Second leg showing a saviour for Burr

Kidderminster Harriers manager Steve Burr believes his team have laid their demons with Stevenage to rest despite their dreams of Wembley coming to an end.

Saturday's goalless draw at the Lamex Stadium in the FA Trophy semi-final second-leg dumped Harriers out of the competition, but the tie was all but over anyway after a 5-1 thumping in the first game at Aggborough.

Burr told his players just to concentrate on winning the game away from home and, although that also proved beyond them, the manager reckons the manner in which they performed exorcised the ghosts from the horror first leg.

He said: "I think Stevenage saw more of the real Kidderminster that I have come to see over the last month. The tie was always going to be difficult, but we wanted to win the game and show them that wasn't us in the first leg.

"I said to the lads before the game on Saturday - 'Let's just try and win.' They showed a lot of character to stop us from doing that but we had a number of opportunities to score.

"I thought we did very well against a very good side."

Now Harriers will concentrate solely on their play-off charge, with a lot to do after falling 13 points off the pace in 11th place but with games in hand on all of the top ten.

And there is even hope of getting the three points they were deducted back, with chairman Barry Norgrove joining a number of Blue Square Premier clubs in launching an appeal against the decision to expunge the expelled Chester City's league record for the season, with Harriers 2-0 winners when the teams met on Boxing Day.

York are the next opponents for Burr's men and the visitors to Aggborough tomorrow night.