Shots Sign Winger Ralph

...Nathan Ralph on loan from Sky Bet3 League Two side Newport County until the end of the season, subject to international clearance.

The Essex-born winger, who turns 23 on Sunday, joined County in the summer having made twenty-four appearances for League One Yeovil Town last season, including the Glovers’ FA Cup tie against Manchester United.

Ralph has been regularly involved in County’s matchday squad in 2016 but is yet to make an appearance for the Exiles due to a fractured cheekbone sustained in training.

In total, Ralph made forty-one appearances for Yeovil, scoring 2 goals, after signing from Peterborough United in the summer of 2012.

He began his scholarship as a striker with Tottenham Hotspur and then spent four years at Ipswich Town before joining the Posh aged 16.

In that time, he was converted into a dynamic left-sided player equally adept on the wing or at full-back.

Ralph was named as a first-team substitute on four occasions at London Road, and during 2011/12 impressed in two loan spells, with eleven appearances for St Albans City and fourteen games at Kettering Town.

Having promoted him to the first-team at Peterborough, Gary Johnson then re-signed him at Yeovil.