Well you might be right, bearing in mind I was a teenager then and now I'm a 65 year old gimmer! CT will surely know, but I have this apparently clear memory of him scoring at the CF end.
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- Fri Dec 22, 2023 2:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Gunners gunned down at the Turf
- Replies: 12
- Views: 699
- Fri Dec 22, 2023 2:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Gunners gunned down at the Turf
- Replies: 12
- Views: 699
Re: ARTICLE: Gunners gunned down at the Turf
I was one of that utterly embarassingly paltry crowd, especially bearing in mind we were the third best team in the country at the time! There was also barely any away following if I remember correctly, but I do remember a lone Arsenal fan in the CF front row waving a flag when Radford scored right ...
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Everton fans in home end
- Replies: 405
- Views: 65315
Re: Everton fans in home end
Don't see anything in the statement which says that Liverpool fans won't be seated in the JHU, which was the minimum that I expected the Club to say or am I missing something? Well that's probably because they know it's way too late to do anything about Liverpool fans having got tickets in the home...
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 9:02 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: SPOTY
- Replies: 63
- Views: 4647
Re: SPOTY
Wish I'd put a tenner on a lady footballer winning it. Really didn't see that one coming.
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 8:29 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Muric
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4252
Re: Muric
According to Orient fans the guy from Orient is very far from crap and I think we could do far worse than giving him a go (for what it's worth). He's experienced and although the levels might be lower, experience goes a bloody long way in the PL as we can all see week in week out. Also, the guy who ...
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 5:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Lowerhouse New Pro
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4203
Re: Lowerhouse New Pro
They've more than made up for that in recent years!!! (And by that I mean the last 20 at least!)StayingDown4Ever wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 11:53 amI’d probably say Burnley. Didn’t Lowerhouse go about 100 years without winning anything at all?
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 2:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: U21s v Preston
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3294
Re: U21s v Preston
Tbf, that's a very strong Burnley side.
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 9:10 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Russia Invades
- Replies: 10694
- Views: 791174
Re: Russia Invades
Allies being dictated to by the Republicans and Hungary who have both blocked aid packages to Ukraine. Unfortunately politics wins over lives. Definitely. And I have to question what's actually going on with said bloody Hungarians. They campaigned to join Europe, become part of "the club" and then ...
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 9:46 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Russia Invades
- Replies: 10694
- Views: 791174
Re: Russia Invades
Exactly what Russia hoped and expected would happen. They've played the long game and knew we would lose interest. Very poor stuff from (some) of Ukraine's supposed allies.ALP wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:49 pmDisturbing news as the funding dries up.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67748813
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 5:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Obefemi
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7260
Re: Obefemi
I do kind of get where the op is coming from in that we seem to have loads of these players who are perennially injured and rather frustratingly seem to be on the brink of a return for months and months whereby they appear on the bench from time to time, don't actually kick a ball and then somehow d...
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:50 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The most annoying thing for me is….
- Replies: 87
- Views: 16426
Re: The most annoying thing for me is….
I’ve got to say it, Kompany has lost his marbles. It is like the Emperor’s New Clothes on the playing side at Turf Moor nowadays. Kompany in his head still believes all is ok and things will just “click” any day now and he will then be applauded and the media will blow smoke up his @rse for stickin...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 3:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The Mood has changed
- Replies: 155
- Views: 23304
Re: The Mood has changed
I'd still be keeping VK, but he's got to realise that walking the Championship is a totally different thing to competing in the PL. Surely he of all people knew that and if he did why did he get his summer priorities and signings so bloody wrong! After last season he has enough credit in the bank (i...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 1:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The most annoying thing for me is….
- Replies: 87
- Views: 16426
Re: The most annoying thing for me is….
There are (it seems) only 3 automatic picks on the team sheet each week providing they're fit and available. Trafford, O'shea and Beyer. The first two are clearly not good enough to hold a place down in a PL team which intends to be competitive. The last one probably is, but I'm yet to be totally co...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 8:35 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The most annoying thing for me is….
- Replies: 87
- Views: 16426
Re: The most annoying thing for me is….
The most annoying thing for me is the majority of other teams never look any better than us, but we make stupid errors at the back and are always prone to let in the softest of goals out of absolutely nowhere when we're actually playing ok, on top or at least matching them and in some cases taking t...
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 9:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Awful
- Replies: 147
- Views: 31587
Re: Awful
Two (massive) problems. 1. We ALWAYS concede at least one (usually more) dreadfully soft goals to teams who really don't seem much better than us. 2. Having gone behind in games we simply can't show any urgency or change of gear no matter how much the clock is ticking. We ALWAYS play like we're 3-0 ...
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 9:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley v Everton - Player Ratings
- Replies: 129
- Views: 23696
Re: Burnley v Everton - Player Ratings
Trafford 4 (I'm not "piling on" but after making an unbelievable save, he's all over the place at the resulting corner! Bread and butter stuff imo. Pope, Heaton and 100 other keepers catch or punch that ball. He's flapping and Everton score. Making the worldy saves is the easy bit when it comes to g...
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 9:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: fao swiper steele
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1290
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 9:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Everton fans in home end
- Replies: 405
- Views: 65315
Re: Everton fans in home end
My son was sat in the Longside Lower and said the guy sat in front was "acting rather weird" throughout the first half! (Whatever that means!) At half time he turned round and started chatting, admitted to being a Scouser and Everton fan and asked my son not to say anything. My son told him if he ke...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 6:28 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Urban Legends
- Replies: 81
- Views: 13410
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 12:49 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Rosehill House Closed
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6887
Re: Rosehill House Closed
I'd have expected it to be popular with (admittedly slightly more discerning) away fans who are staying over. There's usually plenty around Burnley on Friday and Saturday nights and they can't all be at The Travelodge or The Ormerod.
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 12:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: CJ Egan-Riley
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3435
Re: CJ Egan-Riley
Was he meant to go out on loan in summer but the club messed up his paperwork and missed the deadline or something? I'm pretty sure this is what happened and it was us who messed up the paperwork at the very last minute scuppering the move. The player and his agent were extremely cross from what I ...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 12:09 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: What striker is a feasible buy in January?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10526
Re: What striker is a feasible buy in January?
Never thought I'd say this, but I think I'd be seriously thinking of getting Wout back unless we're in a deal where it's not possible. I'm definitely not his biggest fan, but he's a striker (allegedly) and he's already ours and we're rather stuffed in that department atm.
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 8:19 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Koleosho injury
- Replies: 112
- Views: 20105
Re: Koleosho injury
Maybe that's Benson's issue? He's on the waiting list!!
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 9:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: A proper bid for Clarke
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5523
Re: A proper bid for Clarke
Let's be realistic. Our trajectory is only heading one way unfortunately and that makes it virtually impossible we could entice any meaningful, ambitious talent to join us in January. During the summer we probably had our pick as our stock was high and they would have been queuing up to come to The ...
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 5:48 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mike Tresor
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9706
Re: Mike Tresor
Well it seems clear to me that whoever it was that started against Arsenal, should definitely be in the bloody team!!!
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 1:29 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Koleosho injury
- Replies: 112
- Views: 20105
Re: Koleosho injury
AS posted above, both Sam Vokes and Ashley Barnes actually carried on, as did Dean Marney and Lukas Jutkiewicz. Also, as I posted, Frank Casper played again a week later. The one consoiation is it can't cause any more damage if it is indeed an ACL. But also shows not everyone is the same, for examp...
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 1:06 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Koleosho injury
- Replies: 112
- Views: 20105
Re: Koleosho injury
From what I've seen, when other players have done this ubiquitous ACL injury they crumple up immediately and are in utter agony and basically can't stand up and are stretchered off. I'm thinking of Sam Vokes and Ashley Barnes as just two examples. Koleosho was clearly hurt, but actually tried to car...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 5:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 3 minutes injury time
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3232
Re: 3 minutes injury time
The initial 3 minutes was absolutely ridiculous and yes, he did eventually play about another 2 once the guy with cramp got up, but still it was nowhere near enough
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:35 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Wolves v Burnley - Player Ratings
- Replies: 67
- Views: 8970
Re: Wolves v Burnley - Player Ratings
Trafford 6 (did ok, but his longer passes into midfield always sh*t me up) Vitihno 5 O'Shea 6 (did ok, but has to share responsibility for the goal) Ekdal 7 Taylor 7 Brownhill 7 Berge 6 (awful first l touch for their goal and faded as the second half wore on) Koleosho 8 (definitely had them worried ...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:39 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: O’Shea
- Replies: 90
- Views: 12577
Re: O’Shea
I respectfully disagree in that Beyer's cock up against Palace was very different from tonight's cock up and that no matter how many times a team practices "playing out from the back" a stupid pass is still a stupid pass and a high level professional player should bloody see that and O'Shea didn't a...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:33 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: PFA - how rich?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1140
Re: PFA - how rich?
TBF I know for a fact (because I know someone who's involved in the PFA) that they actually do loads and loads and spend shed loads of "unseen" money where it matters most. Young players who don't quite make it and have no training or skills to make careers outside footy, others who get career endin...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:18 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: O’Shea
- Replies: 90
- Views: 12577
Re: O’Shea
********!CoolClaret wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:10 pmI guarentee they practice that exact bit of play on the training ground.
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 10:48 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: O’Shea
- Replies: 90
- Views: 12577
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 10:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: RATE THE REF - Jarred Gillett v Wolves
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2512
Re: RATE THE REF - Jarred Gillett v Wolves
He did reasonably well overall, but after Brownhill gets the early yellow he HAS to be consistent and Wolves got away with two or three similar ones and that's wrong. He also deteriorated in the final 20 minutes when he fell numerous times for diving and petty time wasting. And 3!!! minutes (initial...
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 10:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Kompany’s Subs
- Replies: 66
- Views: 8569
Re: Kompany’s Subs
VK is definitely weird with his subs. One minute he's changing folk at 50 minutes and other times (like tonight) he seems really reluctant. I was constantly checking my watch from 55 minutes onwards thinking we needed a change and he changed nowt until it was too late and it made absolutely no diffe...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 5:30 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Too confident now?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4160
Re: Too confident now?
The problem is that nobody in the entire history of the PL has ever been as bad as that Sheffield side who turned up (or rather didn't turn up) at the Turf on Saturday. Absolutely league two stuff from them and yes, I am aware Derby only got 11 points all season, but I'll venture they were never tha...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 3:25 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Too confident now?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4160
Re: Too confident now?
You have a point, but it could even work out well for us: One possibility: (Now fit),Ekdal comes in and he an O'Shea play well together This could then pave the way for Beyer coming back the following week and playing at Right Back - which is one of our weak spots (defensively) at present. (Probabl...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 9:37 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Too confident now?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4160
Re: Too confident now?
Any confidence I was feeling after Saturday, suddenly evaporated when I learned that Beyer had got himself suspended!
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Can we please avoid saying...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2469
Re: Can we please avoid saying...
Completely agree with this. We're miles better than those two mentioned, but I worry about the third team as everyone else has more nouse than us I feel.Burnley1989 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:26 pmWe are 100% better than Sheff Utd and Luton, we just need to pick that last club off, which won’t be Everton
We can do it
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:40 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sheffield Utd fans
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5021
Re: Sheffield Utd fans
TBF I'm travelling to both and I won't.claretburns wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:34 pmA typical football fan point of view, fans travelling to Wolves or Brighton in the next week would react exactly the same if we lost 5-0.
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:39 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sheffield Utd fans
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5021
Re: Sheffield Utd fans
claretburns wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:34 pmA typical football fan point of view, fans travelling to Wolves or Brighton in the next week would react exactly the same if we lost 5-0.
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TBF, I'm going to both and I definitely wouldn't.
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:25 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Does today's result really mean anything?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4856
Re: Does today's result really mean anything?
If it means anything it means that if Sheffield U finish second in the Championship next season we'll finish first, by roughly 25 points imo.
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sander Berge
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4843
Re: Sander Berge
Excellent today against utterly dreadful opposition.
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:30 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley v Sheffield United - Player Ratings
- Replies: 80
- Views: 8795
Re: Burnley v Sheffield United - Player Ratings
Trafford 6 (More of a spectator than I was) Vitihno 8 Beyer 8 O'Shea 8 (Absolutely excellent in the air, but-1 for some silly mis placed passes) Taylor 7 Brownhill 8 Berge 8 Brun Larson 8 Amdouni 8 Koleosho 8 Jay 8 Subs N/A Essentially a game between two clubs far too good for the Championship, but ...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:09 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: O’Shea
- Replies: 90
- Views: 12577
Re: O’Shea
Today's game and opposition suited O'Shea and I thought he was excellent. Sheffield were very aerial and he was tremendous in the air and won everything, which IMO led to Mc'Burnie losing his rag. He was less convincing passing the ball along the floor and messed up more than once. Having said that ...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Ollie McBurnie
- Replies: 54
- Views: 8779
Re: Ollie McBurnie
I meant O'Shea l, not Vitihno.Dark Cloud wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:39 pmI would have to see it again, but I wasn't sure Vitihno even touched him.
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:55 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sheffield Utd fans
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5021
Re: Sheffield Utd fans
Ok, the first goal after 15? seconds doesn't help, but at the final whistle they were berating the players big style and the couple who tentatively approached the away end soon changed their minds!
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:51 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 2 questions from today
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4100
Re: 2 questions from today
We’re a basket case and a good side in the same post. Thanks for bestowing that opinion on us. Maybe just get behind the team. I tried to imply that I believe we're a very good side in many ways, but we've been found wanting when it comes to actually taking points in the most testing league in the ...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:46 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 2 questions from today
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4100
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Bruun Larsen
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6191
Re: Bruun Larsen
I saw him come off to bench to score the winner at Luton and assumed he'd be a shoe in from then on, but sadly he wasn't. I feel he might just be our current Stephen Defour in that if his fitness was guaranteed he'd be playing for a miles bigger club than us, but it isn't.