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- Mon Dec 04, 2023 2:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Spurs v Burnley FA Cup
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3651
Re: Spurs v Burnley FA Cup
I was in 'top class' at junior school in Haslingden at the time. Bitterly cold with no let up since a day or two after Boxing Day. Fixtures were already in chaos and there seemed little chance of this cup tie being on any time soon. Looking at the weather pre- match and the state of the pitch throug...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Bruun Larsen
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6262
Re: Bruun Larsen
Looks a good footballer on the few times I've seen him. Genuinely two footed and gave their left back a torrid time in the first half. Very calm finish from a player who has played limited football this season. Whether he deserves a start in the team is entirely up to him but with the ability he pos...
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 4:09 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Runcorn v Burnley FAC 1981
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3549
Re: Runcorn v Burnley FAC 1981
Just checked my records & the attendance at Maine Road was actually just short of 28000. Oh, that's interesting. Well short of my 40,000. Wondering how I arrived at.that figure. 🤔. One thing I do recall was that very few Spurs fans made the journey. Nowadays you would expect there to be a significa...
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 9:43 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Runcorn v Burnley FAC 1981
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3549
Re: Runcorn v Burnley FAC 1981
The Grammar School, well educated me. Where did you work Silky? Just a few yards along the road from you at St. Gabriel's. When I went for my interview back in 1973 I sat in the grammar school for a good 15 minutes until a cleaner came along and asked why I was there. I told her and she said I need...
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 9:39 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Runcorn v Burnley FAC 1981
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3549
Re: Runcorn v Burnley FAC 1981
I was at St Theodores at the same time as John Davison, he lived at Waterfoot. I seem to recall that he played for England schoolboys. I think he also played for Altrincham at White Hart Lane against Spurs in the FA Cup, although my memory isn't what it was! He did play for England Schoolboys. I'm ...
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:35 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Tragic accident in North Wales
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2055
Re: Tragic accident in North Wales
It is so undeniably tragic. The young friend of theirs on tv describing how he will never see them again nor hear their familiar voices is heartbreaking. And as already alluded to it is the families and close friends left behind for whom life will never be the same. Time will help but that will be a...
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:28 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Runcorn v Burnley FAC 1981
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3549
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 2:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Runcorn v Burnley FAC 1981
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3549
Re: Runcorn v Burnley FAC 1981
A friend of mine played for Altrincham in the 1970's. John Davison was his name, known by his nickname 'Bobsy'. He got some terrible crowd reaction against him at Everton in an FA Cup tie after he was involved in a collision with their winger John Connolly resulting in a broken leg for the Everton m...
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 1:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 60 Years today....
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2214
Re: 60 Years today....
Remember it well. Early Friday evening when the news filtered through. I was 11 years old, in my first year at grammar school but very aware of older people's feelings and reaction to the news. He was viewed as hope for a post- war future as we entered a new decade. I watched the programme referred ...
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 10:28 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Runcorn v Burnley FAC 1981
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3549
Re: Runcorn v Burnley FAC 1981
When we played Altrincham in the third round we were 18th in the Third Division. After the game the Alty manager said we were so good he thought we’d win promotion. And he was right. Prior to the Altrincham game their midfield player, John King( who years later became their manager), made some disp...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 10:03 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Runcorn v Burnley FAC 1981
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3549
Re: Runcorn v Burnley FAC 1981
Didn’t realise that was the same season we beat Altrincham, vague memories now of going to the replay against Bury but not the game at Gigg. Bury based Clarets, possibly didn’t go to that game after going to the FAC a season or 2 earlier. Game at Bury was eventually on after some cold weather. Bury...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:34 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Everton docked 10 points
- Replies: 258
- Views: 24393
Re: Everton docked 10 points
Grow up silky, my comment was a fair one. I don’t understand the case we have for suing Everton. On the same basis why arnt we suing Man City and Chelsea? Anything is deemed as 'fair' today or do you not find time to watch the news or listen to it. Might be wrong but neither City nor Chelsea 'pippe...
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:06 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Everton docked 10 points
- Replies: 258
- Views: 24393
Re: Everton docked 10 points
Must admit i tend to agree. We are going to sue Everton because the premier league didn’t deduct points from them? It’s a bit of a nonsensical argument And after a hiatus, a brief one admittedly, of a few days here he is yet again looking to provoke posters into further anti-Burnley arguments with ...
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 8:36 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gazza a Claret
- Replies: 51
- Views: 5135
Re: Gazza a Claret
For those that saw him at Sheffield United there is only one verdict. An embarrassing liability.
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 4:29 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Waddle talks Burnley
- Replies: 67
- Views: 7302
Re: Waddle talks Burnley
I don’t think I’ll ever forget the Plymouth game as we could have gone down but it was a cracking game where we played really well with,if I remember correctly,Little supplying Coke with two crosses & Cooke rewarding Little with two goals! Hope that’s right. I thought that Waddle had come to grips ...
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 3:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Covers better than the original
- Replies: 240
- Views: 17265
Re: Covers better than the original
Bob Dylan did a majestic acoustic cover of The Byrds 60's pop classic "My Back Pages". It was quite a turnaround for Dylan to cover The Byrds as the Byrds has already successfully covered a fair few of Bob Dylans songs I think Dylan wrote and recorded that song a few years before The Byrds released...
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Lyle Foster illness
- Replies: 115
- Views: 13941
Re: Lyle Foster illness
Same here Silky, age is no ally when it comes to mental stability, as I'm finding more frequently year on year. Up to the age of 10/11 I was a genuinely carefree happy young lad. That all changed soon afterwards and the next few years were a living nightmare down to a 'family situation'. Never real...
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 6:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Lyle Foster illness
- Replies: 115
- Views: 13941
Re: Lyle Foster illness
Is mental illness something that can be "recovered" from? In my experience it is always there, managed rather than cured and likely to have instances of deterioration. I think you are correct in your assessment. My mental health has plagued me for probably most of my life but it has only been in re...
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: I won't deviate
- Replies: 140
- Views: 9238
Re: I won't deviate
There’s been plenty of suggestions across numerous threads. I did an in depth post on what Forrest did last year to change there points per game. They were an open free flowing time that was struggling, they have set up be much more rigid and as a result had a dramatic increase in points. If I reca...
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 6:15 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: I won't deviate
- Replies: 140
- Views: 9238
Re: I won't deviate
Silky you do realise I am not a professional manager, I am also not getting paid millions of pounds right? This is literally what VK is paid to do. He is paid to find a system that works. Not stick with a style that is failing. As mentioned again, we could go down as the worst premier league team i...
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 12:03 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: I won't deviate
- Replies: 140
- Views: 9238
Re: I won't deviate
Identify our weaknesses and change the system to suit our strengths? Or do we just continue to play a system that specifically exposes our weaknesses and hope it somehow works? I'll try again( God loves a trier). What do you think are our strengths and what 'system' should the manager adopt? Presum...
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 10:59 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Jack Cork’s absence on Saturday
- Replies: 46
- Views: 5898
Re: Jack Cork’s absence on Saturday
Sounds like you are suggesting that the manager should choose his team based on the popularity of players. That can't be right at any level.
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 8:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s football 5.11
- Replies: 172
- Views: 14109
Re: Today’s football 5.11
What are the tactics we need to employ? You keep mentioning them but don't explain how they operate.Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 05, 2023 6:59 pm
Our squad is definitely good enough to stay up. We just need to change tactics/style or get a manager that will
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 6:51 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s football 5.11
- Replies: 172
- Views: 14109
Re: Today’s football 5.11
The tone of your post suggests this question might well be a disingenuous one, but I think I can help out anyway on the off chance you are actually interested. At the start of last season Forest played quite an open and attacking 3412 formation with an emphasis on trying to move the ball around. Af...
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 5:05 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s football 5.11
- Replies: 172
- Views: 14109
Re: Today’s football 5.11
They have dramatically changed their system from the start of last season. We will have to do similar if we want similar returns Can you please explain how they changed ' dramatically'. Personnel I understand but I'm more concerned with their tactical approach that brought about a change in their f...
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 3:27 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Minutes silence yesterday.....
- Replies: 69
- Views: 7679
Re: Minutes silence yesterday.....
It’s always the same, somebody decides to start clapping and everyone feels obliged to follow suit. The announcer needs to say after the Last Post please do not start clapping as there will be a minutes silence which will cease on the referees whistle. Seriously? You think the announcer should pop-...
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 3:21 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s football 5.11
- Replies: 172
- Views: 14109
Re: Today’s football 5.11
'empty stadium'? Nearly 26,000 today.
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 12:59 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Lack of goals
- Replies: 56
- Views: 6240
Re: Lack of goals
I suggested we needed a striker( or two) 8 months ago. But we were in party mood. Criminal that this was overlooked. What we have to offer now up front is shambolic.
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 12:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Todays Football
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1741
Re: Todays Football
So am I so I don't watch it anymore. Just watch my team and that's enough.Vino blanco wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 12:46 pmI'm sick and tired of watching the PL and Var interfering on nearly every bloody goal.
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 5:16 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Team v Palace
- Replies: 210
- Views: 14960
Re: Team v Palace
if Foster is out (and boy that is a blow) then I think I'd play Redmond at number 9, I'm pretty sure he's played there before for Southampton, and Rodriguez has been pretty ineffective. He can come short and go in behind and retains mobility at the top end of the pitch. I don't think Amdouni at num...
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 10:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Two Crystal Palace tickets available
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1350
Re: Two Crystal Palace tickets available
Surely you not wanting them is sufficient. Perhaps someone else is more interested.
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 9:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Spanish visitors this weekend
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4155
Re: Spanish visitors this weekend
Excellent news. Well done Accy Clarets.
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 5:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: Clarets bow out of the League Cup in poor show at Goodison
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1129
Re: REPORT: Clarets bow out of the League Cup in poor show at Goodison
An understandable weariness in recent match reports Tony, looking forward to the time when you can be more upbeat. Very noticeable air of resignation in your tone, CT. More usual( not from you particularly) towards the end of a season when all has been played for. Very worrying when the clocks have...
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 10:30 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Kompany: time to go
- Replies: 779
- Views: 48057
Re: Kompany: time to go
I think VK has got the best part of a few weeks to turn this round. Get back to absolute basics, sort the defence out. If we can start keeping clean sheets the points will come. Concede three a game against Palace/arsenal etc… and I’m not sure he’s going to give Pace any other choice What's ' the b...
- Wed Nov 01, 2023 10:15 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Has VK Lost the dressing room?
- Replies: 110
- Views: 9454
Re: Has VK Lost the dressing room?
He hasn't lost the dressing room he has lost himself. Feel sorry for the guy. His interviews since Chelsea, his body language and his booking tonight indicate he is a broken man, and despite what he says will have the world on his shoulders, Not sure how much pressure the back ground team are takin...
- Wed Nov 01, 2023 10:05 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Muric Beyer Ekdal
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3287
Re: Muric Beyer Ekdal
I imagine his rating has improved significantly since those two fixtures which seem light years ago.KefkaClaret wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 9:26 pmEkdal wasn’t even on the bench against City or Villa, unsure of how much Kompany rates him.
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 11:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Time to get excited. EFL cup- last 16
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3544
Re: Time to get excited. EFL cup- last 16
Evening, Everton fan here in peace. I’m sorry to disappoint you but please check the lineups for the previous two rounds at Doncaster and Villa, Dyche is going for this cup and we played our first team in both games, he doesn’t even swap the GK. We will be full strength again Wednesday, we aren’t i...
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 3:27 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Time to get excited. EFL cup- last 16
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3544
Re: Time to get excited. EFL cup- last 16
Don't think this 'Cup fever' you appear to be focused on has reached Rossendale yet. It's a fixture we could well do without. A third consecutive away game and there must be people who have spent a small fortune over 10 days or so. Of course there is no guarantee of success in these games; that is p...
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 12:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: Bournemouth brings another tough day on the road
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3219
Re: REPORT: Bournemouth brings another tough day on the road
Always feel that when someone resorts to 'couldn't do any worse' then desperation has well and truly set in. Personally I've no idea where we go from now; I'm just a fan and a punter. Tactics are way beyond my skillset but putting two raw central defenders into midfield where neither have ever appea...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 11:16 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Your lowest point as a Burnley fan
- Replies: 145
- Views: 9921
Re: Your lowest point as a Burnley fan
Absolute f***ing horseshit. So why are they wanting Bournemouth to win over us? Aren't they small too? Smaller than us? Why is there an agenda against us? I'm getting rather fed up of this whingeing boll0cks about some kind of conspiracy against us just cos we're Burnley. Bottom line is we're crap ...
- Sat Oct 28, 2023 7:42 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Bournemouth v Burnley - Player Ratings
- Replies: 52
- Views: 5319
Re: Bournemouth v Burnley - Player Ratings
I used the term 'soft touch' last week and that's exactly what we saw again today Trafford-3 There is no stability in the team and much of that emanates from the keeper. Jittery and everything appears rushed. Vitinho- 4 out of his depth at this level Al Dakhil-4 Bullied easily and decision making po...
- Sat Oct 28, 2023 6:30 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Judging after Brentford and Bournemouth
- Replies: 51
- Views: 4377
Re: Judging after Brentford and Bournemouth
No one cares if we’re not good enough,but what we do expect is all the players to put a shift in,either Kompany’s not cracking the whip ,or we’ve a set of spineless players who are sulking after getting a few home truths ,whichever way you put it if you were a neutral fan watching the last 2 games ...
- Sat Oct 28, 2023 11:28 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Your lowest point as a Burnley fan
- Replies: 145
- Views: 9921
Re: Your lowest point as a Burnley fan
Same for me. Nothing else comes remotely close to the drive home from Gresty Rd. Very few words were said in the car as the reality sank in that we were on the edge of the precipice and the ground beneath our feet was crumbling. Agree. That drive home was horrendous( and I wasn't driving). I've men...
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 7:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Your lowest point as a Burnley fan
- Replies: 145
- Views: 9921
Re: Your lowest point as a Burnley fan
As mentioned earlier that 4/5 day hiatus between losing away at Crewe and playing at home to Orient in 1987. The journey home from Crewe in the car was probably the lowest ebb I can ever recall.
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 4:39 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Clarets held by Manchester United in Turf Moor bore draw
- Replies: 6
- Views: 491
Re: ARTICLE: Clarets held by Manchester United in Turf Moor bore draw
I was at the game and as I recall the whole 90 minutes was quite uneventful. I do remember George Best making some sort of comeback that day; not from injury or suspension but one of those self-imposed breaks he had the habit of taking. He was, let's say, overweight when he appeared on the pitch. He...
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 7:07 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: TV Fixtures
- Replies: 79
- Views: 15410
Re: TV Fixtures
I bet you do.
Willie and 'Bomber' Harris with the goals. What a goalscorer he was and idolised by fans at the time. An absolute crying shame what happened to him at Goodison Park. I,I, Irvine, Irvine,I.
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 3:38 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: TV Fixtures
- Replies: 79
- Views: 15410
Re: TV Fixtures
Yes, I went to that. I lived in Lytham then. Blackpool won 4-2. Exactly a week later was my first visit to Ewood. We won 2-0. That's interesting that you went to the last ever Christmas Day fixture between Blackpool and Blackburn because I also went to it. Five of us, dad, uncle, brother and cousin...
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 11:39 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Bournemouth next week
- Replies: 151
- Views: 16512
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 6:49 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: Bad day at Brentford without a drumroll
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4964
Re: REPORT: Bad day at Brentford without a drumroll
Remember thinking something along those lines when we got Lincoln at home in the FA Cup but I totally agree with your premise. Just become a 'soft touch' this season and teams are relishing playing against us.
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 8:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: How do we salvage?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 7558
Re: How do we salvage?
Do you think Tresor really wants to be here? Seemed to do all he could to avoid joining us.Steve-Harpers-perm wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 7:10 pmFrom what I’ve seen so far I’d prefer Tresor on the bench. We have a decent left winger who did ok last season who Kompany seems to have forgotten about!