Warren broke his left hand and two fingers while fielding against Lavington on Saturday.

But he’s escaped surgery after visiting Albury Wodonga Health’s Fracture Clinic on Monday.

“It’s not the outcome I wanted (suffering the injury), but at least my season’s not over,” he said.

“If it was a grand final in two weeks, they’d operate on it and put pins in.

“Hopefully the boys can do the job and we’re playing the first weekend of March.”

Warren was fielding at point in the heavy loss to the Panthers.

“Jarryd Weeding played a cut shot and just got a bit of an awkward bounce off the Lavington square,” he said.

“It just kicked up, I dived for the ball and dislocated both of them (fingers).

“It was throbbing, I was like ‘this doesn’t feel too good’.

“I was going to bat at three, but I was saying to my team-mates, ‘I don’t think my hand feels right, it feels numb’.

Warren’s left hand was put in a splint at hospital after the game.

“They (doctors) tried to put it in plaster twice on Saturday night, but couldn’t get my fingers to set where they wanted it to, so they took the plaster off,” he said.

“That’s the first time I’ve ever broken anything playing cricket.”

Warren’s injury compounds what’s been a frustrating season for the club, and it would be a major shock if it was to miss finals.

The classy left-hander has 209 runs at 29.86, with just the one half-century, against East Albury in round 10.

Last season’s preliminary finalists are currently out of the top six with only two rounds left.

Admittedly, the Eagles are less than three points behind New City and they do face one team out of finals contention in St Patrick’s.

“I think compared to the Lavington’s and Wodonga’s, they outwork us in the moments that matter, I think that’s where we’ve been found wanting,” Warren said.

“We sat in the rooms for 45 minutes and we had a lot of heart to heart (discussions).

“There were some things that players didn’t agree with what other players were doing.

“Hopefully it’s a turning point, we did it two years ago when we won the premiership and it seems to work when we look each other in the eye.

“There’s a lot of people who talk the talk, but there’s very few that can walk the walk and that’s something we’re lacking at the minute.”

The club hasn’t been helped either with the long-term back injury of captain Matt Jaensch.

The paceman hasn’t played since late November.

Yet despite missing two and a half months, he’s still in the top 25 wicket-takers with 14 at 13 apiece.