Walsall youngster hailed for "fantastic" impact in non-league

Wragg joined Halesowen on loan during the second half of the season and scored twice in 17 outings to help them reach the play-off semi-finals. 

The 18-year-old was forced to play second-choice to Kieran Donnelly who finished the campaign with 24 goals in the Southern League Premier Central. 

However, Penn feels that experience will only make him stronger, and credited Wragg for helping his main marksman Donnelly raise his levels amid such fierce competition.

"Even the experience of not playing, sometimes you can learn so much more from that," Penn said.

"I know he had a fantastic time at our club albeit he probably didn't get the game time he wanted but he was in a successful team. 

"Personally he would've wanted to have played more but we had the top goal scorer in the league and we play with one up front. 

"But Charlie backed him up so well and he took our striker to another level. When he was coming on, he was affecting games. When he started, he would score."

Wragg spent time on loan at Bromsgrove Sporting and Alvechurch earlier in the campaign, but struggled for minutes with the latter. 

He scored twice in six games, but Alvechurch sporting director Mark Fogarty explained that the arrangements with Walsall made it challenging for Wragg to settle.

"If he played all the time then I think he would've got goals as well but there reasons for that beyond his control," Fogarty revealed.

"Walsall only allowed us to have him on certain days so sometimes we'd only have him once a week. 

"Then he didn't play for a couple of weeks because he was cup-tied which hampered him. If a club is going to let a young player out on loan then they should wherever possible allow them to train all the time with that club. 

"We're a daytime model whereas pretty much every club at our level is Tuesday and Thursday evening." 

There was no such complications at Halesowen and it was his exploits at the start of the season with Bromsgrove Sporting which first put him on Penn's radar. 

"I didn't know too much about him in the season prior because he was still a youth team player," Penn admitted. 

"Then we played against him for Bromsgrove and he scored against us. He went on a bit of a goal scoring run after that so there was always interest there. 

"I know Ryan Simmonds in the academy at Walsall and I also know Mat Sadler really well. Once the Alvechurch loan didn't really go to plan, we jumped all over it. 

"Because we were at the right end of the table, I think we were more of an attraction to the other teams.

"We had a really good relationship, as we did with Walsall as well. So his loan ticked all the boxes."