Previews 2023-24

Date: 20-04-24 Match preview Vs Barnet FC Venue: The Hive Stadium Kick off: 12:15hrs Preview:Phil Lench It was a short but, sadly, not so sweet stay in the National League when our time came to an end at home to Eastleigh FC last Saturday. In another must win game we failed miserably to score again and that has to be our biggest downfall in our time here. It took another wonder goal from Paul McCallum to show our poor strikers how it should be done. Tomorrow we end the season away at second placed Barnet FC in a nothing game for us but an important one for the hosts who need just one point to confirm their final position. To

Venue: Aggborough Date: 13-04-24 Harriers 0 Eastleigh FC 1 Att: 3189 (away fans: 157) A valiant effort but we’re back down to the armpit of non-league football Report: Phil Lench We’ve all lived in hope that we’ll avoid the dreaded relegation since the arrival of Phil Brown back in January but that hope ended today with this defeat at home, once again, to Eastleigh FC. Just the one chance for them was enough and it’s no shame that it was scored by the best striker in non-league football, Paul McCallum. If only we had a striker like him we could still be here to fight another day but instead we have strikers that have failed continually in finding the back

Date: 06-04-24 Match preview Vs FC Halifax Town Venue: Aggborough Kick off: 17:30hrs Preview:Phil Lench Last Friday it was all despondency wherever you looked when the Harriers lost 3-1 at home to Altrincham and relegation was assumed to be inevitable but move on a couple of days and you’d have thought we were heading for the play-offs following our amazing win by the same scoreline at champions Chesterfield FC. It was the worst of games, it was the best of games. (© Charles Dickens, almost) Now we face FC Halifax Town tomorrow evening in a game, at Aggborough, that has ‘must win’ all over it but didn’t we say the same about the Altrincham game? It has to be hoped

Date: 01-04-24 Match preview Vs Chesterfield FC Venue: SMH Group Stadium Kick off: 15:00hrs Preview:Harry211 Harriers’ condemnation on Good Friday was fitting for the time of year. Rather than being put on a cross, they were put to the sword by a slick Altrincham team to kick off the bank holiday weekend, as the playoff chasers ran out 3-1 winners. However as any students of the bible story know after Good Friday was the most unlikely of resurrections and Phil Brown will hope the pattern will be repeated for tomorrow’s game against champions Chesterfield. Scholars too will recall with heady optimism that following the resurrection was the ascension. Leaden heavy Easter metaphors aside, the game against the Spirites is one

Date: 29-03-24 Match preview Vs Altrincham Venue: Aggborough Kick off: 15:00hrs Preview:Phil Lench The Harriers have reached the final few weeks of the season and the countdown to the Last Chance Saloon begins at the start of Easter tomorrow with an important home game against Altrincham. With the Reds still stuck in the relegation zone, even after only losing twice in thirteen games, we must simply win our three remaining home games and hope for the best in the two away games left. On paper the three games at home against Alty, FC Halifax Town and Eastleigh FC are all winnable so we have to make sure that is what we do. Away from home it’s a different matter with

Date: 23-03-24 Match preview Vs Wealdstone FC Venue: Grosvenor Vale Kick off: 15:00hrs Preview: Phil Lench It’s the Harriers chance to gain their one remaining double of the season when they journey back down to London for the second weekend running tomorrow. We beat Wealdstone FC 1-0 at Aggborough back in October with an Amari Morgan-Smith goal in the dying seconds of the game so to win tomorrow would be our one and only chance of this rare, for us, feat. We were all getting ready to settle for a nil nil at Aggborough when a Sam Robinson free kick was targeted into a packed goal mouth for AMS to bundle home and hand us the three points in our

Date: 16-03-24 Match preview Vs Bromley FC Venue: Hayes Lane Kick off: 15:00hrs Preview: Phil Lench The team and their fans should be looking forwards to this game against Bromley FC because we all know that the Harriers play better, and win, against the better sides in this league than we do against those struggling down at the bottom with us. Oldham Athletic and Solihull Moors have both been beaten away from home in recent weeks while we’ve struggled against Woking, AFC Fylde and York City in that same period. On Tuesday evening we entertained Fylde an managed a draw after going down to yet another sucker punch in allowing them to take a first half lead after our defenders

Date: 12-03-24 Match preview Vs AFC Fylde Venue: Aggborough Kick off: 19:45hrs Preview: Phil Lench In recent weeks the Harriers have gone away to a number of higher placed teams and come away with the points. Those wins against the likes of Hartlepool Utd, Oldham Athletic and Solihull Moors have upset the form book and also given the Harriers fans the belief that Phil Brown can actually perform a miracle and get us out of this mess. Then we do exactly the opposite and find ourselves playing fellow teams also trying to avoid relegation and turn in a poor performance to draw a game that we’d now be expected to win or even lose after being the better team at