Allen happy to share Guernsey FC goals around

Ross Allen has scored four goals in 12 games this season

Guernsey FC's record goalscorer Ross Allen says he is happy that other players have begun sharing the goalscoring burden at the club.

Allen, 38, has scored 315 goals in 389 appearances since the club was formed in 2011, and has found the net four times in 12 games this season.

But he is behind top scorer Sam Murray, who has six goals, and midfielder Charlton Gauvain with five, since the start of the current campaign.

"It's great for me, the load has sort of finally fallen away from me a little bit," Allen told BBC Radio Guernsey.

"I still obviously want to get in there with some goals, I think I counted in that Newhaven game I could have had nine.

"But I thought at the end if I'd have been scoring six that's not what we want - at this stage of my career we want Sam Murray to be scoring, Charlton Gauvain, Callum Le Lacheur, all these young players coming through, getting a sniff and getting a piece of it.

"Everyone's hungry, everyone feels like they can score, feels like they can get in a position and the way we play with a nice high defence and those defenders can get forward and feel like they can get involved on the attack as well, so it's brilliant."

'We want the young kids pushing our senior guys out'

Guernsey have had much more success this season following their relegation from the Isthmian League after a number of difficult seasons in the eighth tier.

The are currently seventh in the Southern Combination Premier Division after wining two thirds of their nine games and have scored 24 goals - the second highest in the division.

Allen says the opportunities the first full season at their new Victoria Park ground provides can set the island club up for success for years to come.

"It's amazing what this place can provide, the minutes that the kids get out there to play, the touches on the ball, all that's a massive contributor before anyone does any work from a coaching side of it," added Allen, who featured in the 2019 Club World Cup for New Zealand side Team Wellington.

"Hopefully we're going to start filtering through more young players who are going to support that Guernsey FC side when we're short on players.

"Tyrese Kelly last week got a few minutes at the end, he might only get two or three opportunities this season but next year is that going to be 10 opportunities and then the following season he becomes an established player.

"That's what we want, we want these young kids coming through and pushing our senior guys out of there, or at least giving us a run for our money for places."