Harriers bowed out of the National League with barely a whimper, a goalless draw with Barrow not enough to keep them safe.

Needing a win to keep alive their slim hopes of an unlikely escape Harriers, showing just one change from the side that had beaten Halifax in midweek with youngster Dan Sweeney coming in for his first start, started brightly and with the help of visiting keeper Joel Dixon could have taken an early lead.  Ben Whitfield tried a speculative shot from distance that should have been easy for the keeper to stop was fumbled instead and went just wide for a corner from which Ousmane Fané headed wide.

At the other end Barrow could have opened the scoring when a free-kick on the left found Andy Cook at the far post; his header came back off the post and was cleared off the line by Keith Lowe.  The visitors were well organised and stopped Harriers from playing their game as they wanted, allowing Harriers to keep the ball but not letting them anywhere near the attacking third of the field.

Late in the half, though, Dixon again nearly gifted Harriers a goal, his clearance was charged down by Whitfield but the Harriers man took the ball wide and then fired straight at the keeper who had recovered his position.

With results elsewhere generally in their favour at the break Harriers needed to find a goal but instead didn't manage another shot on target for the rest of the game.  Instead it was the visitors who looked the most likely to break the deadlock; 20 minutes into the half Nick Wilmer-Anderton saw his shot from the left wing tipped Barrow by Dean Snedker.

The post came to the rescue again when Ben Tomlinson rolled a shot across the face of goal and against it and in the closing stages Simon Grand headed wide from Andy Parry's cross.

Harriers' failure to score cost them the chance to prolong their stay in the league for another week, although had they won Boreham Wood's result meant that Harriers could only have stayed up on goal difference and would have needed a swing of thirteen goals to keep them up.

Instead they join Welling United in leaving non-league football's top level and head to their lowest position in 33 years.