Harriers on the fast track to success
Friday 22nd July 2011, 6:45AM BST.
Kidderminster Harriers today hit the fast lane to success ahead of their bid for promotion when the new Blue Square Premier season kicks off in three weeks time.
Harriers are midway through their pre-season preparations and will play their sixth friendly at Northwich tomorrow, with four games still to come.
But the squad and management took time out from the punishing slog of pre-season for a team bonding exercise at the ‘Full Throttle Raceway’ on Mill Race Lane in Stourbridge.
It was a light hearted day out for Harriers although new signing Kyle Storer may have done his future prospects some harm, after completing cutting up manager Steve Burr as both whizzed around the track.
In the end, goalkeeper Danny Lewis took the club bragging rights after his safe hands took him to the top of the podium in first place, much to the chagrin of boss Burr.
He joked: “I was fifth at one point and doing brilliantly. If it wasn’t for Kyle Storer deciding to completely wipe me out, I would have walked away as champion of the world, so I wasn’t happy!”
Meanwhile, a young Harriers side were emphatically beaten 6-0 at Stourport Swifts last night.
Harriers decided to use the game to run the rule over their new academy players, who started work last week, and the team was taken by youth boss Jerry Gill.
They went against an experienced Swifts side but held their own in the first 20 minutes before completing collapsing before the half-hour mark, conceding three goals.
Another went in before half-time with the last two after the break, as the fledgling Harriers side were overwhelmed.
Harriers vice-chairman Wayne Allen was also appointed to the main board of the Football Conference today.
Allen is one of two new faces on the nine-man board, along with Gateshead chairman Graham Wood.
With Helen Thompson leaving her post, Allen will also become the nominated chairman of the Football Conference Youth Alliance.
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