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- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: UTC: Twighlight years
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3156
Re: UTC: Twighlight years
I am one of those dinosaurs who hasn't a clue as to what social media is about. I manage on here because of my advancing years and distance from the Turf it is my one and only Burnley 'fix' at my disposal. But when someone tells me to get the 'App' I have only the vaguest idea as to what they are wr...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:16 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Been with your Mrs for 30 years and don’t love her.
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3481
Re: Been with your Mrs for 30 years and don’t love her.
All very despondent and rightly so but it could have been so different if we had just one player who could score goals. We started the season , and continued through it, without a recognised goal scorer. I am unsure if its true that we chose not to play Luton in that first game but if so it was a mi...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: James Trafford's Contract
- Replies: 168
- Views: 10217
James Trafford's Contract
I occasionally read on here that Trafford has a clause in his contract that he must be selected to play except for injury Is this correct? He is a signed player not a loan. Is he , or his previous club able to enforce such a contract condition? (apologies if this is a repeat query. My computer skill...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 8:40 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Assisted dying
- Replies: 77
- Views: 2871
Re: Assisted dying
So what we are advocating here in the majority of opinion is not a National Health Service but a National Death Service. Would all those in favour of Assisted Dying think the same if it was renamed Assisted Killing or State Sanctioned Killing ? Like many. others I have seen one of my parents in grea...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:33 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Worried more about next season
- Replies: 42
- Views: 2606
Worried more about next season
I am beginning to worry more about next season than this one. There seems to be a total expectation that we will be promoted back into the PL when it is just as likely that league one beckons. There are hardly any redeeming features that suggest that the weaknesses in the team and management that ar...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 11:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Are poor coaching techniques at fault
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1475
Are poor coaching techniques at fault
An interesting set of stats for the PL this season show Arsenal top of the league with 14 goals scored from set pieces whilst the clarets are second bottom with just 2 goals. Conversely the most set piece goals conceded show Burnley second most with 18 conceded against Man City with just two. I know...
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 8:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Battle of the Somme
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2548
Re: Battle of the Somme
Years ago there was a TV documentary of how women in both the UK and Germany tried , and nearly succeeded , in brokering a peace deal because they were horrified at the loss of life and all that went with it. I cannot remember why it failed I think that Britain was just starting to get the upper han...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 1:31 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: When Burnley and Spurs were the best
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2377
Re: When Burnley and Spurs were the best
When Burnley beat Spurs at WHL the season after losing the Cup Final to them I recall that Spurs reverted to rough house tactics. Cannot recall any sending's off or names taken but there was quite a lot of adverse publicity for Tottenham.
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 12:03 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Wayne Rooney
- Replies: 51
- Views: 7851
Re: Wayne Rooney
'It's completely crazy I can't think of any other environment that rewards so much for failure.'
The Post Office have perfected it
The Post Office have perfected it
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 11:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mr Bates vs the Post Office
- Replies: 311
- Views: 29651
Re: Fire Servic in line of fire !
Tonight's TV is now highlighting serious moral failings in nearly all the Fire and Rescue forces in the country. The list of their activities and what was openly perpetrated was ignored by those in authority and leadership roles for years. What sort of country are we?
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 11:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mr Bates vs the Post Office
- Replies: 311
- Views: 29651
Re: Mr Bates vs the Post Office
I have followed this as best I could since it first became 'public.' A kid of ten could soon work out that the chances of countless number of post office proprietors who have given years of faithful service to the PO are not suddenly all going to turn to criminal activity at about the same time.It h...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 8:54 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Are Burnley and Chelsea pioneering the same path?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1207
Are Burnley and Chelsea pioneering the same path?
Interesting feature on Chelsea this afternoon's TV in which they seem to be trying out a similar recruitment model to Burnley and with very limited success to date. They have spent a fortune on new players none of which are yet good enough for first team football. They are , supposedly, buying for t...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 8:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Ralph Coates
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5088
Re: Ralph Coates
Am I right in believing that he never wanted to leave Burnley but that he was just the latest in the 'sell to survive' a player a season?
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 11:27 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Save money by supporting Burnley
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1470
Save money by supporting Burnley
Hope its not been mentioned elsewhere on here but I read that Burnley FC are the least expensive of all the PL Clubs to support. A number of criteria have been used to calculate the approx.. cost of physically supporting each Pl Club. Calculations such as the price of a season ticket, the cost of an...
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 11:19 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: James
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5116
Re: James
Didn't we sign a goalie from, I think, Leyton Orient in the summer ?
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 11:12 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: When did this become legal?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3959
Re: When did this become legal?
You occasionally hear the pundits and commentators saying something along the lines: 'If the refs took action for shirt pulling then that would mean just about everyone would get booked at some point." So that is where it has become legal, viz lack of enforcement. This could be remedied in quick tim...
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 10:53 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Match of the day
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6728
Re: Match of the day
Did I hear correctly when Shearer referred to the clarets as 'Our' and 'Us' ? Also was the lady Saturday presenter on the results programme a Burnley supporter? She sounded a bit like she was but perhaps the result has dulled my senses(or heightened them!)
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 10:03 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 60 Years today....
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2213
Re: 60 Years today....
Forgot to mention I was 16 years old at the time and remember going to the Catholic Youth Club in Barnoldswick and how shocked we all were. It seemed especially poignant for us because of JFK's religion.
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 10:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 60 Years today....
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2213
Re: 60 Years today....
This explains why there has been so much coverage of the JFK assassination on TV recently. One of the theories not mentioned was the one of him being accidentally shot by one of his own security guards who was travelling in the car ( or the one behind it,) and when the first shot was fired got his o...
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 10:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Taffy
- Replies: 110
- Views: 17135
Re: Taffy
Just to add my condolences too on the passing of your Dad. My own Dad died many years ago but I still find myself talking to him and forgetting for a brief second that he is not around to talk to and thinking : "I'll just show this to Dad and find out his opinion." As or Taffy I remember all his tim...
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 5:40 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gazza a Claret
- Replies: 51
- Views: 5126
Gazza a Claret
It may have been exported on here already and if so apologise for the repetition but there was a long documentary on Paul Gascoine's playing career on TV last week. I sat through it all in the hope that as Burnley was his last league club that there would at least be mention of that momentous event....
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 12:04 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sue or not to sue
- Replies: 138
- Views: 9544
Re: Sue or not to sue
I am not too sure about Leicester's position in this. Didn't they renege on their creditors when they were digging themselves out of a financial hole of their own making? Not much fuss made of their financial failings yet it left debtors in difficulties and Leicester got a new stadium out out it. Pe...
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 7:41 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Resigned to Relegation
- Replies: 148
- Views: 12981
Re: Resigned to Relegation
Every other team in the PL who we have yet to play will be looking forward to playing us and saying to themselves 'this game is an easy three points for us.' We have just about got to the point where we give up before we start because the end result is already known.
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 10:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: WW3 League suspended
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1397
WW3 League suspended
I am of an age to remember how close we came to WW3 during the Cuban Missile crisis. Evidently we were only a few hours away from nuclear war. Here we are again on the precipice of WW3 but with different alliances about to drift into an all out gradual war rather than some catastrophic 'trigger' eve...
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 10:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Willie Morgan MBE
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4058
Re: Willie Morgan MBE
One of my favourite ever clarets. Saw him and Lochead tear Man Utd apart at the Turf. I think it was an Easter weekend and Utd introduced a certain George Best for Man U in the very next match of that Easter and got revenge. Great as Willie was he had an irritating habit of beating his man and then ...
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 8:30 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley FC on Morning Live
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1371
Burnley FC on Morning Live
Apologies if mentioned elsewhere (although I have not seen it,) but the clarets featured on Yesterdays morning TV on BBC 1. (Wed 27th,) Evidently the club host regular social meetings for dementia sufferers at the ground and this has come to the attention of Morning Live. Obviously the main coverage...
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 11:02 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: This not marking at corners
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2304
Re: This not marking at corners
WE seem to be employing the old short corner routine that we supposedly perfected about 50 years ago. It was a waste of a corner then (except once and hence repeated endlessly.) There were ample opportunities for taking corners in the 'traditional way' and yet we never looked comfortable until we we...
- Sun Sep 10, 2023 11:09 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Cullen
- Replies: 64
- Views: 6029
Re: Cullen
Jesus wept.
No need for blasphemy. I thought this disrespect for Christian Burnley supporters had gone the same way as racial and homophobic comments on here.
Obviously not.
No need for blasphemy. I thought this disrespect for Christian Burnley supporters had gone the same way as racial and homophobic comments on here.
Obviously not.
- Tue Aug 29, 2023 8:41 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Tragedy Chanting
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5557
Re: Tragedy Chanting
Women's football showing the way that football can enjoyed without the necessity to have any suggestion of 'tragedy chanting.' How can football ever be a family occasion when this type of conduct is being pursued? One of the images that sticks in my mind with women#s football is how very young child...
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 12:38 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.
- Replies: 15428
- Views: 1642194
Re: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.
Tella got a good write up in he opening Southampton fixture of the Championship. Evidently he showed a lot of skill and a good finish to one of his teams 'goals' that was attributed to a team mate instead of Tella as the shot ( on target) had brushed against his team mate on its way into the net. In...
- Wed Aug 02, 2023 5:03 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s blast from our Clarets Past (3) - Adrian ‘Inchy’ Heath
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1474
Re: Today’s blast from our Clarets Past (3) - Adrian ‘Inchy’ Heath
We had, for a brief period, a 'Heath Robinson' strike force. Not many clubs ( probably none,) could boast of the same.
- Wed Jul 19, 2023 11:39 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.
- Replies: 15428
- Views: 1642194
Re: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.
Perhaps Leicester could now afford to pay off some of their creditors who were left high and dry when they began trading again.
- Sun Jul 09, 2023 8:14 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Jimmy Robson played his cards right
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1657
Re: ARTICLE: Jimmy Robson played his cards right
In addition to his goal at the FA Cup final did he not have another ruled out for offside ? If true was it debatable?
- Tue Jun 27, 2023 8:42 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Next seasons shirt sponsor.
- Replies: 338
- Views: 16854
Re: Next seasons shirt sponsor.
There are obviously economic reasons why betting companies ( and other organisations, ) are queuing up to pay clubs handsomely for sponsoring their products on their shirts. Most of us would like to think that we are not influenced in any way by sponsorship but the companies themselves are anxious t...
- Tue Jun 27, 2023 12:32 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.
- Replies: 15428
- Views: 1642194
Re: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.
Cooclaret
Christ on a bike be quiet!
As you seem unable to express yourself without blasphemy perhaps you should act on your own advice and keep quiet.
Christ on a bike be quiet!
As you seem unable to express yourself without blasphemy perhaps you should act on your own advice and keep quiet.
- Sun Jun 25, 2023 10:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.
- Replies: 15428
- Views: 1642194
Re: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.
"I know it's a forum and therefore a free for all but I wish people who don't have a clue what they are talking about would think before posting. Christ you read some rubbish on here."
You would do well to take your own advice and think before posting. No need for blasphemous comments.
You would do well to take your own advice and think before posting. No need for blasphemous comments.
- Sun Jun 18, 2023 7:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Our greatest ever goalscorer
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2092
Re: ARTICLE: Our greatest ever goalscorer
I was one of those who eagerly waited for the weekly 'Pink' so I could read of his exploits for the A and B teams. My memory may be a bit clouded with age but every time I checked the A and B results he seemed to have scored a bagful. All of us claret boyhood fans of those times were desperate for h...
- Thu May 18, 2023 10:30 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: £360 billion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3224
Re: £360 billion
We very recently had a Super League that only lasted a couple of weeks as football fans , even those of the 'top six', had no stomach for it and let it be known they would not support it so the whole thing crashed apart from a couple of non UK clubs that we barely hear of now and so have no relevanc...
- Fri May 12, 2023 10:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Who presented the Championship trophy and medals
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1105
Who presented the Championship trophy and medals
Apologies for an appalling lack of knowledge on my part but having watched all the promotion film coverage I did not see any actual presentation of the Cup nor did I recognise who presented the medals. I was unable to be present at the actual event but have been a claret for 65 years and have relish...
- Thu May 11, 2023 8:51 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Where are Clarets fans from outside of Burnley?
- Replies: 278
- Views: 17077
Re: Where are Clarets fans from outside of Burnley?
Born in Colne (Langroyd Hall,) brought up in Barnoldswick and now live in Hornsea East Yorks, (several addresses in-between including Bermuda,) but always a claret since 1959 ( as my user name tells.) Never wavered from being a Claret , my only club. (I do sometimes wish more credit was given to ;di...
- Wed May 03, 2023 10:14 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: How many old 'uns/over 60's post on here?
- Replies: 167
- Views: 7404
Re: How many old 'uns/over 60's post on here?
I had to mentally work out how old I was ! Seventy six years was the answer and a claret for about 63 years of that total ( no team before that.) I come on this board for a 'read'most days and to keep up to date as best I can with everything Burnley. I am pleased to see that we are now getting publi...
- Sun Apr 23, 2023 7:08 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Alan Pace won't be in attendance at Ewood Park on Tuesday
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5330
Re: Alan Pace won't be in attendance at Ewood Park on Tuesday
shame the thread had degenerated into a slanging match.
And a repetitive blasphemous one at that.
And a repetitive blasphemous one at that.
- Thu Apr 13, 2023 8:09 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The Sun again - Kompany & Spurs
- Replies: 331
- Views: 24651
Re: The Sun again - Kompany & Spurs
I find reading threads like this one depressing. We have jut won promotion to the PL with the main reason for it being our manager. Let us just look forward to next season without this endless speculation on VK's future.
- Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:15 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Could Wout be the next Ashley?
- Replies: 107
- Views: 5944
Re: Could Wout be the next Ashley?
Strange that Man Utd signed WW on loan when , according to most of the posts on here, he is/was such a waste of space as a footballer and a human being.
- Sun Apr 02, 2023 11:34 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Rodgers
- Replies: 71
- Views: 4934
Re: Rodgers
Why have Leicester no money? They got a brand new ground for free and allegedly left many creditors owed payments for services received but not paid for.
- Wed Mar 29, 2023 10:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Government ‘encouraged’ League to accept Newcastle takeover
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2721
Re: Government ‘encouraged’ League to accept Newcastle takeover
Remember the 'ethical foreign policy' promise that helped Labour back into power after years in Opposition? That was one of the first promises of theirs to be broken when it became expedient to do so from a financial perspective. Political morality was abandoned but it saved jobs in the armaments in...
- Wed Mar 29, 2023 10:09 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Neil Warnock's Huddersfield Town
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2069
Re: Neil Warnock's Huddersfield Town
Christ on a bike! I am a Burnley fan and have been for nigh on 65 years. I find the above blasphemy offensive and hurtful. I don't come on here to be offended but to learn from other fans who, for the most part, are far more knowledgeable than me about the beautiful game. Thankfully the racist and h...
- Mon Mar 27, 2023 10:25 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Russia Invades
- Replies: 10735
- Views: 820279
Re: Russia Invades
It is a truth that the first casualty of war is the truth ! You read and get conflicting accounts of the war depending on who is publishing it and who is reading it. The Russians would appear to be enduring unsustainable losses and yet they are still the aggressors, supposedly still going forward. R...
- Sat Mar 04, 2023 12:25 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Bring on City
- Replies: 97
- Views: 6610
Re: Bring on City
Lets not forget that we beat them , at their place, in a Cup game when we won the Charity Shield. I can quite see history repeating itself.Colin Waldron scored the only goal .
- Sat Feb 25, 2023 11:41 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Two things that would be nice...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1490
Re: Two things that would be nice...
Vincent Kompany to be voted Manager of the Season for the Championship. I have never reconciled how SD was not given that title when the clarets won the championship under his management. Instead it was awarded to a manager who did not even win the playoffs!