Harriers news 2022-23
Date: 01-06-23 Harriers make their first real signing The arrival of the former Bristol Rovers youngster, Kieran Phillips, at Aggborough earlier today heralded the first signing of the upcoming season by the Harriers manager Russ Penn. Joining us from Gloucester City the twenty year old is known as something of a goal machine in non league circles and has scored goals wherever he has been including fifteen with City. Kieran began his career with his home town club Bristol Rovers as an under eighteen player. Rovers turned down advances from Premier (at the time) club Southampton for his signature after playing against them in the 2019 Youth Cup. Once he turned twenty he was given games by Rovers in the EFL
Date: 19-05-23 So long, good bye. Adieu, adieu, adieu Following on from all of the excitement of recent weeks, and the deserved bonus of promotion back to the National League, the Kidderminster Harriers manager Russ Penn announced his retained list for the coming season yesterday. It was as expected basically with just a couple of surprises. The most surprising was the youngster Jack Tolley who everyone thought would be getting his big breakthrough someday soon but that now looks to be with another club. Having spoken with Jack recently he was hopeful for the future but it seems that the manager has seen things differently and has allowed him to leave. The other one was Ethan Freemantle earning a new
Date: 28-02-23 No silverware for the Harriers this season Report by Phil Lench: This much delayed game finally got the go ahead this evening as The Harriers and the Swifts battled it out for the right to meet Droitwich Spa FC in the semi final of the Worcestershire Senior Cup. With a side bolstered by seven first team players the first half started well for the Reds with half chances falling for Tom Owen-Evans, Zak Brown, Kobe Hall and Ethan Freemantle. Sadly they couldn’t get the ball past Josh Bishop in the Swifts goal. Midway through the half the home side began to see more chances fall their way. Lee Chilton forced the Harriers rookie keeper, Walsh, into action and
Date: 22-11-22 Oh no, not AFC Fylde yet again This has got to be a fix? Is it February 2nd? In what seems to be a re-run of that classic film Groundhog Day we’ve only gone and been drawn against AFC Fylde in the 3rd round of this seasons FA Trophy after having played them, twice, in the FA Cup just a few weeks ago. Also it’s another away game in desolate Fyldeshire that we know, barring a miracle, we are destined not to win. Having already played them at home in the league, a 0-0 draw, then home again in the FA Cup, another draw but this time 2-2, we then went up there and turned in one of our
Date: 14-11-22 Russ Penn brings in three loan players Following the comments made by Russ Penn after the Kings Lynn Town defeat on Saturday the Harriers manager acted quickly to re-juvenate the squad and at the same time confirming which were the players that he was having serious doubts about. In comes goalkeeper Tom Billson from Coventry City to replace the below standard Tom Palmer while in place of Krystian Pearce, who has also made countless mistakes in recent games, is Reiss McNally from Solihull Moors. The third player to arrive is Russ’s old friend, and midfielder, Paddy McLaughlin from York City. Returning to York is the disappointing Scott Burgess who has been ‘recalled’ by his parent club. Of the
Date: 31-10-22 Harriers off to St Albans City in the FA Trophy Kidderminster Harriers will be travelling down South once again when we go down to St Albans for the FA Trophy 2nd round tie against City. The draw was made at lunchtime today and will match us up against a team at the same level as us once more. In the FA Cup we were drawn away to their near neighbours Cheshunt FC recently and came away from there with a 2-1 win. We have played St Albans three times in the past with the last meeting coming in 2007 at their Clarence Park ground. The first time we played them in January 1995 was for another Trophy tie.
Date: 03-10-22 Harriers to play either Congleton or Fylde in the next round On Saturday the Harriers came away from Cheshunt FC with a hard worked victory to progress into the 4th qualifying round of this seasons FA Cup. Our reward for that? Only a possible game against AFC Fylde and possibly the one team that we didn’t want. Our record against them is not good and in a previous FA Cup tie we lost 4-2 up there in a game best forgotten. Look on the positive side though and we could be playing Congleton Town FC instead if they overcome Fylde in their replay. They bravely held them to a 1-1 draw at home on Saturday with Fylde carrying out
Date: 20-09-22 Harriers off down South in the FA Cup again The Harriers will be returning to the South of the country in this seasons FA Cup once again when they travel down to the M25 corridor for a face off with the National South strugglers Cheshunt FC. Last season we went down to Ware FC following our 2nd qualifying round win at Sporting Khalsa and this time our reward for the win at home to Tamworth is another journey out of our region. Ironically Cheshunt is but a few miles south of Ware so it’s an area that we’re familiar with. So what do we know about Cheshunt? Well not a lot really. Cheshunt is in Hertfordshire and as already
Date: 05-09-22 The FA Cup draws us against the Lambs It soon comes around again doesn’t it? It only seems five minutes since we were locking horns with Premier League opposition in West Ham Utd and gracefully going out of the competition. Now it starts all over again. Last season our ‘journey’ got underway in the 2nd qualifying round at Sporting Khalsa and this season we enter at the same stage but this time it’s a home game against our old friends Tamworth FC. On Saturday, in their 1st qualifying round game they put paid to Boldmere St Michaels slender hopes in a 6-0 thrashing at the Lamb Ground and in the league (Southern League Central Premier) they sit comfortably
Date: 30-07-22 Harriers end pre-season in fine form Report by Phil Lench: The Harriers finished their pre-season games with a solid 4-1 win away at neighbours Halesowen Town today. Goals from Nathaniel Knight-Percival, Nathan Lowe, Zak Brown and Jack Tolley set them up nicely for the season opener at Blyth Spartans next weekend. The line-up for the game included just the one trialist (A) with the others (B, C, D and E seemingly no longer around) while Trialist F from the midweek game against a Manchester Utd XI was named yesterday as Gabriel Rogers following his putting pen to paper. He was on the bench while A looked as if he had dropped back into the full back role due
Date: 26-07-22 United side edge dull final home friendly Report by Dan Harper: A talented side of Manchester United academy players came out 1-0 victors past a fighting Harriers side in a fairly uneventful final home friendly for the Harriers. Noticeably this was a fixture the Harriers took very seriously which looked to initially shake the talented opposition with notable early crunch tackles from Nathan Lowe and Harriers also testing Dermot Mee from the first whistle. The two sides shared their fair few chances within the first twenty minutes as Tom Palmer saved chances from the likes of number nine Charlie McNeill and the highly rated Shola Shoretire who previously has played for Manchester United in European football. Harriers had
Date: 22-07-22 Youthful Liverpool side punish Harriers Report by Dan Harper: A fast tempo youthful Liverpool XI came away from Aggborough with a 3-1 victory following a promising, yet slightly wasteful, showing from the home side. It was a game that also saw Ethan Freemantle add to his ever-growing pre-season tally. The Harriers saw the best of the early chances with the best of note being on the 17th minute where a cross-ball pass to Caleb Richards led to Trialist C being put through on goal only to have his finish expertly dealt with by the young Liverpool goalkeeper Luke Hewitson. It would be a minute later that the theme of the night would start to become apparent when Jake
Date: 12-07-22 Harriers go on the raid Report by Phil Lench: Two Harriers teams in each half came away with an easy 5-0 win at Worcester Raiders this evening, our first friendly before the coming season. Played at Sixways, the home of Worcester Warriors rugby club, in front of a healthy following from both side it was the Harriers first half team that looked the more dangerous. With three trialists on show it was Trialist B that looked to be the most useful. A player very much in the mould of the recently departed Sammy Austin, both in build and technique. It’s been rumoured that he is Jack Holmes formerly of Burton Albion and more recently Halesowen Town and on
Date: 06-07-22 It all starts at Blyth Spartans The 2022-23 season for Kidderminster Harriers will get underway on August 6th with our longest trip of the season all the way to Blyth Spartans, somewhere North of Newcastle. Last season we kicked off the season away at York City and won there in their new stadium so, in a way, we don’t seem to mind travelling to the other end of the country on opening day. Apart from the usual Christmas fare when we go to Hereford FC on Boxing Day and come back to Aggborough on New Years Day then we have our August Bank Holiday game at home to newly promoted Peterborough Sports on the 27th and then pop