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- Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:58 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Dull man's club.
- Replies: 101
- Views: 5664
Re: Dull man's club.
I always keep my lawn weed free and have been using "Verdone" the lawn weedkiller for donkeys years. It's a growth hormone that doesn't affect grass so weeds just outgrow themselves and die. However I noticed that there were some weeds that seem to have developed a resistance and it required a secon...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Assignon & Esteve
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2732
Assignon & Esteve
I know both are loanees but they've settled very well into the Premier league and have certainly contributed to our upturn in results. Assignon has great energy and skill, almost like Maatsen and Esteve is tenacious. I just wonder if there is any news as to making their deals permanent because I'd b...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:17 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Matej Vydra is playing...
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3003
Re: Matej Vydra is playing...
I always recall that great goal he scored away at Southampton. Absolute wonderful technique.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:14 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Joint Supplements
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1638
Re: Joint Supplements
I'm 70 now and have taken a Glucosamine + Omega 3 supplement for donkeys years and so far so good. But I also go to the gym three times a week and do classes involving a lot of stretching and leg exercises such as lunging and squats. It's working because at this time of year I can play golf at least...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:20 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: FA Cup Replays
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3130
Re: FA Cup Replays
Sad day I think to see the end of replays - particularly for the smaller clubs in the competition. Just imagine a League Two club holding a top team to a draw at home and not having the money coming in from the replay. Another nail in the FA Cup coffin for me is this. When I first saw the news I th...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:27 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: So do you drop Muric after two massive costly howlers?
- Replies: 363
- Views: 10954
Re: So do you drop Muric after two massive costly howlers?
SUFC are going to lump balls up to McNasty in the box so Muric for me, as he will handle it better, hopefully, than Traff.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Maatsen
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2388
Re: Maatsen
Cracking goal as well.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:47 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Hillsborough - 35 years
- Replies: 9
- Views: 967
Re: Hillsborough - 35 years
Whenever I think about it I cannot understand how that end of the ground had not been closed or modified by the authorities. I recall thinking that the design was flawed when I was there for the Newcastle semi in 1974. It truly was a disaster waiting to happen and unfortunately for Liverpool fans, t...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: penalty decision
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4053
Re: penalty decision
The penalty decision was diabolical. The defender didn't get the ball before he took the Burnley player down. Imagine that decision at the Kop End at Anfield or the Stretford End at Utd. It would have been given in an instant with a yellow card shown to the defender and VAR would have given the OK i...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: A movie title for BFC this season
- Replies: 96
- Views: 2939
Re: A movie title for BFC this season
"One flew over the Beehole End"
Some of the decisions this season appear to have originated in a mental asylum.
Some of the decisions this season appear to have originated in a mental asylum.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 11:15 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: RATE THE REF - Michael Oliver v Everton
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1440
Re: RATE THE REF - Michael Oliver v Everton
I thought he had a fine game. No issues from me.
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 3:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Toffees vs Clarets Match Thread
- Replies: 494
- Views: 16130
Re: Toffees vs Clarets Match Thread
You've got to laugh. We do entertain and give other fans something to smile about.
It happens. Get over it Muric, it's done and you've made yourself immortal with that clanger.
It happens. Get over it Muric, it's done and you've made yourself immortal with that clanger.
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley vs Wolves
- Replies: 338
- Views: 11795
Re: Burnley vs Wolves
Take another look, you might find the decision was wrong.
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:40 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley vs Wolves
- Replies: 338
- Views: 11795
Re: Burnley vs Wolves
O'Shea was nowhere near him for that foul. The ref is either blind, incompetent or bent. Pick your choice.
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 12:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: RATE THE REF - Darren England v Chelsea
- Replies: 102
- Views: 6216
Re: RATE THE REF - Darren England v Chelsea
I find it very sad that the standard of refereeing in this country has fallen so low. That performance was inept, gutless and unfortunately it had a whiff of bias about it.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Post match interviews v Chelsea
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2464
Re: Post match interviews v Chelsea
Excellent interview. He has more about him than he is often given credit for.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clarets vs Chelsea Match Thread
- Replies: 611
- Views: 16887
Re: Clarets vs Chelsea Match Thread
I am absolutely drained after that match. I kicked every ball and won every header but mine goes in off the bar. J Rod you were so close to winning that. Fabulous effort from that team despite the efforts of the ref to spoil a decent game of football.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:47 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Has Steven Defour switched his allegiance?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3360
Re: Has Steven Defour switched his allegiance?
Is that a riot shield partially in front of Steve Stone?
Training sessions must be brutal if you need one of them
Training sessions must be brutal if you need one of them
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:16 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Turd Island
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3569
Re: Turd Island
This is Thatcher’s Britain. Water Companies are no longer focused on water quality but giving money to shareholders. This is true of all utilities. Not really. It's called capitalism. You may be someone who puts his hard earned cash into a non-profit organisation and doesn't expect any returns or i...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:07 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Favourite butty.
- Replies: 57
- Views: 2547
Re: Favourite butty.
Hovis bread with ham and sliced beetroot. Gorgeous.
If anyone remembers the "El Greco" cafe that used to be near the bus station, it was my after match snack. They used to do a ham and beetroot bap which was wonderful after we'd won and comforting after we'd lost.
If anyone remembers the "El Greco" cafe that used to be near the bus station, it was my after match snack. They used to do a ham and beetroot bap which was wonderful after we'd won and comforting after we'd lost.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Turd Island
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3569
Re: Turd Island
No typo, just reality. We as a country are living way beyond our means and need to seriously lower our expectations.TheFamilyCat wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:42 pmPlease tell me that's a typo and you mean the cost of living needs to fall.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:29 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Turd Island
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3569
Re: Turd Island
Thankfully the whole tory sh1tshow will be flushed down the pan shortly. ..and it'll only be mentioned in debates about what was the worst goverment in the entire history of Great Britain. To be replaced no doubt by an even bigger bunch of incompetents. What the country needs right now is a form of...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Policy on taking babies on Turf Moor
- Replies: 108
- Views: 4366
Re: Policy on taking babies on Turf Moor
Not in anyway related to the current policy but I recall taking my little one to the Orient match. My wife and I lifted the pushchair, complete with baby, over the turnstile at the Beehole End
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:48 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3224
Re: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
Having investigated many marine incidents I would be looking at the fuel oil supply to the main generators. Having just left port the engineers may have switched fuel oil supply tanks when the vessel was clear of the jetty. They may have taken fuel whilst alongside in Baltimore and it may have been ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:59 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: A point needed to go through in Central League Cup
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1141
Re: ARTICLE: A point needed to go through in Central League Cup
And if anyone is going and in need of an early lunch I can recommend "Chocks Away" which is situated on the aerodome with views across the runway. You have to go through a security barrier but just tell them where you're going and they let you in. You might even see one of the "Belugas" which are us...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: what is YOUR favourite era watching the Clarets ?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 2845
Re: what is YOUR favourite era watching the Clarets ?
I think the Adamson era has to be my favourite. Seeing so many of the FA youth cup winning side make it in League One was very satisfying and some of the football was quite wonderful.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Kayak?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2591
Re: Kayak?
I've used Kayak before for car rentals without any issues. The voucher they issue will be with one of the big car rental agencies such as Hertz, Dollar Europcar etc.
There are some dodgy outfits out there offering ridiculously low rates so just be careful it is the Kayak website you are looking at.
There are some dodgy outfits out there offering ridiculously low rates so just be careful it is the Kayak website you are looking at.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Wooden spoon derby
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2512
Re: Wooden spoon derby
Also a great 0-2 win in August 1973, our first game of the season on our return to the First Division. A very smart away kit, a brilliant performance and a team spirit probably as good as anything I've ever witnessed in over 65 years of watching us. Heady times. Great team Silky. I was there that d...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Vegas Claret. You getting up at 5AM to watch us?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 626
Re: Vegas Claret. You getting up at 5AM to watch us?
Well I got up and thought we did OK but no cutting edge unfortunately. Pity our two best chances fell to Odobert who is not a striker. At least the sun is shining here in Vegas. That was some storm yesterday.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 5:51 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Vegas Claret. You getting up at 5AM to watch us?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 626
Re: Vegas Claret. You getting up at 5AM to watch us?
Had dinner at "Lago" in Bellagio tonight and the wind had eased so the fountains were working. Lovely view. Town is bonkers. Just came through the Bellagio and PH casinos and it is heaving.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:33 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Vegas Claret. You getting up at 5AM to watch us?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 626
Vegas Claret. You getting up at 5AM to watch us?
Lousy timing tomorrow morning. I'll set my alarm and watch the lads.
Vegas is full of Aussie rugby league fans. It's gonna be lively in town tonight
Vegas is full of Aussie rugby league fans. It's gonna be lively in town tonight
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:10 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Re: The words to the Black leg miner.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1818
Re: Re: The words to the Black leg miner.
Why are there no campaigns to reopen the pits? There must be plenty of people still around who worked in the pits as young men and would be only too anxious to send their grandchildren down there. Can't something be done? We could do with more fuel self-sufficiency and there is loads of coal still ...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: On this day
- Replies: 128
- Views: 10281
Re: On this day
A good one to start. 2/9/1967, Burnley 5 Tottenham 1, Lochhead 2, Casper 2, Coates, 23337. I remember one of Locheads goals which would have been chalked off today by VAR with Andy getting a straight red card. Corner from the right at the Cricket Field End. Andy marked by Mike England. Ball is play...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley v Arsenal - Player Ratings
- Replies: 79
- Views: 4816
Re: Burnley v Arsenal - Player Ratings
Had a chat on Thursday with a lady I know at the gym who goes home and away. She said that it's beginning to feel like it's not my team anymore. I felt like that last season as well, and this season it feels completely alien.
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Relegation accepted
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2893
Re: Relegation accepted
My wife tried on the Ticket Master site which was as bad as our team is at the moment. Utter shambles. Anyway we'll have a walk down the Strip on Monday and see if any are available from the secondary market.
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Relegation accepted
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2893
Re: Relegation accepted
So did I.
I'll be in Vegas tomorrow night. Staying at the Marriott Grand Chateau just for a couple of nights. En-route to Scottsdale for some golf.
Do you know if there's any chance of getting tickets for the Adele concert on the 2nd March?
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Adrian Durham
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1234
Re: Adrian Durham
Richard Keys on Bein Sport summed it up pre match and I'm not sure if he realised he was live at the time. He said that we were rubbish and deserved to be where we were, using not very complimentary terms. Can't really argue with him to be honest
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s thread
- Replies: 302
- Views: 10064
Re: Today’s thread
I thought VAR was supposed to stop wrong decisions. He's never touched him. Correct decision is rescind yellow card, book Trossard for diving and goal kick. Oh I forgot it's Burnley vs Gooners so we're wrong.
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 2:34 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Carets / BFC Private reg plates
- Replies: 74
- Views: 3604
Re: Carets / BFC Private reg plates
One of my all time favourites was seen on a Merc with 505 EXY. They had illegally placed the numbers as 50 5EXY but I thought it looked great.
I actually saw if on the M6 northbound with a Gooners scarf in the back window.
I actually saw if on the M6 northbound with a Gooners scarf in the back window.
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:46 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Are poor coaching techniques at fault
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1474
Re: Are poor coaching techniques at fault
I've been watching the Clarets for over 60 years and cannot recall us ever being this exposed at set pieces. It's bizarre that we've gone from being very good at set pieces under SD, to being terrible under VK. Both managers were robust defenders who know the importance of being strong and disciplin...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:24 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Carets / BFC Private reg plates
- Replies: 74
- Views: 3604
Re: Carets / BFC Private reg plates
There's a guy who lives in Washington DC who has "Burnley FC" as his plate. I saw it once when in a traffic jam in DC and honked at him. He thought I was a nutter and sped off.
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:18 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Carets / BFC Private reg plates
- Replies: 74
- Views: 3604
Re: Carets / BFC Private reg plates
I've got J50 BFC and my wife has E10 BFC. I think they look good and that's all that matters. The only issue is when I have my car serviced because the lass in the garage always refers to it as the "Brake Fluid Change" car
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 1:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Nigeria kit
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1285
Re: Nigeria kit
I've seen a guy walking around Lagos in a Burnley shirt. I "dashed" him for proper!
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Obafemi started for Millwall
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1318
Obafemi started for Millwall
Hooked after 63 minutes with Millwall leading. Within 7 minutes they were losing
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s thread - Liverpool v Burnley
- Replies: 601
- Views: 16758
Re: Today’s thread - Liverpool v Burnley
And that we are playing in Yellow??
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s thread - Liverpool v Burnley
- Replies: 601
- Views: 16758
Re: Today’s thread - Liverpool v Burnley
Does Amdouni not know we've changed ends??
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 6:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Blue card
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2272
Re: Blue card
What's wrong with a yellow card being 10 minutes in the bin?
Simples.
Simples.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The earth
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3315
Re: The earth
Being someone who has navigated around the world on several occasions I can confirm that the quickest way from A to B is via a great circle track. If the earth was flat it would be a straight line. Sorry, it's roundish.
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 1:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Todays Football
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1999
Re: Todays Football
I think that the rules on obstructing goalkeepers are being interpreted different by referees. You are now allowed to "interfere" with a keeper at set pieces which is not good news for Trafford. You need a keeper who is a cross between a giraffe and a gorilla. Muric might fit the bill.
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: I could just about manage Zaroury..........but
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1119
I could just about manage Zaroury..........but
I've realised that I've lost track of the names of our players. In days gone by we had Sammy Todd, Fred Smith, Willie Morgan, Colin Blant, Jim Thompson, Brian Miller and Harry Potts. Nowadays we've got Jordan Beyer, Anass Zaroury, Wilson Odobert, Hjalmar Ekdal, Zeki Amdouni and for the life of me I'...