Defender Harriman wants to extend his Cobblers stay

The 27-year-old's short-term deal at the PTS Academy Stadium expired on Tuesday, a day after Harriman had played a key role in Town's emphatic 4-0 Sky Bet League Two play-off final win over Exeter City.

And he has made it clear that he is very keen to stay with the Cobblers if manager Keith Curle wants him to.

The Town boss is expected to meet with the out-of-contract players to discuss their futures in the next few days, and Harriman will be keeping his fingers crossed that his meeting with the boss goes how he wants it to.

"I would love to be here next season, I want to carry on from this," said the former Wycombe Wanderers man, who was a free agent when he signed for the Cobblers in September.

"I have worked hard after I came in here, and I am thankful to the gaffer for giving me the chance when nobody else would.

"To think that we have finished with the win at Wembley is just fantastic, and we will now see what happens."

Ahead of those contract talks, Harriman certainly didn't do himself any harm with a near faultless performance against the Grecians, where he came up against their danger man Randell Williams.

Harriman switched flanks with Nicky Adams and went to left wing-back in a shrewd tactical move by Curle, with the brief of keeping Williams quiet.

And there was no doubt who came out on top in that particular battle in the Cobblers' win.

The flying Grecians winger was well contained by Harriman, and he admitted: "I enjoy having that competition, and I enjoy being told I am playing up against one of the best players in the league.

"That makes me up my game, just to prove that I can be one of those players as well. It was a fantastic night for us."

Williams did look a threat early on, but once Ryan Watson had fired Town ahead on 11 minutes, Harriman and his team-mates were in total control.

Once the final whistle sounded there were wild scenes of celebration, and Harriman said: "You just have to look at the scenes on the pitch after the game, and it is fantastic.

"We worked hard all season, and we got into seventh place by that one point, but we have taken full advantage of that.

"We were fantastic on the Monday night against Cheltenham, and then to come to Wembley and win 4-0 in the final is unbelievable. The boys were fantastic."

Harriman was part of the team that lost that semi-final first-leg to the Robins 2-0, when it was all doom and gloom around Town's chances of winning promotion.

But he and his team-mates went to Whaddon Road and stormed to a 3-0 win to set up their Wembley trip, and Harriman admitted that win filled the Cobblers with confidence for the Exeter clash.

"The win at Cheltenham was massive, and the gaffer spoke to us before the final and said 'we want exactly the same again', and that is what the boys delivered," said the 27-year-old.

"We went into the final full of confidence and I don't think we could go into it in any other way following that semi-final performance.

"At half-time we were 2-0 up, and it has happened to us before where we have been 2-0 up in games and we have then conceded goals.

"So the main thing on Monday was keeping that clean sheet, but then the sending off (of Dean Moxey) for them changed the game a bit.

"We didn't take our foot off the gas though, we made them pay and got two extra goals to make it easier and more comfortable."