals, Michael Brown, a trialist from Eastmoor Dragons, who gets another chance to impress, and first-teamer Matt Danville, who returns from illness. Joe Stearman and Luke Watling also return from the Student World Cup.

Knights reserves: Wilson, Danville, Joe Stearman, Elliott, Speck, Walton, Varley, Seavers, J Ratcliffe, Endersby, Leeke, Bostock, Hunter, Fraser, Watling, Mapals, Brown.