Rest in Peace Mick Walker

[macstop]

R.I.P. Mick Walker, Manager January 1993 to September 1994, i was there at that first home Match tueday 26th January Notts 5 Tranmere 1, been raining all day if i remember right, i was gob smacked at the football we played that night.

Goals, Matthews, D Smith (2, 1 pen), Agana, Draper, att: 5,642

[upthemaggies]

Part of me wishes Mick had stayed doing what he did best (in my opinion) with youth development, because he probably would have been with us for many more years producing even more talent, whereas in the 'top' job there's usually nowhere left to go but the exit door if it doesn't work out.

Yes, I agree, but by that time Walker had been promoted to reserve team manager (Russell Slade was overseeing the youth set up) and Walker was ambitious enough to make it very clear to Pavis that he wanted the manager's job permanently the moment Warnock left, so he probably would have soon looked elsewhere had we brought somebody else in. Neil actually mentioned in an interview straight after he was sacked (in a semi-joking manner) that Walker had long been after his job, which was likely true. It's difficult though to imagine anybody else getting better results for the rest of that season than Walker did to keep us up on the final day. Longer term, maybe an experienced number 2 was needed or, better still, the club not being hugely distracted by building a new main stand until we'd got back up to the top flight. The CEO Neal Hook was sacked within 9 months of that stand being opened.

"Hindsight is a wonderful thing" (DP)

[Mud Pie]

sad news. Somehow harks back to when all our wheelbarrows were in working order. Rest in peace, Mick.

[Med Pie]

Can't seen how old he was anywhere?

[upthemaggies]

Can't seen how old he was anywhere?

I've got him down as born 27th November 1940, so 84.
That would make him 52 when got the Notts job, 53 when sacked.

[BanjoPie]

Sad news indeed. RIP Mr Walker

[Med Pie]

I've got him down as born 27th November 1940, so 84.
That would make him 52 when got the Notts job, 53 when sacked.

Thanks, hadn't realised he was that old!

Neil Hook, that's a blast from the past as well, all thirty stone of it.

[Big Bob]

RIP Mick. A good customer of my late Dad. Smashing bloke he was

[MAD_MAGPIE]

Mick Walker was manager when I went to my first Notts game at home against Sunderland on the last day of the 92/93 season and we beat them 3-1 and stayed up in the second tier.

A true club great from the late 80's / early 90's golden era.

RIP Mick Walker

[Davy500]

Thanks, hadn't realised he was that old!

Neil Hook, that's a blast from the past as well, all thirty stone of it.

neil Hook i remember him selling tickets before the oplay off match in ticket office another true notts county servant