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Post by lastminutewinner on Dec 4, 2019 12:16:31 GMT
How about a whip round at the next match, that the club can use to pay for some flowers/funeral costs to pass to Johnson to pass to Benik with all of our regards? No publicity, nothing in your face, but an honest and sincere, low key gesture from the fans and club?
Don't give it to Johnson, he will just use it to buy JCH in Jan.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2019 21:49:54 GMT
How about a whip round at the next match, that the club can use to pay for some flowers/funeral costs to pass to Johnson to pass to Benik with all of our regards? No publicity, nothing in your face, but an honest and sincere, low key gesture from the fans and club?
Don't give it to Johnson, he will just use it to buy JCH in Jan.
Not really the time or subject for jokes.....
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Post by Icegas on Dec 5, 2019 1:59:37 GMT
Yeh this I think. I mean what do we really do? Anything like "We stand with Benefik" would just be corny IMO and I doubt he'd even care (don't mean that to sound obtuse, just being realistic). Ultimately we're all good human beings (well, most people are) and so you'd hope it's obvious we're all utterly heartbroken. Given the nature of the tragedy, it doesn't seem like it was an illness either which makes the charity angle a bit more complex too. Normally when you lose a loved one to a disease, the obvious suggestion is to give to a charity that specialises in attempting to cure - or even treat - the disease. But I'm not sure it's relevant in this case. Ultimately it's just one of those utterly heartbreaking situations - what do you do? Maybe the club could issue an announcement saying everyone at Bristol Rovers sends their condolences etc. - but I can't help but think does it really matter? If I were in his shoes (and I don't even want to entertain the thought) I honestly wouldn't care about anything. At all. It's one thing his club doing something and the City fans obviously - but anyone else is par for the course. Sorry, don't want to offend anyone and I'm only thinking out loud - and of course if anyone wants to do anything at all then please do so; I just mean that anything organised just feels.... I don't really know how to word it. What happened is so horrific. I can't even put it in to words properly. I just feel so sorry for them. It's heartbreaking. I think you are absolutely right. To put it bluntly, it seems that whenever there is a tragedy now, that organisations feel they need to be doing something, when in reality there is very little they can or should do. It's a heart-breaking situation, but it is something that the family will deal with between themselves and their loved ones and I think they should be left alone to do exactly that. I agree. This event is awlful and I cant even begin to think what he and his family are going thru right now and my prayers are with him. He does not play for us,nor has ever does done so.It seems like we are trying to do something just because its a City player. I mean would we do so if it was was Shrewsbury, Tranmare or Nott forest player? Benik has far more to think about at this time then what BRFC does on saturday. I think what we have done on online as a club, and to get some form of bucket collect for his family at our up coming matches is about most that we can really do for him at this time,sadly.
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