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by Rileybobs
Sun Jan 15, 2017 3:17 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Cracking Super Sunday today . . .
Replies: 45
Views: 6035

Re: Cracking Super Sunday today . . .

This is pretty hilarious.
by Rileybobs
Sun Jan 15, 2017 12:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ARTICLE: Bamford departure frees up loan slot
Replies: 41
Views: 5719

Re: ARTICLE: Bamford departure frees up loan slot

I wonder whether the search for a permanent striker would be best delayed until the summer considering the strong position we're in. A loan deal may be the best option to plug the gap. We really need to strengthen up top in the summer with a top class player to lead our line though. Without discredi...
by Rileybobs
Sun Jan 15, 2017 11:41 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Cracking Super Sunday today . . .
Replies: 45
Views: 6035

Re: Cracking Super Sunday today . . .

Everton and Liverpool, because the other two teams have disgusting managers.
by Rileybobs
Sun Jan 15, 2017 11:26 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: robert snodgrass
Replies: 163
Views: 31124

Re: robert snodgrass

Surely Hull would rather sell Snodgrass to Burnley rather than to a relegation rival like Middlesbrough.
by Rileybobs
Sat Jan 14, 2017 9:54 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: League Table
Replies: 11
Views: 2647

Re: League Table

We're not going down guys, chill.
by Rileybobs
Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: RATE THE REF - Paul Tierney v Southampton
Replies: 27
Views: 3947

Re: RATE THE REF - Paul Tierney v Southampton

Made an easy game look difficult to referee. I seriously think that refereeing standards are going downhill rapidly. When we first gained promotion to the Premier League I was astonished at how much better the officials were at the top level, we now seem to have a sub-standard performance on a weekl...
by Rileybobs
Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:45 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: boydinho
Replies: 9
Views: 1922

Re: boydinho

Another player who's growing as the season goes on. It was amusing when he took the ball in the corner deep into injury time and didn't even have the energy to control the ball so dribbled straight out of play.
by Rileybobs
Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:43 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Van Dijk
Replies: 59
Views: 8176

Re: Van Dijk

Burnleyareback2 wrote:How the bald dude didn't get a card is beyond me
Romeu's a nasty piece of work. He did finally get a booking for a cynical foul on the touchline but he should have been booked earlier.
by Rileybobs
Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:42 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Van Dijk
Replies: 59
Views: 8176

Re: Van Dijk

wilks_bfc wrote:I couldn't work out whether he was playing centre back or full back. He seemed to be all across the back line
I said the same. He was practically covering for the rest of his defence, particularly the shaky looking Yoshida. Imagine how good he'll be alongside 3 top class defenders.
by Rileybobs
Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:39 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley v Southampton - Player Ratings
Replies: 69
Views: 18085

Re: Burnley v Southampton - Player Ratings

Heaton - 9 - Not a great deal to do but made crucial saves at crucial times towards the end of the game Lowton - 8 - Looking a lot more assured and full of confidence Keane - 8 - Relatively untroubled but a couple of cracking challenges and important blocks Mee - 7 - Was terrorised by Long in the op...
by Rileybobs
Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Fraser Forster
Replies: 12
Views: 2687

Re: Fraser Forster

Heaton certainly didn't do his England status any harm today, Forster did.
by Rileybobs
Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:03 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: In all this Euphoria...
Replies: 22
Views: 3622

Re: In all this Euphoria...

Who?
by Rileybobs
Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: JayRods Reception.
Replies: 95
Views: 11314

Re: JayRods Reception.

Clapping good, singing not good.
by Rileybobs
Sat Jan 14, 2017 1:58 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Which team has dropped the most places?
Replies: 18
Views: 3272

Re: Which team has dropped the most places?

Caernarfon_Claret wrote:FARTHER
Quickenthetempo wrote:Yes Son?
I want to kill you
by Rileybobs
Sat Jan 14, 2017 1:11 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Has Costa had his head turned by offer from China?
Replies: 46
Views: 5384

Re: Has Costa had his head turned by offer from China?

Bordeauxclaret wrote:This is why it's not going to be a problem long term. The kick off times.
The kick off times would be pretty convenient for the one and a half billion Chinese people though.
by Rileybobs
Sat Jan 14, 2017 12:45 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sunlan game - pay on gate query
Replies: 23
Views: 3916

Re: Sunlan game

Didnt we have the option to print your own tickets or am I imaging that? If we get past the third round the club are hoping to introduce the option to 3D print your own seat for the game against Bristol City or Fleetwood Town. They're currently having difficulties with the Print a Seat for a Friend...
by Rileybobs
Sat Jan 14, 2017 12:31 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: A little light humour
Replies: 9
Views: 2368

Re: A little light humour

Dyche always has an itchy nose immediately after we score.
by Rileybobs
Thu Jan 12, 2017 8:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Soft southerners taking a pasting
Replies: 36
Views: 4932

Re: Soft southerners taking a pasting

Remember to wear gloves and take a brolly with you if you go out. And walk around puddles. Good luck folks.
by Rileybobs
Thu Jan 12, 2017 8:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Team to spank the saints
Replies: 32
Views: 4920

Re: Team to spank the saints

Heaton
Lowton Keane Mee Ward
Boyd Marney Defour Hendrick
Gray Barnes

Easy selection.
by Rileybobs
Thu Jan 12, 2017 7:58 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tom Heaton's first cap has arrived
Replies: 17
Views: 4155

Re: Tom Heaton's first cap has arrived

It looks like the rain is just going to soak straight through that. Not ideal for this time of year.
by Rileybobs
Thu Jan 12, 2017 4:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Making A Murderer - Update
Replies: 21
Views: 5061

Re: Making A Murderer - Update

Paradise Lost trumps the lot.

Jinx was good, The Staircase is also decent.
by Rileybobs
Thu Jan 12, 2017 1:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Robbie brady
Replies: 112
Views: 21152

Re: Robbie brady

ashtonlongsider wrote:I personally would prefer us to sign Charlie Taylor from Leeds.
I presume if we were to sign Brady it would be primarily to play in the left of the midfield.
by Rileybobs
Thu Jan 12, 2017 1:12 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Robbie brady
Replies: 112
Views: 21152

Re: Robbie brady

The perfect signing.
by Rileybobs
Thu Jan 12, 2017 12:55 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Yuto Nagatomo/David Santon
Replies: 120
Views: 20416

Re: Yuto Nagatomo/David Santon

Would this help to bring more Asians to the Turf?
by Rileybobs
Wed Jan 11, 2017 7:17 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Max Gradel
Replies: 35
Views: 8974

Re: Max Gradel

JohnMac wrote:He came out of a cubicle with a young 'lady' as I was going into the toilets at Dom Matteo's bar, the Leeds players who were there cheered him.

I'm so glad I never had Daughters.
Direct with end product, sounds like just what we need.
by Rileybobs
Wed Jan 11, 2017 7:12 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Wedding Photographers.
Replies: 49
Views: 6397

Re: Wedding Photographers.

A chap called Nikon D5500 shot my wedding.
by Rileybobs
Wed Jan 11, 2017 1:42 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ISP Help
Replies: 32
Views: 5237

Re: ISP Help

WestMidsClaret wrote:Hope it can handle be hammered at night!
What you use the internet for is your own business.
by Rileybobs
Wed Jan 11, 2017 1:30 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer questions
Replies: 37
Views: 5701

Re: January transfer questions

1. Without a doubt. The idea some people have that those responsible for recruitment sit on their hands until the last day of the window then start making desperate bids is idiotic. 2. I would expect the deals to be done on the 30th/31st January -Monday and Tuesday 3. Disappointed. Whilst the squad ...
by Rileybobs
Wed Jan 11, 2017 1:06 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Saturday's Game
Replies: 18
Views: 5307

Re: Saturday's Game

I once remember seeing what looked to be Leon Cort's corpse in our penalty area, he then proceeded to move.
by Rileybobs
Tue Jan 10, 2017 7:06 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: David Bowie - 10th January
Replies: 13
Views: 2463

Re: David Bowie - 10th January

As great as Bowie was, and he was, there was plenty of dross around in his hay day too.
by Rileybobs
Tue Jan 10, 2017 7:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley v Sunderland – Cup Ticket Information
Replies: 51
Views: 6765

Re: Burnley v Sunderland – Cup Ticket Information

Genuine question, why would people rather use the ticket hotline rather than the website?
by Rileybobs
Tue Jan 10, 2017 6:57 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Trippier
Replies: 77
Views: 15146

Re: Trippier

Football changes. Defenders have got better and full backs are far more quick and athletic. It's much harder for a winger to get into a crossing position and then deliver a cross. Strikers who are big, strong in the air, old fashioned number 10's are few and far between. These are a few of the reaso...
by Rileybobs
Tue Jan 10, 2017 2:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 48 team World Cup approved
Replies: 39
Views: 5324

Re: 48 team World Cup approved

Bin Ont Turf wrote:Aye they never think of us fans.

I'm going have to build a wall just for the wall chart now.
Get the Mexicans to pay for it.
by Rileybobs
Tue Jan 10, 2017 1:57 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 48 team World Cup approved
Replies: 39
Views: 5324

Re: 48 team World Cup approved

starting_11 wrote:It's not so much to do with England's rank, If we left we would take a big chunk of the global TV audience out of the equation and with it, a lot of money.

Speak FIFA's language!
What exactly would we gain from that?
by Rileybobs
Tue Jan 10, 2017 1:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Matt Lowton
Replies: 42
Views: 7484

Re: Matt Lowton

He's been better since he came back into the side for Flanagan since serving his suspension.
by Rileybobs
Tue Jan 10, 2017 8:59 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Help from builders please
Replies: 23
Views: 3733

Re: Help from builders please

There'll be a fair bit of muck to shift off site! There's no way you'll get planning to take a driveway all the way to the house, IMO. This would result in what would be about a 5m high retaining wall which will destroy the character of the street scene. Is there not the potential to get some parkin...
by Rileybobs
Sun Jan 08, 2017 10:53 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ashley westwood
Replies: 38
Views: 7199

Re: ashley westwood

(*)(*)

lol
by Rileybobs
Sun Jan 08, 2017 7:38 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Interesting (possibly delusional!) interpretation of yesterday by the Sunderland press...
Replies: 16
Views: 4567

Re: Interesting (possibly delusional!) interpretation of yesterday by the Sunderland press...

Some bloke wrote:Be interesting to see to what extent. To see who, then, plays.

But that is then. For now, fair play.

They wanted to win, and went for it.
I believe he's to be appointed as Poet Laureate this year.
by Rileybobs
Sun Jan 08, 2017 7:33 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Trippier
Replies: 77
Views: 15146

Re: Trippier

Kyle Walker is a better player, comfortably. Trippier was impressive today though and I agree with the poster who commented on him looking trimmer and more athletic - his build was something that I thought would hold him back but he looked in good shape.
by Rileybobs
Sun Jan 08, 2017 2:55 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 9/11
Replies: 265
Views: 26467

Re: 9/11

Bump, just cos this thread is a good laugh.
by Rileybobs
Sun Jan 08, 2017 1:01 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Landline phones
Replies: 22
Views: 4525

Re: Landline phones

What the hell is a landline phone?
by Rileybobs
Sat Jan 07, 2017 10:26 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Rooney V's Charlton
Replies: 79
Views: 6269

Re: Rooney V's Charlton

gawthorpe_view wrote:Charlton won the World Cup, that trumps anything and everything Rooney has achieved.
That has little bearing on measuring Rooney's ability.
by Rileybobs
Sat Jan 07, 2017 7:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Rooney V's Charlton
Replies: 79
Views: 6269

Re: Rooney V's Charlton

He's good but he wouldn't beat a League 1 side sigle-handedly.
by Rileybobs
Fri Jan 06, 2017 11:31 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bringing More Asians to the Turf
Replies: 124
Views: 14337

Re: Bringing More Asians to the Turf

We've already tried to stamp out racism from the stands and introduced Balti pies but these incentives haven't worked. What we need to do is bring in a rule which says that for every, say, 5 white British season ticket holders we must have an Asian season ticket holder.
by Rileybobs
Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:27 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 9/11
Replies: 265
Views: 26467

Re: 9/11

No I wouldn't expect the core to remain upright, so where did it go? (Before it was illegally removed from the crime scene and shipped overseas, that is). But it's stretching things a bit to suggest that the core (or parts of it) all fell neatly into the footprint. Which of the two scenarios is str...
by Rileybobs
Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:06 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 9/11
Replies: 265
Views: 26467

Re: 9/11

I'm getting pretty sick of your anger-driven abuse - it's you who is the troll! As we know, the core was a 1000ft length of box sections welded together. Assuming that it didn't sink 1000 feet into the ground, what happened to it? You do know that a 1000ft length of steel sections welded together i...
by Rileybobs
Thu Jan 05, 2017 1:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tom Cleverly
Replies: 143
Views: 24375

Re: Tom Cleverly

Could easily be describing Arfield or Boyd. Cleverley's better than both in almost every respect. I'm sure he is, but given our current position and new found wealth I'd like to think that we're setting the bar higher than 'better than Arfield and Boyd'. I don't think he'd be a terrible signing, I ...
by Rileybobs
Thu Jan 05, 2017 1:07 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tom Cleverly
Replies: 143
Views: 24375

Re: Tom Cleverly

I just don't rate him. He works hard and he's a tidy enough footballer but he doesn't seem to do much, ever. He's got all the hand gestures and gesticulations whilst making a point of showing for the ball in areas of the pitch where he won't influence the game. I'd file him in the category of ex-Man...
by Rileybobs
Wed Jan 04, 2017 9:12 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tom Cleverly
Replies: 143
Views: 24375

Re: Tom Cleverly

If there is a god, please don't let this happen, please.