YORK City travel to Aggborough tomorrow to face a Kidderminster Harriers side struggling for form in front of their own fans.

Stuart Watkiss' men have lost four of their last six home encounters in the Conference with Morecambe the only visiting side the Midland team have beaten in a poor run stretching back to the beginning of September.

No other Conference side has lost more home matches this season than the Harriers, who have been beaten four times on their own soil.

And only strugglers Scarborough, Forest Green Rovers and Tamworth have won fewer home games than the three matches in which Kidderminster have picked up maximum points.

Kidderminster currently lie 14th having been relegated from the Football League last season and are just five points above bottom-placed Tamworth having gone four matches without a win.

But after knocking Darlington out of the LDV Vans Trophy, performances have picked up considerably and the ship is beginning to steady.

Strikers Iyseden Christie and Taiwo Atieno have also suffered barren runs in front of goal after starting the season in free-scoring form.

Former Mansfield and Leyton Orient forward Christie, 29, ended a seven-match drought with the consolation in Saturday's 3-1 defeat against Stevenage Borough to take his season's tally to six.

Christie's five-goal, 6ft 2in tall, 20-year-old striking partner Atieno, who joined the club on loan from Walsall at the start of the season, has fared even worse in recent times, netting just once in 11 matches.

Former Oxford United and Chester centre-back Wayne Hatswell is the next most likely source of goals, having scored three times in 2005/2006.

But he will not be adding to that tally tomorrow as he serves a one-match ban leaving Watkiss facing a personnel crisis at left-back.

Hatswell was the only left-back at the club prompting Watkiss to move into the transfer market to snap up defender Patrick Flynn.

The 20-year-old left-back - released earlier this season from Coca-Cola League Two basement strugglers Torquay United - is a former Republic of Ireland Under-19 international. Flynn, who started his career with Wolves, goes straight into the Harriers' line-up.

Influential player/coach Martin O'Connor is out following knee surgery last week leaving an opening for former Scunthorpe United youth academy member Russ Penn or Wayne Graves in centre midfield.

Harriers are also lacking a dedicated wide left player and Laurie Wilson, son of Milton Keynes Dons manager Danny, is the most likely to fill the void.

Updated: 10:54 Friday, November 18, 2005