Harriers boss expecting No 1 battle

Kidderminster Harriers manager Steve Burr believes new signing Nathan Vaughan will push goalkeeper Danny Lewis for his place after rejoining the club.

Vaughan returned to the club on Tuesday night and played the second-half of the 3-2 friendly defeat to Walsall, signing a one-year deal yesterday.

The 30-year-old played twice for Harriers in the FA Trophy last season against Vauxhall Motors, signing on non-contract forms from Leamington.

Robert Ambrusics, Ed Baldy and Josh van Leader were all taken on trial and given a chance in pre-season before boss Burr settled on Vaughan.

Harriers lost Dean Lyness to Burton Albion this summer and released Tony Breeden, who has joined Tamworth, as Lewis made his way back to fitness.

Lewis, the club's Player of the Year in 2010-11, spent nearly 10 months on the sidelines injured before rejoining the squad for pre-season training.

The 30-year-old had played in a league game at Grimsby last September before tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in training.

But the first-choice goalkeeper is fit again and will have Vaughan snapping at his heels as the Blue Square Premier season wears on, Burr predicts.

He said: "We are quite fortunate to have been able to bring in someone with Nathan's experience.

"He is quite similar to Tony Breeden in the sense that he has played an awful lot of games at non-league level.

"None of the goalkeepers we took in pre-season really gave us the feeling that they would push Danny Lewis in the way we would like.

"Nathan is someone we feel who will come in and do that, so we are glad to have agreed a deal to bring him in."