Ashington Rovers
local businesses that would be interested
in sponsoring the club, either helping out
with kit and equipment or match day and
training costs.
This season for us has been amazing
as we won Division 1 North straight after
winning Division 2 North last season.
All the players have worked very hard
this season to keep up the winning ways
and are already looking forward to the
more difficult challenge that the Premier
Division holds for them this coming
season.
We hope that in the next few years we
can become a bigger club and run more
teams. The facilities we have, we hire
from Ashington Village Centre. They are
quite small but fairly adequate although it
would be nice if in the future they can be
upgraded. Finding the money is always
difficult.
There is a junior football club in the
village but unfortunately, because they
only go to the age group of under 16’s we
don’t get many of them coming through
as most of them prefer to play under 18’s
before going on to adult football. We were
very lucky that one player this season
decided to come and join us at the age of
16, Monty Gravell.
He took the time time to tell us more
about his experience, saying “The process
from going straight to adults football from
U16 was a big step but I would recommend
it to others. This is because I have learnt a
lot in my first season and I felt like I have
improved more then I would’ve done if I
joined an U18 team.
To begin with I was nervous but the
players got me instantly involved and
I just joined in and felt like a part of the
team after the first couple of training
sessions. The physical side to the game
was a big change but as a younger player
you quickly learnt to be more physical
and become stronger throughout the
training sessions.”
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