Kilwinning boss Chris Strain is closing in on a couple of fresh faces to bolster his wafer thin squad.
The manager admitted he was actively seeking reinforcements after a skeleton Buffs side grabbed a 1-0 win against Rossvale on Saturday.
Strain had to draft in his teenage son Ben to fill a spot on the bench after a raft of unavailable players left him short.
Buffs hosts Auchinleck Talbot in the second round of the West of Scotland Cup this weekend.
And Strain said: “We’ll have bodies back and hopefully we get a couple of bodies in.
“We’ve a couple of irons in the fire and we want to give the squad a boost. The boys certainly deserve it as they’ve given there all until now.”
Strain Jnr – who plays for Kilwinning’s U16 team– and fellow youth prospect Daniel Sweeney were unused subs against Rossvale.
“Unfortunately the U20s team had a cup tie which meant we couldn’t use them,” explained boss Strain.
“Ben and Daniel have been training with us and they’ve shown that they can cope but it wasn’t a game to throw in a young boy.“
