Bring home the glory urges Yates

Kidderminster manager Mark Yates has told his side to make their pivotal play-off deciding last game a match the town will always remember.

Harriers welcome Kettering to Aggborough on the final day of the season tomorrow (4pm) sitting one place and one point behind the play-off places.

To creep in at the last help will have to come from elsewhere, with only Stevenage and Torquay in fourth and fifth place respectively representing teams that can be realistically caught.

But Boro face a trip to Mansfield who - while in mid-table with nothing to play for - are unbeaten at Field Mill in 10 games, while the Gulls host a Burton side who come to Devon still needing a point to be crowned champions.

A point for the Brewers, coupled with a Harriers win, would be enough to secure a play-off place.

A Stevenage defeat or draw, coupled with a Harriers win, would also be enough.

All makes for a nerve-racking last day at Aggborough, with Yates urging his side to stand up and be counted.

He said: "This group of players could make themselves heroes if things go our way tomorrow. It has been a lean few years for the club, especially since we dropped out of the Football League, so this means a lot to everybody in the town.

"The squad have worked ever so hard just to get us to this point, they deserve some success. I am biased maybe, but this team and this football club deserve something to get excited about.

"Hopefully we can give it to them."

Harriers' place in the play-off's would have already been confirmed if they had won at Stevenage on Tuesday night, but a 3-1 defeat took the initiative to the other play-off chasers.

It was their first defeat in 14 games.

Yates said: "We would have liked it to have been in our own hands, but it's not and that is that. All we can do is win our game, we don't want to be relying on other people but that is the situation we find ourselves in.

"It's not beyond the realm of possibility that both Torquay and Stevenage don't win their games. Burton need a point against Torquay to win the league, which you would think they could possibly go and do.

"Stevenage have a tough one at Mansfield who have a decent record under their new manager, but all we have to do is make sure that if teams do slip up, we're there to take advantage of that."