Dead team Woking as Harriers grab points

The Harriers rewarded their new manager, Mark Yates, and their travelling fans with an, admittedly, lucky win at Woking today.    Johnny Mullins grabbed the winning goal to send the fans back home happy and also to make up for missing the game at Altrincham earlier in the week through suspension.

For his first game in charge Yatesy pulled a rabbit out of the hat with the surprising return of Burnley youngster Marc Pugh back for an extension of his loan spell that had originally ended before Christmas.    Pugh made the starting line-up as did Daryl Burgess and John Danby for the second game running with both Patrick Flynn and Lee Thompson dropping to the bench.

The first half of the game was virtually one way traffic towards Danbys' goal with chances from Hutchinson and Justin Richards from close range that Danby superbly tipped over the bar.    Jimmy Aggrey was also unlucky when his header crashed against the crossbar following a corner from Paul Watson.

It wasn't all going Wokings way though, we did have the occasional foray into their half.    One chance when Gareth Sheldon was put through by Iyseden Christie only to side-foot the ball just wide when he should have easily put it past the Woking keeper Shwan Jalal.

By the end of the half there was a marked improvement in our play after taking far too long to settle down, probably down to nerves in trying to impress the new manager too much.