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- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Kompany quote
- Replies: 161
- Views: 7544
Re: Kompany quote
Using that logic - which of the two did Pep actually use in a game and on the bench in numerous occasions? Last time I looked Pep was City's first team coach. Muric is older than Trafford. Wikipedia reports that Muric was called back from a loan to be 3rd goal keeper when one of the other keepers w...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Kompany quote
- Replies: 161
- Views: 7544
Re: Kompany quote
It's interesting actually... I have mentioned on here and in my circles that VK & the board were exhibiting signs of Peak Dunning-Kruger.. maybe now they've moved on. Hi CC, I was going to ask you yesterday when you first used the phrase, what is "peak dunning-kruger?" You do know that you are poin...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mud analytics
- Replies: 273
- Views: 8414
Re: Mud analytics
The issue is the conflict of interest that exists from our manager owning the company which providing player analytics which form the primary basis of our transfer decisions. I’ve already given several examples of how this conflict of interest could manifest itself in a negative way on the success ...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Kompany quote
- Replies: 161
- Views: 7544
Re: Kompany quote
How long will it take to learn that Muric is better than Trafford … Given Vincent Kompany used to be City's captain and had a long successful relationship with City. Given that Lee Mooney was City's Head of Data Insights and Decisions Technology since 2015, don't you think that between the two of t...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:48 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mud analytics
- Replies: 273
- Views: 8414
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mud analytics
- Replies: 273
- Views: 8414
Re: Mud analytics
Yeah I realised my typo mistake right away. 😂. Any idea as to why we ditched the ISF and jumped in MUD? Seems strange to change a strategy that clearly worked for us the previous summer. Searched "ISF" - it stands for Intelligent Sports Framework and is part of Stats Perform - which also owns Opta....
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mud analytics
- Replies: 273
- Views: 8414
Re: Mud analytics
I like reading your posts Paul and understand why you mention it, but I'm just not sure his father being a Mormon missionary in Lancs is a related positive. Some may view it as a negative in terms of understanding how a football community clicks Mormon missionary knocking on doors in Preston, Black...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:03 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mud analytics
- Replies: 273
- Views: 8414
Re: Mud analytics
How many football clubs has he ran before this? I’m in need of an lsd missionary after this season He was involved at Salt Lake City, but obviously not "running" that club. If you can get the money together, whether all your own money, or you can lead a broader group of investors, then you only nee...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:48 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mud analytics
- Replies: 273
- Views: 8414
Re: Mud analytics
Alan Pace spent part of his adult life working in London. His father was a LDS missionary in Lancashire. Alan Pace isn't that "new to the game."blatherwickstattoos wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:43 pmA few chairman new to game didn’t know about relegation from the premier league. So anything is possible.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mud analytics
- Replies: 273
- Views: 8414
Re: Mud analytics
Well, if its my sense of perspective that's wrong, I'm delighted. I can't be bothered to read through them all but if it's there I'd select "disappointing". That's it. Hi eddie, "disappointing" is in there. Like you, I haven't read or counted all the words listed. "disappointed" appears earlier rat...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:39 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mud analytics
- Replies: 273
- Views: 8414
Re: Mud analytics
Obviously Pace knows, that isn’t the point. And I don’t think anybody has a problem with Kompany being a director of as many companies as he wants - that’s not the issue. What is the issue, Rileybobs? There's one thing we can all be certain of, Alan Pace and all the other ALK directors and the othe...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mud analytics
- Replies: 273
- Views: 8414
Re: Mud analytics
MUD Analytics accounts are available on Companies House. The only thing is MUD files micro accounts, just a very limited balance sheet. Micro accounts aren't subject to audit. If people are interested, Vincent Kompany is the director of a number of limited companies that file accounts at Companies H...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mud analytics
- Replies: 273
- Views: 8414
Re: Mud analytics
Wasn't managers receiving a cut of transfer sales profits "old school" football?
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 5:18 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 2023/24: Chelsea v Burnley – Ticket Information
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2389
Re: 2023/24: Chelsea v Burnley – Ticket Information
Once again it looks like the Upper Tier plan is the wrong way round. The block currently on sale is right in the corner, directly above our seats in the Lower Tier. Aghh! Picked my seats - or is it all safe standing? - in what I thought was more towards the goal than the corner flag. Oh well, I've ...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:30 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: £10 million per point
- Replies: 4
- Views: 899
Re: £10 million per point
In recent years it's been a badge of honour for many on here how well Burnley has done in the money spent/points table. There haven't been many comments this season so thought it would be appropriate to remind people how we have done this season relative to spending. Just at the moment, if tv money...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:25 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Alan Pace
- Replies: 66
- Views: 4333
Re: Alan Pace
I have no doubt he is invested but no more or less so than other Chairman. The extent to which he has invested financially is open to conjecture because I don't think anyone knows. Looking at his CV the sums involved seem very large for someone who was a divisional Director of an investment bank pr...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:28 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 2023/24: Chelsea v Burnley – Ticket Information
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2389
Re: 2023/24: Chelsea v Burnley – Ticket Information
Anyone know what's going on with the Chelsea tickets? It looks like we've only put a block of 150 tickets on sale, lower shed, all in the corner. 3 other larger blocks are also shown on seat selection, but not showing as available. The other blocks will all provide better views of the goal at the aw...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:36 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Jumping ship at the end of the season
- Replies: 56
- Views: 5254
Re: Jumping ship at the end of the season
Much has been said about our squad and how some players will want away.However imo we have players who will rise up to make a good side in the Championship Scott Twine, Luke McNally .Anass Zaroury,Micheal Mellon Benny,Ekdal Al Dakiel.Berge.Cullen Taylor.Odebert.O'Shea,Esteve,Muric, Beyer Costelloe ...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Fabrice Muamba
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2151
Re: Fabrice Muamba
Best wishes, Fabrice Muamba. It's 8 years since I had a heart attack while playing 5-a-side. For a time afterwards my (ex-)football mates would refer to me as "Fabrice Muamba" so I knew his experience was before mine. Surprised it's now 12 years (less a few days) since Fabrice Muamba collapsed on th...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate
- Replies: 424
- Views: 15550
Re: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate
Has polling closed? Anyone counted the votes?
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
- Replies: 215
- Views: 8653
Re: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
No it doesn't, you are right to bring that up, it does mention that the Garlick and Banaszkiewicz holdings were disposed of on the 29th of June What document are you looking at to get those Velocity Sports shares and which Velocity Sports - Limited (Jersey) or Partners LLC? The Confirmation Stateme...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Football Black list.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1023
Re: Football Black list.
Congratulations Vincent Kompany, Congratulations Lyle Foster. Both bring tremendous credit to Burnley Football Club.Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:18 pmPositive news for the club with VK and Lyle Foster both listed as influencers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68435064
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- Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
- Replies: 215
- Views: 8653
Re: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
Vlad Torgovnik's entry is indeed an interesting one Club announced in early August 2023 yet Companies House were not informed until September 2023 and the October 2023 filed Confirmation Statement states shares were purchased on June 29 2023 What I am certain of is that is not the whole story Hi CP...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
- Replies: 215
- Views: 8653
Re: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
5. I'm sort of over the Arsenal and Palace results and looking forward to it clicking on Sunday, surviving relegation by means of an amazing run and points deductions for Everton and Forest all capped off by winning the Lottery on Saturday! Up the Clarets! True Burnley fan. Defeats always behind us...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
- Replies: 215
- Views: 8653
Re: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
The private bridging loan is the one CP describes above. I don't think it is easier to think that the club could attract £80 million worth of external investment offering no equity and generating no publicity. That is my problem...! 1) I don't think we've seen any information that suggests the £40 ...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:48 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
- Replies: 215
- Views: 8653
Re: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
And that to some extent answers all your points above. If ALK can get short term loans of tens of millions then how can you know that they haven't used these kind of loans along with clever financial management to defer inter company loans to the summer of 2023. No to avoid it being published in th...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:14 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Cup finals clash
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1527
Re: Cup finals clash
Based on quarter-finals draw, only 3 championship clubs are possibles to make the FA cup final: Leeds or Leicester, Southampton and Coventry. But all that could change later this evening, never mind in the quarters and semis.
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:03 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Are we being out run?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2316
Re: Are we being out run?
Ok sorry if i misled people but i remember Ten Haag saying utd has run less and they had to turn up on sunday to make up the difference. Im 59 dont understand football data, i just assumed you could look at each match and seen total distances run. If you cant you cant. I remember that a few seasons...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
- Replies: 215
- Views: 8653
Re: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
Was beginning to suspect that, thanks. There's a gap though. ALK £10m, bfc £115m, total £125m. But bfc cost ALK apparently £170m for 84% and now around £190m at 94%. Where does the £45/65m come from, balance from £125m. Or was that £170m just a newspaper headline figure, and wrong. A bit of a puzzl...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
- Replies: 215
- Views: 8653
Re: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
Thanks for this, have had a good look now. So go back to £170m for 84% valuing bfc at £202m. Think you said somewhere, can't find, that ALK now at 94% bought up more shares, that's £190m or thereabouts. Is that financed ALK £10m, Bank £65m, bfc £115m, total £190m. The 'bank' figure has seen various...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:35 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
- Replies: 215
- Views: 8653
Re: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
We know that ALK have taken £115m in money out of the club. We know that £65m of this was borrowed by the club at high interest, and the balance was not borrowed. The balance could have come from nowhere else other than money owned by the club. Hi dsr, yes, the club's owners/shareholders owed the c...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
- Replies: 215
- Views: 8653
Re: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
I think you've misunderstood here- that's not my argument nor my point, I responded to someone saying that we had 0 money at the end of Garlicks tenure. I've quite rightly pointed out that the accounts show we did have some money, some of which was committed to wages, but certainly not 100 percent ...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:19 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
- Replies: 215
- Views: 8653
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:15 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Magic Numbers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 463
Re: Magic Numbers
That's what's wrong this season. No one has been tracking magic numbers. Let's get these up quickly.
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- Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:54 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Everton points deduction reduced
- Replies: 122
- Views: 7305
Re: Everton points deduction reduced
you're not comparing apples with apples though. Knowingly cheating is different to poor management resulting in administration and as such should have a different, and IMO more harsh, punishment - which is what it originally was at 10 points (which was not enough). If we equate points deduction to ...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Everton points deduction reduced
- Replies: 122
- Views: 7305
Re: Everton points deduction reduced
Which is the point I made when I posted 'Obviously, the penalty (six points) may or may not not apply but my point remains.' Even so, whats to suggest we werent already at a disadvantage due to their financial rule breaking which had already taken place? I think it's safe to assume Everton wont get...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Everton points deduction reduced
- Replies: 122
- Views: 7305
Re: Everton points deduction reduced
9 points for administration.Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:32 pmNot sure I get that, they have still been deducted 6 points?
Don’t you only get a 7 point deduction for going bankrupt?
In the scheme of things it sounds about right unless I’m missing something
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
- Replies: 215
- Views: 8653
Re: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
Yeah except the accounts show we did have money so what the heck are you on about? The accounts do show approx £80m in the bank, but that includes are large chunk of the Premier League tv money which was already committed to pay wages. Something less than £40m was borrowed by ALK to help them pay f...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Everton points deduction reduced
- Replies: 122
- Views: 7305
Re: Everton points deduction reduced
Couldnt edit so: This relates to the three seasons previous. i.e 2022/23, 2021/22 and 2020/21. McNeil signed for them in July 2022. Obviously, the penalty (six points) may or may not not apply but my point remains. Hi Darthlaw, take a look at the appeal summary, the 3rd year of Everton's first brea...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Pertinent questions: How much does it cost to sack VK?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2733
Re: Pertinent questions: How much does it cost to sack VK?
Pace must be working this out How long is VK contract for ? And how much is he on per year? And what about that recruitment firm he has part ownership of and how much bearing does that have on things? I recommend you get the bucket collection going on Sunday. If the fans can raze £10 million or mor...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Everton points deduction reduced
- Replies: 122
- Views: 7305
Re: Everton points deduction reduced
So, in brief: Season 1: Spend more than the rules allow to stay up at the expense of Club X, who are playing by the rules. Season 2: again spend more than the rules allow, this time to purchase players from the club X (such as Dwight McNeil), at reduced rate as their players wish to stay in the top...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
- Replies: 215
- Views: 8653
Re: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
We'd been punching above our weight for years,and in SDs last season it was all coming apart. We had an aging squad, and not enough money to buy the necessary replacements. As I said at the time, relegation was a blessing in disguise. We lost some great players we would love to have kept, but we al...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:41 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
- Replies: 215
- Views: 8653
Re: ALK’s Strategy: Are We Witnessing A Failing Experiment?
You are correct ALK will make money, lots of money, but at what cost to those of us who remain? The league is littered with clubs that have been pushed close to extinction due to the major shareholders looking after their own interests at a cost to the club. It will be us the fans that are left to ...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:30 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover
- Replies: 12774
- Views: 1259124
Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover
Are they finally learning some of their obligations ALK Capital Ltd manage to submit their Confirmation statement on time - for the first time (and as expected there is no change https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12880549/filing-history It is worth noting that Confi...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover
- Replies: 12774
- Views: 1259124
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Jim Ratcliffe and his begging bowl
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1751
Re: Jim Ratcliffe and his begging bowl
Jim Ratcliffe is not the owner of Manchester United. He can talk whatever ******** he wants. The Glazers run that club and long may they continue to do so.😀 The deal, as reported in the media, is that Jim Ratcliffe, despite only buying (just under) 28% of the shares, is running the football operati...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mr Bates vs the Post Office
- Replies: 311
- Views: 29579
Re: Mr Bates vs the Post Office
I'd expect compensation payments aren't waiting until this law is passed.DAVETHEVICAR wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:30 pmStill dragging on as it will be July before it becomes law and more of the Post Masters may have died by then
Government dragging it on longer than necessary
Should start making payments now imo
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Aaron Ramsey injury
- Replies: 120
- Views: 6112
Re: Aaron Ramsey injury
Hi Paul. I am sure that there some specific details that could fall under this but if this was the case for all injuries how would that explain the significant inconsistencies between clubs and inconsistencies in our own club ? Klopp was giving daily updates on Mo Salah’s hamstring injury a couple ...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:18 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Aaron Ramsey injury
- Replies: 120
- Views: 6112
Re: Aaron Ramsey injury
Not sure. Could be player (or “asset”) protection ? Could be VK or his team not wanting this to be part of press conferences. Whatever it is I think it’s a choice in approach and a choice that they are completely entitled to make. All I am saying is I prefer the approach of providing updates on our...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Aaron Ramsey injury
- Replies: 120
- Views: 6112
Re: Aaron Ramsey injury
I think you are getting confused between GDPR (which is a legal minefield) & patient confidentiality. If he was to go into some great detail about a player’s medical situation then he could breach the latter. But telling the media what kind of injury he has suffered is not a problem. I've just done...