Match Day Thread Stan Benefit v Bournemouth #justforstan

Anyone know how many tickets have been sold?

 

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Over 7,000 tickets now sold for the #JustForStan Benefit Match on Saturday against @afcbournemouth.https://cards.twitter.com/cards/16ea2j/4d5yj …

9:15 AM - 26 Jul 2017

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Stan Bowles Benefit Match tickets
eticketing.co.uk

 

7000
not many is it

 

More than normally turn up for testimonials.......Given the time of year that's actually not bad, plus many have brought "virtual" tickets....

 

its been in the mail/mirror/this week
advertised lot longer
fundraiser for apparently qprs greatest ever player
1 week to seasons start
against a premiership team

7000 is terrible imo

 

Don't forget that there will be people who simply pay at the gate, probably end up around the 10k mark, oh and it's likely to be a Bournemouth 11 not their full first team as apparently they have a friendly against Valencia on Sunday.......

 

so its not even bournemouth now

 

Well it is a side from AFC Bournemouth, just might not be the side that starts their Premier League campaign a couple of weeks later, depends on what their manager wants to get out of the game. (Can't believe I'm actually writing this about little Bournemouth, a perennial 3rd or 4th Division club and a side that we tonked 3-0 in our play off winning season)

 

Just goes to show what you can do running a club properly!

 

If they are relegated the EFL will have them under FFP, they are in as much of the brown stuff as us. Leicester as well...

 

Nice touch, we don't have a player worthy of the No.10 shirt at present...

 

Gerry Francis talks about Stan

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/gerry-francis-stan-bowles-qpr-10882434

 

“It is going to be the last time we will see him in London,” says his former teammate Don Shanks.
“His condition is getting progressively worse and I do not think it is going to be very long before he reaches a point where he has to leave the family and go into a full-time care home.
“But when he comes to the Bush, for some reason, somehow, he knows where he is. And he walks on the field and for five minutes of his life even in his present condition he appears to come to life and feel at home. We want the place full so he gets to feel the regular and wonderful atmosphere that he has always had.

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Bowles was diagnosed with Alzheimer's four years ago
“He was a great player for the Rs and back in the day he brought a lot of pleasure to a lot of people.
“I do not think we will ever get another player like him, because he was a total one-off. Just a brilliant, beautiful football player.

 

Every player should wear no 10 tomorrow. Also, I see Brentford played Soton last week. Far better oppo for us as Charlie may have put a few more bums on seats .

 

Just got our tickets. Should be in the con about 1230.

 

Love to know how many virtual tickets have been sold too...which is an absolutely brilliant idea...again well done QPR.
There are really quite a few people who would have loved to have come, and couldn't.

I expect there will be 10,000 physically there (and suspect maybe an equal-ish number of virtuals)
So be honest...part of me is not entirely looking forward to it...seeing Stantheman in the state he now is in. It is a sign of all our own mortality that a jewel that burned SO bright is now no longer with us

 

Manchester United are coming to Oslo this weekend to play a pre season against my Norwegian Club Vålerenga. They aren't as big as QPR. No good reason why we couldn't have got someone like that for this game. City where Stan started would have been ideal.

 

I'm maybe being harshly honest here, but I doubt there's anyone at City who would give a toss. They are all about the last 5 years, not the last 50 years...

 

Think this ought to be turned into the Match Day thread......

Those of us old enough to have watched Stan in his pomp can post our memories and we can post clips from You Tube for the youngsters......

 

I'll start.

I've posted this before, several times, but I just feel lucky that there is a record. September 1972, my first sight of the Rs, the first time I knew Stan Bowles existed, one of his first games for the club. Extended highlights, beautiful touches from Stan all the way through (and Gerry, Tel, Busby....), and a sublime and completely typical final goal from the Man. I was hooked instantly.

Feeling quite sad now. Perversely quite happy that I can't go tomorrow. I'll continue to contribute to the man who gave me so many great memories, but I don't want those memories tarnished,