Scrum-half Reiss Price will return from injury to start for Bournville in Saturday’s Regional One Midlands match against Lutterworth at Avery Fields (3pm).
Price sat out last weekend’s bonus point win at Lichfield – the first game he has missed this season – after he took a knock in training but he has regained fitness and resumes his half-back partnership with Jacob Fewtrell against Lutterworth.
Adam Collingwood, who proved a capable deputy in Price’s absence at Lichfield, retains his place in the starting XV but switches to the left wing with Mikey Ho moving into the centre to partner Sam Grimshaw.
There is one change to the pack where Clarkson McLeod starts at loosehead prop in a swap with Scott Rudge who has been named as a replacement this week after two long shifts in the mud at Lichfield and Drybrook the previous week.
Old Swinford Hospital School pupil Oscar Fawkes-Underwood, 17, comes into the squad as a replacement back in the other change to the matchday 18.
Wing Nathan Decalmer is again ruled out by a knee injury sustained against Dudley Kingswinford three weeks ago.
This will be Lutterworth’s first visit to Avery Fields with Bourns edging the historic first meeting between the clubs 15-14 in testing conditions at Ashby Lane in November which was Lutterworth’s first home league defeat in two years. They have since suffered four more home defeats – against Bromsgrove, Stourbridge, Newport and Bridgnorth – but have won three times on the road at Drybrook, Dudley Kingswinford and Nuneaton.
Bournville | 15 Joe Jenkins; 14 Mauro Miller, 13 Mikey Ho, 12 Sam Grimshaw, 11 Adam Collingwood; 10 Jacob Fewtrell, 9 Reiss Price; 1 Clarkson McLeod, 2 Jamie Harding, 3 Jake Thompson, 4 Ben Meakin (C), 5 Harry Dawson, 6 Kieran Henderson, 7 Chris Idehen, 8 Callum Nicholls.
Replacements | 16 Ben Rhodes, 17 Scott Rudge, 18 Oscar Fawkes-Underwood.
*Bournville Blues have named five products of the club’s Colts side in the squad for Saturday’s Counties Two Midlands West (East) match at Upton on Severn.
Sam Barnickle, a current North Midlands Under-18s player, will start at openside flanker alongside his Colts team-mate George Bann.
Alfie Chandler starts at full-back with his twin brother Tom on the bench along with Eugene Madzima.
With Oscar Fawkes-Underwood on the bench for the first team, it means that six members of the club’s Colts team will be in senior action on Saturday, a credit to the Player Development Pathway Programme put in place by Matt Mirecki.
Rhys Williams Goldman, who started in the centre for the first XV at Lichfield last Saturday, has been named a fly-half for the Blues this week.
Bournville Blues | 15 Alfie Chandler; 14 Craig Manning, 13 Stephen Terera, 12 Alex Warner (C), 11 Jack Mitchell; 10 Rhys Williams Goldman, 9 Chris Crutchley; 1 Dennis Suter, 2 Ben Harper, 3 Sean Kimberley, 4 George Jewell, 5 Harry Belcher, 6 George Bann, 7 Sam Barnickle, 8 Jack Meakin.
Replacements | 16 Lionel Muskwe, 17 Tom Chandler, 18 Eugene Madzima.
