By Brian Bennett

Karl Ross won the Ashington Supporters Player of the Season award on Saturday – and the long serving midfielder was taken aback when his name was announced.

The 27 year-old said afterwards: “I’ve got no words really. When you come here you want to be a part of the whole club and the fans have been excellent for me so it’s an absolute pleasure to get the award. I didn’t expect it to be honest. I haven’t had the greatest of seasons because I’ve been out injured and had a couple of red cards so it means a lot to me.”

Meanwhile Ross who is based in Cramlington, thought the Colliers produced some of their best football of the campaign in their 6-3 success against Lincoln United at Woodhorn Lane on Saturday: “Obviously, it was one of those games where we were disappointed with some of the goals we conceded but then we’ve scored six so we can’t really complain,” he added, “I think we played some of our best football all season so that just shows when the pressure is off, we can put in performances like that and it was an absolute pleasure to part of it today.”

Presentations were made to groundsman Scott Robson and Chairman of the supporters Ian Reid before the awards to the players.