Kidderminster Harriers 0(0) v (1)1 Salisbury City

Football Conference National - Aggborough - 27 March 2010

Attendance: 1201

Individual Stats
Kidderminster
Shots
Fouls
Off.
v Salisbury
Shots
Fouls
Off.
 
On
Off
For
Ag
     
On
Off
For
Ag
 
Ross Atkins 5 0 0 0 0 0 [30/23] Ryan Pryce 6 0(1) 0 0 0 0
Duane Courtney 5 0 0 0 0 0[2] Sean Clohessy 5 0 0 2 1 0
Tom Sharpe 5 0 0 1 3(1h) 0 [17/3] Luke Ruddick 5 0 1 3 0 0
Martin Riley 5 0 2 2 0 0 [6/18] Chris Giles 5 0 0 1 2 0
Luke Prosser 5 0 1 1 1 0 [33/24] Aaron Martin 5 0 0 0 0 1
Jack Byrne 6 0 1 0 1 0 [27/11] Chris Shephard 5 0 0 2 1 0
Marc Goodfellow 5 0 0 3 1 0 [9/15] Reece Connolly 5 0 0 3 1 0
Lloyd Kerry 5 0 0 2 5(1h) 0 [31/8] Darrell Clarke 5 0 0 1 1 0
Chris McPhee 5 0 1 1 2 0 [7/10] Matt Tubbs 6 1 0 2 2 1
Brian Smikle 6 1(1) 0 0 0 1 [14/12] Ben Adelsbury 5 0 1 1 2 0
Dean Bennett 5 0 0 1 1 1 [8/17] Chris Flood 5 0 3 1 1 0
David McDermott 6 0 0 0 0 0 [11/4] Stuart Anderson 5 0 0 0 0 0
Robbie Matthews 5 0 0 0 1 0 [21/6] Danny Webb     
Marcus Bignot      [22/13] Tommy Widdrington     
James Lawrie 5 0 0 1 3 1 [25/21] Chris Bush     
Jasbir Singh      [12/30] Jake Reid 5 0 0 0 1 0
Team Stats
  Fouls Conceded Offside Corners Shots On Shots off
Kidderminster 18 3 8 1 5
Salisbury 12 2 1 1 5
GOALS
Kidderminster Salisbury
   24 Matt Tubbs
Formations
Kidderminster
   Atkins  
Courtney Riley  Prosser Sharpe
     
Goodfellow Kerry  Byrne Bennett
     
  McPhee  Smikle 
Salisbury
   Pryce  
Clohessy Giles  Martin Ruddick
     
Connolly Clarke Adelsbury Shephard Food
     
   Tubbs  
SUBSTITUTIONS
Kidderminster Salisbury
46 Lawrie Bennett Lawrie to striker, Smikle to left midfield. 79 Anderson Adelsbury Anderson to central midfield.
65 McDermott Goodfellow McDermott to right midfield. 85 Reid Shephard Reid to striker, Tubbs to right central midfield, Clarke to left central midfield.
77 Matthews Courtney Matthews to striker, Sharpe to central defender.  Now 3-4-3.    
BOOKINGS
Kidderminster Salisbury
Kerry 63 Foul
Lawrie 74 Foul
Sharpe 78 Dissent
  Giles 27 Foul
Clarke 29 Foul
Pryce 90+ Time Wasting
 
Referee: Russell Fletcher (Derbyshire)
Match Report by St@tto

Harriers' winless run now stands at seven games after a desperately disappointing game saw them shoot themselves in the foot to gift Salisbury the only goal of the game.

New signings Luke Prosser and Lloyd Kerry came in for their debuts, two of four loan players in the starting line-up and by the end of the game there were five on the pitch.  The lack of familiarity between the players would come back to haunt Harriers later on.

After an early chance for Martin Riley who headed over the bar from a Marc Goodfellow right-wing corner Harriers were the architects of their own undoing.  A harmless looking ball through the City inside-right channel should have been easy for Harriers to deal with but Ross Atkins came charging out of his goal to clear but got in a mix-up with Prosser who headed the ball past him towards his own goal; Riley made a late tackle on Matt Tubbs in attempt to prevent him getting to the ball but he had got enough of a touch on it to send it trickling into the back of the net.

Before the break leading scorer Brian Smikle could have brought Harriers level but shot tamely straight at Salisbury's stand-in 'keeper Ryan Pryce and Riley headed over the bar from another Goodfellow corner.

The game itself was very poor as a spectacle and had the air of a pre-season game about it, and the pre-season game that always seems like one game to far at that.  In the second half neither side managed a shot on target.  Harriers best move of the game arrived 18 minutes from the end of the game; David McDermott, making a most welcome return after being out through illness since before Christmas, crossed from the right, that was flicked on by Jack Byrne to James Lawrie who rolled it into the path of skipper Chris McPhee but he snatched at his shot and blasted it across the face of goal and wide of the far post.

In the last minute Prosser had the chance to make up for his part in the City goal; McDermott's corner from the left picked out McPhee beyond the far post who headed it back into the goalmouth where Prosser volleyed over the bar.