Charlie Crickmore RIP

[jonnyt1]

This was my first season watching Notts as a 6 year old. If memory serves me right Charlie was all left foot and very direct whilst Nixon was a tricky little devil. Nixon used to play on the park with a whole bunch of kids at Western Fields in Rudd.

[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.

[Old_pie]

This was my first season watching Notts as a 6 year old. If memory serves me right Charlie was all left foot and very direct whilst Nixon was a tricky little devil. Nixon used to play on the park with a whole bunch of kids at Western Fields in Rudd.

I seem to recall Nixon was a school teacher.

[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.

[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.

[IluvNotts]

I seem to recall Nixon was a school teacher.

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

[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

[60YearsAPie]

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

Brian Bates played for Notts as an amateur while at teacher training college. In his last season before turning professional, he was voted "Player of the Year!"

Jon Nixon went to teacher training college after being released as a youngster by Derby County. He played for lkeston Town and Long Eaton United before joining Notts.