Kidderminster Harriers Supporters Team

The latest adventure in the Fans team calendar was an away fixture against the Ipswich Fans team in Cambridge. Both teams met just 4 miles away from Harriers’ afternoon fixture at Histon after Ipswich kindly agreeing to travel to make the fixture possible. It has to be said that the game didn’t have the best of starts with Player Manager Mark Connolly arriving at the game off the back of a night on the tiles and Harriers made nine changes from last weekends victory at home to Stafford Rangers.

So with little preparation and a lack of in-depth research on the opponents the Harriers were all at sea for the first 30 minutes which turned out to be possibly the worst performance of the season. Two defensively poor goals were gifted to the hosts with the team underperforming from front to back. Rather fortunately though Kiddy did go into the break all square after two injury time goals from Dave Greaves and a fine strike from Dave Pountney, although Greaves’ goal was later referred to the dubious goal panel in which it was unanimously voted a clear own goal.

The team re-grouped somewhat at half time and within 5 minutes of the second period, the Harriers returned to recent form and quickly went 4-2 up with another goal from Pountney and a wonder strike from Dave Greaves, who later refuted claims the effort was intended as a cross.

You would at this point expect Kiddy with the ascendancy to go on and win comfortably, but with great credit to Ipswich who dug deep and continued to work hard got a deserved third when Kiddy’s defence backed off and allowed a strike on goal to make the score 4-3.

So with half an hour left on the clock and the game evenly poised the next goal was always going to be key. The games ebbed and flowed for a time, but with 15 minutes left Ipswich got their deserved leveller and although Kiddy pushed for a winner the game ended 4-4. The Harriers had the better chances of the second period and Probably the lion’s share of possession, but all in all it was a fair result given the poor start that the Harriers Fans made and Ipswich’s better work rate.

The fans team are back in action at Cookley next weekend when they entertain AFC Telford pior to the Harriers clash with Eastbourne Borough.

Man of the Match - Dave Greaves

Scorers - Dave Pountney 2, Dave Greaves and own goal

Team and Ratings

Ian Danby (6), Craig Martin (6), Dave Williams (5), Wayne Allen (6), Dave Greaves (7),
Alex Withers (6), Richard Millington (5), James Wasko (5), Mark Connolly (6), Morgan Nock (6), Adam Matthews (6), Ben Grazier (6), Dave Ackerley (6), Nathan Fox (6) and Dave Pountney (7)