Walker’s hold up play hailed

The dimunitive striker has hit the target in a number of York City’s pre-season friendlies following his £60,000 move from the Hatters this summer.

And Mills believes his hold-up play will bring a new dimension to the Minstermen.

He said: “It’s the awareness and being more of a team player.

“Not only a good team player, but someone who will weigh in with goals. He’s a good goalscorer and I’m just delighted to have him here.

“I think he’s an excellent player, I’ve never hidden behind that fact. I think things are going well for him. It’s difficult up there sometimes, on your own, with the system that we play. You have got to have bodies up there to support him.

“But those bodies now know that when it goes up to him that it is going to stick. We had a problem last year where that didn’t happen.

“It creates negativity. It creates something in other players where they don’t go and make the run because they feel they are not going to get the ball.

“Now we have got that confidence that we have got somebody up there where that will happen.”