KIDDERMINSTER Harriers are determined not to let the Graham Allner factor interfere with their bid to collect maximum points from tomorrow's Nationwide League Division Three clash against Cheltenham Town at Aggborough (3.0).

Former long-serving Harriers boss Allner will be at the match as part of the Robins' management team.

He is now reserve team chief at Whaddon Road and third in command behind Steve Cotterill and Mike Davis.

Allner, who had a spell at Worcester City before moving to Cheltenham, is playing down his return to Aggborough.

He said: "I've been back there with Worcester and I was there with our reserves recently. It was fine, no problem.

"I speak to them on a pretty regular basis and the way I look at it, it was 15 great years -- for me and for a lot of other people. I had such a close working relationship with a lot of people who are still there.

"I don't go to a lot of places where I am going to get talked to and when I've met Kiddy fans since, they've been first-class. I'm just interested in winning a game of football and God's honest truth, it is not a big thing for me."

Harriers boss Jan Molby said: "Graham Allner will add a bit of spice to the event, but as far as we are concerned it's another game and it's another three points we need. I'm sure their manager will say the same to his boys.

"They had a fantastic start to the season when they weren't conceding goals. They are having a little bit of a wobble with what they will think are a couple of disappointing results.

"There's no doubt they will come to us fired up. They are in reality 12 months ahead of us because they have been in the Football League a season longer than we have. But what they have achieved, not only last season when they finished eighth and the way they started this season, is what we have got to aim for. It will be interesting to see how close to them we are.

"In miles Shrewsbury would be our local derby, but I think the links with Cheltenham are stronger from our non-league days and also the fact we are the last two seasons' Conference champions."

Meanwhile, striker Ian Foster is off the casualty list and included in Kidderminster's squad.

He was not due to have played in the postponed match at Plymouth last Saturday because of a knee injury.

Foster recently returned after ten weeks out with hamstring trouble and his only recent first-team action has been a 52-minute appearance before being substituted against Chesterfield.

Tomorrow's clash with the Robins, who have former Harriers skipper Mark Yates in their ranks, signals the end of John Durnin's month-long spell with Kidderminster who are in negotiation with the former Oxford and Portsmouth striker with a view to a permanent move to Aggborough.

Kidderminster (from): Clarke, Brock, Clarkson, Stamps, Webb, Hinton, Smith, Horne, Foster, Ducros, Shail, Durnin, Bird, Bogie, Hadley, Bennett, Murphy.