CHAIRMAN Rod Brown has revealed what happened during Harriers’ unsuccessful attempt to shake-up backroom staff in September.

Kidderminster are currently looking for a new head coach after the departure of the previous management team of Gary Whild, Mark Creighton and Tim Flowers.

But before finally deciding to make a wholesale change behind the scenes, the board had tried restructure the back room staff in a bid to improve results on the pitch.

Read about the attempted shake-ups here.

WORCESTERSHIRE chairman Stephen Taylor has paid tribute to Steve Rhodes and David Leatherdale who are both celebrating 30 years service with the County.

Yorkshire pair Rhodes and Leatherdale both arrived at New Road in 1985 looking to establish themselves as first team players and played with distinction for two decades.

Rhodes became assistant coach to Tom Moody in 2005 but quickly was promoted to director of cricket mid-way through that season.

Leatherdale became commercial manager when he hung up his spikes in 2006 before eventually replacing Mark Newton as chief executive in 2010.

Taylor hailed the contribution of the duo who received a long service award during Friday’s Gala Evening at New Road.

Read the tributes here.

STOURBRIDGE suffered a dreadful defeat to Preston Grasshoppers.

They led 22-12 going into the final quarter with Preston down to 14 players - yet still let the game slip from their grasp, finished 22-25

The deafening silence from the home support which greeted the final whistle coupled with Preston's jubilation said it all.

Read the full match report here.

RYAN 'Tank' Aston blasted Nathan Graham out in round four of their English title eliminator fight at Wolverhampton Civic Hall.

The Dudley fighter landed a powerful blow midway through the fourth round before forcing the referee to step in and call a halt to the contest by landing a flurry of punches with his opponent against the ropes.

Tank wasted no time in ending the bout as soon as he sensed Graham was rocked.

Before then it had been a tentative start to proceedings from both men, with Aston perhaps just a little wary of putting too much into the early rounds as he did when losing on points as his stamina was pushed to the max when he last appeared under the Civic lights against Jason Welborn.

However, that sort of a stamina test was never to come into it as Aston powered past his opponent to put that Welborn defeat well and truly behind him.

His attention will now turn to a tilt at the English light-middleweight title, currently held by Nav Mansouri.

Read the full report here.