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by Cirrus_Minor
Fri Feb 16, 2024 2:36 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Navalny has died
Replies: 51
Views: 3307

Re: Navalny has died

Very brave man. Makes you wonder what ordinary Russian people think when they hear this, apart from what Putin tells them to think.
by Cirrus_Minor
Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:32 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Player Injury Information
Replies: 66
Views: 3868

Re: Player Injury Information

The poor feedback on injuries, illogical team selections, puzzling substitutions and transfer strategies has all left me cold this season. I've got to the point where this regular confusion seems to take some of the passion I used to feel from a fans association with the club has been downgraded. Ma...
by Cirrus_Minor
Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:54 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Jordan Beyer
Replies: 36
Views: 3567

Re: Jordan Beyer

No
by Cirrus_Minor
Sat Feb 10, 2024 11:34 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dara O'Shea
Replies: 80
Views: 5156

Re: Dara O'Shea

I think he has improved and, in my opinion, is better than Beyer. Be interesting to see, out of the three of O'Shea, Esteve and Beyer, which two Kompany selects. Unless he goes with a 3 of course.
by Cirrus_Minor
Mon Feb 05, 2024 8:31 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: International breaks x 4
Replies: 14
Views: 1571

Re: International breaks x 4

For the first season I can remember I am starting to enjoy the break from the stress and misery.
by Cirrus_Minor
Mon Feb 05, 2024 3:53 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Maxime Esteve
Replies: 51
Views: 5322

Re: Maxime Esteve

I thought that he looked very good, as did all the debutantes. In fact the three signings looked more like the regulars than the regulars did, which probably tells us something (not sure what).
by Cirrus_Minor
Mon Feb 05, 2024 3:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Private Pike RIP
Replies: 29
Views: 2057

Re: Private Pike RIP

Only the sea cadets left now.
by Cirrus_Minor
Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:04 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Parkinson's disease
Replies: 37
Views: 1812

Re: Parkinson's disease

Signed and good luck with this
by Cirrus_Minor
Sun Feb 04, 2024 12:22 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Searched going in
Replies: 40
Views: 2314

Re: Searched going in

I was gently searched on the way into the JHU. I assume it is pyrotechnics they are looking for.
by Cirrus_Minor
Sun Feb 04, 2024 12:09 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: TRAFFORD
Replies: 808
Views: 30344

Re: TRAFFORD

Some of Traffords positioning and passing was not exactly brilliant today and he is showing his inexperience for this level. But he pulled out a lot of good saves, not run of the mill, and this stopped Fulham pasting us today. We need to look at our appalling defending that enabled Fulham to get so ...
by Cirrus_Minor
Sun Feb 04, 2024 12:01 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: RATE THE REF - Darren Bond v Fulham
Replies: 14
Views: 1089

Re: RATE THE REF - Darren Bond v Fulham

A 12
B 10
C 4
D 10

First time I have ever seen a ref struggling to keep pace with a game. Hence the low mark for fitness and positioning
by Cirrus_Minor
Sat Feb 03, 2024 8:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley v Fulham - Player Ratings
Replies: 115
Views: 6967

Re: Burnley v Fulham - Player Ratings

Trafford 6 - Lack of experience shows, but saved us from a pasting with good saves. Assignor 6 - Looked decent in a poor defence O'Shea 4 - Poor Ekdal 4 - Poor Vitinho 5 Ramsey 3 - its all been said above Berge 5 - Far too deep, was he centre half? Brownhill 5 - Poor distribution but gets stuck in O...
by Cirrus_Minor
Sat Feb 03, 2024 6:52 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: David Datro Fofana
Replies: 53
Views: 4394

Re: David Datro Fofana

Great home debut. Showed a willingness to engage and hurt Fulham. Amdouni was anything but.
by Cirrus_Minor
Sat Feb 03, 2024 1:27 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Loan players - Stay or Go
Replies: 30
Views: 1866

Re: Loan players - Stay or Go

I think it depends on how well they do at the clubs they have gone to and the league we are in next season (almost probably Championship). But I would be surprised if more than a couple come back.
by Cirrus_Minor
Fri Feb 02, 2024 5:54 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: National Frank Day
Replies: 11
Views: 851

Re: National Frank Day

Frank Sinclair
by Cirrus_Minor
Fri Feb 02, 2024 2:45 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ARTICLE: New full back Assignon signs in from Rennes
Replies: 39
Views: 3781

Re: ARTICLE: New full back Assignon signs in from Rennes

Bienvenu a Burnley Lorenz et bon chance.
by Cirrus_Minor
Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:35 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ARTICLE: Zaroury leaves for Hull in a Heartbeat
Replies: 113
Views: 6905

Re: ARTICLE: Zaroury leaves for Hull in a Heartbeat

Really disappointing but very much part of one of the most disappointing seasons after the heights of last season. I have always believed that playing without the loan players from last season has made us to change our style and this has adversely affected Zaroury and possibly others who were so goo...
by Cirrus_Minor
Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:56 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Actual Transfer News - NO BICKERING or pointless debates...
Replies: 386
Views: 51258

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

Goody1975 wrote:
Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:46 pm
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Must be a good player if he can still play with a pencil behind his ear.
by Cirrus_Minor
Wed Jan 31, 2024 10:25 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: “This is the worst we will be all season”
Replies: 120
Views: 14841

Re: “This is the worst we will be all season”

Man City are the best team in the Premier league and Europe. Probably the best Premier league team since Arsenals invincibles. Whatever position we would be in the league it would always be difficult. I know we lost and city had most of the possession, as usual, but I don't think that did that badly...
by Cirrus_Minor
Wed Jan 31, 2024 10:04 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Manchester City v Burnley - Player Ratings
Replies: 37
Views: 3482

Re: Manchester City v Burnley - Player Ratings

Trafford 6
Vitinho 6
O'Shea 7
Ekdal 6
Al Dakhil 6 (+1 for the goal)
Berge 6
Gudmundsson 5
Brownhill 6
Foster 6
Odebert 6

Forana 7
Ramsey 6
Roberts 5
by Cirrus_Minor
Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:35 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Roberts behaviour
Replies: 70
Views: 6600

Re: Roberts behaviour

Showing a bit of aggression was probably what is needed against city.
by Cirrus_Minor
Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Thread for tonight?
Replies: 503
Views: 14852

Re: Thread for tonight?

We have to taking chances like that
by Cirrus_Minor
Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:35 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Thread for tonight?
Replies: 503
Views: 14852

Re: Thread for tonight?

FFS
by Cirrus_Minor
Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:59 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: West Brom v Wolves
Replies: 67
Views: 4204

Re: West Brom v Wolves

Eric Peters on now
by Cirrus_Minor
Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: West Brom v Wolves
Replies: 67
Views: 4204

Re: West Brom v Wolves

fidelcastro wrote:
Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:42 pm
You beat me to it, but no way were West Brom coming back from two down. Not sure they'd see it that way though.
You would hope so. Apparently it will be down to a FA committee to decide. I would expect the result to stand otherwise the idiots will win.
by Cirrus_Minor
Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: West Brom v Wolves
Replies: 67
Views: 4204

Re: West Brom v Wolves

If they abandon the game it will interesting what they do in terms of replay or allowing the score to stand.
by Cirrus_Minor
Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: West Brom v Wolves
Replies: 67
Views: 4204

Re: West Brom v Wolves

Away fans in home area seemed to have sparked it off.
by Cirrus_Minor
Sun Jan 28, 2024 10:31 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: New ground
Replies: 171
Views: 9131

Re: New ground

Has April fools come early? If anything was to finish us off it would be all the arguing, finance issues and impossible planning of moving to a new ground.
by Cirrus_Minor
Sat Jan 27, 2024 10:39 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Goal Keeper Protection
Replies: 18
Views: 1539

Re: Goal Keeper Protection

Be good to see a striker try that trick on Adam Blacklow. One fist on the ball and another in the strikers earhole.
by Cirrus_Minor
Wed Jan 24, 2024 9:37 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Conscription
Replies: 132
Views: 6683

Re: Conscription

My grandfather fought in WW1 and my dad in WW2, so I was convinced I would end up fighting in WW3. But I might be a tad too old for that now at 69. Consription like national service was probably abandoned to have professional soldiers in the past. Before conscription we might need to concentrate on ...
by Cirrus_Minor
Mon Jan 22, 2024 6:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Horrible flu going round
Replies: 62
Views: 5031

Re: Horrible flu going round

Was jabbed for covid but still caught it in December and that was certainly horrible
by Cirrus_Minor
Tue Jan 16, 2024 1:54 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Roma sack Mourinho
Replies: 43
Views: 2426

Re: Roma sack Mourinho

South West Claret. wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:09 am
A most obnoxious individual if ever there was one
This
by Cirrus_Minor
Tue Jan 16, 2024 1:52 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 110 club to close
Replies: 43
Views: 5628

Re: 110 club to close

It is s shame. Mrs CM had her 21st do there and used to go the club many times in the past. I suppose that the Kearby roundabout fiasco won't have helped but suspect that, like many places, the ready availability of cheap supermarket booze will be the main cause.
by Cirrus_Minor
Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:08 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: More FFP breaches…
Replies: 137
Views: 9882

Re: Everton found guilty of further breaches...

The Premier league has turned into Fred Karno's circus with all of the money sloshing about from Billionaire owners. It used to irritate me how we would follow the rules (before the Americans came in) whilst the likes of City and Chelsea could go through money like pump water claiming to be 'within ...
by Cirrus_Minor
Sun Jan 14, 2024 11:08 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: REPORT: Controversial late goal denies the Clarets a win
Replies: 18
Views: 1640

Re: REPORT: Controversial late goal denies the Clarets a win

Very good report. I totally agree about the officials allowing Lutons goal.
by Cirrus_Minor
Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:49 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Scrap VAR
Replies: 84
Views: 3689

Re: Scrap VAR

Just seen Lutons goal reviewed on BBCs Football focus. It should definitely have been disallowed. I am at a loss to understand how VAR could have allowed it. We are seeing this every week now, VAR is not helping the game, so yes scrap it. Just a footnote. Trafford was a bit weak and gave Luton a cha...
by Cirrus_Minor
Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:21 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ARTICLE: Fofana is first January signing
Replies: 94
Views: 5940

Re: ARTICLE: Fofana is first January signing

Good luck to the lad. Let's hope he gives us another option at the start or during the game as a substitute. If I am honest I would have preferred a player for this position who has experience at this level but VK probably stash him away with Redmond and Co.
by Cirrus_Minor
Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:49 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 18 points dropped from winning positions
Replies: 6
Views: 577

18 points dropped from winning positions

Not difficult to see where we are going wrong is it?
by Cirrus_Minor
Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:33 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Subs
Replies: 17
Views: 1172

Re: Subs

Inability to close out games from winning positions is going to be the theme for this season along with bizarre substitutions. Bringing a winger on in the dieing minutes to hold on to the win and then bringing on Cork when we desperately need to respond to the goal. Maybe putting Cork on instead if ...
by Cirrus_Minor
Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:22 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mike Tresor
Replies: 184
Views: 10262

Re: Mike Tresor

I was pleased when we signed him because of his record last season and his performance against us in the pre season friendly. But he has the heart of a chicken. I have never seen a player swerve so much to avoid the ball that was kicked towards him and have such frailty in possession. I can't unders...
by Cirrus_Minor
Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:19 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Amdouni
Replies: 93
Views: 3689

Re: Amdouni

Kept on trying fancy flicks and clever dummies that failed every time. Needs to be braver, keeping the ball under pressure and using it better.
by Cirrus_Minor
Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:56 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley v Luton - Player Ratings
Replies: 70
Views: 4523

Re: Burnley v Luton - Player Ratings

Trafford 6
Vitinho 4
O'Shea 7
Ekdal 7
Al Dakhil 4
Cullen 6
Brownhill 6
Gudmundsson 4
Amdouni 5 (+1 for goal) - persisted in trying fancy flicks
Odebert 6
Foster 5

Roberts 5
Brun Larsen 4
Tresor 3 - good grief!
by Cirrus_Minor
Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:36 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: It's CTs birthday
Replies: 54
Views: 2265

Re: It's CTs birthday

Happy birthday
by Cirrus_Minor
Mon Jan 08, 2024 6:57 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Cotterill
Replies: 107
Views: 10777

Re: Cotterill

As mentioned above, certainly not unpopular. Did a decent job steadying the ship when we found ourselves broke. Tended to have us playing with the handbrake on and probably needed to move on when he did. Good manager though. I was once on one of Willie Irvines prematch ground tours with Mrs CM in th...
by Cirrus_Minor
Mon Jan 08, 2024 6:37 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Franz Beckenbauer dies aged 78
Replies: 55
Views: 4168

Re: Franz Beckenbauer dies aged 78

One of the all time guests. Graceful, technically brilliant player who could dictate play from a sweeper position (that he seemed to initiate), with his arm in a sling. RIP.
by Cirrus_Minor
Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:18 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Why do footballers lift up their shorts?
Replies: 27
Views: 3008

Re: Why do footballers lift up their shorts?

The one that gets me is when players pull their socks up to cover all their legs making them look like tights
by Cirrus_Minor
Sat Jan 06, 2024 2:36 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Markets v Geordies
Replies: 69
Views: 4857

Re: Markets v Geordies

Clear penalty
by Cirrus_Minor
Sat Jan 06, 2024 2:04 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Markets v Geordies
Replies: 69
Views: 4857

Re: Markets v Geordies

Newcastle taking the p1ss now