PLAYERS come and players go -- and at Kidderminster Harriers it's no different to anywhere else.

I say that because at the moment there's a possibility of us bringing in a loan player, although I don't want to reveal too much about it just yet.

But it's only fair our supporters should know we're doing everything we can to ensure we get that missing spark back into our season.

What I can say, though, is that he's a striker who's a little bit different to what we have already got in the squad.

But I don't want to name him, or his current club, yet because if it doesn't go through then I don't think it's fair on anyone. It will also depend on whether we can sign John Durnin on a permanent basis.

Everyone can rest assured, though, that if there are any developments we'll make sure our fans get the news as soon a possible.

Anyway, enough of that for the moment as the next thing on our agenda is tonight's Nationwide Conference J.C. Thompson Champ-ionship Shield match against Kingstonian at Aggborough.

Obviously, it's one we want to win -- just as we did on Saturday when local rivals Cheltenham Town came to visit us at Aggborough for a Nationwide League Division Three derby.

And, to be honest, victory should have been ours by half time, but missed chances cost us dearly and in the end we had to be content with a 1-1 draw.

I listened to people after the match saying a point wasn't a bad thing after what happened in the second half.

But there shouldn't have been a second half to contest.

It should have been out of Cheltenham's reach by then -- and that's what makes having to share the points that more difficult to take.

I said to the boys at half-time when we were just 1-0 up through an Adie Smith goal that I knew what was going to happen in the second period.

That was that we were going to have our backs to the wall because of our inability to finish off the job in the first half.

As we all know now, that's exactly how it turned out. Cheltenham upped the tempo, they got more physical and they pinned us back.

But you just can't afford to miss the number of chances we did in the first half.

It's not as if the boys are just going through the motions because, believe me, they are trying as hard as they possibly can. But we are just not looking lively and alert.

Even at times in the first half, certainly for the first 10 to 15 minutes, we played like we were in a coma.

It just needs something to shake us up, but that's due to tiredness.

I know what it's like because I've gone through it myself as a player and it's very, very difficult to come out of. Also, on top of that, we are making an awful lot of changes from time to time to try to get something going and put 11 players out there on the pitch who will spark our season. But at the moment we aren't finding it.

One of the changes I made on Saturday was to bring back goalkeeper Stuart Brock in place of recent injury victim Tim Clarke.

That's because sometimes we have had to rush people back from injuries, like Clarke, and sometimes it's not fair on people throwing them in before they are ready.

Clarke suffered because of that. He played very well in our victory at Darlington but he's found it difficult in other games where he's looked sluggish.

He's still looking for that extra fitness and that extra spark in his game whereas Brock has been back in training for three or four weeks and starting to look sharp again.

I just felt the time was right to re-introduce him.