Hawks strikers past and present could have a big bearing on the National League South play-offs

Current Westleigh Park goal ace Jonah Ayunga ended the 2019/20 regular season as the joint highest scorer in the division.

Ayunga spent a brief loan spell at Hawks in 2018/19, but made the move permanent last summer after his former Sutton boss Paul Doswell was installed as manager.

He struck 17 league goals, the same amount as St Albans’ Joe Iaciofano, and added another five in cup ties - including a Hampshire Senior Cup hat-trick against a youthful Pompey XI.

Ayunga, veteran Danny Kedwell (11) and Alfie Rutherford (6) between them scored 34 of Hawks’ 64 league goals in 2019/20.

After those three, the next highest scorers were Wes Fogden, Josh Taylor and Roarie Deacon all with four goals. And Deacon only played one game since the end of September due to injury.

Rutherford moved to Dorking in early June, but is ineligible for the play-offs.

Rutherford’s former Bognor and Hawks strike partner Jason Prior is Dorking’s leading marksman with 14 league goals.

Hawks were the second top scorers in the division with 64 goals – five fewer than Wealdstone.

But Weymouth (60), Dartford (60) and Dorking (58) were not far behind.

Hawks only failed to score in five of their 34 games – only Hampton & Richmond (four) failed to score in fewer matches.

Braintree failed to score in 14 games – though they managed six in two matches against Hawks! – while Welling registered 13 blanks.

Four of the teams competing in the South play-offs had very similar defensive records.

Weymouth only conceded 35 goals, with Hawks and Bath letting in 37 and Slough 38.

Dartford shipped 46 and Dorking 56.

The latter finished seventh despite only three clubs – mid-table Oxford City and bottom two Braintree and Hungerford – conceding more.

Dorking, though, did keep as many clean sheets (11) as Hawks, even though they let in 19 more goals.

Bath kept the most clean sheets (15) followed by champions Wealdstone (12).

Ross Worner was an ever present in the Hawks goal, and he only conceded more than two goals in four league games – in the win at Hampton (4-3), the draw at Braintree (3-3) and in home losses to Braintree (3-1) and Wealdstone (4-2).