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- by NL Claret
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:48 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Lancs League Sunday
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2257
ClaretTony wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:34 pm
One way to stop Franklyn, he was bloody quick on a warm day.
Franklyn was a top player, he had a season at Greenmount before going on to play in the county championship.
He had a brilliant slower ball. He was a fierce competitor but a gentleman off the field, good golfer too.
- by NL Claret
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:34 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Beyer
- Replies: 59
- Views: 4096
Take away sentiment, massive gulf between championship and the PL. Beyer doesn’t have the physical fitness to be a PL regular and looked to be targeted when in possession at this level. Sell for me.
- by NL Claret
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Jacob Brunn Larsen
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3222
Even Taylor from full back manages an assist per season in the PL. 7 in 6 seasons now, go Charlie, some call him dross.
- by NL Claret
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: UTC: Twighlight years
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3447
Posted on here and CM for possibly about 17 years, 51 years old. This forum does wind me up and can go months without posting / viewing however it does keep drawing me in. Judging by the number of votes for MOTM, this site only appeals to a small percentage of the fan base. Do X and Facebook however...
- by NL Claret
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 2:21 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today's Games
- Replies: 246
- Views: 8690
KRBFC wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 2:17 pm
How was that NOT handball?
Madness, isn’t it? Next weekend, or even later on this afternoon in another game that gets given.
- by NL Claret
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:20 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sheffield United v Burnley - Player Ratings
- Replies: 87
- Views: 5493
Sorry don't mean to pick you out individually but this is the issue with player ratings. The result is the deciding factor of the ratings not the actual performance. I thought we were dreadful first half and very lucky to come out infront. My advice regarding the ratings thread, don't read too much...
- by NL Claret
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Taffy
- Replies: 159
- Views: 8421
Started watching the Clarets as a young lad in the late 70s / early 80s so have some memories of that spell of Leighton’s career. Bury based btw, my dad used to take us to Gigg Lane when Dobson was manager, Taffy was a fans favourite and played a big part in their promotion that season 1984. Me and ...
- by NL Claret
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:51 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: FA Cup Replays
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3672
Why not have no replays before the 1st round proper? Might help relieve fixture backlog for non league.
- by NL Claret
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: On this day
- Replies: 146
- Views: 14144
1987, won 2-0 at Spotland on Easter Saturday. Remember it well, big win that was. I'd have been 14 and I think this was the game that made me realise what it was to be a Claret. My dad had stopped going and we went to watch Dobbo and the ex Clarets at Gigg Lane with odd ventures to the directors box...
- by NL Claret
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:40 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Jrod
- Replies: 55
- Views: 5898
Goliath wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:24 pm
Unbelievable. I'd still be starting both if it was up to me. I'm pretty sure they'd have helped us have more points than our current pathetic tally.
Starting both in the PL? Based on what? Sentiment?
Cork and Jay Rod’s best seasons were in the last decade.
- by NL Claret
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:26 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Striker, Left Back, Defensive Midfielder
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3075
The new buzzword that people like to use on here. FWIW I'd have Muric or Trafford over pretty much anyone we are likely to be able to sign once relegated. Signing a new keeper for the Champ when we have one that literally ****** that league last time out and another that will be more than good enou...
- by NL Claret
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:06 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Striker, Left Back, Defensive Midfielder
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3075
Just no. Especially not for the Champ seen as we had the best one in the division last time that is... still on our books. 4 minutes, thought it might have taken a bit longer. New keeper ends the pathetic infantile Trafford v Muric debate, think it’s the way forward. Too many on here (and their mul...
- by NL Claret
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 11:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: So do you drop Muric after two massive costly howlers?
- Replies: 363
- Views: 15391
Could only cope with flicking through a few posts, Trafford has not played for a few weeks now yet still getting drawn in for criticism, 2 mistakes by Muric have been horrific, can’t imagine the meltdown on here if Trafford had committed such poor errors as Muric has today and last Sat. All the hype...
- by NL Claret
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 11:05 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: penalty decision
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4316
Thought this was going to be about the Odobert penalty call today? Not watched that back but it looked a pen to me live. Assuming it wasn’t given lack of discussion on it… Watched the game on TV, in normal time without replays for me no penalty then on replays it was a penalty and then watching ano...
- by NL Claret
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley v Brighton - Player Ratings
- Replies: 91
- Views: 5698
Muric 3 - would have subbed him after their goal, his head seemed to have fallen off and for the second game running any confidence or hope for both players and fans drained away. Not sure he has the mentality for PL football Assigion 5 Ekdal 6 - had a good battle with Wellbeck which he won, probabl...
- by NL Claret
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 5:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley vs brighton.
- Replies: 429
- Views: 13141
CrosspoolClarets wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 5:41 pm
And Verbruggens after his error costing them a goal. The other keeper we wanred
Shows how hard it is for keepers in this league
I can only put it down today to mental pressure. He will never have done that in training. It's unfathomable.
BHA defender more at fault than the keeper.
- by NL Claret
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Everton v Burnley - Player Ratings
- Replies: 78
- Views: 5912
The tedious and weird Trafford v Muric thing continues. It was a 3/10 performance because the error could have been avoided and it appeared to have a negative impact all round, it cost us the game, irrespective of the context of the game. I would have given him 3 if it was a mid table dead rubber. T...
- by NL Claret
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:29 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The cost of playing out badly
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3312
We've conceded 67 goals. We'd have to score 2 a game just to get a point. In reality, the problems at the back and the tactics cause the problems up-front. VK is the architect of a system that can't work in the PL. I said it last season and it's proven to be true. If you have the best players in th...
- by NL Claret
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:46 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Everton v Burnley - Player Ratings
- Replies: 78
- Views: 5912
Not done this for some years so here it goes. Muric 3 - a poor quality half of the game is ending with a tepid finish with the natives getting restless, it finishes with Dyche giving a totally different team talk and the natives up for creating an atmosphere which was previously heading for toxic, K...
- by NL Claret
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: RATE THE REF - Michael Oliver v Everton
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1515
Not sure of the rules these days, I thought red cards were given for denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity with a foul, given how bad Everton were and how far away from goal the player was, was it obvious? Oliver was lenient on yellow cards early on.
- by NL Claret
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Spending April in Colne
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4435
The problem with counties top division is that it has 24 clubs, with FAC, Vase , League Cup and County Cups there’s too many games to fit in plus this has been a very wet winter and spring. Not sure why the season cannot be extended, not like players are going to be involved in the Euros. In an idea...
- by NL Claret
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Next season’s Spine IF RELEGATED
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3561
3 new full backs required, cannot watch another season of Taylor towing his caravan up and down the left flank usually ending up in a cul de sac.
2 centre forwards required, no real back up for Foster this season, like the look of the lad at Cov, Simms, doubt we’d get him though.
- by NL Claret
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Frustrating...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1220
Watched on TV, there were some signs of improvement but overall a disappointing performance.
Vitinho gets into good positions but no end product. Taylor was/is awful. What is Berge’s best starting position?
Fofana could have been hooked at HT
- by NL Claret
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: VK touchline ban
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2749
Possibly due to the Wolves game been so close to the red card it might not start till the Everton game. Wonder if it will be extended ban as 2nd time it has happened.
- by NL Claret
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:33 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Refereeing bias
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1542
Liverpool v BHA in comparison to the City Arsenal game 26 fouls, 8 yellow cards, 5 for Liverpool. I think there's some bias but mostly the standard of refs is poor, and the whole organisation is arrogant and grossly incompetent. Don't forget it took a season for PL refs to go and look at a monitor
- by NL Claret
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:27 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Todays football 1st April
- Replies: 110
- Views: 5274
agreenwood wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:17 pm
Considering the outcry when Zaroury left in January, he’s hardly pulled up any trees at a side drifting out of play off contention .
The class of 2022 must be held in the highest possible esteem, how Beyer, Benson and Anass have hardly been involved in the PL is criminal
- by NL Claret
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: F*** VAR
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1118
In principle there’s nothing wrong with VAR, sadly those that operate VAR in this country are arrogant and hopeless and that’s with the “best” referees. It could be farcical in the championship. I’ll stick with non league.
- by NL Claret
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 7:14 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Bayer
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3913
Not played in 2024, and as you say close in January. Nothing said since other than he's progressing. I know I'm in the minority here but given his form this season I don't think he's been missed. Agree, struggled in PL and don’t think his body can stand the physicality of the PL. Would think the be...
- by NL Claret
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 7:08 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Anthony Taylor
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1549
United game yesterday, United forward offside, whistle goes, United forward (can’t remember which one) still blasts his shot into the crowd, nothing. At the start of the season that’s a yellow card, that directive and the waving imaginary cards didn’t last long. There is absolutely no consistency am...
- by NL Claret
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: RIP Lifelong Claret
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1816
RIP, sounded like a real character. He was a real character, hadn’t heard from him in years but my dad got a phone call off him the day before the play off final 1994, he had got a load of tickets in the Olympic Gallery with access to a bar next to the ground. I was at uni in Leicester but Geoff go...
- by NL Claret
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:39 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: RIP Lifelong Claret
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1816
Heard the sad news that Geoff Walker recently passed away. Geoff lived in Bury in the 70s before moving to Surrey and then retiring to Tiverton but still kept up his love affair with watching the Clarets. I think he was once part of the South West Clarets but may have banned from travelling with the...
- by NL Claret
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:27 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Padiham FC
- Replies: 158
- Views: 16638
Or they’ve got injuries in a potential title decider and need to put it off by a week or two 😉 Have you seen photos of the pitch? I think they have plans to put a 4g down in the closed season. There's a serious problem with a drain on the south stand side of the pitch. They have a backlog of fixtur...
- by NL Claret
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:13 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Padiham FC
- Replies: 158
- Views: 16638
Might have a look up on Saturday. Just had a look at fixtures couple of big games Bury playing Wythenshawe as well. Noticed on social media that Bury have stopped selling tickets for this game and the club aren’t sure if the game will go ahead. The pitch is a right mess and remedial work took place...