Post by QPR Report on Apr 29, 2009 6:23:42 GMT
51 Years ago..., not a big date: April 29th 1972:
Just noting remember seeing Stan Bowles playing for Carlisle at Loftus Road. As I recall it was pouring rain. Loftus Road was mud, not grass and Bowles showed his skills - even as QPR won 3-0.
As Jago's brilliant post-Rodney Marsh were on a 21-game unbeaten streak (You mean QPR managers used to be at QPR for 21 games? Wow
And of course Six months later Stan Bowles was ours
As Gordon Jago said in an interview with QPR Net
"...GJ: After the sale of Rodney we finished the season in fourth place, we were so near to promotion that I was concerned that without him we would struggle to do even better. We needed to strengthen our attack and with £200,000 in the bank and a Chairman who wanted success we had the opportunity to buy new players.
The key was to sign the right players. When I asked the Chairman to buy Don Givens he was not that keen but he allowed me to spend £40,000 on him as our first summer buy. The Chairman was keen on Stan Bowles as he had played so well against us just before the end of the 70/71 season so we were able to beat Crystal Palace for his signature from Carlisle for a fee of £110,000. So we spent a total of £150,000 and signed two excellent goal scoring forwards...."
QPR Net Gordon Jago Interview
And thanks to Bushman: The programme
Also Bushman
Click on the link below for more Michael Wale Reports on the QPR Report History Board.
qprreport.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=history&thread=31850&page=2
Whatever the merits of "Marsh vs Bowles" - Just a brilliant, brilliant (and ballsy) signing by Gordon Jago, backed up by Jim Gregory
One of those times when you saw an opposing player and wished he was yours. And then in the summer, Bowles was being linked to some other
clubs - including then Div 1 Crystal Palace.... And then in September 1972, the Standard headline "110,000 Bowles for QPR" (A record QPR and Div II Transfer fee
Then 5 months later...
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Geat day. I was sure. I'm sure a number of others were as well
September 16, 1972
Stan Bowles made his debut at home to (pre-Brian Clough's) Nottingham Forest, September 16, 1972, two or three days after signing from Carlisle for a club-record 110,000 pounds.
Bowles, wearing from that very first game, HIS #10 shirt. Within an hour, he had made the first goal for Don Givens...and scored the second...as Gordon Jago's QPR won 3-0 (Andy McCulloch getting the third). And QPR, of course, went on to promotion.
Almost six months to the day since we had sold Rodneeee Marsh
QPR's team that day.
Parkes -
Clement Evans Hazell Watson -
Venables Francis Busby -
Givens Bowles Mcculloch -
Sub: Salvage
From Bowles' autobiography "Stan The Man"
"I was 23 years old when I joined Queens Park Rangers in September 1972, for a then club record fee of 112,000 pounds...
"Rodney had made the No. 10 shirt his own, and, since he moved, no one wanted to tough the thing....The shirt thing didn't seem a big deal to me. I hadn't really heard of Rodney Marsh. So I just shrugged and said: "If no one wants it, I'll wear it."...
From Bushman Archives
See Also: QPR Report: Bowles Joins QPR
qprreport.blogspot.com/2007/09/stan-bowles-joins-qprthirty-five-years.html
Read more: qprreport.proboards.com/thread/6769#ixzz3YgD2Hu4i
From QPR Report Blog 2007
Stan Bowles Joins QPR
qprreport.blogspot.com/2007/09/stan-bowles-joins-qprthirty-five-years.html
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Stan Bowles Joins QPR....Thirty-Five Years Ago
-
STANLEY BOWLES
35 Years Ago, today (or tomorrow!): One of the truly momentous events/turning points in QPR History: Gordon Jago signed 24 year old "troublemaker" Ex-Manchester City, ex-Bury, Ex-Crewe, Stan Bowles, from Carlisle for 110,000 pounds: A QPR and Division Two record fee. [See Rothmans Football Year Book report, although date seems incorrect - Rothmans See AlsoBowles Photos - From prime footballer, to 'elder statesman'.
Some player signings are only in hindsight great (or terrible) signings; but with Bowles...Anyone who had seen Bowles playing for Carlisle at the mud-bath of Loftus Road a few months earlier (after we had sold Marsh): QPR won 3-0 but Bowles had been brilliant. Even without Bowles, QPR might well have grabbed promotion that season. But Bowles and QPR: Synonimous with flair.)
Bowles made his QPR debut -wearing THE #10 shirt, a few days later: September 16, 1972 - QPR won 3-0. Bowles made the first goal of Givens and scored the second (Andy McCulloch scored QPR's third).
QPR team that day:
Parkes
Clement Evans Hazell Watson
Venables Francis Busby
Givens Bowles Mcculloch - Sub: Salvage
Suffice it to say that within weeks, fans were already calling Bowles THE greatest #10 (and the debate continues to this day). When a few months later, there were press rumours of Chairman Jim Gregory doing a swop: Bowles back to Manchester City in exchange for Rodney Marsh returning to QPR, fans were opposed. And after QPR's promotion, fans (and reportedly players) had no wish to see Marsh return to replace Bowles.
Bowles record in getting QPR back up..in helping to establish QPR in the First Division; in making QPR THE London team of the mid 1970s...our "Championship" season...and Bowles record scoring in the EUFA Cup competition the following season...His (pathetically few) five England Caps...His partnership with Gerry Francis et al...Great memories.
[Bowles played his last game for QPR in December 1979, against Wrexham (no longer wearing the #10 shirt). Tommy Docherty sold Bowles to Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest]
See Also:
BBC - Stan Bowles Voted QPR's All-Time Cult Hero
See Crewe Profile of Stan Bowles - Crewe on Bowles
Stan Bowles - Sporting Hero
Stan Bowles/Wikipedia
Daves's Queens Park Rangers FC Profile of Bowles - Bowles Remembered
Another Bowles Profile - Profile
BOOKS
Stan Bowles Autobiography Book Reviewed in When Saturday Comes - Bowles Review
Bowles features prominently in The Book, The Mavericks
A few weeks later
Just noting remember seeing Stan Bowles playing for Carlisle at Loftus Road. As I recall it was pouring rain. Loftus Road was mud, not grass and Bowles showed his skills - even as QPR won 3-0.
As Jago's brilliant post-Rodney Marsh were on a 21-game unbeaten streak (You mean QPR managers used to be at QPR for 21 games? Wow
And of course Six months later Stan Bowles was ours
As Gordon Jago said in an interview with QPR Net
"...GJ: After the sale of Rodney we finished the season in fourth place, we were so near to promotion that I was concerned that without him we would struggle to do even better. We needed to strengthen our attack and with £200,000 in the bank and a Chairman who wanted success we had the opportunity to buy new players.
The key was to sign the right players. When I asked the Chairman to buy Don Givens he was not that keen but he allowed me to spend £40,000 on him as our first summer buy. The Chairman was keen on Stan Bowles as he had played so well against us just before the end of the 70/71 season so we were able to beat Crystal Palace for his signature from Carlisle for a fee of £110,000. So we spent a total of £150,000 and signed two excellent goal scoring forwards...."
QPR Net Gordon Jago Interview
And thanks to Bushman: The programme
Also Bushman
Click on the link below for more Michael Wale Reports on the QPR Report History Board.
qprreport.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=history&thread=31850&page=2
Whatever the merits of "Marsh vs Bowles" - Just a brilliant, brilliant (and ballsy) signing by Gordon Jago, backed up by Jim Gregory
One of those times when you saw an opposing player and wished he was yours. And then in the summer, Bowles was being linked to some other
clubs - including then Div 1 Crystal Palace.... And then in September 1972, the Standard headline "110,000 Bowles for QPR" (A record QPR and Div II Transfer fee
Then 5 months later...
[img src="
" alt=" "]Geat day. I was sure. I'm sure a number of others were as well
September 16, 1972
Stan Bowles made his debut at home to (pre-Brian Clough's) Nottingham Forest, September 16, 1972, two or three days after signing from Carlisle for a club-record 110,000 pounds.
Bowles, wearing from that very first game, HIS #10 shirt. Within an hour, he had made the first goal for Don Givens...and scored the second...as Gordon Jago's QPR won 3-0 (Andy McCulloch getting the third). And QPR, of course, went on to promotion.
Almost six months to the day since we had sold Rodneeee Marsh
QPR's team that day.
Parkes -
Clement Evans Hazell Watson -
Venables Francis Busby -
Givens Bowles Mcculloch -
Sub: Salvage
From Bowles' autobiography "Stan The Man"
"I was 23 years old when I joined Queens Park Rangers in September 1972, for a then club record fee of 112,000 pounds...
"Rodney had made the No. 10 shirt his own, and, since he moved, no one wanted to tough the thing....The shirt thing didn't seem a big deal to me. I hadn't really heard of Rodney Marsh. So I just shrugged and said: "If no one wants it, I'll wear it."...
From Bushman Archives
See Also: QPR Report: Bowles Joins QPR
qprreport.blogspot.com/2007/09/stan-bowles-joins-qprthirty-five-years.html
Read more: qprreport.proboards.com/thread/6769#ixzz3YgD2Hu4i
From QPR Report Blog 2007
Stan Bowles Joins QPR
qprreport.blogspot.com/2007/09/stan-bowles-joins-qprthirty-five-years.html
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Stan Bowles Joins QPR....Thirty-Five Years Ago
-
STANLEY BOWLES
35 Years Ago, today (or tomorrow!): One of the truly momentous events/turning points in QPR History: Gordon Jago signed 24 year old "troublemaker" Ex-Manchester City, ex-Bury, Ex-Crewe, Stan Bowles, from Carlisle for 110,000 pounds: A QPR and Division Two record fee. [See Rothmans Football Year Book report, although date seems incorrect - Rothmans See AlsoBowles Photos - From prime footballer, to 'elder statesman'.
Some player signings are only in hindsight great (or terrible) signings; but with Bowles...Anyone who had seen Bowles playing for Carlisle at the mud-bath of Loftus Road a few months earlier (after we had sold Marsh): QPR won 3-0 but Bowles had been brilliant. Even without Bowles, QPR might well have grabbed promotion that season. But Bowles and QPR: Synonimous with flair.)
Bowles made his QPR debut -wearing THE #10 shirt, a few days later: September 16, 1972 - QPR won 3-0. Bowles made the first goal of Givens and scored the second (Andy McCulloch scored QPR's third).
QPR team that day:
Parkes
Clement Evans Hazell Watson
Venables Francis Busby
Givens Bowles Mcculloch - Sub: Salvage
Suffice it to say that within weeks, fans were already calling Bowles THE greatest #10 (and the debate continues to this day). When a few months later, there were press rumours of Chairman Jim Gregory doing a swop: Bowles back to Manchester City in exchange for Rodney Marsh returning to QPR, fans were opposed. And after QPR's promotion, fans (and reportedly players) had no wish to see Marsh return to replace Bowles.
Bowles record in getting QPR back up..in helping to establish QPR in the First Division; in making QPR THE London team of the mid 1970s...our "Championship" season...and Bowles record scoring in the EUFA Cup competition the following season...His (pathetically few) five England Caps...His partnership with Gerry Francis et al...Great memories.
[Bowles played his last game for QPR in December 1979, against Wrexham (no longer wearing the #10 shirt). Tommy Docherty sold Bowles to Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest]
See Also:
BBC - Stan Bowles Voted QPR's All-Time Cult Hero
See Crewe Profile of Stan Bowles - Crewe on Bowles
Stan Bowles - Sporting Hero
Stan Bowles/Wikipedia
Daves's Queens Park Rangers FC Profile of Bowles - Bowles Remembered
Another Bowles Profile - Profile
BOOKS
Stan Bowles Autobiography Book Reviewed in When Saturday Comes - Bowles Review
Bowles features prominently in The Book, The Mavericks
A few weeks later
