Experienced former Wrexham ace Nick Rushton has joined the Runcorn Linnets recruitment drive from Vauxhall Motors, having topped their scoring charts in each of tne last two seasons.
He netted 19 times for the Motormen in 2024-25, when they reached the NPL West Play-offs, and last season notched another 18 in league matches.
The now 34-year-old made his name as a centre forward at the Racecourse Ground, where he spent eight seasons but these days he operates in a deeper role.
Nick enjoyed 100 Wrexham appearances at youth and reserves level with 38 goals, and 24 first-team outings with five goals between 2012 and 2015.
These included a dozen starts for the then Conference Premier club.
While at Wrexham, Nick had loan spells in 2011-12 at Newtown and Airbus UK Broughton (both in the Welsh Premier League) and then in National League North at Barrow (2013-14) and Hednesford Town(2014-15). He scored 15 goals in 51 outings at Step 2.
On leaving the Red Dragons, Nick played a season and a half at Connah's Quay and had a lengthy spell at Newtown (2017-2023) before moving to Colwyn Bay and then back to Airbus.
He has played 296 matches in the Cymru Premier League alone, scoring 86 goals.
Nick's career aggregate by the time he joined Vauxhall two seasons ago was 421 games and 121goals.