Yes, there was Dunne and Benson (the latter's fee has never been revealed but I've read 500k).
I think the policy was essential because, as we all know, our youth system had been wrecked.
Dwight was different for me as he joined us when aged 14 (I believe).
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- Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:07 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today's Games
- Replies: 246
- Views: 5473
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today's Games
- Replies: 246
- Views: 5473
Bobby Thomas
Our policy upon returning to the PL in 2014 of picking up other clubs' rejects has yet to pay off in terms of one of them becoming a first-team player. However, we got circa £2m for this lad from Coventry. Maybe he would have played for us had we not have been a PL team. Whatever, he can be proud to...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:35 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today's Games
- Replies: 246
- Views: 5473
Re: Today's Games
What it says is how pathetic the biggest-spending club in world football is.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today's Games
- Replies: 246
- Views: 5473
Re: Today's Games
We need Everton to win however much we don't want them to.
But Chris "Comfort Zone" Wood will ensure they don't. Nailed on.
But Chris "Comfort Zone" Wood will ensure they don't. Nailed on.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sherwood
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2710
Re: Sherwood
Sutton is a clueless tool.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:57 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Lyle Foster's class
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1929
Lyle Foster's class
It was mentioned on the match thread I think but having just seen the goals I'd like to underline the class and respect of Lyle Foster. The man scored his first goal in four months but instead of celebrating he went straight to his teammate, Lorenz Assignon, who had set him up. Might seem minor but ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Taffy
- Replies: 154
- Views: 5618
Re: Leighton James
I am pleased to say that you have just misunderstood. I had not noticed the connection, so my sincerest of apologies for that -particularly at this time. I feel very bad about additional upset for you. The intention was to nip in the bud 2 threads. The one was attracting very positive comments and ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sherwood
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2710
Re: Sherwood
Sherwood once said Tom Carroll would be the new Luka Modric and might go on to play for Barcelona.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Claret Tony
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5589
Re: Claret Tony
Hope you feel better soon, Tony.
Good to hear you were well looked after by the people at Sheffield United.
Good to hear you were well looked after by the people at Sheffield United.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: A win for Taffy
- Replies: 3
- Views: 600
A win for Taffy
PLEASE don't ruin this by making comparisons.
Please just take it in the way it's meant.
RIP Taffy
Please just take it in the way it's meant.
RIP Taffy
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sheffield Utd v Burnley Match Thread.
- Replies: 460
- Views: 7095
Re: Sheffield Utd v Burnley Match Thread.
A win for Taffy.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sheffield Utd v Burnley Match Thread.
- Replies: 460
- Views: 7095
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sheffield Utd v Burnley Match Thread.
- Replies: 460
- Views: 7095
Re: Sheffield Utd v Burnley Match Thread.
Lyle's first goal for months. Get in lad.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sheffield Utd v Burnley Match Thread.
- Replies: 460
- Views: 7095
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sheffield Utd v Burnley Match Thread.
- Replies: 460
- Views: 7095
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:42 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sheffield Utd v Burnley Match Thread.
- Replies: 460
- Views: 7095
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:42 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sheffield Utd v Burnley Match Thread.
- Replies: 460
- Views: 7095
Re: Sheffield Utd v Burnley Match Thread.
Win this for Taffy.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:40 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Uni research on football's response to military conflict
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1240
Re: Uni research on football's response to military conflict
I've reported him to the Research Ethics Board at the University of South Australia.
Yes, I do have other things to do but the bloke is using this forum in an unethical manner.
Yes, I do have other things to do but the bloke is using this forum in an unethical manner.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Uni research on football's response to military conflict
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1240
Re: Uni research on football's response to military conflict
Academic spamming. What next?
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:52 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Taffy
- Replies: 154
- Views: 5618
Re: Taffy
Hi Vino blanco, You said "My first thought was that for a left winger he used to appear to drag the ball behind him with his right foot, but then suddenly he would accelerate and go past defenders like they weren’t there." He does this for our first goal in this match against Villa. https://www.yout...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:41 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Uni research on football's response to military conflict
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1240
Re: Uni research on football's response to military conflict
Why won't you reply to my question?theacademic wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:04 amLast shout to see if anyone has a spare few minutes to help me out with this research project.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Taffy
- Replies: 154
- Views: 5618
Re: Taffy
Hello JJames82, First of all, I would like to express my condolences to you and your family at this terrible time. I'm not a moderator but wish to reassure you that the comment about multiple threads wasn't meant in a disrespectful manner. Sometimes multiple threads occur on the same subject for a n...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:41 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Great songs performed by different artists.
- Replies: 104
- Views: 9307
Re: Great songs performed by different artists.
"Goodbye" by Steve Earle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctDVZditHzY
Covered by Emmylou Harris.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h0dCd9V1dM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctDVZditHzY
Covered by Emmylou Harris.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h0dCd9V1dM
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:29 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Taffy
- Replies: 154
- Views: 5618
Re: Taffy
Today had been a great day. I retired from work after 44 years. Then this news. My favourite ever Claret and someone I knew well has gone. R.IP. Leighton. The day has lost its lustre. Hello sjb, I do genuinely feel for you. The personal memories hurt right now. I'm in tears. I wish you well for you...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Taffy
- Replies: 154
- Views: 5618
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:08 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Taffy
- Replies: 154
- Views: 5618
Re: Taffy
He didn't - I thought he'd signed on the day of the West Ham game. That second debut came a week later at, of all places, given who we play tomorrow, Bramall Lane, the day Alex Sabella murdered us and we were 3-0 down after 19 minutes and lost 4-0. I may well be wrong but I seem to recall it being ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Taffy
- Replies: 154
- Views: 5618
Re: Taffy
Dreadful news. One of our best players in the last 50 years. I saw him during his first spell. As I recall it, he wasn't given a warm welcome upon returning to TM with Derby. I recall returning to Nelson on Friday 8 September 1978 to read he'd resigned. We played West Ham the following day. Tony wil...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Emiliano Martinez
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1333
Re: Emiliano Martinez
Fair enough.
I'll contact Villa and ask him to wind up fans at every away match until somebody comes on and attacks him.
I'll contact Villa and ask him to wind up fans at every away match until somebody comes on and attacks him.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Emiliano Martinez
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1333
Re: Emiliano Martinez
Okay, Bordeauxclaret, but are we not allowed to boo players? That's existed for as long as I can remember and I'm 62. God, I lived through the Auschwitz Song, Munich Song etc etc period, bananas thrown at black players. Thankfully that's gone. Yes, there are instances of racism, antisemitism etc and...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:46 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Emiliano Martinez
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1333
Emiliano Martinez
Mentioned on here last night but this prick's antics warrant action taken against him. Players are rightly booked for "execessive celebrating". It's bad enough when your team has conceded to then have clowns giving it large in front of you. Whilst I do not condone any violence committed by fans, I c...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:27 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Beyer
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3988
Re: Beyer
I can understand, to a certain extent, reluctance to inform us about injuries to 16-year-old players. But not to first-team squad players. All other clubs seem to do it.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Uni research on football's response to military conflict
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1240
Re: Uni research on football's response to military conflict
Any chance of getting a reply?
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Matej Vydra is playing...
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2867
Matej Vydra is playing...
for Viktoria Plzen away against Fiorentina in the Conference League QFs.
He's played 21 times in the Czech league but only eight starts. Two goals, one assist.
Seven games in Conference League. No goals.
He's played 21 times in the Czech league but only eight starts. Two goals, one assist.
Seven games in Conference League. No goals.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:23 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Pompey
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2901
Re: Pompey
Cracking day out, then.Vegas Claret wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:33 pmlast time I watched us there was lost 5-0 (I think Heath was the manager ?)
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Pompey
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2901
Re: Pompey
Dislike the club intensely.
They had some of the most violent fans back in the day. The ground makes TM look like Bernabeu.
And their years of fraud and making scores of local firms insolvent shouldn't be forgotten.
They had some of the most violent fans back in the day. The ground makes TM look like Bernabeu.
And their years of fraud and making scores of local firms insolvent shouldn't be forgotten.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:35 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Uni research on football's response to military conflict
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1240
Re: Uni research on football's response to military conflict
I'll fill in the survey but I'd just like to ask a question, please. You write: "Football, like other sports, has become more involved in social and political issues, especially Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ+ rights. But it hasn’t engaged with war: is this the moment?" What is your definition of "eng...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Derek Underwood
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1054
Re: Derek Underwood
I had an irrational dislike for Home Counties cricketers but Underwood was class. He changed his approach when wickets became covered. He was close on medium-pace but with incredible accuracy. Very difficult to get away. Some might laugh but I saw similarities between Underwood and Jack Simmons. The...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Been with your Mrs for 30 years and don’t love her.
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3385
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Underrated songs
- Replies: 6
- Views: 300
Underrated songs
I'm sorry but just want this season to end (fairweather fan that I am).
I know this has been done before but at least it's positive.
Snow Patrol are not everyone's thing but this song is, for me, beautiful. Their best IMHO and released in 2001.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydITwNIu6Uk
I know this has been done before but at least it's positive.
Snow Patrol are not everyone's thing but this song is, for me, beautiful. Their best IMHO and released in 2001.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydITwNIu6Uk
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:27 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: So do you drop Muric after two massive costly howlers?
- Replies: 363
- Views: 10460
Re: So do you drop Muric after two massive costly howlers?
I'm sorry but the howler yesterday can happen to all keepers. However awful it was, it doesn't make him a bad goalkeeper.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:53 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Appalling Abuse Directed at Jay.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 4342
Re: Appalling Abuse Directed at Jay.
Absolutely not condoing it but I've been amongst Burnley fans down in Brighton singing "Town full of queers".
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:27 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Marseille airport car hire
- Replies: 10
- Views: 590
Re: Marseille airport car hire
I would add this:
Bonjour Monsieur/Bonjour Madame
Always you "s'il vous plaît" and "merci".
Being polite never a negative attitude.
As for people speaking French in Marseille, yes, they do. Despite the colour of their skin.
However, the accent can be impenetrable.
Bonjour Monsieur/Bonjour Madame
Always you "s'il vous plaît" and "merci".
Being polite never a negative attitude.
As for people speaking French in Marseille, yes, they do. Despite the colour of their skin.
However, the accent can be impenetrable.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Long trip to Ipswich for the under-21s
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1091
Re: ARTICLE: Long trip to Ipswich for the under-21s
Yes, rather paradoxical that.randomclaret2 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:45 pmAnd sections of the media had us as a bunch of cloggers...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:18 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: As anybody seen.....................................
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3332
Re: As anybody seen.....................................
Was just wondering about Massengo.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:14 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Out of contract
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3455
Re: Out of contract
Charlie Taylor would be a must for me. I think Jack's best days are gone now.
Chelsea will look to put Fofana in the PL or a top league.
JBG. Yes. Josh B. not sure.
Chelsea will look to put Fofana in the PL or a top league.
JBG. Yes. Josh B. not sure.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Everton - 2 more points deducted.
- Replies: 72
- Views: 4448
Re: Everton - 2 more points deducted.
TBH it's a bloody mess. Points docked then some given back now more taken away. Ridiculous.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Is Man Utd under Ratcliffe / Brailsford in danger of being the new Woodward at Saints?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 466
Re: Is Man Utd under Ratcliffe / Brailsford in danger of being the new Woodward at Saints?
I just hope they continue to be a sh**show for the self-promoted biggest club in the world. A few weeks back, one of my fellow Clarets - I forget who - said they couldn't think of any signings who had improved there since Ferguson left. I've given it some thought and it's a pretty big challenge to t...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:47 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The Art of War
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1017
Re: The Art of War
Carl Clausewitz, currently Head Coach at second-tier Magdeburg, is allegedly advising BFC on this part of its strategy.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:19 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Harry Kane
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2576
Re: Harry Kane
Quality player, but I feel his England scoring record is skewed by the amount he’s scored against poor sides. Kane, imo has always come up short when we’ve played the better sides in the latter stages. Even when he got the WC golden boot it was a bit rubbish. 2 decent goals in the first game agains...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Toffees vs Clarets Match Thread
- Replies: 494
- Views: 15606
Re: Toffees vs Clarets Match Thread
We'll see how they actually line up.