Steve Burr wants better at Harriers

Kidderminster Harriers boss Steve Burr has told his players they need to start getting into the winning habit as their pre-season continues at Chasetown.

Harriers will be playing their fourth friendly at the Scholars Ground tonight (7:45pm), working up to the big Blue Square Premier kick-off at York on August 14.

So far Burr's men have been beaten by Albion, Solihull Moors and Nuneaton in games where the manager has chopped and changed his team half-by-half, giving a run all out to all of his players and the trialists bidding to earn a contract at Aggborough.

One who has suffered heartbreak in that pursuit is former Birmingham striker James McPike, who is out for at least a month with a knee injury picked up in the 3-2 defeat at Nuneaton on Saturday.

Boss Burr may, however, offer the 22-year-old another trial when he is fit.

The Harriers boss is also without player-coach John Finnigan, who is not yet able to train having suffered some tightness in a long-standing calf problem.

All for a game against a Chasetown side on a roll, having just been promoted to the Evo-Stik Premier League.

Burr said: "You look at Nuneaton - they've just been promoted so we knew that would be a big test for us and it is exactly the same with Chasetown.

"The pitch will be decent and it will be another good work-out for our lads, but I am just looking for a vast improvement on the Nuneaton game.

"There are no points up for grabs, so losing games at the minute is far from disastrous.

"But it would be wrong to say that you don't look at results in any way, because winning matches can breed good habits."