Hibs youngsters must wait as Caldo looks to avoid Berwick shock

Colin CALDERWOOD has revealed Hibs’ over-riding need for a win has forced him to ditch plans to give youth a fling in tonight’s Scottish Communities League Cup clash with Third Division Berwick Rangers.

Although 19-year-old Scott Smith forms part of the squad for the second-round tie at Easter Road, fellow teenagers Lewis Horner and David Crawford, who had been pencilled in by Calderwood for a taste of the action, will be sitting in the stand.

Instead, the Hibs boss promised his side, having suffered three defeats in their opening four SPL matches this season, will be “as strong as we possibly can be” as he seeks to avoid the sort of shock he suffered last season in crashing out of the Scottish Cup to First Division Ayr United.

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Sean O’Hanlon, out since breaking a toe on the opening day of the season, will return to add some much-needed experience to a back four which, in his absence, has boasted an average age of just 20, while striker Akpo Sodje, having made his first appearance in Saturday’s 2-1 defeat by St Mirren, is also being lined up for further action. Calderwood said: “I’d have liked to put one or two of the young boys in the squad but we have to get a result. We can only use five substitutes which means leaving a couple more