Kidderminster Harriers Supporters Team

The Harriers fans team travelled in style at the weekend, travelling by coach, to take on the Salisbury City supporters for the very first time. A 38 strong party departed Kidderminster for the trip south giving manager Pountney a huge 22 man squad to pick from and it was soon decided that the Harriers would play a different side each half.

1st Half Team: Mark Young, Dave Ackerley, Dave Williams, Ollie Sewell, Adam Matthews, Andrew Coffield, Ben Grazier, Sean Merryweather, Andy Gray, David Greaves and Ash Jarvis.

Not suprisingly the Harriers started the stronger as in only their 2nd ever game the Salisbury supporters found life hard against Harriers. Top scorer Dave Greaves scored the first goal after breaking free down the left he cut in side to finish in style after 10 minutes. Captain Mark Young then doubled the lead after his header from a corner caught a deflection before beating the home keeper. Despite this though the home side continued to battle away and got better as the first half wore on despite not really testing goalkeeper Dave Ackerley.

The only other notable moment of the first half was after Harriers were awarded a penalty. Andrew 'Ebbers' Coffield stepped up hoping to score his first ever goal but saw his effort clear the crossbar by some distance much to the dissapointment of everyone. (see bottom picture).

At half time is was all change though with season debuts for Rob Holmes (Harriers Youth team goalkeeper), Paul Taylor and Tom Husdon bringing the number of players used this season to the half century.

2nd Half Team : Rob Holmes, Chris Lacey, Mark Connolly, Richard Millington, Dereck McAnenay, Keiran McAnenay, John Wenham, Tom Hudson, Paul Taylor, Jai Stampe and Bradley Drew.

Despite the changes Harriers started well and continued to enjoy the majority of posession. It was regular Chris Lacey who got the decisive 3rd goal as his long range effort proved too powerful for the City goalkeeper who could only palm the ball into the back of the net. Paul Taylor added a fourth as City started to tire and that is how the score remained to give the Yellows their first clean sheet in 32 games!

With the game being played at the training pitches next to the ground quite a crowd had started to form and it was a welcome boost when a few of the Harriers first team wandered over to watch for 10 minutes, although were not too sure they learnt anything!

It was an enjoyable game against a great bunch of lads and showed just what supporters footy should be about. A good clean game followed by a few drinks with our new 'friends' from Salisbury.

The team are back on the road next week with a trip to Lewes who will become the 50th different side the Harriers fans team have played.

Scorers : Dave Greaves, Paul Taylor, Chris Lacey and Mark Young

Man of the match : Sean Merryweather ??

More pictures of the game can be found here