ADAM Murray admitted he was relieved to get Harriers’ season up and running with a win from his first game in charge.
The new Kidderminster boss spoke of the ‘tension and anxiety’ leading up to Saturday match with Scarborough at Aggborough.
Last season’s failure to win promotion when they were so close meant it was back to square one for Harriers.
But Reece Devine’s 12th minute goal proved enough in front of a crowd of 2,733.
The one setback was an injury to Dan Mooney, who came off with a hamstring injury eight minutes into his debut.
Murray told Harriers’ official website after the game: “We got him off just in time before it became anything serious, he just felt it cramp up and go a little bit tight, and it’s not worth the risk at this point.
“So we’re hoping it’s not too bad, we’ll see how it sets down over the next 48 hours and hopefully get him back as quickly as we can.”
Murray reflected on Saturday’s game with the club’s official YouTube channel.
He said: “A win, that was the most important thing, especially being at home there was a lot of a lot of excitement, a lot of tension, anxiety.
“You could feel it in the build up to the week if I’m being totally to honest with you, which is expected the boys are onl human,
“But the game panned out totally differently to what we’d planned watching them in pr[ season, they went about things a little bit differently.
“It was just nice to be back in proper football though and it turned into a fight, a traditional National League North game where it it became scrappy and we had to do the ugly things, but it was a big three points.
“There’s plenty of positives, we got the win, and there plenty of things to work on and keep them grounded.
“That’s the perfect picture. I was thinking that with about eight or nine minutes left, if this whistle goes now. It’s the perfect picture.
“But we’ll get stronger with time although I know that, after 15 years of coaching, I can be guilty of overthinking things.”
