ANOTHER injury time gut-wrencher from Grays Athletic wrecked Mark Yates's Harriers homecoming as Kidderminster crashed out of the FA Trophy.

Having held the holders for 90 minutes the Aggborough men looked to be heading for a replay down in Essex on Tuesday evening and, more enticingly, a trip to Hereford in the next round.

But just as they had done in the Conference fixture at the Recreation Ground back in September, Grays left it to the final moments of the game to have the last word.

While John Danby scored a calamitous own goal in that 2-2 draw, there was nothing the Kidderminster keeper could do to stop Aaron McLean's late, late winner on Saturday.

From kick off to final whistle, McLean looked the most likely source of trouble for Harriers and it was the ex-Aldershot striker who glanced in Andy Sambrook's right wing cross two minutes into stoppage time.

McLean had been in Harriers' faces all game, none more so than Yates's when the pair squared up to each other to exchange a volley of verbals on the touchline midway through the second half.

But the Athletic number 11 was much more threatening when he let his feet and head do the talking, crashing a close range effort against the bar just seconds before bagging the winner.

Fortunately, the Conference's most consistent centre half, Mark Jackson, stopped McLean and his Grays colleagues making their snappy passing and slick approach play pay and Harriers improved as the game wore on.

The skipper surely added another couple of grand to his valuation with a master-class in defending and if the Aggborough board don't move heaven and earth to keep him or at the very least demand a transfer fee for the popular defender, they need their heads read.

York boss Billy McEwan, who had made the long trip south purely to watch "Jacko", left before the tannoy announced that the former Leeds player had been named the sponsors' man of the match.

But such was the quality of Jackson's first half clearance off the line from McLean's header and his impeccably timed tackle on the same forward late on, that McEwan could easily have predicted where the champagne was heading.

Harriers' best moments came when they worked the ball to their tricky and pacey wingers, but so rarely were Marc Pugh and Michael Blackwood in possession it caused few problems for Mark Stimson's men.

Grays got their reward for wanting to win the Second Round tie at the first time of asking and when lanky substitute Jamie Slabber was introduced, seemingly to provide an aerial presence, they had four strikers on the pitch.

It was Slabber the foot however that caused Harriers problems, especially when he let fly with a rasping 30 yard screamer which Danby was relieved to see whizz narrowly wide.

Slabber also spurned a great chance when he was fed by Stuart Thurgood after a loose pass by Russ Penn, while two Harriers substitutes were just as guilty of poor finishing.

Boss Yates could have been hailed as a tactical mastermind when his two second half replacements Simon Russell and Lee Thompson burst through on goal within moments of coming on.

But had they started then they might have finished as both players were clearly a little rusty when they fired gilt edged one-on-ones against Ashley Bayes's body with their respective first touches.

Had either chance fallen to Iyseden Christie the outcome might have been different and Harriers could be facing an intriguing trip to Hereford in the next round.

But on several occasions the selfish top scorer was left to feed on half chances and greedy goes-for-goal when he had better placed team-mates screaming for the ball.