Weather could cost caretaker boss

A big chance for Kidderminster Harriers caretaker manager John Finnigan to put himself in the shop window on Saturday is highly likely to fall foul of the weather.

Harriers are due to host Lewes in the second round of the FA Trophy, but the pitch at Aggborough is still in a bad way after the heaviest snow in the town this winter.

It would the second call off in a row for the temporary boss, after New Years Day's league match at Chester was postponed. It leaves Finnigan with a record of won one and lost one since taking over from Mark Yates for the festive schedule.

The 33-year-old has already threw his hat into the ring for the job permanently before the deadline for applications passed on Monday night, with chairman Barry Norgrove due to review the contenders and arrange a board meeting at the club today, after two days snowed in at his Trimpley home bear Bewdley.

A convincing win on Saturday could have put the man in current charge ahead of the pack, but it's looking increasingly doubtful that the game will go ahead.

Finnigan said: "I wanted to get as many games under my belt as I could, but there is no point in moaning about it. It's disrupting everything as the chairman and his board have not been able to get together to decide who the new manager will be.

"It's held everything up really."

Most of Harriers' players made it into training today, in the increasingly vague hope that Saturday's match will go ahead.

Finnigan has braced them for the worst.

He said: "It would take a bit of a miracle, to be honest, for the game to go ahead. We are keeping our fingers crossed and are preparing as normal, but at the moment it's looking very doubtful.

"It's one of those things and it's the same for everybody else."