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by JTClaret
Tue Mar 12, 2019 12:42 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Contactless Payments
Replies: 101
Views: 7167

Re: Contactless Payments

Hold on! Are people actually defending the club not having card payments at the till - I'm not even bothered for contactless - because people can scam the card that they still have in their pocket? Pain in the backside needing to swing by a cashpoint on the way to make sure I've got money in case I ...
by JTClaret
Mon Mar 11, 2019 12:52 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: dilly dallying
Replies: 30
Views: 4144

Re: dilly dallying

I don't think Hendrick has been playing badly, and I'm surprised he's back to scapegoat again. The way I saw that goal was Lallana's work-rate closing down Bardsley's clearance, which Hendrick had left the ball for Bardsley to hoof. I certainly wouldn't be putting Hendrick as a worst performer, thou...
by JTClaret
Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:04 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ben Mee Interview in the Independent
Replies: 12
Views: 2693

Re: Ben Mee Interview in the Independent

Gibson is a very good player and doesn't get a look in.
Barton wanted a new song for him and regularly sang his praises.
His last 2 defensive partners have gone from nobodies to England internationals alongside him.
Bravery on a level I've not seen by many players... ever

Who doesn't love Ben Mee?
by JTClaret
Fri Mar 08, 2019 12:52 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Educate me please
Replies: 85
Views: 4943

Re: Educate me please

It's not complicated or hard to understand. There's black and white. Some one with 'olive skin' is still considered white, and it works the other way. I don't think somebody who says 'coloured' is a racist, unless they knowingly used the term derogatively. However, people have to understand it is in...
by JTClaret
Fri Mar 08, 2019 12:07 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Man United and Liverpool in Europe
Replies: 80
Views: 5025

Re: Man United and Liverpool in Europe

Never a pen for me. And VAR has done what VAR was brought in to stop happening - controversial decisions. Which ever way is goes, the ref should only have 30secs viewing of the incident. If there are a couple of incidents, 30secs for each. If a decision cannot be made after 30secs, the ref's initial...
by JTClaret
Fri Mar 08, 2019 11:55 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Are Manchester United the biggest club in world football ?
Replies: 44
Views: 3076

Re: Are Manchester United the biggest club in world football ?

Whichever order, I'd say those 4 are the biggest
by JTClaret
Thu Mar 07, 2019 12:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: PNE accounts released ....
Replies: 16
Views: 3821

Re: PNE accounts released ....

Makes me wonder if the 'football will implode' will actually happen. Although it will happen by the lower leagues being unsustainable, leaving 2 leagues, with bigger clubs and money shared out between them keeping the wages high. With some of the 'big clubs' around us, it'd be hard for us to stay ar...
by JTClaret
Wed Mar 06, 2019 12:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tonights footie
Replies: 22
Views: 2142

Re: Tonights footie

tim_noone wrote:Will it Break up though??
Probably. Talking to an Ajax fan in Amsterdam in January and he was pretty accepting of the fact they could lose their best players at end of this and any season as they simply can't compete with the wages other European teams can offer.
by JTClaret
Mon Mar 04, 2019 1:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Cork very lucky
Replies: 78
Views: 6695

Re: Cork very lucky

So why should he have been red-carded? Have I missed it? Also think he needs a break from the team. Often plays well in keeping possession and passing it to a more creative central midfield partner. He has neither kept possession or had a creative partner - Westwood brings tenacity and has the abili...
by JTClaret
Mon Mar 04, 2019 1:17 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Whats Hapopened To Brady
Replies: 44
Views: 5542

Re: Whats Hapopened To Brady

He had that Burnley player issue of becoming world class whilst he was out injured. Frustrated a lot, then played brilliantly, then got injured. I'd be interested to see Brady and Hendrick out on the wings, with it billed up by the club of the old relationship. A bit of positivity can do the world o...
by JTClaret
Mon Mar 04, 2019 1:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sharron Davies
Replies: 55
Views: 5607

Re: Sharron Davies

:roll: :roll: :roll:
2019... isn't it fun

Tell you what. Scrap all the genders. No mens or womens, just 1 team.
If your good enough your the right sex.

And you're not allowed to say that wouldn't be fair, otherwise you'll be admitting men and women are different :D
by JTClaret
Fri Mar 01, 2019 1:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 10 Years Ahead and not paying their wages
Replies: 17
Views: 2279

Re: 10 Years Ahead and not paying their wages

I'm very wary of the amount of times the '10 years ahead' is given by our fans.
I hope it's not tempting fate and we find ourselves in trouble in 10 years.

I know we are very differently run, but still. It makes me nervous sometimes ha
by JTClaret
Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Lead Up to Goals Conceded
Replies: 25
Views: 3687

Re: The Lead Up to Goals Conceded

I think you'll find that everything goes against Burnley ALL the time. so there's nothing out of the ordinary in any of those build ups. If you were a real Burnley fan you'd realise this. :lol: :lol: Of course, how could I forget? I'm also aware of the fact that we always have a full season - none ...
by JTClaret
Thu Feb 28, 2019 12:27 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Lead Up to Goals Conceded
Replies: 25
Views: 3687

Re: The Lead Up to Goals Conceded

How is McNeil coming in for criticism after one game in which he doesn't play well, which we all knew would happen at some point anyway :o
by JTClaret
Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:57 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Lead Up to Goals Conceded
Replies: 25
Views: 3687

The Lead Up to Goals Conceded

Time and time again we seem to concede when something has gone against us in the build up. The foul on Cork last night, but I wouldn't say it set the goal up. The throw-in on Saturday, which I'm sick of hearing about. A throw-in around the half way line which isn't right but we concede from it? Real...
by JTClaret
Tue Feb 26, 2019 12:59 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ash's Austrian hopes dashed ?
Replies: 26
Views: 4417

Re: Ash's Austrian hopes dashed ?

That said I can't imagine any defender in the world enjoying playing against Bashley
by JTClaret
Tue Feb 26, 2019 11:17 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Remain Labour Party now you can have you GE !
Replies: 128
Views: 5396

Re: Remain Labour Party now you can have you GE !

The whole thing is a farce. All we have done is prove to the EU that Britain would rather bitch and argue about how bad something could be than actually stand on their own two feet. There should have been a plan quickly made after the vote, then argue how it should change. Then make plans to cope wi...
by JTClaret
Thu Feb 21, 2019 3:34 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ashley Shameful
Replies: 32
Views: 3585

Re: Ashley Shameful

Anyone else interested to see what happens if Ashley does sell. I get the feeling there would be a buzz about the place, until they start complaining that they want more/better/bigger name players, begin slagging the team off, then the manager and back to the owners. I wouldn't be at all surprised i...
by JTClaret
Thu Feb 21, 2019 9:56 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bardsley
Replies: 27
Views: 3725

Re: Bardsley

Perhaps Lowton has upped his game... but who would drop Bardsley at the moment.
When Lowton is on his game, he's a fantastic right back
by JTClaret
Thu Feb 21, 2019 9:54 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: BT don't like us
Replies: 4
Views: 1814

Re: BT don't like us

For people that don't care, you don't half hear people bang on about how unfair it is :lol:

No one likes us
No one likes us
No one likes us
It's not fair
We are Burnley...
by JTClaret
Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Do we still attribute ‘Europe’ to our poor start to the season?
Replies: 86
Views: 5544

Re: Do we still attribute ‘Europe’ to our poor start to the season?

I absolutely believe that rotating the squad was the thing that made a huge difference. Dyche is renowned for sticking to the same squad - but he didn't. And as such tried to play a different way. It has taken a long time to find our way again. I'm not a fan of this Burnley team being rotated. Chang...
by JTClaret
Tue Feb 12, 2019 1:17 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bottom 8 teams on 13th May...
Replies: 47
Views: 5904

Re: Bottom 8 teams on 13th May...

Including are poor start to the season we have 27 points from 26 games. So with that in mind we could get another 12 points.
But we aren't the same team as at the start of the season... so let's just wait and see
by JTClaret
Tue Feb 12, 2019 1:12 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 400k a week for Ramsey
Replies: 39
Views: 3591

Re: 400k a week for Ramsey

I think he's a good player.
Whether I think he's worth 400k a week is irrelevant - Juve can afford it

I'm amazed people are still getting upset by transfer fees and wages
by JTClaret
Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Supply Chains after No Deal
Replies: 57
Views: 3878

Re: Supply Chains after No Deal

Right at the start of all this I watched a Newsnight - I've long since given up caring. They were all bickering about, well, anything and nothing, like they did for the next 2 years. An American woman asked, What exactly are you arguing? You have to make decisions to argue about. At the moment you a...
by JTClaret
Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:09 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: I don't accept suffering because...
Replies: 26
Views: 3525

Re: I don't accept suffering because...

So what are you then? You can be frozen, boiled, burnt and broken... does that make you a solid or a liquid.

Or should you accept that life isn't on the periodic table? :P
by JTClaret
Fri Feb 08, 2019 9:29 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Emiliano Sala - football agents
Replies: 87
Views: 9056

Re: Emiliano Sala - football agents

It sounds awful - But I do see players as people who have chosen to be assets. Their is no way somebody would be considered to be worth £15m if they were just an everyday man on the street - Take soldiers for an example. As such, at some point both clubs have to look at the 'Not received what they p...
by JTClaret
Fri Feb 01, 2019 10:44 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Pull your head out of your...
Replies: 16
Views: 2700

Re: Pull your head out of your...

I think it's time to stop with the 'we were in division 4'. I know it means we can enjoy these times, but it's got to stop, we've been in or around this point for 10 years. This league or the one down for 20 years! How can we carry on about 'where we are'. I was brought up with us in the 4th divisio...
by JTClaret
Fri Feb 01, 2019 10:36 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Does the Real Blame Lie With Sean Dyche ?
Replies: 91
Views: 8288

Re: Does the Real Blame Lie With Sean Dyche ?

I don't think we need a huge rebuilding job. The main part of the first team isn't at retirement age. The windows seem to keep getting worse though. Imagine if McNeil hadn't broke through. I'm gutted Vokes has gone, but I can see the reasons why. He has been replaced till the end of the season. It's...
by JTClaret
Thu Jan 31, 2019 5:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Play it again Sam
Replies: 38
Views: 4984

Re: Play it again Sam

Gutted he's going. Thanks for the memories Sam
by JTClaret
Sat Jan 26, 2019 11:27 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: No Sam Vokes ?
Replies: 109
Views: 17125

Re: No Sam Vokes ?

Vydra and Vokes does appear to be a very Burnley Championship winning forward line (Vokes/Ings, Vokes/Gray)

Has it been tried for a game? (Can't think off the top of my head)
by JTClaret
Sat Jan 26, 2019 11:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Brady
Replies: 33
Views: 6376

Re: Brady

Hope the crowd doesn't groan to much if McNeil has a bad game... He's only 19, it'll come - need to make sure he's supported if he's a confidence player as Dyche may have eluded to.
by JTClaret
Sat Jan 26, 2019 11:16 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Will dyche ever
Replies: 140
Views: 9040

Re: Will dyche ever

I do worry that the Europa League didn't teach us that changing the team doesn't work for us - and I don't think ever has under Dyche
by JTClaret
Fri Jan 25, 2019 1:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The alternative to the Burnley way
Replies: 9
Views: 2373

Re: The alternative to the Burnley way

The only downside it seems to Watford's approach is that the have to ignore any young British talent. No reason for us to stop what we are doing as well, but it's not been so much scouting as picking up scraps. The handy benefit of being relatively close to big clubs (eg. United, City, Liverpool) i...
by JTClaret
Thu Jan 24, 2019 5:12 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The alternative to the Burnley way
Replies: 9
Views: 2373

Re: The alternative to the Burnley way

Fair play to them.
It's working, and the biggest blip they had in the last couple of years was after Silva wanted to leave to go to Everton... so they're not wrong in there theory.
Hopefully Burnley can build a similar scouting network as the next step in our progression.
by JTClaret
Thu Jan 24, 2019 4:59 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Team v City ?
Replies: 69
Views: 6673

Re: Team v City ?

That's not a bad second string at all. And if that's the case, only play the players you want to get game time (a la Pope). Playing a rotated squad was disastrous in the Europa League. Play as strong of a team as we can with Pope in net (whether or not you consider him our best keeper) and should we...
by JTClaret
Thu Jan 24, 2019 1:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: What would you suggest ?
Replies: 65
Views: 4900

Re: What would you suggest ?

Have to agree with the no money, no treatment. If he was entitled to be here I wouldn't even question it, but he's not. Has to be treated the way I would if I was in a different country under the same circumstances. All good and well saying people don't mind their contributions being used - but ofte...
by JTClaret
Wed Jan 23, 2019 1:17 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Rafa - sign me players or I am off...
Replies: 102
Views: 7869

Re: Rafa - sign me players or I am off...

I don't get the Newcastle / Ashley thing to be honest. They have some good players on big wages and a huge-name manager on a huge wage, yet apparently Mike Ashley does nothing but take money. Lots of mentions of Dyche, but Rafa tries to manage players whereas Dyche manages the whole club, in the sen...
by JTClaret
Wed Jan 23, 2019 12:46 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Why can't we get 3pm kick off's legally shown in the UK?
Replies: 38
Views: 3358

Re: Why can't we get 3pm kick off's legally shown in the UK?

I don't think saying 'it can't happen' is of any use. I think it inevitably will happen, and all it will take is the media or the big clubs to take a stand and the FA will cave. For me, in an ideal world a deal should be made that compensate the lower league teams if it were to wipe out their attend...
by JTClaret
Thu Jan 17, 2019 10:51 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Judas Coyle ten year challenge
Replies: 69
Views: 6745

Re: Judas Coyle ten year challenge

I think it's fair to say we ended up better off. But we did find ourselves very bitter for quite a while.

I do worry about the amount of times '10 years ahead' comes up. 10 years ago Bolton were where we are now.
Hopefully in 10 years time we won't be in the same position as Bolton.
by JTClaret
Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:20 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: LaLiga (Segunda Division)
Replies: 32
Views: 3586

Re: LaLiga (Segunda Division)

I’m surprised nobody had mentioned the possible detrimental effect on gates? Bob Lord stood his ground for years on the matter, which sadly means that there is very little footage of our great 1960’s sides, but it will put some off attending if all games are free. I could see the benefit of doing i...
by JTClaret
Mon Jan 14, 2019 1:36 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: have we got too much know how to go down?
Replies: 76
Views: 5685

Re: have we got too much know how to go down?

To me there is a big difference between this team and the previous teams that have been relegated. I can't put my finger on what it is, but we seem more composed in battle for the relegation fight games. We also have more fight than the likes of Fulham, who spent over £100m on 'quality'. We are just...
by JTClaret
Thu Jan 03, 2019 10:54 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Maupay
Replies: 53
Views: 9791

Re: Maupay

Waiting and seeing is because we don't want to pay the premium, sometimes it might just get us a player because we've waited. It's the way we do it and we have to accept that. I appreciate that in the normal world this works and is the right thing to do. However, the club must have realised by now ...
by JTClaret
Thu Jan 03, 2019 10:05 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 38 points
Replies: 51
Views: 6998

Re: 38 points

Has nobody ever noticed how every season people say it will be the lowest ever points total to stay up... and every year it's roughly the same
by JTClaret
Wed Jan 02, 2019 11:44 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: This House Believes the Championship is Better Than the Premier League
Replies: 43
Views: 4038

Re: This House Believes the Championship is Better Than the Premier League

Does that mean if you were in the Championship you'd only want us to do 'okay' because you wouldn't want promotion?
Perhaps you'd wish for league 1 because there even less money...

I do not understand people like you. I hope we never leave the top division.
by JTClaret
Mon Dec 31, 2018 12:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Heaton is staying put
Replies: 41
Views: 6556

Re: Heaton is staying put

I really feel for Hart. There's no doubt Heaton gave us a boost yesterday, but Hart must be slightly annoyed he hasn't seen a performance like that in front of him since he arrived. I think he genuinely wants to bed in at a good club and settle, not seen a trace of ego since he came and it's unfort...
by JTClaret
Mon Dec 31, 2018 12:33 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mcneil
Replies: 85
Views: 8814

Re: Mcneil

He looked to be the answer to what we wanted and needed in the last transfer window - plus he looked better than when he played at the start of the season so obviously improving. Defended like Arfield and attacked like nobody else we have, fantastic to watch. And his play was so simply the midfielde...
by JTClaret
Fri Dec 28, 2018 1:30 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Your team for West Ham
Replies: 106
Views: 8743

Re: Your team for West Ham

I'd love to see Vydra and Vokes - For the Vokes/Gray, Vokes/Ings type partnership going.
That does mean dropping Barnes... which I don't like.
by JTClaret
Fri Dec 28, 2018 1:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Who should be dropped for Sunday's game?
Replies: 80
Views: 7651

Re: Who should be dropped for Sunday's game?

Hart - I've supported him all season, but the mixture of not coming for crosses or commanding the defence is now worryingly obvious. The first he should have come for, or had a defender to lead and get it cleared, the 4th wouldn't have happened with a 'Heaton "Out"' shout Mee - I don't want rid, far...
by JTClaret
Mon Dec 24, 2018 10:06 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Replacing Defour
Replies: 39
Views: 3848

Re: Replacing Defour

We need a quick player who loves to run with the ball.
Somebody who makes something happen
by JTClaret
Mon Dec 24, 2018 10:01 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The lowest survival points
Replies: 44
Views: 3708

Re: The lowest survival points

If a team needs more than 40 points to survive this or pretty much any season these days then there has to been an enormous collapse in form of the top clubs. It's happened only once in a 38 game season - West Ham 42 pts. And the average for a team going down is less than 37, so that total will kee...