Steve Guinan at Harriers for talks

Kidderminster Harriers manager Steve Burr today met with veteran forward Steve Guinan at Aggborough to thrash out a future for the out-of-contract striker.

The Harriers boss joined Guinan at the club's ground for crunch talks about whether the 36-year-old can be persauded to prolong his career.

But Guinan combines his playing duties with a full-time job as football academy manager at Hartpury College in Gloucestershire.

After joining last summer, player and manager agreed he would only train two days a week with the club but he still retained an impact on the pitch.

The much-travelled hitman made 26 starts and 13 substitute appearances in his first season with Harriers, scoring eight goals, and is 37 in December.

A new contract would be for his 20th season as a full-time footballer with his 15th club, first signing professional forms for Nottingham Forest in 1993.

Other clubs at Blue Square Premier level and below have approached him but Guinan is set to give Harriers first refusal before making a decision.

He said: "I got back from a two-week family holiday in Lanzarote on Monday and spoke to Steve later that day, for a second time.

"I don't think we are a million miles away and I would like to think something can be sorted out, but it's weighing everything up.

"Kidderminster suits me down to the ground, it's a great little club that's well-run and the management staff are great.

"As much as I would like to commit, it's got to be a deal that will suit both parties and, at my age, I don't need to train every day.

"I don't want to sell myself short and, if I didn't think I would do myself justice and be professional as I should be, I wouldn't."

Another option for Guinan would be to play for a semi-professional club and continue with his full-time job Hartpury College.

But he believes that could actually place more of a burden on him, so has effectively ruled out moving into the part-time game.

His eight-year-old son Zac also recently joined the youth system at Cheltenham, another commitment to take into account.

He said: "I have had tenative calls from other Conference clubs and a few below that but, once you tell them of my commitments, it's pretty difficult.

"I could go part time but, if anything, that could take up more time, working a full day and then training Tuesday and Thursday nights.

"Work have been great, they give me a little of time off to train with Kidderminster, which I wouldn't be able to do at a part-time club.

"I would be somewhere every Tuesday, my team play on a Wednesday and Saturday I could be anywhere then, again, with my son on Sunday.

"I have hardly watched him play, I think I saw him three times last season as his games were on a Saturday morning.

"I have missed out on watching him for a couple of years and it's only right I put the effort in with him now."