KIDDERMINSTER Harriers boss Mark Yates believes Harriers will have benefited from their break from the cut and thrust of the Conference when they return to action at Forest Green Rovers on Saturday.

Harriers fixture-free weekend has allowed some of their bumps and bruises to clear up ahead of their trip to The Lawn.

Captain Daryl Burgess is fit again after resting a back problem, while Michael Blackwood has recovered from the knock on the knee he picked up at Tamworth.

Wayne Graves is the only injury worry with an ongoing groin problem which definitely rules him out of the Rovers game.

Yates hopes locking horns with former Harriers Abdou Sall and Matt Gadsby will add extra spice to the visit to Gloucestershire.

"That makes it a little bit harder because it gives them that extra incentive to want to do well against us," he said.

"But it also gives us an extra push to want to go there and get a result.

"They'll be wanting to bounce back from the result (a 5-1 defeat at York) they had last weekend and we've got to be wary of that."

Meanwhile, fans still have the chance to send questions for Yates and chairman Barry Norgrove to answer at the fans' forum on Friday, March 17.

Supporters can write to the club or e-mail their questions to helen.macdon ald@harriers.co.uk