Harriers boss praises hitmen
Kidderminster manager Mark Yates has hailed the hunger of his in-form Harriers hitmen and backed them to fire the club towards the Blue Square Premier play-offs.
Kidderminster manager Mark Yates has hailed the hunger of his in-form Harriers hitmen and backed them to fire the club towards the Blue Square Premier play-offs.
Yates reckons the burning desire of strike duo James Constable and Justin Richards for another crack at League football is behind the club's impressive recent form.
And Yates believes the presence of another former League scorer in Iyesden Christie and a young hopeful in Matthew Barnes-Homer is also helping to keep Constable and Richard hungry for goals.
The duo have struck 11 goals between them in 10 league matches so far this season with Constable's seven goals including hat-tricks against Exeter and Ebbsfleet.
Yates said: "James is a goalscorer and he is in very good form at the moment. But Justin is also playing extremely well and looking like scoring goals and they are looking really good together.
"Some of the link up play between them in the last few matches has been of a very high quality and they are looking like an excellent combination.
"And it also helped that we have Iyseden and Matthew on the bench waiting for their chance.
"All four of them have played in the Football League, Iyesden more than than the other three, and they are hungry to get back there."
Harriers' 3-1 home win against Droylsden on Tuesday was their third successive victory at Aggborough and yet the attendance dipped below 1,500 for the first time this season.
Just 1,289 home fans turned out and Yates admits his players must keep turning on the style to keep crowds up.
He said: "It is disappointing but the crowd was about 1,300 tonight and we have to give credit to them for coming.
"We have to get the ones who aren't coming to be here and keep them here week in, week out and the only way we can do that is by keep getting results and moving higher up the division and I'm sure more will come.
"It is an expensive business to watch football but I'd like to make a plea to fans to say that we are worth watching and there is something about us this year.
"We will score goals and we will beat teams, we want to make it attractive and build up a winning mentality."
Meanwhile, Harriers have eased their goalkeeping crisis by signing Shrewsbury's Chris MacKenzie on a month's loan.
Harriers' first choice Scott Bevan is out with a thigh injury while deputy Dean Coleman has a hairline fracture to his finger, forcing boss Mark Yates to swoop for the 35-year-old.
MacKenzie arrived at Aggborough with almost 400 career appearances under his belt.
Starting in non-league with Corby, the six-foot Northampton-born shotstoper spent three years with Hereford before spells with Leyton Orient, Nuneaton Borough and Chester before joining Shrewsbury last year
