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by Foshiznik
Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:03 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: A Lovely Story from Leeds (of all places).
Replies: 29
Views: 2181

Re: A Lovely Story from Leeds (of all places).

There’s quite a bit of development going on in Bradford at the moment and more in the pipeline - much of it seems like a treating a gaping wound with a sticking plaster, unless they address some of the deeper rooted problems. Sounds like you are describing Blackpool and quite a few other former boo...
by Foshiznik
Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:56 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Policy on taking babies on Turf Moor
Replies: 104
Views: 2680

Re: Policy on taking babies on Turf Moor

To get back on track, Burnley football club do not have a lower age limit according to their safeguarding policy.

Have a look at this document and maybe email the head of safeguarding?

https://media-cdn.incrowdsports.com/1ca ... 56cbdf.pdf
by Foshiznik
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:14 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Coyle's Army
Replies: 49
Views: 2711

Re: Coyle's Army

I think we can at least all agree that the last 10-15 years have been extremely successful for our little East Lancashire town football club.
by Foshiznik
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:06 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Padiham FC
Replies: 64
Views: 5073

Re: Padiham FC

Longsidelenny1882 wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:38 am
£250 a week 🙈 when I played at twarden celtic lucky to get an orange at half time utc
Most were based on appearances with alot of the younger players getting between £15-50 per match depending on ability.
by Foshiznik
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:05 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Padiham FC
Replies: 64
Views: 5073

Re: Padiham FC

I would suggest £250 a week would be deemed a high wage in the semi professional game up north. It is but this was at National League South level, so relatively high levels of non-league. Some of the higher paid players in the league at better financially backed clubs (such as Ebbsfleet from memory...
by Foshiznik
Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:01 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Padiham FC
Replies: 64
Views: 5073

Re: Padiham FC

I used to be quite involved in the running of an unnamed semi-professional club who play in National League South. It's not only money that players move for at that level. We had one of our better players leave to play 3 divisions lower at another local club because of the amount of free time he wou...
by Foshiznik
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:34 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Coyle's Army
Replies: 49
Views: 2711

Re: Coyle's Army

I think the pretense of the shirt was the amount of older players we had at the time. Certainly my favourite Claretsmad/UTC t-shirt over the years.

I joined just after the Custard world T-shirts had sold out in around 2005/6?
by Foshiznik
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:32 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Coyle's Army
Replies: 49
Views: 2711

Re: Coyle's Army

ClaretTony wrote:
Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:41 pm
Mine's light blue too
Ah yes, on second viewing i see the light blue. Thought it looked beige/cream on first viewing.
by Foshiznik
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:29 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
Replies: 53
Views: 2450

Re: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!

ecc wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:42 am
Childish as per.

Six people presumed dead. And yet the bickering and insults start straight away.
I mean it started fine until the tin foil wearing nut job hijacked the thread.
by Foshiznik
Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:54 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Fixtures disappeared ???
Replies: 11
Views: 966

Re: Fixtures disappeared ???

Mines showing. I think mine is the official premier league ical download as it's titled Premier League but also advertises the Burnley app.
by Foshiznik
Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:53 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Fixtures disappeared ???
Replies: 11
Views: 966

Re: Fixtures disappeared ???

Quickenthetempo wrote:
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:15 am
I know things have been bad this season CT, but labelling one of our fixtures as going to the dentist is a bit much.
Was going to say I wasn't aware we were having to replay Man City again on 20th May....
by Foshiznik
Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
Replies: 53
Views: 2450

Re: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!

FCBurnley wrote:
Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:47 pm
911 mark 2 ?
I am absolutely certain it will be human error or an issue with the ship. If it was anything nefarious, you'd think they wouldn't wait until 1:30am when the bridge is at its most quiet to purposely cause a collision.
by Foshiznik
Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:37 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
Replies: 53
Views: 2450

Re: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!

Unbelievable pictures. Reminds me of the Tampa Bay Sunshine Skyway disaster a few decades ago.
by Foshiznik
Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Coyle's Army
Replies: 49
Views: 2711

Re: Coyle's Army

I do! I had mine in light blue though and I use it more for decorating/gardening nowadays but had pride of place at the time!
by Foshiznik
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:19 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Jack Cork
Replies: 26
Views: 3372

Re: Jack Cork

Not sure he's underrated, but he's always been a class act. In his prime, he was too good for us, so quite a coup to sign him when we did.
by Foshiznik
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:10 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley divisive XI' would be a fun thing to do... Thread worthy!
Replies: 97
Views: 3315

Re: Burnley divisive XI' would be a fun thing to do... Thread worthy!

Gifton Noel-Williams. As someone who started watching Burnley in 2001 onwards, he was the first player i remember people slaughtering when i personally (from a possibly new pair of claret tinted spectacles) thought he was half decent.
by Foshiznik
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley divisive XI' would be a fun thing to do... Thread worthy!
Replies: 97
Views: 3315

Re: Burnley divisive XI' would be a fun thing to do... Thread worthy!

Trafford
Vitinho
Edgar
Cort
Jordan
JBG
Hendrick
Brownhill
Wallace
Delfouneso
Bamford
by Foshiznik
Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:39 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Truro City - fixture congestion and ground (pitch) problems
Replies: 42
Views: 1585

Re: Truro City - fixture congestion and ground (pitch) problems

Truro is literally in the middle of nowhere so not a surprise they have a bit of trip to play in a decent(ish) ground. However, their local(ish - still 97 miles away) rivals Torquay have just gone into administration, so surely they could have come to an arrangement to pay them something to share th...
by Foshiznik
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Greatest World XI to have played in the Premier League at Turf Moor
Replies: 50
Views: 1914

Re: Greatest World XI to have played in the Premier League at Turf Moor

Giggs was a very good player, part of a very good team. To get in to one of these best elevens or world class elevens, you have to play and be influential at the very top. You could say Giggs was a better Premier league player than Bale, but Bale stood out in champions league finals and winning the...
by Foshiznik
Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:08 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Greatest World XI to have played in the Premier League at Turf Moor
Replies: 50
Views: 1914

Re: Greatest World XI to have played in the Premier League at Turf Moor

At the time, Giggs was electric running down the wing. He stood out with his assists and some goals. But he only got 13 and 11 prem goals once, the rest he didn't make double figures. Today, all the players are as fast as he was and the wide players score far more goals. He never had the chance to ...
by Foshiznik
Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:59 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Greatest World XI to have played in the Premier League at Turf Moor
Replies: 50
Views: 1914

Re: Greatest World XI to have played in the Premier League at Turf Moor

Cech
Neville
Ferdinand
Kompany
Cole
Vieira
Gerrard
Fabregas
Salah
Kane
Ronaldo
by Foshiznik
Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:55 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley vs Brentford - MATCH THREAD
Replies: 446
Views: 11337

Re: Burnley vs Brentford - MATCH THREAD

Got to say, Vitinho has been excellent today so far.
by Foshiznik
Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:53 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley vs Brentford - MATCH THREAD
Replies: 446
Views: 11337

Re: Burnley vs Brentford - MATCH THREAD

StayingDown4Ever wrote:
Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:51 pm
What a save! Why did we persist with that other idiot so long?
Why the name calling? No need.
by Foshiznik
Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:51 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley vs Brentford - MATCH THREAD
Replies: 446
Views: 11337

Re: Burnley vs Brentford - MATCH THREAD

Bunch of southern softies this Brentford lot
by Foshiznik
Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley vs Brentford - MATCH THREAD
Replies: 446
Views: 11337

Re: Burnley vs Brentford - MATCH THREAD

Great save
by Foshiznik
Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:30 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley vs Brentford - MATCH THREAD
Replies: 446
Views: 11337

Re: Burnley vs Brentford - MATCH THREAD

Muric or Trafford in goal doesn’t stop o’Shea from being ****. They aren’t miracle workers!
by Foshiznik
Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley vs Brentford - MATCH THREAD
Replies: 446
Views: 11337

Re: Burnley vs Brentford - MATCH THREAD

Shaggy wrote:
Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:28 pm
Saving the day, if that was Trafford it’s a goal
How did you turn the incident into a Trafford bash. That’s good going if not tedious.
by Foshiznik
Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:27 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley vs Brentford - MATCH THREAD
Replies: 446
Views: 11337

Re: Burnley vs Brentford - MATCH THREAD

No doubt now that o’Shea is our worst defender. Can’t believe some think he’s our best…
by Foshiznik
Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:35 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Should we be shilling a crypto card product when we can't promote our own Season Cards?
Replies: 34
Views: 1109

Re: Should we be shilling a crypto card product when we can't promote our own Season Cards?

Anyone able to tell me what is wrong with the product? You add funds to the card that they then invest in crypto and give a kickback to the club?

Or is it a scam?

I have no actual interest myself but I know some will even if just to have a Burnley branded card.
by Foshiznik
Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Should we be shilling a crypto card product when we can't promote our own Season Cards?
Replies: 34
Views: 1109

Re: Should we be shilling a crypto card product when we can't promote our own Season Cards?

What is the issue with it? I have no idea about anything crypto other than the basics.
by Foshiznik
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:09 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Assignon, Esteve and Fofana
Replies: 68
Views: 3999

Re: Assignon, Esteve and Fofana

What a bizarre post. Can you show me where anyone "in the industry" supports this? Or is it made up bullshit? He was highly rated in France, he's an under-21 French international, He was linked with Brighton, AC Milan, Sassuolo and Arsenal and although it doesn't mean anything other than it being a...
by Foshiznik
Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:08 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Assignon, Esteve and Fofana
Replies: 68
Views: 3999

Re: Assignon, Esteve and Fofana

The amount of fans who don't think Esteve is an improvement on Ekdal or O'Shea shows how little fans understand about football compared to those in the industry.
by Foshiznik
Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:34 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Vincent's Number 1 Fan
Replies: 47
Views: 3593

Re: Vincent's Number 1 Fan

ElectroClaret wrote:
Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:05 am
We DID play well.
And still let a two goal lead slip.

God knows how many we'd have been beaten by if we'd been crap... :|
There will be better teams than us not win points against West Ham. Think our poor showing this season overall has thrown any realism our fans have out of the window.
by Foshiznik
Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:01 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Vincent's Number 1 Fan
Replies: 47
Views: 3593

Re: Vincent's Number 1 Fan

There was me thinking we played well yesterday...
by Foshiznik
Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:52 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bruun Larsen
Replies: 35
Views: 4269

Re: Bruun Larsen

NewClaret wrote:
Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:22 am
I’m not trying to blame Josh for our woeful season, there’s lots of factors, but not upgrading CM with a big, powerful CDM was our biggest recruitment error in summer imo.
..after left back and a goal scorer.
by Foshiznik
Sun Mar 10, 2024 2:57 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: West Ham United V The Clarets 2pm KO
Replies: 617
Views: 18851

Re: West Ham United V The Clarets 2pm KO

We’ve proven this half that we can be a decent team when we cut out the silly mistakes…
by Foshiznik
Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today's Football
Replies: 206
Views: 5858

Re: Today's Football

Zaroury becoming a cult figure at Hull showing with a bit of game time what he can do … I know it’s in the championship but he does play for Morocco and their not in the championship He doesn’t play for Morocco. He wasn’t in their Afcon squad, hasn’t played since a short sub appearance in June for ...
by Foshiznik
Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today's Football
Replies: 206
Views: 5858

Re: Today's Football

Bosscat wrote:
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:45 pm
When its a 32000 stadium with 10000 home fans on then there will be quite a few empty seats 🤣🤣🤣
Is that because of a lockdown then?
by Foshiznik
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today's Football
Replies: 206
Views: 5858

Re: Today's Football

Just switched over to the b@st@Ed’s game. Is there Covid restrictions or a lockdown in Blackburn as there is a lot of blue seats on show…
by Foshiznik
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:27 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today's Football
Replies: 206
Views: 5858

Re: Today's Football

Bournemouth 1-2 Sheff United
by Foshiznik
Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:19 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Squad for next season, STAY OR GO
Replies: 53
Views: 3169

Re: Squad for next season, STAY OR GO

Esteve, Beyer, Assignon, Cullen, Berge and Koleosho.

I'd also keep Taylor, Brownhill, Foster, Benson, Tresor, Odobert, and Zaroury.
by Foshiznik
Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:15 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Richard Keys
Replies: 65
Views: 7714

Re: Richard Keys

Even for the recent trend on here of looking for anything to slam the club with, digging up a thread from August is pretty f*****g desperate. You don't have to a set of complete melts all your lives lads, take a day off. I said similar and their response was that supposedly their comments are "cons...
by Foshiznik
Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Richard Keys
Replies: 65
Views: 7714

Re: Richard Keys

Stay humble chaps.

Some might be mistaken for thinking you all have some sort of glee from seeing us fail.
by Foshiznik
Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:30 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Premier League's worst bottom two
Replies: 26
Views: 2121

Re: The Premier League's worst bottom two

I still find it hard to believe Derby were as bad as they were in their infamous record breaking season in the Premier League. To put it into context, we have already scored 5 more goals and conceded 29 less (would need to lose average of 2.6 goals a game for the rest of the season to match it) and ...
by Foshiznik
Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:19 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Squad for next season, STAY OR GO
Replies: 53
Views: 3169

Re: Squad for next season, STAY OR GO

I know i am in the very small minority but i genuinely think Mike Tresor is going to be a beast next season in the championship, similar to the transformation of Lyle Foster this season from last.
by Foshiznik
Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:16 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Fans turning on each other
Replies: 66
Views: 5192

Re: Fans turning on each other

If i had a scrap with every burnley fan that shouted out some stupid opinion i would have some seriously bloody knuckles.
by Foshiznik
Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:39 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: TRAFFORD (AGAIN)
Replies: 721
Views: 27451

Re: TRAFFORD (AGAIN)

Whether Muric or Trafford are in goal, they will always find distribution difficult if the 10 players in front of them are static and not moving to create options for them, whether that’s for a short pass or long ball into the channels.
by Foshiznik
Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:31 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Clarets vs Bournemouth - Match Thread
Replies: 472
Views: 10455

Re: Clarets vs Bournemouth - Match Thread

Cullen makes us tick so much better when in possession. Vitinho is at least trying hard which is more than can be said about the team this season, just lacks any real quality.
by Foshiznik
Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:26 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: How do we think it will end - 12 to go
Replies: 57
Views: 3243

Re: How do we think it will end - 12 to go

Unless he changes something, whether that be the team or tactics rather than just pick the same and expect different results, then I have no idea. If the latter it will be 13 points that’s for certain.
by Foshiznik
Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:16 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Pertinent questions: How much does it cost to sack VK?
Replies: 43
Views: 2646

Re: Pertinent questions: How much does it cost to sack VK?

Wasn’t there something on some football finance podcast that the average payout was £2.5m and average paid to take someone from another club was £3m? If I’ve made that up I do not know why those figures are in my head.