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- Sat Jan 23, 2021 1:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Would I Lie To You
- Replies: 25
- Views: 979
Re: Would I Lie To You
I think Not Going Out is still worth a watch... easy humour that usually raises a smile by the programmes climax. Probably funnier when your home life often reflects the comedy.
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 1:43 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Larry King
- Replies: 5
- Views: 299
Re: Larry King
Quite possibly heard he was ill, I only have a passing interest. I can only take so much satire and find some of the new British stuff either OTT or too predictable to be funny, much as I find a lot of the yank stuff.FactualFrank wrote: ↑Sat Jan 23, 2021 1:28 pmI wouldn't trust your memory then! It's only just breaking on the news.
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 1:25 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Larry King
- Replies: 5
- Views: 299
Re: Larry King
Just read that Larry King has passed away. The British don’t really do talk shows like the Americans do but he was certainly up there with best in that genre. King died quite a while ago from memory. I’ve been watching a series on American comedians, and I was surprised how many of their satirical ...
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 1:20 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: January Transfer Window Discussion - Rumours and Links welcome
- Replies: 1130
- Views: 89620
Re: January Transfer Window Discussion - Rumours and Links welcome
While I have not followed Andre Grey much since he left us, mainly highlights I know I was not overly concerned when he left us... which I think says it all. Came with a lot of baggage and he has not pulled any trees since. I’m not against old players returning, if it was Trips or Ings I’d be deligh...
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 4:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: January Transfer Window Discussion - Rumours and Links welcome
- Replies: 1130
- Views: 89620
Re: January Transfer Window Discussion - Rumours and Links welcome
But now we CAN compete with these prices. We just need to borrow a few more quid at 10% interest. I’m sure we’ll (BFC and ALK Capital) have investors lining up after last nights brilliant performance. We possibly can, for one maybe two, but just imagine the meltdown if Burnley paid £20 for a ‘good ...
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Queen Victoria...
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1218
Re: Queen Victoria...
Private Eye calling several councils Rotten Boroughs this morning on Twitter, that predates Victoria. Suggesting they are back to the kind of management that led to The Blackburn, Perterloo and Burnley (among others) Radical reform meetings of 1819. Suggesting the gap between the British elite and a...
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:27 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: January Transfer Window Discussion - Rumours and Links welcome
- Replies: 1130
- Views: 89620
Re: January Transfer Window Discussion - Rumours and Links welcome
Playing 442 is ok and there is a future in playing it with the 'framework' etc. I watched Leicester effectively play a 442 the other day but they had Maddison as one of their forwards. We do also need some pace but this is the type of player we need in my opinion. Someone who can link play and drop...
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 12:36 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: THE PROBLEM
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1389
Re: THE PROBLEM
Never in doubt
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 10:01 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Barnes
- Replies: 73
- Views: 3216
Re: Barnes
For all those who wanted to drop him F U A I think a lot our fans don’t understand yet. SD sticks with them because they just carry on doing what they do and it will be enough, might be close but over the season, it’s enough and sometimes when it clicks, more than enough. It’s why no one away from ...
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Pool vs The Clarets
- Replies: 637
- Views: 6444
Re: Pool vs The Clarets
Sort of game we could win or get mauled in... I’m going to say it’s time for another bounce back Burnley win with JK’s teeth on full view as he spits his dummy out about something we’ve done to rob them.
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:28 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Their Pitch
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1687
Re: Their Pitch
When asked this morning if the game was on the groundsmen apparently replied “we have no forking chance”
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 1:41 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Burnley confirm four new directors
- Replies: 68
- Views: 5028
Re: ARTICLE: Burnley confirm four new directors
I got the impression from one of Mr Pace’s comments that his London ties were largely connected to his faith and he will be taking up a similar role in Chorley, I may be wrong but that is how it came across to me at the time.ClaretTony wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 5:42 pmHe is at the moment, yes, but his commitments there end in June.
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 11:54 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: FA cup final 1914
- Replies: 48
- Views: 1735
Re: FA cup final 1914
Early projectors ran at 14-18 frames per second, modern at 24 FPS which is why old films always appear fast. As Rowls says above there are ways to correct this now and some of the World War I footage I’ve seen using the new tech recently is incredible, original footage that looks like HD. Also a lot...
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 4:54 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: West Ham v Burnley - Match Thread
- Replies: 802
- Views: 9017
Re: West Ham v Burnley - Match Thread
Hugely disappointing performance today. A LONG way off sharp enough, along way off creative enough. Must, really must do better
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 3:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: West Ham v Burnley - Match Thread
- Replies: 802
- Views: 9017
Re: West Ham v Burnley - Match Thread
Poor half Burnley. Not looking at it so far
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 3:42 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: West Ham v Burnley - Match Thread
- Replies: 802
- Views: 9017
Re: West Ham v Burnley - Match Thread
Far far too easy for WHU this. We’re on our heels and even as a defender of Barnes, he has offered nothing at all so far. We need a major rethink at half time.
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 5:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Blackpool v Burnley 1990
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1478
Re: Blackpool v Burnley 1990
Think they put the later arrivals in the Paddock. I thought it was the Kendall 5-0 drubbing at first. They closed the cop a couple of seasons later completely as it was in danger of collapse if I remember rightly.
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 5:42 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Vydra
- Replies: 94
- Views: 4392
Re: Vydra
They asked to loan, Burnley would prefer permanently if he’s to go from what I’ve seen, so not nailed on. As we know Vydra is unhappy with game time.
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:51 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley v Manchester United - Match Thread
- Replies: 594
- Views: 8100
Re: Burnley v Manchester United - Match Thread
Cannot argue with the goal, it’s been coming second half. Think I’d be tempted to swap Westy(booked) for Jay Rod... then Vydra shortly after
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 5:01 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Trivia facts ....
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1209
Re: Trivia facts ....
The horse race was named after Lord Derby, who helped set it up. (With his friend Lord Bunbury. Legend has it they tossed a coin to decide who it would be named after.) Know nothing about the horses. However I pretty sure Lord Derby at that time would have been one of the Stanley’s... another footb...
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 4:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Trivia facts ....
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1209
Re: Trivia facts ....
Well the Derby horse race certainly didn't get the name from the Burnley-Blackburn games :) Quite right lol. My old lecturer at Burnley (Dr of History) researches this stuff for a living (lucky sod) always in an archive ferreting out stuff. I know he was looking for the golden ticket for Derby, but...
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 4:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Trivia facts ....
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1209
Re: Trivia facts ....
If...and obviously it remains contested the Ball game reference to Derby predates the horse race by around 500 years... and indeed may be the origin of the horse races name rather than vice versa.FactualFrank wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:54 pmIt did originate from horse racing, correct. Going back a while though, must have been the 1700s.
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:55 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Trivia facts ....
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1209
Re: Trivia facts ....
The Ashbourne explanation makes no sense. Why name the thing after the town down the road? Why not just call it an Ashbourne? Was a Derby game not just any big game, named after the horse race? A game against big local rivals was then a local derby, which is what it used to be called. The horse rac...
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:46 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Trivia facts ....
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1209
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:43 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Trivia facts ....
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1209
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:25 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Trivia facts ....
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1209
Re: Trivia facts ....
At the time of Hugball, Derby was the town for the area, Derbyshire did not exist. Officially at that time Derby itself was in the Palatine of Lancashire under the Stanley family control.FactualFrank wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:14 pmAshbourne in Derbyshire, not Derby, but makes sense. I remember reading something about 'Hugball'.
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Trivia facts ....
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1209
Re: Trivia facts ....
The term Derby as it relates to football is thought to originate from a town game in Ashbourne, Derby dating back to the 13C and a game called hugball, though other claims are also made. While strictly speaking meant to mean within a town border, old county borders were also included. So Burnley v P...
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 8:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Tonight's footy
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1476
Re: Tonight's footy
Accrington started well. Just look a little shot shy, over passing at times
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:25 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mee Nominated For POTM
- Replies: 12
- Views: 491
Re: Mee Nominated For POTM
So glad few outside Burnley realise just how good/important he is
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 11:00 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Iain Dowie
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2504
Re: Iain Dowie
Good luck to him. I’ve passed the time of day with him a couple of times at the back of the alongside when he had been commentating on our game. A really nice man. I wish him every success.
- Thu Jan 07, 2021 10:44 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 16
- Views: 616
Re: Game of Thrones
Loved it up until they ran out of books, thought the final series was a poor reflection of the previous writing and it soured the whole series for me. Will give it another go eventually... when I forgive them and am willing to retry to like it.
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Flagging for offside
- Replies: 7
- Views: 536
Flagging for offside
This latest version of the linesman that does not flag until a move concludes is an absolute nonsense.... it wastes game time, frustrates everyone and takes half the point of a line judge away. Makes goals far less exciting as everyone is waiting to see if anyone can see anything Wrong... I really d...
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 1:58 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: has anyone stopped drinking completely?
- Replies: 130
- Views: 9389
Re: has anyone stopped drinking completely?
I used to get through three bottles of red a night and would not go home until I had the nights drinks sorted after work... I was told I had liver damage, it did not make a jot of difference. I was surpressing my depression. Finally I was the victim of a business fraud that cost me my business and s...
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 1:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mick McCarthy leaves Apoel.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 663
Re: Mick McCarthy leaves Apoel.
Brilliant nice winter break and a much healthier bank balance...
Sure he is gutted. I’m available on a three year contract (negotiable)
I’m off to pack, see you guys in February.
Sure he is gutted. I’m available on a three year contract (negotiable)
I’m off to pack, see you guys in February.
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 10:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sir Alex Ferguson on VAR
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2011
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 10:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: If a club was to buy Harry Kane..
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1520
Re: If a club was to buy Harry Kane..
Personally I’d take Son before Kane. Think he is far harder for them to replace, good as Kane is.
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 9:51 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Dave Kevan departs Port Vale
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1238
Re: Dave Kevan departs Port Vale
Was it John Rudge that was at Port Vale forever? They had a ten year wobble when he left.
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 9:38 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Is Toney Dyche’s ideal striker
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3308
Re: Is Toney Dyche’s ideal striker
Quite he looked like he could be more than decentNewcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 05, 2021 9:36 pmAnyway back to the subject matter. He was only player for Brentford that impressed me in that game.
Would suit our style well.
...and yes the previous comment I will concede as somewhat ill judged given the current climate.
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 8:29 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Colin Bell RIP
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1597
Re: Colin Bell RIP
Sad to hear this. Funnily enough it was only a couple of days ago I was watching the Big Match Revisited and thought it was a while since I heard anything of him. My dad and uncle used to see him to chat to regularly in the 70’s when they worked in Belthorn.
RIP Mr Bell
RIP Mr Bell
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 6:42 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Alan Pace live now on clarets player
- Replies: 148
- Views: 7991
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 6:40 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Xmas lights
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1228
Re: Xmas lights
Any time for us up to twelfth night. Came down today as work dictates I need to be in peace and quiet for a couple of weeks from today. However, I relented and let she-who-must-be-obeyed keep her outside white tree lights, on the proviso they are made a feature rather than over hedge as Christmas de...
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 6:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Alan Pace live now on clarets player
- Replies: 148
- Views: 7991
Re: Alan Pace live now on clarets player
It’s like saying you pay for a season ticket so your programme should be free because it gives you information about the club. Wrong in the Head some fans especially CT when it comes to this point. Why shouldn’t they charge for content that costs money to create. It’s the same with the U23 the cove...
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 6:05 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Alan Pace live now on clarets player
- Replies: 148
- Views: 7991
Re: Alan Pace live now on clarets player
This is the future. They will maximise revenue streams. There’s no point whinging about it. Either pay up And watch, or don’t and don’t whinge. It’s always surprising to me that the Athletic haven’t had a word with virtually every story they write copied and pasted on here for people to read free. ...
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 2:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Brendan Flood's message on LinkedIn...
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3464
Re: Brendan Flood's message on LinkedIn...
I think Brendan was at times guilty of over exuberance in his early days, and that soured relations with some. He has played his role and deserves his share of the credit for what has been achieved. I hope all the former directors remain close to the club and leave the door open for being approached...
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 1:54 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Return to the happy place
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2043
Re: Return to the happy place
Agree with the sentiment, but I am less optimistic that we will have seen an end to this by next season. Two new variants already and with people unable to follow rules a rising pandemic.... which will only lead to faster, harder mutations and eventually one resistant to the new vaccines.... God kno...
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 7:07 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: MotD
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1919
Re: MotD
I never had any pace, maybe that is why I didn’t fall over. Must be awful in the supermarket when reaching for beans when the slightest touch causes such reaction.CharlieinNewMexico wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 7:01 pmI played for 50 years and most of the adult ones at semi pro or “boot money” level.
But apart from that.
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 7:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Steve Bruce
- Replies: 70
- Views: 5909
Re: Steve Bruce
Sean is going nowhere. He's just got new owners who have promised some cash. He has made Burnley "his". Why move to Palace or Newcastle? Lunacy ! :shock: Maybe he wants discount at Sportsdirect. Fantastic opportunity for the man who can walk on water.... anyone else will not be good enough to be gi...
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Steve Bruce
- Replies: 70
- Views: 5909
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Centre Forward Partnerships
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1114
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sunday Times article
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3243
Re: Sunday Times article
RalphCoatesComb wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:57 pm![]()
You've let the cat out the bag now. Your grammar and spelling will be under severe scrutiny now![]()

