MIDFIELDER Danny Williams is to continue as a stand-in centre half for Kidderminster Harriers when they visit struggling Torquay United in a Nationwide League Division Three clash at Plainmoor tomorrow (3pm).

Williams impressed manager Jan Molby after he took over the role when Abdou Sall went off with a groin injury during the first half of Saturday's 3-0 win over Hull City.

Molby said: "There's no doubt in my mind that Danny can play there. It keeps that physical presence at the back which I think is very important.

"He slotted in very comfortably against Hull's lively front pair of Gary Alexander and Lawrie Dudfield and I felt he did very well."

Williams' fellow central defender will again be Craig Hinton, who said: "I was concerned when Abdou went off on Saturday and I admittedly had a bit of a shock when the gaffer put Danny in alongside me, but I thought he was excellent."

Young central defender Lee Ayres is set for a call-up onto the substitutes' bench with the other contender for Sall's position, former Worcester City campaigner Mark Shail, failing to figure in Molby's selection plans.

That means a place in the starting line-up for striker Drewe Broughton who was drafted on when Harriers were forced to reorganise against high-riding Hull when Sall limped off.

The Frenchman is now expected to be out of action for up to three weeks.

Play-off hopefuls Harriers, who beat Roy McFarland's Gulls 1-0 at Aggborough with a controversial last-gasp penalty by Tony Bird on August 25, go into tomorrow with six victories in their last seven league matches.

Their record is in stark contract to Torquay who have failed to win in their last ten outings, including nine in the league.

Molby said: "It's never an ideal time to play somebody who hasn't won in ten games because they are going to win at some stage.

"I saw them play Cheltenham on New Year's Day and thought they were a little bit unlucky to get beaten 1-0.

"I'm not sure if they deserved to win, but I thought they were unlucky to lose. They had one or two good chances, but we have been in this league long enough to know that any away game is going to be difficult. You take nothing for granted.

"But it's a winnable game for us if we get anywhere near what we have produced of late and that includes the defeat at Exeter."

Kidderminster (from): Brock, Stamps, Hinton, Williams, Clarkson, Bennett, Blake, Larkin, Appleby, Henriksen, Broughton, Ducros, Foster, Joy, Danby, Ayres.

FORMCAST: Harriers can continue to impress with a 2-0 victory.