Bromley 3 Harrow Borough 0 Another Tuesday night, another disaster for Borough. Harrow made a bright start to this game, but three goals in a 20-minute spell either side of the break totally killed them off, and further exposed some frailties that Alan Paris must correct urgently.

Borough were missing Darren Coleman and Pat Gavin, both injured last Saturday, but began the game encouragingly. After 14 minutes, Nelson Kumah brought down Paul Adolphe's cross and fired just over. Five minutes later, John Parsons, making his competitive debut, saw a 20-yard shot fly narrowly wide. When Adolphe's cross shot flew across the goal on the half hour, Harrow were well on top. Bromleys only threat had come from the lively, exotically named Lahdry Zahhna-Oni, who had beaten two defenders and shot weakly at David Hook. But when Zahhna-oni picked the ball up on the right after 36 minutes. Sean James had no answer to his trickery, and when his cross arrived at the far post, the unmarked Wolfe fired home.

At half-time Borough were still well in the game, but for the third time in a week showed an alarming lack of concentration on the restart of the match. Aylesbury had twice scored almost straight from a kick-off last Tuesday; Bishop's Stortford had scored early in the second half on Saturday; and now Bromley took less than a minute of the second half to double their lead. The ball was played from right to left across the goalmouth, and Carroll had the simple job of netting at the far post.

Ten minutes later, the game went right out of Borough's reach. Alan Paris let a ball bounce when he should have headed it, got robbed, and the ball was returned to the edge of the box where Kyte hammered it past Hook.

Boro' awoke and played some reasonable football in the last half-hour, but it was far too late to make any difference.

Having released Kenny Webster to free up some more money, manager Paris may need to spend some of it soon. A direct replacement at right-back may be the priority, as this would free Paul Adolphe to operate in midfield and allow Micky Tomlinson to operate further downfield.

In central defence, it would be better to bring John Mutch in should Coleman's injury persist, rather than allow Danny Nwaokolo to flounder out of position.

Saturday sees Boro' visit Gravesend & Northfleet.

HARROW BOROUGH: Hook, Adolphe, Nwaokolo, Lord, James, Paris, Bates, Parsons (McCormack), Brown (Dodds), Kumah, Tomlinson. Sub (unused): Mutch

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