Chris Herd will up the ante in his comeback from injury for Aston Villa in a reserves match this week.
The 22-year old Australian midfielder has been sidelined with an ankle injury since December 10 but will start in Monday night's second string clash with Swansea City at Parc y Starlets.
Herd played an hour of last week's 4-1 reserve team win over Wigan Athletic and will now look to build on that as h strives to push back into Alex McLeish's first team.
