WOMBWELL: “I WAS HAPPY TO FINALLY GET MY FIRST GOAL FOR ASHINGTON”

By Brian Bennett

Ryan Wombwell scored his first ever goal for Ashington in their 1-1 draw against Sherwood Colliery on Saturday.

Wombwell’s strike came with just two minutes of the 90 remaining – but the on-loan defender revealed afterwards that the thoughts from within the Ashington camp was that they had dropped two points as opposed to claiming a valuable one on the road.

The 23 year old said: “The first half was disappointing. The shape we played worked well on Wednesday against Grimsby Borough but today we didn’t really get the press right. Following an injury to Scott Lowery, we changed shape and it worked much better for us. From thereon in I thought there was only one team in control of the game and that was us. We managed to score late on but we’ve said in the dressing room that we thought it was two points dropped after the amount of the ball we had in the second half.”

Newcastle-born Wombwell – who is based at Westerhope – described his goal: “Ben Sampson had a shot which took a deflection and wrong footed the ‘keeper a little bit and although he saved it (the ‘keeper), the ball ran to me. It was quite a simple finish to hit the target and I was happy to finally get my first goal for Ashington ten games in. Although we got a little bit of luck with the ball dropping for us, we earned it by the amount of attacks we had and I thought we played well in the second half.”

Wombwell will continue to wear Ashington’s colours after the Woodhorn Lane club and Morpeth Town agreed to extend his loan until the end of the campaign. Wombwell added: “I came to Ashington and have started and played every game and that’s what I wanted to do. The group of lads in the changing room are brilliant and I’m really enjoying it. I’m happy that the loan has been extended until the end of the season and now I can focus on helping the team to get as high up the league table as possible.”