Ashley is a quick forward player who can operate either out wide or as a central striker. He began his career as a Scholarship player at Wolves and spent three years at Molineux, featuring for both the youth team and reserves.

He moved to Cheltenham Town in summer 2004 and gained some first team experience on loan with Aldershot Town before returning to make quite an impact with the Robins during the final stages of that promotion winning campaign.

Sadly Ashley sustained a cruciate ligament injury at the beginning of the 2006/07 season and was forced to miss the campaign in almost its entirety.

Following the initial recovery period Ashley was very focused towards his return to match fitness and at times had to be held back. With the benefit of a full pre-season under his belt there is no doubt that this young man will be a stronger and possibly better players so it will be like have a new signing in the squad.

Over the course of the 2007-08 season Ashley made 20 first team starts and a similar number of appearances off the bench. Despite favouring a position up front he was generally utilised in a wider position which certainly caused a certain amount of frustrations for the young player.

Nevertheless, his 25 yard strike during the home game against local rivals Swindon Town was certainly one of the high points of his season.