8mins Quinn shot 1-0

10mins Gilliead shot 2-0 

12mins Walton shot 2-1

18mins Heardman shot 3-1

Half time: Colliers 1 Magpies 3

59mins Heardman shot 4-1

79mins Quinn header 5-1

Full time: Colliers 1 Magpies 5

Having recorded a 5-2 victory in the league on Monday, United's second string continued their goalscoring form against Northern League opposition on Thursday evening

Showing six changes from the lineup that beat Reading, a 500+ crowd turned out to see a side with no first team experience take an eighth minute lead through Jonathyn Quinn. 

The Ashington-born forward finished with a low 12 yard strike after a corner and within two minutes, Colliers 'keeper Chris Bannon was fetching the ball out of his net again after Alex Gilliead shot into the bottom corner.

Ashington soon replied though, with former Magpie Marc Walton volleying past Freddie Woodman into the roof of the net for the Northern League side. The two-goal cushion was soon restored though, as a suicidal backpass gave Tom Heardman the opportunity to roll the ball into an empty net in the 18th minute.

It was 4-1 on the hour when a pull back from the right hand side of the box by Gilliead left centre forward Heardman with a routine finish for his second. 

In the 83rd minute Liam Smith rode two tackles on the left hand side of the box and crossed for Quinn to guide his header past Ashington's substitute 'keeper.

PS: Some excited youngsters at Woodhorn Lane believed that England's Jack Colback was playing for Newcastle - until their autograph-hunting efforts ended abruptly when news broke that their target was actually ginger-haired Liam Gibson...

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