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by NottsClaret
Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:59 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Weirdest thing to happen at work?
Replies: 45
Views: 4286

Re: Weirdest thing to happen at work?

We had a lad called Steve who came in one Monday as Katy. I'm very much in the live and let live camp, but a bit of warning might have helped. This was in Huddersfield and way before popping your preferred gender in your bio was a thing. Mind blowing at the time.
by NottsClaret
Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:51 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 10th Aug: A year ago today
Replies: 8
Views: 1388

Re: 10th Aug: A year ago today

I remember the game at Hillsborough, came away thinking we should be ok to stay up that season.. They had some poor Portuguese lad at left back, up against Trippier and Wallace - they tore him to bits. Every bit as hapless as Brian Easton. A Wednesday fan I know said after he was taken off at half t...
by NottsClaret
Sun Aug 09, 2020 12:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: When will we know about going back on the turf?
Replies: 75
Views: 5558

Re: When will we know about going back on the turf?

I went to watch my kids play grassroots football yesterday, the local non-league side expect to let us watch in September. The more you do stuff like that, the less you care about paying hundreds of pounds for the privilege of seeing a financially rigged league of millionaires owned by billionaires....
by NottsClaret
Fri Aug 07, 2020 2:16 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Salary Caps in Leagues One and Two
Replies: 44
Views: 3166

Re: Salary Caps in Leagues One and Two

Interesting development this, sounds positive but going to throw up a lot of curious legal scenarios.
by NottsClaret
Wed Aug 05, 2020 3:38 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 55 redundancies at Arsenal
Replies: 57
Views: 3708

Re: 55 redundancies at Arsenal

Honestly, some folk sound like it's a tax imposed on you from the government. Cancel Sky. The money will soon dry up, it's all from TV. Do you think the Arabs and Oligarchs would give a toss about association football in Northern England if there wasn't huge amounts of cash, exposure and advertising...
by NottsClaret
Wed Aug 05, 2020 2:59 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 55 redundancies at Arsenal
Replies: 57
Views: 3708

Re: 55 redundancies at Arsenal

That's business I'm afraid. They still need to win games, so need players like Aubameyang. There aren't many of him, hence the £300k a week. They don't need hospitality staff - or ticket office staff now - so those positions are gone. Doesn't really matter what fans think, as long as enough armchair...
by NottsClaret
Wed Aug 05, 2020 10:32 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Number of seasons in Premier League club by club
Replies: 38
Views: 4123

Re: Number of seasons in Premier League club by club

Still no PNE on there. Not many mid-sized clubs who've never even had one season in the sun. Bristol City, Millwall maybe.
by NottsClaret
Tue Aug 04, 2020 4:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Lampard and Solskjaer complaining about the schedule
Replies: 12
Views: 1569

Re: Lampard and Solskjaer complaining about the schedule

Must be even harder for them, with tight budgets and small squads.
by NottsClaret
Tue Aug 04, 2020 9:02 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Best UK picturesque urban location
Replies: 34
Views: 2862

Re: Best UK picturesque urban location

I've grown quite fond of Sheffield, built on 7 hills like Rome the locals reckon. Parts of it are so ugly and post-industrial it definitely has it's own charm. Those 'brutalist' Park Hill flats are a good example. And obviously views all round of the Peak District if nature is your thing.
by NottsClaret
Mon Aug 03, 2020 2:43 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Who is/was our best ever central midfield player?
Replies: 62
Views: 4210

Re: Who is/was our best ever central midfield player?

Defour. He could play football against the very best sides, not just make us 'hard to beat', and looked at ease at that level. A real eye opener having a Champions League type player in our side even if it was sadly all too rarely. Also showed how Dyche would maybe have us playing if we could afford...
by NottsClaret
Mon Aug 03, 2020 10:43 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Who is our best ever centre forward
Replies: 106
Views: 6733

Re: Who is our best ever centre forward

In my time watching, Charlie Austin should have been. If he'd had better luck with injuries - or Danny Ings' attitude to coming back from them - then he'd have been a top striker at a top club. But he didn't, so I'll go for Ings, even if Chris Wood is the most perfectly suited forward we could have ...
by NottsClaret
Sun Aug 02, 2020 5:55 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Fixtures
Replies: 46
Views: 5380

Re: Fixtures

There is actually no point to the Premier League if people can’t watch it. Exactly, zero point to professional sport if no one is watching. Might as well let a computer generate results or just knock it on the head for a year. There’s no way sitting at home watching a vidiprinter is going to hold a...
by NottsClaret
Thu Jul 30, 2020 7:04 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Swansea City v Brentford
Replies: 109
Views: 7506

Re: Swansea City v Brentford

claretandy wrote:
Thu Jul 30, 2020 6:03 am
How much did Brentford pay for him, £1M ? what are our scouts doing ?
Finding players who can get us to 10th in the Premier League?
by NottsClaret
Fri Jul 24, 2020 5:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Can we cheat a little
Replies: 34
Views: 3653

Re: Anything to stop Nick Pope being subbed after a minute?

Jesus. How OTT are some people going with this Golden Glove Award. It's a strange one. I think some weirdos will have it down as a disappointing season if he doesn't win it now. Honestly didn't even know it was a thing until a couple of weeks ago. About as relevant to anything as who's taken the mo...
by NottsClaret
Fri Jul 24, 2020 4:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Can we cheat a little
Replies: 34
Views: 3653

Re: Anything to stop Nick Pope being subbed after a minute?

No chance Dyche would do something as cringe as that.
by NottsClaret
Fri Jul 24, 2020 9:23 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Venky chicken.
Replies: 49
Views: 4803

Re: Venky chicken.

While its amusing to see them struggle, and shows what goes around comes around we need to be careful what we wish for on two fronts. One - it could quite easily be us again one day. After all they were far better off 25 years ago than we are today. You never know what might happen, as CV19 shows! ...
by NottsClaret
Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:33 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: One of those pointless ‘if you could choose’ questions
Replies: 36
Views: 1569

Re: One of those pointless ‘if you could choose’ questions

2-1 win for me. Never known or cared about the 'Golden Glove' before so reluctant to jump on that bandwagon because it's our keeper.

Pope's great and everyone knows it anyway.
by NottsClaret
Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:24 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Wigan
Replies: 272
Views: 30920

Re: Wigan

RammyClaret61 wrote:
Thu Jul 23, 2020 1:45 am
And then Barnsley will appeal.
Yup, and understandably. Admin is -12pts, that's been understood for a while.

If the EFL lose this one, then we may as well play a season out in the courtroom instead of on the pitch.
by NottsClaret
Wed Jul 22, 2020 5:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid-19
Replies: 13866
Views: 902932

Re: Covid-19

What seems strange is the death rate per identified case around the world. The UK, France, Netherlands, Belgium and Italy are at more than 1 death per 7 reported/identified cases. Nowhere else gets anywhere close to that ratio - most are around 1 in 20 or more. I'd guess it's just because the virus...
by NottsClaret
Wed Jul 22, 2020 3:32 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: In 50 years time where will SD figure in burnley history ?
Replies: 37
Views: 2584

Re: In 50 years time where will SD figure in burnley history ?

Hipper wrote:
Wed Jul 22, 2020 3:23 pm
I'm not convinced he will be highly regarded in fifty years time. He's won nothing in the top league at Burnley and he's likely to win nothing in the top league here as he's not interested in the cups and they don't now have such importance anyway.
You set a high bar Hipper, I like it.
by NottsClaret
Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:25 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tonight's footy 21/7/20 (Relegation Decider)
Replies: 198
Views: 10427

Re: Tonight's footy 21/7/20 (Relegation Decider)

No Ney Never wrote:
Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:17 pm
Absolutely fantastic pair of results tonight. Three clubs from the south going down, even more so a London club.....love it! :D
Norwich is further north than Birmingham. And Watford isn’t in London. But I sort of get your point.
by NottsClaret
Sat Jul 18, 2020 1:51 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid-19
Replies: 13866
Views: 902932

Re: Covid-19

Grassroots football is back from August, great news for kids.
by NottsClaret
Sat Jul 18, 2020 8:36 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: What to expect next season - Leeds
Replies: 69
Views: 6221

Re: What to expect next season - Leeds

Don’t get this weird obsession with Leeds at all, quite pleased they got promoted. I’d rather go and watch us play them than Bournemouth or Watford. Not even sure why it’s anything to Burnley, you can be sure they couldn’t care less about us. Must all stem from the 70s but that’s a looooong time ago...
by NottsClaret
Fri Jul 17, 2020 4:27 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid-19
Replies: 13866
Views: 902932

Re: Covid-19

I do agree each individual risk is low, personally I've never been worried about it. But we're talking about huge numbers of people in the UK. If something is a 1 in a 100,000 risk on any given day, that's still 600 infections. Somebody will always be the unlucky one, then take that virus home with ...
by NottsClaret
Fri Jul 17, 2020 6:36 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid-19
Replies: 13866
Views: 902932

Re: Covid-19

This is interesting, unsure as to how accurate it is but seems plausible. Explaining how nobody in England - statistically - can ever recover from COVID-19. It would partly explain the very small NHS figure for daily deaths in hospitals.. then a 3 figure number later from PHE. https://www.cebm.net/c...
by NottsClaret
Thu Jul 16, 2020 11:03 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid-19
Replies: 13866
Views: 902932

Re: Covid-19

might have been discussed on here, but why are we being asked to wear masks now, but pub goers do not have to. in essence, they can occupy a bar, then leave and go to tesco where they are obliged to don a facemask. Reopening pubs will surely be seen as a mistake. I appreciate the revenues from tax ...
by NottsClaret
Tue Jul 14, 2020 11:10 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid-19
Replies: 13866
Views: 902932

Re: Covid-19

I don't want to go to the games if everyone can't go. It would be like going to a pre-season friendly. You wouldn't even have the background crowd noise that you get on the TV. If you were to disperse the crowd it would also mean that a lot of people would have to move seats. You wouldn't be able t...
by NottsClaret
Tue Jul 14, 2020 10:32 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid-19
Replies: 13866
Views: 902932

Re: Covid-19

Makes sense to me as well, we have to start the process of moving on at some stage. Sadly we have an element of selfish fans who if it was decided the 25% of fans could go to home games and they got say Brighton at home but the next game was Liverpool they wouldn't want to go to that one and start ...
by NottsClaret
Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:09 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid-19
Replies: 13866
Views: 902932

Re: Covid-19

You're overthinking it a bit, dsr. Just sneeze into a handkerchief or tissue as normal, then put your mask back on. Seen it described as 'horrific' elsewhere. Jeez, you just need to wear a mask in a shop for half an hour so we can all help each other for a bit. This isn't horrific. Anyway, it helps ...
by NottsClaret
Mon Jul 13, 2020 2:06 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: It's not just about Brexit
Replies: 1121
Views: 56424

Re: It's not just about Brexit

The Tory Party feeding working people sh** sandwiches, and making them say “thank you” for the privilege. This much is true, but the bootlickers absolutely lap it up. They'd vote for more of the same. Funny how they're so against 'taking a knee' but will happily prostrate themselves to some inbred ...
by NottsClaret
Mon Jul 13, 2020 2:00 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Blanket coverage of games to end
Replies: 12
Views: 2798

Re: Blanket coverage of games to end

They need to be doing all they can to get fans back as soon as possible. Going to a game with a 25% capacity would be a pretty miserable experience. I'd probably rather go and watch Colne FC for a season. I'd agree with that. Probably wait and see what the plan is, but most likely to go and watch n...
by NottsClaret
Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:21 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: When were we last live on the BBC at the Turf?
Replies: 22
Views: 2343

Re: When were we last live on the BBC at the Turf?

The Leeds game - think that was the last live broadcast - 1-0 up at half-time lost 2-1 if I remember correctly - Lee Dixon was the summariser and he had plenty to say about Brian Easton's performance Wasn't that the 2-0, lost 2-3 game? Unless it's a different one. Didn't realise it was on telly. Ea...
by NottsClaret
Mon Jul 13, 2020 9:19 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Blanket coverage of games to end
Replies: 12
Views: 2798

Re: Blanket coverage of games to end

Even though grounds are expected to be at best partially occupied from next season, the current situation where every game has a UK broadcast isn't going to continue, with the normal model resuming. Seems like a backwards step to me, given the Premier League have acknowledged that it will just lead...
by NottsClaret
Sun Jul 12, 2020 6:31 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Clarets at Old Trafford/Anfield
Replies: 10
Views: 1311

Re: Clarets at Old Trafford/Anfield

I read yesterday it was Dave Thomas in 69/70. Before my time so don’t know if that’s correct.
by NottsClaret
Sat Jul 11, 2020 11:43 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sad indictment of TV football.
Replies: 32
Views: 3054

Re: Sad indictment of TV football.

Not sure now's the time to be moaning, it's quite the achievement they got the league going again and spread the games out so fans have a chance of seeing as much as possible.
by NottsClaret
Fri Jul 10, 2020 11:59 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Premier League confirms wrong penalty decisions in all Thursday games
Replies: 68
Views: 4497

Re: Premier League confirms wrong penalty decisions in all Thursday games

Just such a cop-out. These are refs who get to see incidents from all angles, close up, slowed down, while the infield ref sees every incident just once, at full speed and not always from a suitable angle. The quality of decision making should be vastly improved, but it isn’t. Yes, there will alway...
by NottsClaret
Fri Jul 10, 2020 9:21 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Premier League confirms wrong penalty decisions in all Thursday games
Replies: 68
Views: 4497

Re: Premier League confirms wrong penalty decisions in all Thursday games

Nonsense. Of course it’s how it is used. If the Man U pen and the Saints pen gets chalked off and Kane gets his pen yesterday we say VAR is great...therefore it is absolutely clueless officiating that is the problem...not VAR Ha.. that's just it though, they didn't. Because somebody thought those w...
by NottsClaret
Fri Jul 10, 2020 9:11 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Premier League confirms wrong penalty decisions in all Thursday games
Replies: 68
Views: 4497

Re: Premier League confirms wrong penalty decisions in all Thursday games

You can have an ex-pro, a pundit or whoever else you want in there. It's still opinions. How do the get it 'right' when everyone has a different view on what 'right' is. Goal line technology (Villa Park aside) and mistaken identity only. Everything else go back to real-time, on the pitch reffing.
by NottsClaret
Fri Jul 10, 2020 9:03 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Premier League confirms wrong penalty decisions in all Thursday games
Replies: 68
Views: 4497

Re: Premier League confirms wrong penalty decisions in all Thursday games

Funny that people still say 'it's not VAR, it's how it's used'. As if VAR is some sort of super computer technology being operated by fools. It's just another ref, in a hut watching telly. It's not being misused at all, it's just people having opinions as it always was. Now instead of taking the rou...
by NottsClaret
Thu Jul 09, 2020 6:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid-19
Replies: 13866
Views: 902932

Re: Covid-19

Still no sign of a second spike in Europe. Given that they released from lockdown earlier than us, if they are going to have a second spike in the summer, you would expect cases to be rising by now. Also in the UK by the end of the month. At least not in places badly hit first time round. I see cas...
by NottsClaret
Thu Jul 09, 2020 4:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Declan Rice the invisible footballer
Replies: 58
Views: 5075

Re: Declan Rice the invisible footballer

Has anyone mentioned Tyrone Mings yet? There’s another head scratcher. Agree with the above on Rice. He looks average at best. Certainly wouldn’t get in the Burnley team. Good shout on Mings too. Even with my Claret specs off, how do you pick that lad ahead of Tarkowski? Really bizarre from Gareth....
by NottsClaret
Wed Jul 08, 2020 6:26 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 5 black managers out of 91
Replies: 97
Views: 5992

Re: 5 black managers out of 91

pushpinpussy wrote:
Wed Jul 08, 2020 6:25 pm
I think the next manager of Burnley should be black, female and disabled. Keep everyone happy.
It'd keep me happy if she got results. Not arsed about anything else.
by NottsClaret
Wed Jul 08, 2020 1:45 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: There are no “model clubs” for long. There’s only really a financial model that eventually finishes you
Replies: 29
Views: 2359

Re: There are no “model clubs” for long. There’s only really a financial model that eventually finishes you

You don't hear about 'established' Prem clubs much now, not since Stoke and West Brom went down. Everyone outside the Big 6 is a couple of injuries and a poor managerial appointment away from a three-decade tour of football league outposts. Enjoy it all while you can.
by NottsClaret
Tue Jul 07, 2020 10:25 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid-19
Replies: 13866
Views: 902932

Re: Covid-19

tybfc wrote:
Tue Jul 07, 2020 5:30 pm
It's only Tuesday and 155 died of covid yesterday
That’s not true. 155 deaths were reported today, some will date back weeks.

But the point was, less people are dying now than this time last year. Makes sense to be sensible and cautious, but not terrified.
by NottsClaret
Tue Jul 07, 2020 4:51 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid-19
Replies: 13866
Views: 902932

Re: Covid-19

2nd week in a row that overall deaths in the UK are actually down on the same week last year.
by NottsClaret
Tue Jul 07, 2020 2:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Military helicopters circling Blackburn
Replies: 32
Views: 3651

Re: Military helicopters circling Blackburn

I like the idea of military helicopters enforcing local lockdowns, gunning down any desperate citizens trying to cross from Intack into Knuzden.
by NottsClaret
Tue Jul 07, 2020 9:45 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley - No Gibson recall
Replies: 134
Views: 13764

Re: Burnley - No Gibson recall

As we know next to nothing about the background to this, it's no use trying to use it to have a pop at Dyche, the Chairman or the recruiting bods. Still think that it's underplaying it a bit to suggest it's just 'one of those things' that hasn't worked out. A £15m investment - and a huge ongoing cos...
by NottsClaret
Mon Jul 06, 2020 4:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley - No Gibson recall
Replies: 134
Views: 13764

Re: Burnley - No Gibson recall

I have to admit, when we signed him he appeared the right sort and the last player who'd end up falling out and being asked to stay away. Just didn't seem the type but there you go.
by NottsClaret
Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:52 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid-19
Replies: 13866
Views: 902932

Re: Covid-19

Nothing necessarily new about this viewpoint but making the headlines again after this thread by Eric Feigl-Ding - Epidemiologist and Health Economist with 16 years experience of Public Health at Harvard https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1279749506037317634.html If it proves to be true then it may...
by NottsClaret
Sun Jul 05, 2020 11:52 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Chris wilder
Replies: 21
Views: 3711

Re: Chris wilder

Certainly looked like they’d done their research on us in the last game, ran rings round us.

At least today they won’t know half of our squad.