During last nights National League Cup Quarter-Final, Tyler Frost, who was skippering the side, became our latest Shots Centurion by making his 100th appearance.
Signing for the Shots in early February 2023, Frost made his debut at the EBB Stadium just a day after his signing was confirmed in a 2-0 win over Dorking Wanderers.
He scored his first goal for the Shots later that month with a last-minute glimmer of hope in a 2-1 away defeat to Dagenham & Redbridge but his goal a month later in a 2-1 win over Southend United in front of 420 travelling Shots fans on the 13th annual Tour of Duty properly introduced him to Aldershot Town.
His third and final goal in his first half-season and 14 appearances with the Shots proved to be the most crucial as his 90th minute equaliser in a 2-2 draw with York City was essentially the goal that secured Vanarama National League survival for Aldershot Town.
Despite starting the first game of the 23/24 season on the bench, Frost quickly found himself as a regular starter and by early September he scored his fourth Shots goal with a brilliant strike in a 2-0 win away to AFC Fylde.
But Frosty loves an important goal and on New Years Day 2024, he scored in front of the sold-out away support at Woking in a game the Shots would go on to win 3-2.
Playing 49 times that season, Frost was a key part of the side that was a whisker away from finishing in the Vanarama National League Playoffs and reached the FA Cup Third Round. He wasn’t amongst the scorers in our 7-4 demolition of League Two side, Swindon Town, but his expression summed up what we were all feeling that day.
In March 2023, he signed a new contract with the Shots extending his stay at the EBB Stadium until the summer of 2026 and he’d added two more goals to his tally with only one problem: He still hadn’t scored in front of the East Bank which he had exclaimed in an interview with ShotsTV that he was desperate to do!
Luckily, it didn’t take long after the start of the 24/25 season for him to do so as he converted Ashley Akpan’s cross in a 4-1 win over Oldham Athletic in late August.
And it was lucky indeed that he had done so considering his own goal in the Shots’ 3-2 win over Hartlepool United the other week came in front of the East Bank!
It didn’t take very long for Super Tyler Frost to get a chant from the Shots faithful which is now routinely sung home and away and if you’re going to endear yourself to our fantastic support, scoring again against Woking is certainly going to help as his powerful finish levelled proceedings in a 2-2 draw on Boxing Day 2024.
Frost became the latest Shots Centurion in last night’s defeat in the National League Cup which would not have been the way he would have wanted to celebrate the occasion, but leading the team out as the evening’s captain was a testament to the growth we have all witnessed in the 25-year-olds time with the Shots.
Keep up the great work, Frosty, and here’s to another 100!
