Your mission should you choose to accept it.
Get a result at Aggborough. It’s MASSIVE. It’s Mission Bloody Difficult.
We shouldn’t kid ourselves. Ignoring reality is foolish. We’re away to an in-form full time top scoring team chasing automatic promotion. Ashley Hemmings with 33 goals in all competitions isn’t far off all our strikers combined over the whole season. The Bulls rarely perform well here and being outnumbered probably 3 to 1, far less likely that we can outshout the home supporters. Best to draw a veil over the last time the two sides met.
Let me spell it out. Harriers are unbeaten in 12 games (with 10 wins). Feels ominously like their freak end of season backdoor promotion two years ago. In those 9 wins they’ve beaten Kings Lynn, Curzon plus both their Championship rivals Scunthorpe and Brackley. They’ve worth their last 6 homes in a row, scoring 16 and conceding only once.
There isn’t much to say new about this familiar location. A reminder to the cash users in Herefordshire that the Worcestershire club are cashless everywhere. Everyone surely already knows their favourite pub, parking, best ways in, plus Kidderminster catering is as bland as elsewhere. The same familiarity goes for their players… after all several are former Bulls. As for the rest, official UK pensioner Phil Brown will tell anyone endlessly that they are all world beaters. To show willing, lets rattle through them ex Bulls. Downing is typically in and out the team. He’s managed 1,800 minutes but not been part of the squad recently. Former Bulls loanee McNally is a regular in the back four. Maz Kouhyar is ominously settled with 10 goals in 38 appearances while Obidaye is most often a reliable, uncomplaining substitute, grateful to be a full-time ‘baller aged 35.
So that’s the reality. But what of our Dream?
That feelgood factor has been building in recent weeks. If this dream is to see any variation of fruition, we must find a way to get a result in ‘A Big Game’. We can take comfort that our record is solid against top 8 sides with only two defeats in 14 matches. If players really want to prove to their old club that they’ve made a mistake to release them, we’ve got half a team of Kiddy surplus – Preston, Cowley, White, Ceesay, Sterling-James plus Howkins who was a loanee. Not forgetting a raging red-faced Robinson on the touchlines.
Can we find a way to spoil their promotion party and improve our chances of a derby next season?
To realise the dream we need two, probably three, points from the last two biggies. Misfiring Scunthorpe may be the better bet. As the Gaffer wisely offered “Hope can kill you, but life is rubbish without it.”
Strap in – there’s a white-knuckle ride ahead.
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