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- Sun May 14, 2023 5:20 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Driving rants (max 2 per person)
- Replies: 159
- Views: 7938
Re: Driving rants (max 2 per person)
1. More and more clowns on the motorway not bothering with indicators. Which is a recipe for disaster. 2. Bus lanes. How can it be deemed difficult but a heck of a lot of folk need to go to Specsavers as they appear unable to read the signs highlighting when a stretch of road is and is not a bus lan...
- Tue Mar 28, 2023 6:06 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Clubs should hang their heads in shame over derby tickets
- Replies: 633
- Views: 33008
Re: ARTICLE: Clubs should hang their heads in shame over derby tickets
If he had 6,000 points then yes he could. Those were the rules…..
- Tue Mar 28, 2023 6:03 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Clubs should hang their heads in shame over derby tickets
- Replies: 633
- Views: 33008
Re: ARTICLE: Clubs should hang their heads in shame over derby tickets
CT are you dropping the Claret part of your user name from now on in protest?
Have a lie down in a darkened room for an hour. I am sure you will feel a lot better afterwards.
Have a lie down in a darkened room for an hour. I am sure you will feel a lot better afterwards.
- Tue Mar 28, 2023 1:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Rovers away tickets
- Replies: 934
- Views: 56190
Re: Rovers away tickets
Get a grip folks. It was a lottery draw for the tickets. You could only enter if you had 6,000 points. Your number didn't come up. Simples.
- Tue Mar 28, 2023 1:15 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Rovers away tickets
- Replies: 934
- Views: 56190
Re: Rovers away tickets
After the pitiful allocation was announced then BFC were on a hiding to nothing re how to deal with supporter demand. Even if they were given to those people with zillions of points they would be complaining because they couldn't take their 3 mates or grandchildren. A ballot is as good as any method...
- Mon Jan 02, 2023 5:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Match thread
- Replies: 386
- Views: 14201
Re: Match thread
It will be 0-0 for a while . Game kicks off at 8pm
- Tue Dec 14, 2021 1:07 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Should West Ham have had a penalty?
- Replies: 82
- Views: 4062
Re: Should West Ham have had a penalty?
Not trawled through all opinions, but anyone who thinks that's a pen knows nothing about football. Dawson clearly just throws himself in the line of fire in the vain attempt to win a penalty, he's not even looking at the ball. That's a bit harsh on numerous posters. In the real world you are spot o...
- Sat Oct 02, 2021 10:56 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Vydra
- Replies: 52
- Views: 8221
Re: Vydra
He was late back, had been on honeymoon and was way behind the others in terms of fitness, but some seem to have agendas and won't believe what the manager tells them when it suits. I still have my doubts about him because I don't think he'll score enough goals at this level but he was outstanding ...
- Tue Sep 28, 2021 4:09 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Ticket offer for Norwich and Brentford games.
- Replies: 92
- Views: 9742
Re: Ticket offer for Norwich and Brentford games.
Or is it that SD needs someone to back him and he wasn't getting the backing he needed or wanted? You may be happy giving Sean a free pass re our poor transfer market performance but I personally think that's a big ask as he plays a big part in many aspects of BFC's strategy. Money is only part of ...
- Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Ticket offer for Norwich and Brentford games.
- Replies: 92
- Views: 9742
Re: Ticket offer for Norwich and Brentford games.
I am all for AP trying new approaches to get bums on seats. I have been a ST holder for many years, when my lads starting playing football, etc and drifted away, my other half then came along and for years we have been to all home games and quite a few away. We have been fortunate to meet SD at a co...
- Sun Aug 08, 2021 12:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Can we stay up with what we have
- Replies: 185
- Views: 12368
Re: Can we stay up with what we have
Astonishing. It's always the board or the recruitment team to blame. When will it register that the manager picks the team and the transfer targets. Have you missed that Lennon played yesterday and Dyche's comments? At some point in time most of the posters on this board need that Dyche wants a cer...
- Fri Mar 26, 2021 9:53 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Frank Worthington
- Replies: 56
- Views: 4718
Re: Frank Worthington
Only just seen this thread and didn't realise he had died. He was the antithesis of a Revie Robot just like Stan Bowles and company. I recall seeing him playing for Bolton at The Dell aka "The English Hampden" where he also showed his wily side, skilfully helping the ball on with his arm to set him...
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:14 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 12 years ago
- Replies: 55
- Views: 4436
Re: 12 years ago
Coyle really started to get a proper tune out of the team that season and what a season it was. The cup momentum built with the “Capital Punishment” wins and despite the Spurs disappointment, on what was a fabulous night to be on Turf Moor, as we all know the season reached a crescendo at Wembley. I...
- Sun Mar 08, 2020 9:14 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Players not shaking hands .. Coronovirus.
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3805
Re: Players not shaking hands .. Coronovirus.
Or you could just admit that someone saying "you'll get a sore throat and runny nose at the worst" when hundreds have died is ******* stupid. 40,000 people die daily worldwide due to Tuberculosis (WHO figures not mine). We have had 2 old folk die in the UK due to Coronavirus both had significant un...
- Sat Mar 07, 2020 4:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: MIGHTY CLARETS versus Tottering Rotspurs
- Replies: 230
- Views: 21916
Re: MIGHTY CLARETS versus Tottering Rotspurs
P*ss poor from SD dropping Vydra. Hang your head in shame. We don’t need to revert back to hoofball again
- Fri Mar 06, 2020 11:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Players not shaking hands .. Coronovirus.
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3805
Re: Players not shaking hands .. Coronovirus.
Its nothing to joke about. Its is very serious situation. Enjoy tomorrow’s game as I think it will be the last game we will be able to watch before they are played behind closed doors. And no I am not scaremongering just being realistic. The genie is well and truly out of the bottle Not really. It’...
- Fri Mar 06, 2020 11:09 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Covid-19
- Replies: 13866
- Views: 919742
Re: Coronavirus
Here's the reason for the caution by governments. It's because we don't know, but better to be prepared than not. It's not a conspiracy. No one "knows" what's happening. It doesn't mean that loads of people are going to die, it's just a precaution. Random people saying they know what's happening ar...
- Fri Mar 06, 2020 9:55 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Covid-19
- Replies: 13866
- Views: 919742
Re: Coronavirus
Thatdebright - 2 UK deaths so far. One aged 70 + the other 80. Both with underlying medical conditions. It’s all hype. It’s new flu. I repeat - get a grip.
Tiger 76 - Good spot - Thank you
Tiger 76 - Good spot - Thank you
- Fri Mar 06, 2020 9:30 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Covid-19
- Replies: 13866
- Views: 919742
Re: Coronavirus
The world has gone absolutely bonkers. It’s a newer version of flu for goodness sake. Coronavirus affects the same age group as ordinary flu. I have no idea why “Don’t Panic, Don’t Panic” Captain Mainwaring from Dad’s Army has been let loose to become editor of all the newspapers + hosting all tv + ...
- Fri Mar 06, 2020 3:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Covid-19
- Replies: 13866
- Views: 919742
Re: Coronavirus
100k have caught the virus worldwide, can you imagine what percentage of the population that is? Even if that figure trebles in the next week, we are still talking miniscule numbers, and even if 5 percent of those die, do we still panic? There does seem to be a lot of hype. To put things in perspec...
- Wed Mar 04, 2020 10:38 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Steven Fletcher
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5236
- Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Next redevelopment at the Turf .... ?
- Replies: 136
- Views: 12198
Re: Next redevelopment at the Turf .... ?
Are the club still planning a second big screen ...seems to have gone quiet on that I think the majority of the BFC Board + Ground management team must have a legal background as like solicitors they never do anything in a rush and all decisions take years. The club has been pondering where to posi...
- Sun Feb 23, 2020 11:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: dyche !!! let's hear it from the early season critics .
- Replies: 137
- Views: 11450
Re: dyche !!! let's hear it from the early season critics .
There are some things that are utterly baffling. Jay barely got any game time whilst Barnes plodded around with an Hernia. Long got on the pitch, up front, ahead of Vydra at Everton. The Ward for Mee thing in the Championship etc The persistence with Hendrick as a 10. The big change has been Jay li...
- Sun Jan 19, 2020 8:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: MASSIVE Result
- Replies: 98
- Views: 9488
Re: MASSIVE Result
One trick pony, that Dyche bloke. Get him out. He's tired, looking for excuses - and all the rest of the **** some of our so-called "fans" have spouted over the last couple of weeks. Absolute wankers, the lot of 'em. Delighted we turned up at last in the 2nd half today. Got in their faces unlike re...
- Wed Jan 15, 2020 11:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: We're still the only team
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4380
Re: We're still the only team
I think Sean + the players have been like a rabbit in the headlights ever since that defeat. I have been hoping they might turn things around but no signs yet.....dougcollins wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:28 pmI think I'm still traumatised from the Tottenham game.
At twenty minutes in the thought 'We're going down' hit me and hasn't left.
- Sat Jan 11, 2020 4:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: MIGHTY CLARETS versus Lampard's Embargo lifted
- Replies: 388
- Views: 32510
Re: MIGHTY CLARETS versus Lampard's Embargo lifted
Eat, sleep , repeat. Sean’s mantra maintained. Subs no doubts in the 84th, 86th & 88th mins. Sean give your head a shake
- Thu Jan 09, 2020 3:46 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: \burnley are facing a battle to survive in the Premier Lge
- Replies: 87
- Views: 7998
Re: \burnley are facing a battle to survive in the Premier Lge
It's what failing to buy a first team player for 3 or 4 windows does for you. If you stand still in football, you generally go backwards. Sadly Mr Garlick has no one to blame but himself, many could see what was happening, or had ideas to help prevent it. Seems Mike's ideas and plans, or lack of th...
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 9:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Arsenal vs Leeds
- Replies: 106
- Views: 8207
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 9:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Arsenal vs Leeds
- Replies: 106
- Views: 8207
Re: Arsenal vs Leeds
I live in Yorkshire. Have a lot of LUFC supporting mates but have always hated dirty Leeds with a passion.Jakubs Tash wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2020 8:46 pmThe usual suspects waxing lyrical about Leeds. Again.
ZZZZzzzzz
It pains me to compliment them but to be fair they have turned up at The Emirates tonight.
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 8:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Arsenal vs Leeds
- Replies: 106
- Views: 8207
Re: Arsenal vs Leeds
It does make a mockery of the absolute flannel that Garlick/Dyche trot out that there are no players around that we can afford to add to our squad.
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 8:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Arsenal vs Leeds
- Replies: 106
- Views: 8207
Re: Arsenal vs Leeds
What an absolute pleasure to watch a team show pace, urgency + guile. Making Arsenal look poor. They have spent very little putting the team together as well.
Hope Sean + that bloke Rigg are watching + taking note.....
Hope Sean + that bloke Rigg are watching + taking note.....
- Sat Jan 04, 2020 6:30 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Thanks to those who didn't go
- Replies: 70
- Views: 6637
Re: Thanks to those who didn't go
I am as keen as anyone on here for BFC to stay/succeed in the PL. Like most things in life it’s about taking your opportunities when they come along. With the right approach we are well placed to do that. Concerned that as a club we will miss the boat by playing the “Little Old Burnley” card on a r...
- Sat Jan 04, 2020 6:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Thanks to those who didn't go
- Replies: 70
- Views: 6637
Re: Thanks to those who didn't go
For all his faults and limitations, it's posts like the one from Greeny, that have me thinking that Brian Laws was spot on, when he said in his book that the premier league had created a new breed of fan. :( Been a clarets fan for 50+ years fella. Travelled up + down the country watching what will ...
- Sat Jan 04, 2020 4:07 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Thanks to those who didn't go
- Replies: 70
- Views: 6637
Re: Thanks to those who didn't go
You are welcome pal. Glad you enjoyed the freedom of Turf Moor. With an attendance today of just over 8,000 including 1,600 from Peterborough, it shows how many of the rest of us have been bored to tears for a long time by hoof ball. I think some of our players found their true level today playing w...
- Fri Jan 03, 2020 8:29 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mike Rigg
- Replies: 185
- Views: 14280
Re: Mike Rigg
Greeny - Please point out just where I have defended our transfer policy? ( In fact I didn't know that we had one Nothing in your various posts on this thread querying anything re our shambolic recruitment. With a proper plan and cohesive scouting network in place, which is not too much to ask afte...
- Fri Jan 03, 2020 5:02 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mike Rigg
- Replies: 185
- Views: 14280
Re: Mike Rigg
Nobody can defend our transfer policy, well apart from Leisure who appears to have some very heavy duty claret lenses fitted. There is not one person on the numerous threads that I have seen on this Messageboard asking for BFC to blow gazillions of pounds on some superstars, the frustration througho...
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 10:28 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Statement Even The Claret Tinted Can See Something Has To Change
- Replies: 70
- Views: 7562
Re: Statement Even The Claret Tinted Can See Something Has To Change
Sean’s mantra appears to be:-
Eat, Sleep, Repeat.
Great when the plan is working. Bonkers when the wheels have come off.
Who in their right mind would sign for us as SD sticks to the same currently flawed crew, leaving every possible alternative benchwarming week in + week out.
Eat, Sleep, Repeat.
Great when the plan is working. Bonkers when the wheels have come off.
Who in their right mind would sign for us as SD sticks to the same currently flawed crew, leaving every possible alternative benchwarming week in + week out.
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 10:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Are you missing the Peterborough game ? If so why ?
- Replies: 120
- Views: 8318
Re: Are you missing the Peterborough game ? If so why ?
If I had some hair then I would be washing it whilst I stay at home on Saturday. After suffering along with the rest of us for a while now I need a week off. Sean doesn’t tend to focus on these Cup games (his attention span in the PL is not much better either). I was at the Wimbledon cup loss at Tur...
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:48 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: What is wrong?
- Replies: 110
- Views: 11020
Re: What is wrong?
I will take great pleasure in being proved wrong by Sean, however his big opportunity to attract additional quality to Turf Moor was in the lead up to our Europa League adventure. Not on about the club blowing hundreds of millions of pounds to get the likes of Messi in but a couple of capable player...
- Tue Dec 31, 2019 12:09 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Season tickets 20/21
- Replies: 97
- Views: 7970
Re: Season tickets 20/21
Our football has been a grim watch for a long time. Been a Season Ticket Holder for many years but it will be an interesting decision this time re renewal. If our January transfer window success is re-signing Crouchie as the window closes along with Alan Shearer + Frank Worthington, who are not quit...
- Sun Dec 29, 2019 9:42 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: BFC transfer links discussion page
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2075
Re: BFC transfer links discussion page
Dyche Transfer window Bingo: January is a difficult window the board wont give me enough money we have a competitive squad it's hard to attract players + many more If it follows Sean’s previous attempts at transfer windows we will do last minute deals to sign Crouchie, Alan Shearer and Frank Worthi...
- Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Long for Cork
- Replies: 81
- Views: 6393
Re: Long for Cork
CT, I think you are drinking the same stuff as Sean when it comes to substitutes. His changes are always like for like with no changes to formation. Nobody can defend leaving Drinkwater on the bench against Everton when we are crying out for some creativity + bringing on that well known ball player,...
- Thu Dec 26, 2019 9:30 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: I Have To Say..
- Replies: 97
- Views: 7968
Re: I Have To Say..
Nobody of sound mind can defend what we have become as a football team. Sean’s approach has squeezed the creative life out of everyone. Good teams can keep things tight + utilise their full backs to get down the wing + look to deliver crosses to give the frontman something to work on. Since Trippier...
- Thu Dec 26, 2019 6:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Dyche christmas tipple
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2704
Re: Dyche christmas tipple
You know it’s grim watching when the post match view after most of our games this season is “we should have stayed in the pub”. Sean’s lack of budget defence is rubbish. Just watch Sheffield Utd who have far less brass than us but try to play creative/attacking football alongside the structured/orga...
- Thu Dec 26, 2019 5:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Italian Toffees versus MIGHTY CLARETS
- Replies: 385
- Views: 19821
Re: Italian Toffees versus MIGHTY CLARETS
Awful game (again). We struggle to string passes together. Nobody can defend these dreadful performances. Sean loves it as he grinds his way to another end of season £1M bonus for keeping us up. There comes a point where even all the happy clappers on here must also want to lie down in a darkened ro...
- Mon Dec 16, 2019 9:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Second big screen
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4798
Re: Second big screen
Was at a BFC Foundation Q&A with SD + Monsieur Garlick 18 months ago. Stated at the time by MG that 2nd screen was a definite, they just needed to make a decision where to locate it? The inability to organise a heavy drinking session in a brewery springs to mind. Maybe this fictitious screen is in M...
- Tue Dec 10, 2019 7:30 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gibson
- Replies: 87
- Views: 9157
Re: Gibson
Ben Mee would even be selected by the non Tinkerman Sean if he had a broken leg. Which tells you everything you need to know. Hence Sean will never manage one of the big teams.
- Sat Dec 07, 2019 3:15 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Spurs v Clarets : Score Predictions
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2546
Re: Spurs v Clarets : Score Predictions
There might be a few Clarets leaving that shiny new ground already after that start.
Think Sean took them out on the lash last night - again??
Think Sean took them out on the lash last night - again??
- Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:02 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 18 Thousand Strong Home Support Dropping
- Replies: 79
- Views: 6933
Re: 18 Thousand Strong Home Support Dropping
Contrary to the happy clappers view on here, we are a very dull watch. I have travelled home and away for many years but there is only so much "lump it up front" you can take before it grinds you down. We have players on many £000,s per week in a Claret & Blue shirt who can't trap a bag of cement an...
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 3:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The cowboy and India.
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2423
Re: The cowboy and India.
I wish OC all the very best in his new venture. I have been a claret ever since I was a kid back in the late 60's and his Burnley teams were a great watch. Happy days. I will always buy him a pint if I bumped into him. He left for a lot more money. Who wouldn't.