Charlie Crickmore RIP

[IluvNotts]

I seem to recall Nixon was a school teacher.

Wasn't Brian Bates (also a winger) a school teacher?

[Mark_Ross]

In that case, very few impressed or very few (if any) underachieved!

From the stats above, 11 players managed 37 games or more with 8 playing 40 games or more.

The team virtually picked itself!

Well that's as maybe, but i seem to remember lots of stars coming up from the reserves...
Richards, Scanlon, Vinter, McVay, Bolton...

[Elite_Pie]

Well that's as maybe, but i seem to remember lots of stars coming up from the reserves...
Richards, Scanlon, Vinter, McVay, Bolton...

Calling McVay a 'star' is tenuous (loved Steak Diana Ross though) but Ian Bolton??? More of a Haydn Hollis type. I don't remember Ian Scanlon playing much reserve team football, but the glaring omission from your list is Tristan Benjamin. I do remember watching him and Pedro come through the reserves, couldn't wait to see both in the first team.

If post #4 is correct, I would only have seen Charlie Crickmore play once, my first season was 71-72.

[Mark_Ross]

Calling McVay a 'star' is tenuous (loved Steak Diana Ross though) but Ian Bolton??? More of a Haydn Hollis type. I don't remember Ian Scanlon playing much reserve team football, but the glaring omission from your list is Tristan Benjamin. I do remember watching him and Pedro come through the reserves, couldn't wait to see both in the first team.

If post #4 is correct, I would only have seen Charlie Crickmore play once, my first season was 71-72.

To be honest, it's a long time ago, and I was only a little kid, and not particularly interested (Notts fanatism developed much later) so all the players / dates / matches are bloody well confused!

But you are quite right about Benjamin... Max respect to one of the all-time-greatest football Afros.

[magpie_mania]

Well that's as maybe, but i seem to remember lots of stars coming up from the reserves...
Richards, Scanlon, Vinter, McVay, Bolton...

Not that season they didn't. 3 years too early!

[meoldlaner]

Charlie was part of that great team that rolls off the tongue, and whetted my appetite for all things black and white. A team of legends. Charlie was a wonderful proper footballer.
RIP Charlie, thanks for the memories.

[IluvNotts]

I was a huge fan of Charlie Crickmore during that promotion season.
Charlie’s role was simply to pick up the ball in his own half, race down the left wing usually outsprinting the opposition defender then whip in a superb cross for Big Les Brad or Tony Hateley to nod home. I wonder how many “assists” he would have been credited with?
I rarely saw him waste a cross including corners. RIP Charlie