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by DCWat
Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:32 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer window rumours.
Replies: 2353
Views: 285524

Re: January transfer window rumours.

Westleigh wrote:
Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:27 pm
Couldn’t have put it better ,we don’t want any bad characters in the club ,which he probably isn’t ,but we don’t one someone clowning around all the time unless he’s as good as Gaza was ,
Did you see his strip?
by DCWat
Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:31 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ALK CAPITAL ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP WITH DUNDEE FC
Replies: 228
Views: 13316

Re: ALK CAPITAL ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP WITH DUNDEE FC

Does that mean we get a new Kevin McDonald?
by DCWat
Mon Jan 22, 2024 5:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - SHEFF UTD v BURNLEY
Replies: 2457
Views: 149225

Re: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - MANCHESTER CITY v BURNLEY

Man City 6 Burnley 0 De Bruyne 11

NL2
by DCWat
Mon Jan 22, 2024 4:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Actual Transfer News - NO BICKERING or pointless debates...
Replies: 386
Views: 51302

Re: Actual Transfer News - NO BICKERING or pointless debates...

Sorry if mentioned elsewhere. We don't know whether this true. If we were to loan him out then I would struggle to understand it. https://southwarknews.co.uk/sport/football/millwall/millwall-michael-obafemi-transfer/ It’s one that makes perfect sense to me. He needs game time, it puts him in the sh...
by DCWat
Sun Jan 21, 2024 2:37 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Eight Years Ago Today
Replies: 22
Views: 2265

Re: Eight Years Ago Today

8 years ago - bloody hell!!!!
by DCWat
Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer window rumours.
Replies: 2353
Views: 285524

Re: January transfer window rumours.

Regarding the gap, I still think that a half decent team coming up from the Championship has a pretty decent chance of survival. Had we spent in the right areas, I’m confident that we’d have comfortably stayed up. The thing with the Premier League (and it may not always be the case) is that there ar...
by DCWat
Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:10 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sky Glass
Replies: 114
Views: 13955

Re: Sky Glass

Does the tv work from an aerial or from broadband? We have no TV signal so I'm reliant on a Sky dish. I probably wouldn't like to think I was relying on my broadband signal, though I do use it for general streaming of Netflix etc. (Sorry, I was meant to quote Boss Hogg there). That would be via int...
by DCWat
Fri Jan 19, 2024 3:08 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sky Glass
Replies: 114
Views: 13955

Re: Sky Glass

I've it. Had it a year. Generally pretty good for what tv we watch. Very very occasionally it freezers if Internet missed a beat but not often at all. I'm no tv or sound geek. I built mine into media wall and sounds great. Prob could do with turning base down a tad but never do. Picture is good. Un...
by DCWat
Fri Jan 19, 2024 10:00 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sky Glass
Replies: 114
Views: 13955

Re: Sky Glass

2 and a bit years on from this orginal post has anyone any up to date reviews on it has it improved got worse or even become absolete I always said I'd try this after it had been around for a while and teething problems had been ironed out. I don’t have it (and don’t want it). I don’t see the point...
by DCWat
Thu Jan 18, 2024 5:17 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer window rumours.
Replies: 2353
Views: 285524

Re: January transfer window rumours.

One way around it would be to be good at set pieces. It really is criminal that we're so bad at them as a team fighting for our lives. They are the moments where the wages discrepancies and quality of player is nullified, yet we've made a mess of them all season. We got so many cheap goals that way...
by DCWat
Thu Jan 18, 2024 12:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer window rumours.
Replies: 2353
Views: 285524

Re: January transfer window rumours.

Anthonini wrote:
Thu Jan 18, 2024 12:18 pm
The mere fact you can remember the one and only time he didn't kick it in the stands says it all.
Come on, being critical of players is fine, wholly exaggerating the weaknesses that you perceive them to have, is not.
by DCWat
Thu Jan 18, 2024 12:26 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer window rumours.
Replies: 2353
Views: 285524

Re: January transfer window rumours.

Because a modern fullback should do more than just defend. Make some overlaps. Play a good cross in. Don't see him in our squad. And by the looks of it not happening soon. Missed opportunity. I’m not against another left back, we need two decent options. If it was possible, and Taylor is OK playing...
by DCWat
Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:32 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Redmond
Replies: 44
Views: 4325

Re: Redmond

Does a revised squad list get resubmitted after the last day of the winter transfer window? If so, does that give the option to remove players ruled out for the remainder of the season, from the 25 man squad?
by DCWat
Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Online banking using a smartphone…
Replies: 90
Views: 4581

Re: Online banking using a smartphone…

Yes banks just fall over & are happy to refund customers when they are being scammed & don't have any mechanisms in place to protect the customer & themselves from fraud. Are you talking about a section 75? This, as far as I understand it, isn’t actually a refund, but a ‘clawback’ from the seller, ...
by DCWat
Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Roma sack Mourinho
Replies: 43
Views: 2431

Re: Roma sack Mourinho

BurnleyFC wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 2:28 pm
He’s nowhere near as obnoxious as Klopp or Arteta.
I liked Klopp when he first came to England. He’s got progressively worse, season upon season. To the point now that he’s right at the top of the dick head pile (agree on Arteta too).
by DCWat
Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:54 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dinner Party's Help Needed
Replies: 36
Views: 1784

Re: Dinner Party's Help Needed

Lob your keys into the centre of the dinner table and wink at any of the ladies that catches your eye.
by DCWat
Sun Jan 14, 2024 11:00 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Black Garlic
Replies: 11
Views: 1676

Re: Black Garlic

Ocado sells black garlic - cloves and paste.
by DCWat
Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Recruiting character
Replies: 87
Views: 3927

Re: Recruiting character

Elizabeth wrote:
Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:03 pm
Give it a rest
:roll:
by DCWat
Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Recruiting character
Replies: 87
Views: 3927

Re: Recruiting character

I don't need to say what the problem is in the context of the post I was replying to. You seem to be taking this personally on behalf of the poster Not at all - I just don’t see the point of the reply without any further detail to explain your thinking. You’re entitled to your view (whatever that m...
by DCWat
Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:52 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Recruiting character
Replies: 87
Views: 3927

Re: Recruiting character

Elizabeth wrote:
Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:46 pm
It's very clear what I'm saying
No, not it’s not.

You simply said “that is not the problem”.

You offered no explanation as to what the problem is, or what your solution might be.
by DCWat
Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:43 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Recruiting character
Replies: 87
Views: 3927

Re: Recruiting character

Elizabeth wrote:
Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:28 pm
Nor should they be. That is not the problem
At least add some reasoning behind your dismissive reply.
by DCWat
Sat Jan 13, 2024 4:56 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ARTICLE: Fofana is first January signing
Replies: 94
Views: 5945

Re: ARTICLE: Fofana is first January signing

Obafemi must be thinking why the F did he sign.me, eat the F do I have to do to get a game. Being fit to play might be a start. He’s injured, isn’t he? That was one that looked a strange signing, when it eventually happened. We knew we were going up when he was brought in and I’m not sure that ther...
by DCWat
Sat Jan 13, 2024 1:59 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ARTICLE: Fofana is first January signing
Replies: 94
Views: 5945

Re: ARTICLE: Fofana is first January signing

This feels very much like the majority of our summer business. Unless two or three more come in, in the positions that we so blatantly need reinforcements, I’m concerned that this will prove to be yet another strange transfer. Hopefully I’m wrong, but based on the summer business, I find it a little...
by DCWat
Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:17 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ross Barkley
Replies: 60
Views: 3133

Re: Ross Barkley

How anyone could classify Barkley’s performance last night as average is beyond me. His quality shone through - I’d love to have him in our midfield.
by DCWat
Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:30 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Recruiting character
Replies: 87
Views: 3927

Re: Recruiting character

There was a strong hint of sarcasm in my post which understandably got lost Yes, blatantly. Whilst with us though, Maatsen was 100% committed and the sort of player that we as fans can get behind. That was the reason for his inclusion, not because he wanted to see if he could make his way in Chelse...
by DCWat
Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:28 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Recruiting character
Replies: 87
Views: 3927

Re: Recruiting character

It’s ridiculous to suggest VK and the recruitment team don’t do any research on the player’s character and background. It’s a lot easier to check a player’s background if they have played at Stoke or Brighton until they are 30. Which in part was probably why a lot of our recruitment was players fro...
by DCWat
Sat Jan 13, 2024 1:15 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Alan Pace - Self made man
Replies: 82
Views: 5921

Re: Alan Pace - Self made man

knclaret wrote:
Sat Jan 13, 2024 1:13 am
Pace didn’t look happy in the North Stand concourse before the match
His business model is not working
No milk again?
by DCWat
Sat Jan 13, 2024 1:00 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 18 points dropped from winning positions
Replies: 6
Views: 578

Re: 18 points dropped from winning positions

And is it 0 points from losing positions?

Not once have we fought back!

We have zero bottle.
by DCWat
Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:50 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Recruiting character
Replies: 87
Views: 3927

Re: Recruiting character

Hmm. I agree some of the new signing haven’t worked out but not sure about this argument. In terms of the character, you’d probably put Brownhill as the kind you’re alluding to, yet he was one of the worst players on the pitch tonight. I think things are just amplified because we’ve not being good ...
by DCWat
Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:34 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Recruiting character
Replies: 87
Views: 3927

Recruiting character

Looking at most of our signings from the summer, I can’t help but wonder how much focus we actually placed on the character of those players. Under Dyche, it was well known that we profiled players backgrounds, their characters, personalities, and assessed how well they’d work with the group already...
by DCWat
Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:20 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Amdouni
Replies: 93
Views: 3695

Re: Amdouni

He scored tonight. It’s not his fault Gudmundsson couldn’t hit a barn door for Zeki to get an assist. Not his fault Foster couldn’t find a simple pass for Zeki to score. Not blaming him for JBG’s poor miss or Foster not finding him, nor forgetting that he scored. As I say, he’s a really talented la...
by DCWat
Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Amdouni
Replies: 93
Views: 3695

Re: Amdouni

A truly frustrating player - bags of talent but all too often he over plays, picks the wrong option, over hits a pass, under hits a pass or whatever he tries doesn’t come off. There are only so many “oh nearly” moments that a player can have before you start to wonder if there’s something more than ...
by DCWat
Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:43 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: We’re as good as down, Kompany is clueless, we have gone backwards
Replies: 154
Views: 7471

Re: We’re as good as down, Kompany is clueless, we have gone backwards

Just to add - I still think (relegation or not) getting rid of Kompany would be the wrong option.
by DCWat
Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:42 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: We’re as good as down, Kompany is clueless, we have gone backwards
Replies: 154
Views: 7471

Re: We’re as good as down, Kompany is clueless, we have gone backwards

We are not Premier League standard but Luton were not a bad side last year they got a draw in the corresponding fixture last year and we were under the cosh and Barnes got us a win at Luton ..we were lucky to win at Luton earlier in the season ..so why we are being arrogant and disrespectful to the...
by DCWat
Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:33 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ross Barkley
Replies: 60
Views: 3133

Re: Ross Barkley

I thought we were passive in general, just allowed them to have the ball. I didn’t expect much from Cullen and Brownhill and I wasn’t disappointed on that front. Every relegation we have from the Premier League has been as a result of a poor midfield, this will be no exception (with the addition of...
by DCWat
Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:14 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ross Barkley
Replies: 60
Views: 3133

Re: Ross Barkley

Best player on the pitch for me - Brownhill and Cullen couldn’t get near him. Won the ball, used it well, spread the play and offered a threat.
by DCWat
Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: It's CTs birthday
Replies: 54
Views: 2274

Re: It's CTs birthday

Happy Birthday, Tony and also to GT and Morpheus.
by DCWat
Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer window rumours.
Replies: 2353
Views: 285524

Re: January transfer window rumours.

Honestly cannot understand the Beyer blamers, for me he's only been off his game due to a weak partner beside him this season. We've conceded far more goals down our right hand side than our left this season afaik. He's still our best defender. I’m not in the camp of people who say that he’s been p...
by DCWat
Wed Jan 10, 2024 9:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - SHEFF UTD v BURNLEY
Replies: 2457
Views: 149225

Re: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v LUTON

Burnley v Luton 2-1 Foster 19

NL2
by DCWat
Wed Jan 10, 2024 8:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer window rumours.
Replies: 2353
Views: 285524

Re: January transfer window rumours.

Zeki Amoundi needs playing every game We need his guile and goalscoring .Why some want him dropped is a mystery. There are the making of a good player - at the moment though, barring the odd glimpse, he’s not really contributing enough. Out of possession he doesn’t work as hard as perhaps he might ...
by DCWat
Wed Jan 10, 2024 1:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: New Burnley manager candidates as suggested by The Athletic...
Replies: 43
Views: 4260

Re: New Burnley manager candidates as suggested by The Athletic...

I don’t mind if we are successful at turning over players. It’s hardly a huge leap from us always being a selling club. What I would say is that for such a practice to be successful (aside from the obvious) having a small core group of players with longevity at the club is important. They will chang...
by DCWat
Tue Jan 09, 2024 5:38 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Patrick Bamford ?
Replies: 40
Views: 4868

Re: Patrick Bamford ?

It could potentially I guess that could mean for certain that something will definitely happen & in way does potentially mean that it could develop in the future & something isn't certain. It's great when you can just skip what the words actually mean & decide for yourself the meaning. At least tha...
by DCWat
Mon Jan 08, 2024 2:52 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Advice required: New TV & sound
Replies: 150
Views: 15197

Re: Advice required: New TV & sound

I did have LG OLED on my shortlist and that’s what I’m opting for. Then it was deciding on size. I quickly realised that I would need some structural work to the house to fit in a 77” or bigger. After a long debate with myself I’m going for 55”. I assume it still applies (a few years since I bought...
by DCWat
Sun Jan 07, 2024 6:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Arsenal v Liverpool
Replies: 55
Views: 4770

Re: Arsenal v Liverpool

Kai Havertz has everything in his locker. It’s a shame he can’t find the keys!
by DCWat
Sun Jan 07, 2024 2:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Manchester City v Huddersfield Town
Replies: 33
Views: 3493

Re: Manchester City v Huddersfield Town

Burnley1989 wrote:
Sun Jan 07, 2024 2:41 pm
Huddersfield player and City player collide, both hitting each other in the face, one jumps up straight away and one’s playing dead.
Guess which ones on the floor? 😂
The one who got a knee in the face and a bloody nose?
by DCWat
Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:00 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Spurs v Burnley match thread
Replies: 841
Views: 63730

Re: Spurs v Burnley match thread

FCBurnley wrote:
Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:58 pm
2 open goal chances for Amdouni and he fails to even hit the target. What an assist that would have been from Muric !!!!
Stretching it a bit to call either an open goal chance!
by DCWat
Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:57 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Spurs v Burnley match thread
Replies: 841
Views: 63730

Re: Spurs v Burnley match thread

A cup run is the last thing we needed - half decent display in parts and a world away from the horror show against them at home.

Focus on the league and take the positives. Some great individual displays as well, particularly O’Shea.
by DCWat
Fri Jan 05, 2024 8:45 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Spurs v Burnley match thread
Replies: 841
Views: 63730

Re: Spurs v Burnley match thread

Newcastleclaret93 wrote:
Fri Jan 05, 2024 8:43 pm
Amdouni is so poor

He’s another Weghorst, totally ineffective in this league
There’s a good player in there - he’s often guilty of over playing or picking the wrong option, but I wouldn’t be so quick to write him off.
by DCWat
Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:53 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Spurs v Burnley match thread
Replies: 841
Views: 63730

Re: Spurs v Burnley match thread

Credit to Carney - she spoke sensibly on the matter.
by DCWat
Fri Jan 05, 2024 6:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: PL Prediction League - All Fixtures and Updates - WEEK 31 PREDICTIONS
Replies: 1585
Views: 121194

Re: PL Prediction League - All Fixtures and Updates - ALL FESTIVE FIXTURE PREDICTIONS

Week 21 Fixtures ..... commencing 13th January Chelsea v Fulham 3-1 Newcastle v Man-City 1-3 Everton v Aston Villa 1-2 Man-Utd v Tottenham 2-2 Burnley v Luton 2-1 Foster 19 Arsenal v Crystal Palace 3-0 NAP Brentford v Nottingham Forest 1-1 Sheffield United v West Ham 2-2 Bournemouth v Liverpool 1-2 ...