Quiz: Youngest man alive today to have played for Notts in......

[upthemaggies]

Also depends what you mean by cup final if play offs count.

Shaun Derry is still young and played in Murphy/Thompson team.

Play offs is not a cup competition in my book, it's an extension of the league, otherwise we'd be looking at whoever was the youngest player against Harrogate last year.

So yes, Tommy Gallagher is the youngest Notts cup finalist alive today, born 1974, four months after Michael Simpson.
He's not the youngest man to have appeared in the 2nd tier however.

[queenslandpie]

Play offs is not a cup competition in my book, it's an extension of the league, otherwise we'd be looking at whoever was the youngest player against Harrogate last year.

So yes, Tommy Gallagher is the youngest Notts cup finalist alive today, born 1974, four months after Michael Simpson.
He's not the youngest man to have appeared in the 2nd tier however.

Bugged me all the way to work and here I am. I was going to say Steve Slawson for the top flight so I am wondering if he played in the second tier? I cant see his season by season stats anywhere.

[upthemaggies]

Bugged me all the way to work and here I am. I was going to say Steve Slawson for the top flight so I am wondering if he played in the second tier? I cant see his season by season stats anywhere.

Not Slawson. He made 25 apps in the 2nd tier but six players at that level were born after him.

You can say Slawson is the most recently born top flight scorer for Notts. He scored the goal in the 1-1 at Southampton when Razor Ruddock got sent off for head butting Craig Short. He scored three further goals in the 2nd tier.

[AdviceDog]

Was it.... James Hunt?

[queenslandpie]

so it looks like Michael Johnson in the top flight.

[queenslandpie]

and I cannot work out an age for Tommy Gallagher so it may well be Michael Johnson for all 3?

[queenslandpie]

ah just saw the post above about Gallagher.

[Ex_Southwell_Magpie]

Was it.... James Hunt?

Was going to say the same but saw that you beat me to it.

[slack_pie]

A random guess for the youngest to play in the 2nd tier: Steve Slawson.

[upthemaggies]

1. the top flight - Michael Johnson (born 1973)
2. the 2nd tier - ??????
3. a cup final - Tommy Gallagher (born 1974)


Five players born after Michael Johnson played in the 2nd tier for Notts, including Tommy Gallager but he isn't the youngest.
Slawson is older than Michael Johnson, it's not him.