Skipper calls for united front
Kidderminster skipper Mark Creighton has called for Aggborough to unite and guide the team through their recent slump.
Harriers' recent bad patch hit boiling point this week, an opportunity missed with a 3-1 defeat at home to Cambridge.
Although the team are far from out of the play-off picture, the team's form in 2009 has been a major disappointment, with just one win out of five Blue Square Premier games - the rest all defeats.
Two of those have been in the past week, leaving their good home record in tatters, defeat in midweek coupled with Sunday's 2-1 loss against Northwich doubling the amount of games lost at Aggborough in the league this term.
It is not looking rosy at the moment, but Creighton has issued a battle cry to the squad to "hang in there."
He said: "We must not give up. That is the last thing we can do. The dust has settled on what has been a bad week for us, but we are forgetting how close we are still to the play-off places.
"We need to play better, we know that, but we have the players to come through it."
Harriers have no game this weekend, in fact they are not in action until a tough trip to Wrexham on Tuesday night.
The squad are down in the dumps, but at least have time to analyse on the training pitch where they are going wrong.
Creighton said: "Mood in the camp is pretty low at the moment, to be fair. Heads were down a little bit after the Cambridge game to be honest, but we have had a couple of really good training sessions that have lifted our spirits a bit.
"It's so important that we stick together - the management team and the players alike. We are a club, not one or two people. Our spirit will get us through."
Skipper and manager Mark Yates have had a meeting to try to get to the bottom of what the latter is calling "a lack of confidence."
Both were left with no illusions of what is at stake.
The defender added: "I have had a meeting with the gaffer the other day and we both said the same thing - if we throw it away now, who knows when we will get another chance like this?
"We have to come back, if we don't the season is a failure. All of the good work will have been for nothing."
