FOOTBALL fans are incredibly fickle.

One day their team can do no wrong, the next they are the biggest waste of space on the planet.

It seems to be increasingly difficult to find any middle ground among fans focused only on the current fixture and no club is immune.

This week it is the turn of Kidderminster Harriers. We are only nine games into the season and yet the first chords of dissent are beginning to sound following two defeats in four days.

Manager Gary Whild has come in for criticism on social media for his team selections and tactics in the wake of two defeats.

This is the same Gary Whild who oversaw the club’s best start to a campaign for nearly 25 years, with Harriers going unbeaten for seven games and not conceding a goal in the first 441 minutes of the season.

They were among the league’s early pace-setters and all seemed fine. Now, following a couple of losses, the tide has started to turn.

Of course, the club’s well-documented recent financial situation has not helped the mood, with fans aware that money is tight and the future uncertain if fresh investment is not found.

But that’s not Whild’s fault. He had a budget to work with and assembled, on the face of it, a decent looking squad with some proven non-league talent within it.

He lost two key players in full-backs Lee Vaughan and Mickey Demetriou yet Harriers still have one of the division’s better defensive records.

If fans doubted his ability to mould them into a decent team, they weren’t particularly forthcoming when Harriers won three of their six matches in August, drawing the other three.

Nor were they up in arms at Whild steadying the ship in the wake of the brief Andy Thorn tenure having been left out in the cold when Steve Burr was sacked.

Regardless of what the future holds for Harriers, it is a bit premature to get on Whild’s back.