Kidderminster’s problems

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IMG_4629 - CopyKidderminster Harriers’ problems, languishing in mid table obscurity in the Conference Premier League are easy to diagnose. It’s not the squad, it’s not the tactics, it’s the mascot!

Today is the Harriers’ last home game of the season, against top-of-the-table Barnet. Kidderminster will be playing for pride, and to send the home fans away with a memory of better things to come next season, but Barnet will be playing to ensure that they finish the season with automatic promotion rather than having to risk the play-offs.

Henry wishes the Harriers every success but would like to point out where they are going wrong.

 

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Photo: P L Chadwick CC BY-SA 2.0

The official mascot of the Harriers is ‘Harry the Harrier’. Harry caught our Henry’s eye because Harry is a ringtail.  Yes that’s right – Kidderminster have a girl harrier as a mascot and they are calling her ‘Harry’. That’s just asking for trouble isn’t it?

Henry’s been looking for a girl for ages and his travels have taken him to Derbyshire, Norfolk, Wiltshire and beyond with no luck so far, so he was quite taken with seeing ‘Harry’ and is quite sure, with her beautiful plumage, that she must be a ‘Harriet’ really.

Harry can’t be a young male as he has been around for a number of years and hasn’t moulted into the proper grey plumage of an adult male Hen Harrier.

Henry would love to meet ‘Harry’ some time, and if ‘he’ really is a Harriet then maybe they could go skydancing together.

Henry says ‘Good luck to the Harriers today and in your last game away to Eastleigh.  Have a look at the identification guide below to realise that your ‘Harry’ is a ‘Harriet’ – but she does look kinda cute to me.  I expect you have all voted for the Hen Harrier to be our national bird, but if not, then please do. Up the Harriers!‘.

 

By Richard Crossley (The Crossley ID Guide Britain and Ireland) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
By Richard Crossley (The Crossley ID Guide Britain and Ireland) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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3 Replies to “Kidderminster’s problems”

  1. Oh Henry, you’re much cuter! Much better plumage. Seriously: what a fabulous pic of harriers at the bottom BTW. Marvellous.

  2. I know a Harriet who goes by the name Harry. I suggest Henry remains optimistic, approaches respectfully and, er, perhaps concentrates more on outward appearances than on what’s inside.

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