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Hello good folk of Blonde!

The company I work for have Club Wembley seats and I have a pair of tickets that I would like to raffle on here for the Rugby League Challenge Cup final on Saturday 23rd August to be held at Wembley of course and due to the fact that everyone in our company seems to be off on holiday this month at the same time it would be crazy for me to go even though I would love to.

So I am going to raffle them on here and you can buy 1 ticket in the draw for £5, 2 tickets for £10 or 5 tickets for £20 and once the closing date is reached and all the monies are confirmed then I will PM tighty to allocate all the names a number between 1 and  x with the winner shown on this thread in a nearly live draw and Tighty will confirm the winner who will recieve the pair of tickets sent by registered post to their address.

Since I have been posting on Blonde there are two peoples stories that always bought a tear to the eye, inspired me but always are the first threads I go to when there is an update.
These are the threads
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=33676.0 (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=33676.0)

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=29927.0 (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=29927.0)

And these are the people they relate to
(http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j327/esokral/reece.jpg)  (http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j327/esokral/Daniel.jpg)

All of the money received from the raffle is going to be split 2 ways with Maureen and Graham able to do whatever they wish with it and I would imagine that Reece will get a nice family day out somewhere and Graham will send the money back to the Phillipines to make their life easier for a bit so please "Flick it in" and have a go even if you cannot get to the game itself I am sure you will know someone who may like to go and it is for a great cause.

I am not going to put any restrictions on how long people need to have been a member for as I want to try and raise as much money as possible for these heroes of Blonde so please spam this link on your facebook or social media if you wish as we may even get some extra Blonde sign ups along with a few quid.

The semi finals are this weekend so I am going to leave the draw open until midnight on Sunday 17th August with the draw made on Monday evening and the winner notified straight away. All monies need to be received by 12noon Monday 18th and once people start confirming they would like tickets I will send group pm's with bank details of where to send, however Dubai has said you can send to CrabMaki on Stars or  Angela1987 on Full Tilt and he will in turnsend to me.

I will start off with a £20 batch of 5 but if I do win will just pull out another number so the kitty currently stands at £20.

I know there are some passionate RL boys on here so feel free to tell your mates and get them to have a go....

These are the views from your seats

Block 235
http://www.wembleystadium.com/TheStadium/ViewFromYourSeat.aspx#seat:235|event:sports (http://www.wembleystadium.com/TheStadium/ViewFromYourSeat.aspx#seat:235|event:sports)

£20 please.  Will pay you or dubai in cash at dtd this week.

Cheers bud
Am there tomorrow so hope to see you!

Twittered it, not sure if i have done it correctly. Thanks again. X

£20 please Eso doubt i can go but will find someone who can

Will send by bt once have your details

Great thread idea btw nice one

Thx John
Will send deets after the weekend

£60 raised so far!

£20 please

pay at dtd next week

Cheers Rich
If I am not there I will send you details or you may have from before.

£20 please

I'm in Hungary so if I win just redraw for someone else

Sent to CrabMaki on stars from Raziel2689

Thanks Dan
Top man!

This deserves a bump

I'm going to stick another £20 in the pot from the weekend but not include that in the draw.

Leeds vs Castleford is the final which I think were the better teams to be in the semis so please tell any Leeds or Cas fans about this thread...

Will send deets to all during the next 48 hours to all who have responded so far.

£20 please Rich - I can't actually make it but confident I could find a standby assuming this works for you? (Would be someone relatively respectable, obviously)

Will ship funds now.

Thats great thanks Ed

Will try and find a match for us to get to again ;)

I received a message from Rich two or three days ago telling me about this and until now I haven't responded because I genuinely don't know what to say other than thank you to what is a most generous offer which epitomises what blonde is all about - community spirit.

In Rich

In for £20 pls Rich.

In Harrogate for a wedding that weekend, so just redraw if I get lucky.

Cheers Nick
I have received £ from Arbboy and will check bank today as Dyl has sent and then will send deets to all parties later on

Anymore for anymore?

£180 raised so far!

I really hope to be at Dtd all weekend but will be checking here to see if we can get to £300 plus with the draw made Monday and closing entries by midnight Sunday.

I have sent deets to those requested and will confirm recvd in next cpl of days

Last chance to enter this as need to post itt if anyone else wishes to enter by midnight tomorrow.

 Bump

Ok we topped out at £180 raised so I am going to top it up to £250 and that means £125 each to both Reece and Graham to do with as they please (If Mo and Graham could please pm me details of where they would like the money sent I will send in the next couple of days)

Here is the winning ticket number and Ironside will be on later to let you know which number that corresponds to as I am out today and if the winner could please PM me details of where they would like the tickets to be sent to I will send them registered post tomorrow.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG1uQbUwtqE

Thanks for supporting this guys....

Eso Kral         4
Arbboy           3
Horseplayer     7
Tightend         2
DMorgan         6
EdGascoigne    5
Big_D              1
Ripple              8

Numbers were sent to kinboshi before the draw

Wp Nick!!

Pm sent

Cheers!.....worth it just to see the draw  :)

Sorry chaps, missed this, been a bit busy the last fortnight.

Room for £20 more?

Lol Pops
The draw has been made but you are welcome to contribute to the fund. I'm sure you have my details somewhere ;)

Obv no worries either way

Ha! I would not go & watch a RL match if you paid me £1,000, so I had no interest in winning the seat things, just wanted to chip in.

Thank you for chipping in then, with that £20 we have raised £270 so £135 each for Taxi and Nun.

Words fail me. I am not a frequent poster on here latley, not because of any other reason than juggling life,  but yet still Reece is thought of by all you very kind members. Thanks all, he will enjoy a good few days out with the money. Starting with his first trip to London. He wants to visit the National History Museum and have a day seeing the sites. No doubt visit a toy shop or nine. He also wants to visit the dungeons at York but maybe the ones in London might be even better?.

Thanks again,

Kind Regards and good health to you all.

Maureen. X

The Natural History Museum is the best. One of my favourite places I've ever been.

Have fun!

I'm very much like Mo on this one in that words fail me at the generosity of Rich for doing this and to the members for so generously supporting him (been here at blonde long enough now so I shouldn't be surprised at the support).

To give you some idea £135.00 equates to approx 9,855.00 Philippine Pesos which is equal to 197 cups of rice, not that we need to buy any rice as this is donated by local business's.

I haven't decided yet as how this money will be spent but I feel I would like to hold it until Christmas and make that time all the little bit more special for the kids. It will go along away to providing each of them a little gift when they come in on Christmas Day.

I still feel slightly embarrassed by all of this but from the bottom of my heart I would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to you all.

Always a queue to get in on holidays and weekends. We try and arrive there before opening and once inside , do the dinasours first before another queue starts!

Enjoy !

You are both welcome!!

Once I have the details I will send over £150 per person as Ben Mayspew has kindly donated the £30 from his % in Arbboys staking thread to this thread and Arbboy will sort me out when I see him in September.

Thanks to Nick (Ripple11) also who could not attend the final and gave his tickets to Arbboy as he was moaning that he never won anything  :P

Quiet essexsfinest!  Tickets received in the post this morning.  Much appreciated.  I assume we just turn up at the gate with the two pieces of paper attached and scan the tickets printed on the a4 sheets of paper as there are no actual 'old school' tickets there?

You've acquired two tickets from a dodgy Essex estate agent and you actually expect them to allow you access to the stadium?

Thought you said you were shrewd? 😀😀

haha it does actually look like he has just sent me two a4 pieces of paper which look like booking receipts.  Would be a comical wind up for me to blow my bankroll getting to London on the train and turn up and get laughed at by the guy on the gate when i try to access the ground!!

photo diary please

will do a trip report.  having to go with (mythical) girlfriend as my intended (rugby league loving) guest is away on a stag weekend.  Anyone got any bet suggestions?

Wembley is a great stadium/day out.  Food (best tasting pie i have ever had at a sports match of any type (http://www.toms-pies.co.uk - def recommend if you attend Wembley) top class but i wouldn't be in a rush to go and watch another rugby league game if that was the biggest game of the year there wasn't much atmosphere at all.  Also can't believe there were 78000 fans in the arena the place looked half empty.  I would have guessed at 60000 max.  The vast majority of corporate boxes near our seats were closed and there was literally no one sitting in any of the seats anywhere near to us.

Will try and upload some pics from the trip later if i can work out how to do it.  Cheers for running the raffle Eso.  Enjoyable day out and my first experience of the new Wembley.


Had my first ever correct score bet on a rugby match, which was available on the in stadium coupon (they offer 80/1 any scoreline which sounds muggy on the vast majority of scorelines), on 28-20 leeds which was the predicted most likely outcome based on the spread firms hcap and points total.  Had a bit of a sweat early in the 2nd half of having a chance of landing it when Cas scored early in the 2nd half.  Pretty sure 80/1 must be a touch of value on the most likely score.

The £300 was sent today to Graham and Mo to accounts specified so thanks again to everyone who donated!

Enjoy guys!!