The sad death of Alan McDonald has prompted many posters to describe him as a QPR legend. This is an over-used phrase, but surely justified in his case. QPR has had limited success over the 45 years that I have supported them and therefore, logically, we ought to have a limited number of "legends". Otherwise, the danger is that the phrase "legend" (and its deserving recipients) get devalued. Who are your QPR legends and, in one sentence, how do you justify that claim? For example: Alan McDonald, man mountain and most international caps of any QPR player in the club's history. Rodney Marsh, unrivalled (?) crowd favourite and record scorer of most goals in a season.
Stan the man, Dave Clement, Gerry Frances, Phil Parks, The Morgen twins? and Meany more !!!!!! think , at one time our club had 10 internationals in the same team, any one remember??
Alec Stock, without his brilliant team of the mid 60s we'd probably still be jousting with Brentford for the West London crumbs...
As I said, too many and it devalues the phrase. Stan of course; Gerry our first England captain and twice our manager; but Ian Morgan......
Possibly Ollie, Played with his heart on his sleeve for us, and kept us afloat when it looked like we might just sink
Les Ferdinand in my era - 24 goals in a Premiership season (second top scorer that year I think) and kept us up there for a few years. Also gave a few grand to the We Are QPR collection if I remember correctly. Sorry, 2 sentences.
Yeh Jim Gregory definite, also Stock, Sexton, El Tel, Colin, Rodney, Stanley, Clive, Macca as these were the Manager / Player Legends of their time.
Ian Gillard. Pretty much always gets overlooked when the plaudits are handed out, but was a great full-back, a real servant to the club, and a genuine bloke.
Bit long winded but....... Peter Springett, Tony Hazell, Jim Langley, Mike Keen, Ron Hunt, Frank Sibley, Mark Lazerus, Keith Sanderson, Les Allen, Rodney Marsh, Roger Morgan, Ian Morgan........The side that stated the road to where we are now.... Then.......Phil Parkes, Dave Clement, Ian Gillard, John Hollins, Frank McLintock, Dave Webb, Dave Thomas, Gerry Francis, Don Masson, Stan Bowles, Don Givens, Dear Old Mickey Leach.......The finest side the club has ever had.
Terry Venables (all time football god and wide boy), David Webb (Hoops made him look 10 foot wide) Don Masson (the last piece in the jigsaw that nearly made us Champions) and Dave Thomas (the winger not Oddball). But my all time favourite but for a stupid stupid reason was Wayne Fereday...simply because when I had my full season ticket there was a quiet little man behind me every single week ...who would shout only one thing but at least 20 times a match...."Go-on on Wayne he's a dinner" Wayne would sometimes hear him and look up and smile...but after a few seasons Wayne would often come over to us at the start of the match to be reassured by the quiet man that the full back he was about to take on was definately "a dinner"
In my era, the legends are certainly the one's who stuck at the club when we really were in the mess, Kevin Gallen in particular stands out as he made roughly 200 appearances before leaving us in 2000, only to rejoin us to play nearly another 200 when we went down to the old division 2!
Seems like the average age of this board is 83! For me its only Marsh and Bowles even though I was too young to see them play. I dont include Sir Les because he was only here for 5 good years before he wanted to move on although he was the best player Ive seen play for us. It does make me laugh to see kiddies pick Bircham or Holloway.
Does that make Buz a legend?? He has stuck around and heaven forbid if sticking around counts as we will soon have legends in Dyer and lovely old Joey soon
No chance, the only 2 current players who have a chance is Taarabt and Faurlin if they stay with us for 10 years and have a high quality level of play.
