AFC Fylde look to add individual awards to their National League North title success

Three AFC Fylde representatives are among those nominated in this season’s National League Awards.

Head coach Craig Mahon is on the shortlist for the manager of the year prize in National League North, alongside Ian Watson (South Shields), John Rooney (Macclesfield) and Bobby Grant (Marine).

Danny Ormerod is in the running to be named as the NLN’s player of the year, having scored 28 times for the title-winning Coasters.

His rivals for that award are Paul Blackett (South Shields), Tyrone March (Bedford Town) and Lewys Twamley (Merthyr Town).

Ormerod is also one of the four young player of the year hopefuls, along with Mill Farm team-mate Luca Thomas who scored 22 goals this season.

Completing the quartet seeking that prize are Twamley and Jack Maskell (Darlington).

As for the other divisions, the top flight sees Stuart Maynard, Jimmy McNulty, Rob Elliot and Luke Garrard nominated for the manager award after their efforts with York City, Rochdale, Gateshead and Boreham Wood respectively.

The player of the season will be one of Ollie Pearce (York City), Mani Dieseruvwe (Rochdale), Abdul Abdulmalik (Boreham Wood) and Gus Scott-Morriss (Southend United).

Abdulmalik is on the young player shortlist with Oliver Whatmuff (Rochdale), Josh Stones (York City) and Malachi Fagan-Walcott (York City).

As for National League South, the managerial award is between Adam Hinshelwood (Worthing), Marc White (Dorking Wanderers), Lee Allinson (Hemel Hempstead Town) and Daryl McMahon (Hornchurch).

Worthing duo Brad Dolaghan and Wiktor Makowski, along with Angelo Balanta (Hornchurch) and Louis Britton (Weston-super-Mare) are competing for the player of the season prize.

Dolaghan and Makowski are also among the young player nominees with Sonny Blu Lo-Everton (Torquay United) and Henry Hearn (Hornchurch).

The nominations were confirmed ahead of this weekend’s National League AGM, with the winners to be announced on Saturday evening.