Harriers boss assures out on loanees

Kidderminster Harriers manager Steve Burr today told the players who have been farmed out on loan that they still have a future at Aggborough.

Harriers allowed fringe duo Luke Medley and Jack Cresswell to leave on Tuesday, joining up with Woking and Redditch for a month respectively.

It took the number out on loan to five with three since the transfer window opened, after Robert Thompson-Brown went to Solihull Moors.

The most senior of the group, Scott Phelan and Tom Marshall, have nearly completed their deals and will be back over the next fortnight.

Marshall has been at Brackley but returns on Monday, after his last game for the Evo-Stik Southern Premier League leaders at AFC Totton.

Phelan is at Blue Square North outfit Vauxhall Motors and will head back after facing the club he left to join Harriers, Halifax, on January 21.

Both were in Harriers' first-team earlier in the season and, with their match sharpness back, boss Burr believes they will be ready to fight for a place.

He said: "You just never know what is around the corner with injuries but, hopefully, the lads who are here at the moment can keep on producing.

"We will have to assess the lads who are out on loan and deal with the situation when their loans are up.

"Scott just needed some games and so did Tom Marshall, he found himself out of the side and the people who have come in have done well.

"The pleasing thing is that our lads want to be playing football, wherever that is, which is always a good thing from my point of view.

"Getting them out on loan wasn't a problem."