He has been with Cheltenham for nearly 9 years and has made 397 starts for Cheltenham, and has been forced to retire following advice from his doctors that he would risk further injury if he was to carry on playing.
In the mean time Chris is helping tak charge of first team affairs after the sacking of Graham Allner, and Banks will also try and play a few more games between now and the end of the season to take his total games up to 400.