Harriers news 2021-22
Date: 16-05-22 Who’ll be staying and who’ll be going? Following the (early) conclusion of the season the club announced the retained list earlier this afternoon. There were a couple of surprises with two leaving that weren’t fully expected and some that were. Let’s start with those players that had already signed new contracts either this season, or last. Sam Austin, Keziah Martin, Ethan Freemantle, Kai Lissimore, Amari Morgan-Smith, Ashley Hemmings, Caleb Richards and Alex Penny are those that will definitely be with us barring some moneybags club coming in for them and tempting them away. The only one that would have fitted that bill is Sammy when it was rumoured that Crystal Palace were keeping tags on him at the start
Date: 08-02-22 Harriers out of the second cup in a week Following all the excitement of Saturdays FA Cup heroics against West Ham Utd it was now the turn of our second string to go looking for cup glory. This time though it’s not as prestigious, or crowd drawing, as the FA Cup but for some Harriers fans the Worcestershire Senior Cup runs it close. Mainly youngsters were out on the Aggborough turf with just Joe Foulkes from the regular first teamers getting more game time in on his journey back from injury. On the bench was a surprise with Nyal Bell popping over from his loan at Tamworth. If he’s been recalled back here due to our striker shortage
Date: 09-01-22 After 28* years it’s now time for revenge The Harriers reward for beating Reading FC in the 3rd round of the FA Cup yesterday is to travel back twenty eight* years to that eventful 1993-94 season when we beat, first Birmingham City then Preston North End, to earn a dream home game against West Ham Utd in the 5th round of that historic trophy. Sadly it was to end in defeat but it was a game, and a season, that have lived long in the memories of the fans and also the players. It was that famous match winning goal from Jon Purdie in the 3rd round at St Andrews that saw us first set out on that
Date: 24-12-21 Don’t look back Dinanga Just a few hours before the Christmas festivities were supposed to have begun the Harriers sprung a couple of surprises on their supporters today. First we were told that the Boxing Day game at home to Hereford FC had been called off due to yet another outbreak of the virus at Edgar Street followed by the news that the game at Kettering Town on the 28th had also become a victim to the dreaded. Then a hour later Nyal Bell was sent back out on loan before he’d had a chance to hang his coat up. Then a few minutes ago the club announced the one month loan of striker Marcus Dinanga from Altrincham.
Date: 07-12-21 Harriers progress in the Senior Cup The Harriers entered into this seasons Worcestershire Senior Cup at the quarter final stage this evening with an unusual, for a football team, visit to the Worcester Warriors rugby clubs’ stadium at Sixways. No we haven’t changed codes but along with this first visit there we were also playing our first ever game against the recently formed Worcester Raiders. Raiders are backed financially by the Warriors so could be seen by some as a bit of a rich mans plaything. I’m sure they’re not though. In a mainly youthful line-up there was a place for Joe Foulkes who is making his way back from injury and also other first teamers Ethan Freemantle,
Date: 06-12-21 Harriers get Reading Our reward for beating FC Halifax Town in the 2nd round of the FA Cup on Saturday is to welcome Reading FC of the Championship to Aggborough on, or about, January 8th. The former Premier team Reading sit in twentieth place at the moment and are struggling to get results so they could be seen as a giant killing if we were to win. We have never played them in a proper game before but we did have a friendly against them way back in July 2002 We also had a former player of theirs with us and one that became a legend to our fans. That was one Johnny Mullins and he still lives
Date: 29-11-21 Boston Utd away in the FA Trophy The Harriers reward for winning our FA Trophy game at Hereford FC on Saturday is a long trip to Boston Utd for the 3rd round tie. It won’t be just that game we’ll be going all that way for either because we’re going there the previous week too in the league. Sometimes you have to think that someone up there has got it in for us. Couldn’t we at least have been given the benefit of a home tie? On Saturday we went through on penalties at a windswept, freezing cold, dilapidated Edgar Street with rookie winger Jaiden White scoring the decisive penalty after goalkeeper Luke Simpson had saved Herefords third
Date: 15-11-21 Harriers away at Hereford FC in the FA Trophy The Harriers went into the 2021 FA Trophy draw today and out of the hat came an away trip to our closest rivals Hereford FC. The timing of it will mean that we’ll now be playing the Bulls three times within six weeks due to them being our festive fixtures. Hereford, managed by former Harriers Josh Gowling and Steve Burr, are having a tough time of it in the league this season with just three wins all season and sitting, at the moment, in sixteenth place in the table. They have won their last two games: against Chorley FC and Guiseley AFC, so are showing signs of improvement. We