WING Mikey Ho will return to action when Bournville host first-time visitors Drybrook in Saturday’s Regional One Midlands match at Avery Fields (3pm).
Ho started at full-back in the season opener against Nuneaton last month but was unavailable for the trip to Bridgnorth and the home win over Stourbridge two weeks ago.
He returns to the starting XV against Drybrook in place of the luckless Cam Smith who broke his left arm just four minutes into his home debut against Stourbridge.
Ho is the only change to the backline this week with two more changes in the pack where Clarkson McLeod starts at tighthead prop in a swap with Jake Thompson, who is on the bench this week.
In the back-row Adam Shaw returns at openside flanker with Chris Idehen switching to number eight in place of Jonjo Fanning.
There is a new name on the bench in Callum Nicholls, a back-row forward who has plenty of experience at this level with Dudley Kingswinford.
Nicholls has been training with Birmingham Moseley but has yet to feature for them in National One this season and hopes to get some valuable game time while with Bourns.
Another back-row forward, Jasper Smith, is set for his first competitive outing of the season off the bench having recovered from an injury sustained in the pre-season friendly against Silhillians.
Drybrook were promoted from Regional Two Severn last season and level-transferred to the Midlands leagues along with their Gloucestershire neighbours Newent.
Having lost at home to Newport in their first match of the season, the Forest of Dean club then won at Nuneaton and drew 22-22 with Bridgnorth at home last time out.
Bournville | 15 Mauro Miller; 14 Mikey Ho, 13 Joe Jenkins, 12 Adam Collingwood, 11 Nathan Decalmer; 10 Jacob Fewtrell, 9 Reiss Price; 1 Danny Griffin, 2 Ben Rhodes, 3 Clarkson McLeod, 4 Ben Meakin (C), 5 Harry Dawson, 6 Kieran Henderson, 7 Adam Shaw, 8 Chris Idehen.
Replacements | 16 Jake Thompson, 17 Callum Nicholls, 18 Jasper Smith.
• Bournville Blues resume their Counties Two Midlands West (East) campaign with a local derby against Harborne at the Westhill Playing Fields (3pm).
Lock Ollie Morris, who impressed off the bench on his competitive debut for the first team against Stourbridge, starts for the Blues this week against the club he left during the summer.
Centre Jamie Maynard, an unused replacement against Stourbridge, also starts as the Blues attempt to make it back-to-back wins following a 47-12 home victory over Harbury.
Bournville Blues | 15 Chris Crutchley; 14 Zaki Slater, 13 Tyler Westwood, 12 Jamie Maynard, 11 Niall Demel; 10 Alex Warner, 9 George Ayliffe; 1 Kieran McGuire, 2 Scott Rudge, 3 Kuba Kijak, 4 Ollie Morris, 5 Harry Belcher, 6 Bhairaj Rai (C), 7 Piers Skeels-Caldwell, 8 Ben Harper.
Replacements | 16 Sean Kimberley, 17 Ben Godley, 18 George Bann.
