Clueless Harriers fall to another defeat

Another inadequate performance from the Harriers saw Eastbourne beat them 2-0 today at Aggborough.  Harriers, who were expected to win and have never lost against Eastbourne before, completely under performed and allowed Eastbourne to make the most of this by scoring in the first half and then again in the 90th minute stoppage time to put Harriers to the sword.

The Harriers started off in a 4-4-2 formation with Robbie Matthews returning to the side in place of John Finnegan.  This change was to be reversed in the 17th minute when Matthews went down with a reoccurrence of his thigh injury that has plagued him in the past few weeks and so Finnegan came on in his place.

The game started fairly evenly with Harriers getting a few corners in the first ten minutes, the majority of them wasted by Hadley apart from the first one which culminated in a Brian Smikle toe-poke towards the goal that was saved well by Eastbournes' second string keeper Michael Jordan who was in for the suspended Danny Knowles.

Kidderminster almost took the lead in the 21st minute when the ball was played over the top and Matthew Barnes-Homer put it into the goal only for it to be ruled offside.  Lee Baker also had a pile driver fly over the Eastbourne goal.

Borough then took the lead with ten minutes of the first half remaining.  A ball in from the right from Jamie Taylor was met by Nathan Crabb who had got away from his marker, Lee Baker, and he made no mistake in putting the ball into the Dean Coleman's bottom right hand corner.  Much to the Harriers fans anger Crabb then seemed to gesture towards the Harriers fans at the back of the Town End.

Harriers also went on to hit the bar via Chris McPhee and it was then headed off the line from the Eastbourne centre back Marc Pullan.  Hadley's corner once again resulted in nothing for Harriers.