Two goals in the last ten minutes from Kidderminster Harriers debutants Richie Appleby and Bo Henriksen gave their side a deserved 3-1 success at Brisbane Road on Saturday.o

Appleby and Henriksen, signed on-loan just the day before the match, struck to regain and extend the visitor's lead after Jeff Minton had cancelled out Dean Bennett's first-half opener, and O's boss Paul Brush conceded that the better side had won.o

"There were sloppy bits of defending from us and nothing to suggest we could get back in to the game once it got to 3-1. So in the end its a fair result, the best team won and its a fair scoreline.

"Our retention of the ball was very poor, we are much better passers than that, and that's why we looked tired towards the end because we had to keep chasing.

"We gave them too much space and their formation of playing three up-front stopped us coming forward via our full backs.

"We showed in the first fifteen minutes that we can pass, we can attack and have some variety in our play, but we gave the opposition too much room and the quality of our defending has killed us off.

"If we keep giving away stupid goals like we have done over the past two weeks, its going to be a long season," Brush admitted.

However, just like last week, Orient started the stronger side, but when Dean Bennett exchanged passes with Colin Larkin on the edge of the box before firing low past Scott Barrett in the twentieth minute, Orient were left cursing their inability to convert their dominance into goals.

Once they fell behind, all the purpose and quality of Orient's early play was lost and their passing became littered with errors, somehting which didn;t help in their quest to find a way past the rock-solid centre back pairing of Abdou Sall and Craig Hinton.

They did manage to do so fourteen minutes after the break when Jeff Minton drove the ball left-footed low past Stuart Brock's left hand after seizing upon a loose ball, but it wasn't the signal for Orient to go on and take all three points.

Kidderminster slowly managed to win back their supremacy, and Larkin should have scored with fifteen minutes remaining when Scott Stamps picked him out with his smart pull back. Luckily for Orient, Dean Smith was on hand to block the goalbound effort.

As the game edged closer to the 90-minute mark, a draw looked the likely result, but Orient hadnt counted on the introduction of Appleby and Henriksen.

Eighty minutes were on the clock when Appleby was to make his mark, bravely diving on to the ball to steer it past Barrett following Drewe Broughton's knock-back of Stamp's deep cross.

Danish striker Henriksen compounded Orient's misery two minutes later when he got goalside of Smith to latch on to Stamp's long ball, before proceeding to hook the ball past the advancing Barrett.

Individual defensive errors have cost Orient in recent weeks, something which baffles O's keeper Scott Barrett: "That's the million dollar question. If we could put a finger on it then we could iron it out, but we tend to be very good in one part of the game and then poor in the very same game.

"We've just got to work hard in training and I'm sure we can turn it around. We know we are capable of it, but we've just got to find that consistency so we can do it week in week out."