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by Spiral
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Happy St Patrick's Day
Replies: 15
Views: 712

Re: Happy St Patrick's Day

Lol Tricky Trevor just made you think about your mum and dad going at it.
by Spiral
Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:06 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: James Trafford's Contract
Replies: 168
Views: 9014

Re: James Trafford's Contract

Superjohnnyfrancis wrote:
Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:11 pm

Do you know when this blow up happened specifically?
Heard this in about January I think, and it was fairly recent then if I'm not mistaken. Pinch of salt and everything, but I don't usually post this kind of stuff if I don't trust where it came from.
by Spiral
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:42 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: James Trafford's Contract
Replies: 168
Views: 9014

Re: James Trafford's Contract

Staying up is not the aim of the game this season any more, I don't think. Like it or loathe it, we're a bloody project team now. It's a shame folk still are made to pay for this shite.
by Spiral
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:36 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: James Trafford's Contract
Replies: 168
Views: 9014

Re: James Trafford's Contract

Muric apparently blew up at Kompany in training a good few months back. That probably just reinforced Kompany's thoughts about him not being the right man. Trafford is shite but the simplest explanation is that Kompany sees him being here for a good few years so this trial by fi....utter catastrophi...
by Spiral
Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Muric - Surely has to start on Sunday ?
Replies: 180
Views: 6608

Re: Muric - Surely has to start on Sunday ?

HahaYeah wrote:
Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:56 pm
Don't you think the other guys would pull Vinnie to one side if he was much better than Trafford?
Honestly don't think 90% of this squad has the character to pull the manager aside.
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:20 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Available Managers...
Replies: 112
Views: 5448

Re: Available Managers...

I like Rosenior Carrick Robins and McKenna too but better than VK? I don’t see how VK has never lost to any of those managers in 8 games. 6 wins and 2 draws. Doesn't work like that. This season's VK is not the same as last season's VK, and this season's Burnley is not the same as last season's Burn...
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:12 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Available Managers...
Replies: 112
Views: 5448

Re: Available Managers...

Two 9-0 losses isn't much different than six 3-0's if you're picking up a point or three in between the two 9-0's.
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:09 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Available Managers...
Replies: 112
Views: 5448

Re: Available Managers...

Quite like Rosenior at Hull, but not sure about him as a PL manager yet. I don't like the idea of putting Jackson in until the end of the season. I think if VK goes, we need to fight to stay up, which means appointing someone who can put fire in these players' bellies. We're obviously down, but that...
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: pace
Replies: 89
Views: 5589

Re: pace

Personally I think Kompany definitely is going to be a top coach. I can see him managing huge teams, and that might lead to the belief that if we bear the mistakes now, we reap the rewards of his development as a coach. I used to believe that, truly, but of late I'm thinking of it like this: use a r...
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:31 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Amdouni
Replies: 142
Views: 7673

Re: Amdouni

Top scorer in the Swiss team shows good touches and scores. He's not there to defend You've got to defend in England. B@stard of a league. You've got to fight for every little thing. You aren't playing Andorra and Malta and Greece every week, you're playing Arsenal and Chelsea and even Villa and Ne...
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:25 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Amdouni
Replies: 142
Views: 7673

Re: Amdouni

jedi_master wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:24 pm
Had him bang to rights early doors.
Same. Even at my most charitable I can't see what he brings to a team.
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:16 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate
Replies: 424
Views: 14527

Re: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate

'Fight' is intangible, and is difficult to quantify and organise analytically in the way goals, tackles, clearances, sprints can be analysed, but you know fight when you see it, and you know when it's not there, and it started to disappear a few months ago. I feel fairly sure many people on here ton...
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:07 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate
Replies: 424
Views: 14527

Re: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate

CoolClaret wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:07 pm
Thought you were enjoying seeing them learn how to win Spiral? What happened to that?!
The last two months.
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate
Replies: 424
Views: 14527

Re: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate

Has to be big changes next week - in personnel, tactics and attitude. That absolutely is not happening. Brownhill change is forced, but it's gonna be the same team, the same setup, the same attitude, the same effort, the same errors we've seen without mitigation since the winter set in and the opti...
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bad as Laws era
Replies: 70
Views: 2843

Re: Bad as Laws era

Feels like he's going through the motions a little bit, which is a shame, because he has always been incredibly thoughtful in the past, even in defeat.
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:59 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: pace
Replies: 89
Views: 5589

Re: pace

Even if they could afford it, there are two questions 1. Is there anybody who could keep us up ( who would come) 2. Is there anybody better to get us promoted if we get relegated I would think the answer to both questions is no. We were asking the same question two years ago in fairness. Without th...
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:51 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate
Replies: 424
Views: 14527

Re: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate

Beware the sunk cost fallacy. We're in deep with Kompany, sure, but there has not been one single shred of evidence of this regression being arrested.
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Post match presser anyone?
Replies: 37
Views: 2098

Re: Post match presser anyone?

They're in the Premier League but they're not Premier League players. Utter w@ank all over the park. There's only Foster and Koleosho who legitimately look the part. Odobert has a good career in front of him, and I like Beyer a lot, but as for the rest I don't see PL teams coming in for them.
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:38 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: pace
Replies: 89
Views: 5589

Re: pace

Pace has backed him to far now, can the board financially afford to sack him and all his set piece coaches and get someone else in I can't think of one instance in the history of football where a club in a death spiral withheld from sacking their manager for the very reason that they 'couldn't affo...
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: A slight glimmer
Replies: 27
Views: 1886

Re: A slight glimmer

Thats the spirit. Lets all wallow in misery. Its not about staying up now for me, its about gpong back to a style of play the manager actually believes in. Its something Gary Neville talks about when hes asked about thr Valencia job. He says he regretted tinkering with his beliefs and constantly ch...
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: A slight glimmer
Replies: 27
Views: 1886

Re: A slight glimmer

We are never going to play a midfield three. Kompany is pushing close to 100 games for us and he's never once shown a desire to pack a midfield, even in a league that demands it. The story of this season have been a story of four attackers on the field who can't get into the game because the team is...
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:46 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: VK OUT !!
Replies: 347
Views: 14802

Re: VK OUT !!

I think myself one of the patient ones, but the last month or two has pushed me over to the other side. Last week was just laughable, and for there to be literally zero response is just not forgivable. I think the rot has set in, and I can't believe I'm actually saying that out loud. I think the "pr...
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:03 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate
Replies: 424
Views: 14527

Re: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate

Cooclaret wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:01 pm
Image

No debate, save that for the other threads.
Sorry mum.

Go.
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:00 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate
Replies: 424
Views: 14527

Re: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate

Originally thought Vinny had earned the same opportunity given to Dyche in his first PL season, i.e. another crack at the champ no matter what, but now I think back I kinda' retroactively recognise that was always contingent on watching a team that fights this season like it did last season, which w...
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:51 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bad as Laws era
Replies: 70
Views: 2843

Re: Bad as Laws era

Triple sub at 90 mins. Why?
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bad as Laws era
Replies: 70
Views: 2843

Re: Bad as Laws era

Woodleyclaret wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:42 pm
Awful performance
Ha ha, which game you on about? Everything bar SheffU and Brighton has been rank. Even the Luton and Fulham games where we picked up points were sloppy.
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bad as Laws era
Replies: 70
Views: 2843

Re: Bad as Laws era

Actually regressed in the last few months. I've no clue what we're even trying to do anymore.
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:39 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bad as Laws era
Replies: 70
Views: 2843

Re: Bad as Laws era

Probably is worse, actually.
by Spiral
Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:34 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bad as Laws era
Replies: 70
Views: 2843

Bad as Laws era

Gutless, aimless, clueless, dunno what else to say.
by Spiral
Fri Feb 02, 2024 7:57 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Fury v Usyk
Replies: 27
Views: 1721

Re: Fury v Usyk

C.unt did it himself to duck the fight.
by Spiral
Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Thread for tonight?
Replies: 503
Views: 14438

Re: Thread for tonight?

CrosspoolClarets wrote:
Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:59 pm
Amdouni per 90 minutes is outscoring, among others, Calvert Lewin, Doku, Antonio and Hojlund.
Don't care, still $hit.
by Spiral
Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:59 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Thread for tonight?
Replies: 503
Views: 14438

Re: Thread for tonight?

Aye, that's it, why shoot when you can pass one more time.
by Spiral
Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:55 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Thread for tonight?
Replies: 503
Views: 14438

Re: Thread for tonight?

Fact that Fofana actually tries to do something and instantly becomes our MOTM tells you everything you need to know about this game.
by Spiral
Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Thread for tonight?
Replies: 503
Views: 14438

Re: Thread for tonight?

CoolClaret wrote:
Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:47 pm
An odd touch and flick here and there is nowhere near enough for a top 4 club, at all.
It's nowhere near good enough for Burnley.
by Spiral
Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:46 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Thread for tonight?
Replies: 503
Views: 14438

Re: Thread for tonight?

I'm not seeing a decent player in Amdouni.
by Spiral
Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:45 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Thread for tonight?
Replies: 503
Views: 14438

Re: Thread for tonight?

Literally zero fight in this team tonight. You can sometimes over analyse footy, but that's it, zero fight tonight.
by Spiral
Mon Jan 15, 2024 10:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ARTICLE: Twine signs on loan at Bristol City
Replies: 45
Views: 4482

Re: ARTICLE: Twine signs on loan at Bristol City

Every time someone mentions Aaron Ramsay I'm reminded that we have Aaron Ramsay.
by Spiral
Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dinner Party's Help Needed
Replies: 36
Views: 1749

Re: Dinner Party's Help Needed

The Ministry of Truth publishes its latest diktat this coming Thursday, so you should have summat to talk about on't weekend, which is good timing.
by Spiral
Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Martin Paterson
Replies: 30
Views: 3613

Re: Martin Paterson

First game startin in a sec. On sky.
by Spiral
Tue Jan 02, 2024 7:06 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: James Webb telescope
Replies: 33
Views: 2874

Re: James Webb telescope

Thanks for the link to the amazing images. I have a few questions though that perhaps some bright spark (sorry :-) ) may answer. The Crab Nubula images shows one of the very early stars created shortly after the "Big Bang." Given space is a 3D entity how do astronomers know which location to point ...
by Spiral
Sun Dec 17, 2023 9:12 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Relegation is imminent
Replies: 94
Views: 16295

Re: Relegation is imminent

Hate to be optimistic and everything but we were four points adrift with eight to go when we sacked Dyche, and we came within a whisker of staying up. Now we're six with just more than half a season to go, so this ain't over yet. Loads of football to be played. Last few performances before Everton h...
by Spiral
Sat Dec 16, 2023 10:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Question of Sport finally killed off
Replies: 53
Views: 9681

Re: Question of Sport finally killed off

Scenes when BBC goes fully advertiser funded and the logic of the market dictates they appeal to the largest audience with disposable income actually willing to spend it which is young people without kids and the channel goes woke AF and everything is gay teens and all the cancel the licence fee mob...
by Spiral
Sun Dec 10, 2023 7:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Well done Vincent
Replies: 33
Views: 5707

Re: Well done Vincent

JBG had a fairly difficult few years with injury prior to Kompany coming in, and in all fairness he seems to have overcome it all. I reckon when Kompany subs JBG off it's never for tactical reasons, but actually because he values JBG so highly (rightly so) and he's doing what needs to be done to kee...
by Spiral
Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:58 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Trafford
Replies: 153
Views: 26140

Trafford

I'll have one large serving of humble pie please.
by Spiral
Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:56 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Match thread. Brighton away.
Replies: 583
Views: 76563

Re: Match thread. Brighton away.

HOLY F.UCK TRAFFORD!!!
by Spiral
Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: David De Gea
Replies: 17
Views: 2659

Re: David De Gea

There's a collision course with ten hag up ahead where they want to sign Muller or Messi or lewandowski etc and pay them more than those that are actually contributing to their getting points. Agree with the general point, but Messi would still be incredible in the PL, and better than 75% of the Ut...
by Spiral
Sun Dec 03, 2023 12:48 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Does today's result really mean anything?
Replies: 41
Views: 4849

Re: Does today's result really mean anything?

Strongly disagree on this, there's a higher upper end but also a much lower bottom end as we've been seeing. Dyche for years was about as consistent as you could get, a team built on not losing and trying to win on tight margins by maximising the analytical, tactical and physical side to get a lot ...
by Spiral
Sun Dec 03, 2023 12:28 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Snowflakes are wrong - Again!
Replies: 43
Views: 6003

Re: Snowflakes are wrong - Again!

Rowls wrote:
Sun Dec 03, 2023 12:25 am
Oh crumbs. :shock:
*canned laughter plays*
by Spiral
Sun Dec 03, 2023 12:15 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: O’Shea
Replies: 90
Views: 12559

Re: O’Shea

Yeh, I know mate, I saw the pass, point is I don't see how it inflates his prestige by that much, because speaking more generally he's been fairly terrible this season.
by Spiral
Sun Dec 03, 2023 12:10 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Snowflakes are wrong - Again!
Replies: 43
Views: 6003

Re: Snowflakes are wrong - Again!

Bloke making fun of transgender identification tacitly supporting other bloke who insists his thread is not politically flavoured.

(Insert joke about assuming genders)