CHAIRMAN Barry Norgrove believes that even if Harriers miss out on promotion they will still have had a good season.

Currently, the rejuvenated side are pushing hard for a play-off spot after picking up 10 points from the last four games.

Their promotion campaign has defied expectations this season and has raised the supporters’ expectations.

Because of that, they became disgruntled when Harriers suffered a dip in form during January and February.

However, Norgrove believes that promotion or not, when the fans look at the season in its entirety, they will be happy with the season.

As well as their overall form in the league, Harriers carved out a run to the third round of the FA Cup, where they lost 2-0 to Coventry at the Ricoh Arena.

Their exit of the FA Trophy at the hands of York 14-13 on penalties was one of the season’s major disappointments.

“I hope that when fans looks back over this season they realise it’s been a very good one,” commented Norgrove.

“Even if we miss out on the play-offs we’ve been right up there and had a great run in the FA Cup.

“We were also desperately unlucky to get knocked out of the FA Trophy.

“We’re still in with chance of making it to the play-offs and could still go up, but whatever happens I hope they realise what a good job has been done by everyone here.”

Norgrove re-asserted they are in a solid financial position compared to many of their league rivals, but admitted that funds were tight because of the recession.

“At the moment we’re ticking over and paying our bills,” he said.

“We don’t have a huge amount of money in the bank, but we’re not in the situation that many clubs at this level find themselves in.

“The board have to put money in themselves which is something we’ve had to do.”

With a hectic end to the campaign, the chairman admitted that the club had not yet spoke to manager Mark Yates and assistant Neil Howarth about new deals.

The management’s current deal comes to an end this season but Norgrove believes that talks won’t go ahead until Harriers know what level they will be in.

He said: “We’ve not spoken to Mark or Neil about new deals and I don’t think we’ll be able to sort anything out until we know which level we’ll be playing at.

“Mark won’t agree a new deal until he knows what his budget is for next season and that’s hard to predict right now.

“If we go up then the budget will be very different from the one which we'll have if we stay in the Conference.”