Harriers news 2021-22
Date: 03-08-21Cameron comes in Following a series of trial games the Harriers have, today, announced the expected signing of free agent Nathan Cameron. The tall fullback has generally impressed in the friendlies with a few hiccups but they can be ironed out. The tall twenty nine year old started life at Coventry City where he played in the first team fifty two times before falling out of favour. He spent time out on loan with Nuneaton and Northampton before being released to join the now defunct Bury. After three seasons and 148 games for the Shakers he then joined the now defunct Macclesfield Town. I hope this isn’t a bad omen? He was last with Solihull Moors for a while
Date: 03-08-21The Harriers kids lose at Worcester City A Harriers XI side travelled the short distance to Claines this evening to take on Worcester City at their new ground. As at Stourport Swifts a few weeks there were no senior players chosen but there were a couple that have seen first team action in more recent friendlies. James Dutton, Luke Bastable and Kai Lissimore have all played at some stage while the goalkeeper Player L has also been seen mainly on the bench. He was given a number, 21, at Halesowen leading one to think that he may become a permanent fixture. City’s first goal came in the thirty fourth minute when the former Halesowen Town striker, Dan Westwood, slotted
Date: 31-07-21Harriers lay a recent Halesowen hoodoo to rest The Harriers made the short trip to The Grove, home of Halesowen Town, for today’s preseason friendly. Notable by their absences were Jack Tolley, who has impressed throughout the preseason programme, and Amari Morgan Smith. One person who was there though was Walsall loanee Joe Foulkes after his loan deal was announce yesterday. Despite The Yeltz having the better of recent friendly encounters it was the Harriers who broke the deadlock within the first three minutes after enterprising play from Keziah Martin enabled him to finish a move he started by driving a rebounded Sammy Austin shot back in from a sharp angle. In reply the Yeltz came oh so close
Date: 27-07-21Harriers lose another friendly The Harriers fell to another pre-season friendly defeat when they went down 3-2 at Stratford Town. Out of the five played so far we have won just the once at Evesham Utd. The hosts took an early lead through Will Grocott when he rifled the ball home from outside the area beyond the reach of the trialist keeper after nine minutes. Both keepers this evening were trialists so giving the Harriers Online sponsored Luke Simpson the evening off. The Harriers were slow to respond as they took their time to get into gear with both Ashley Hemmings and Amari Morgan-Smith trying their luck with, sadly, weak efforts. The Reds went into the break on the
Date: 24-07-21Harriers get shown how to finish Report by Harriershane After 518 days the Harriers returned to Aggborough on a Saturday, as League Two Walsall came to town. Unlike Cheltenham Town’s offering on Tuesday night the Saddlers appeared to be near full strength whilst Harriers named a plethora of trialists, including the two centre halves. Despite the relative differences in both stature and permanent players there was very little to choose between the two sides, both trading efforts from range. Omari Sterling James whipped a free kick over the bar from a wide angle for Harriers whilst for the visitors, “Trialist A”, believed to potentially be former Harrier Manny Sonupé, blazed over. Both sides appeared comfortable in possession and it
Date: 20-07-21Harriers lose to last minute penalty decision against Cheltenham The Harriers lost out to a late Cheltenham Town penalty in this first home friendly of the season to end up 2-1 on the losing side. With Harriers fans back at Aggy for the first time in seventeen months it was good to see a strong attendance of 979 fans there of which probably 50 were from Cheltenhamshire. It was also good to renew old acquaintances too on a hot July evening. The Harriers first half team contained just the one trialist (Player H and we thing he might be named Dan). He also played at Evesham Utd last Saturday and looked very much at home playing a defensive midfield
Date: 17-07-21Harriers overcome Evesham in the heat In the sweltering Cotswold heat two Harriers teams ran out 4-0 winners in this friendly that during the second half sometimes began to boil over. An almost full first team took to the field for the first forty five minutes with just the one trialist on show playing in the centre of defence. It took a while to settle down against an Evesham side that contained a former Harrier, Calvin Dinsdale, but any worries were soon dismissed when youth teamer Jack Tolley scored for the second time this week when he rifled the ball home just inside the post. Ten minutes later and it was 2-0 when Amari Morgan-Smith, looking much slimmer and
Date: 13-07-21Harriers kids fall to the Swifts A youthful Harriers ran out 2-1 losers against a Stourport Swifts side that contained a few older players in their line-up. This was the first friendly for the Reds and also the first chance for Harriers fans to watch their side since the FA Cup game at Alvechurch back in October last year. A game best forgotten anyway. This one had our U23’s and Academy players on show with quite a smattering of trialists (seven in all) that struggled against the older Swifts but did manage to put up a decent show. The Swifts opened the scoring early on with a goal from their number ten, Ben Tilbury. Jack Tolley replied for us