Harriers boss reeling after final game
Monday 26th April 2010, 8:45AM BST.
Kidderminster Harriers manager Steve Burr still doesn’t know how to view the last game of the season after one of the most surreal performances ever at Mansfield.
It was expected to be an uneventful Blue Square Premier curtain call with little to play for apart from pride, and it looked like it was going to be a game to forget at half-time with Harriers 3-0 down.
But an equally dramatic second-half saw the visitors come back to snatch a draw with goals from Jack Byrne, Darryl Knights and captain Chris McPhee.
It wasn’t enough to claim a spot in the top 10 for Burr’s men as they finished in 13th place due to wins for Cambridge, Wrexham and Salisbury.
And the manager believes his team could have actually been further behind at half-time on Saturday, such was the horror of their first-half performance at Field Mill.
Although pleased with the fightback, the Harriers boss will have taken little from another below-par display from the team, and is expecting big changes at Aggborough in his first summer at the club.
Burr also lifted the lid on what exactly was said to the players at Mansfield to inspire them to fightback.
He said: “I wasn’t happy and I just told them that for the second half, whether it’s for me or yourselves, go out there with a bit of pride to try to get something out of the game if possible.
“I felt at half-time we may have been looking at five or six and that’s disappointing. But they came out, we shifted things round and to be fair to them they gave themselves a chance.”
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