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by Hipper
Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Words not to be used in the same sentence
Replies: 105
Views: 4043

Re: Words not to be used in the same sentence

It depends on the situation whether you've got family, you hardly have freedom anyway if you have bills & mouths to feed or tied to a dead end job you despise but need to continue with. It can turn your life around for the better if you make most of the opportunities afforded, I wouldn't be opposed...
by Hipper
Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Words not to be used in the same sentence
Replies: 105
Views: 4043

Re: Words not to be used in the same sentence

Not sure I haven't asked them, but I've yet to come across any other institution where you get free board, square meals, laundry service, gym membership, free haircuts & prioritised medical & dental care & fast gateways to counselling, I might have to edit this post before I'm done because no doubt...
by Hipper
Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:55 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ARTICLE: Twine signs on loan at Bristol City
Replies: 45
Views: 4505

Re: ARTICLE: Twine signs on loan at Bristol City

That is somewhat inaccurate, they also whack them into the Cricketfield. The best I read on these lines was of Traore at Wolves. With Jimenez playing he always managed to cross the ball into the stands. Strangely when Jimenez was injured and actually sitting in the stands Traore suddenly became mor...
by Hipper
Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:58 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: World War II hero (RIP)
Replies: 10
Views: 1011

Re: World War II hero (RIP)

Some people aren't going to like what I say here but I don't care! I don't think this fellow was sent to war. He wanted to fight. He sounds like the sort of person war is made for. He was not an ordinary person. I can't comment on whether he was scared or not. Certainly what he did was brave in our ...
by Hipper
Fri Jan 12, 2024 2:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer window rumours.
Replies: 2353
Views: 284150

Re: January transfer window rumours.

https://www.teamtalk.com/chelsea/blues- ... -its-place

There was apparently also huge competition for Remco van der Schaaf!
by Hipper
Fri Jan 12, 2024 2:33 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Seven Virtues of Mental Health
Replies: 33
Views: 2218

Re: The Seven Virtues of Mental Health

Six of those seven, and even the possibly seventh (strong support network) are the usual suggestions for a healthy body.

Do these make up 57% of the causes of mental health issues?

Who is actually going to change their ways on looking at this list?
by Hipper
Fri Jan 12, 2024 2:19 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Supervised teeth cleaning.
Replies: 69
Views: 3113

Re: Supervised teeth cleaning.

AmbleClaret wrote:
Thu Jan 11, 2024 8:45 pm
Ask me,I'll tell you all about it. Ran a very successful NHS only practice in Padiham until 2009. I'll happily tell you why I packed it up.
I'd like to know.
by Hipper
Mon Jan 08, 2024 5:10 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Advice required: New TV & sound
Replies: 150
Views: 15033

Re: Advice required: New TV & sound

My TV is 50" and I sit 2.8m away from it. I find that fine. I have it at eye level my eye in line with its centre. I've never been interested in surround sound etc as I don't particularly watch modern films. What I use is this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07GVRM1TJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_as...
by Hipper
Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:30 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Cotterill
Replies: 107
Views: 10715

Re: Cotterill

Suffered from having to sell key players - Chaplow, Blake, Akinbiyi - but was pretty good in the transfer market - Wayne Thomas anyone, not to mention Ian Moore to Leeds for actual money.
by Hipper
Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:24 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Adding or taking away from a contract.
Replies: 16
Views: 1446

Re: Adding or taking away from a contract.

With Virgin Media, if you are on a contract, the basic contract - (broadband, land line, TV) is the contract but additions, which can be added at anytime such as Sky Sports, are not, so one month's notice can be given to cancel these. My guess is BT and Sky are similar but I don't know. Virgin are q...
by Hipper
Sun Jan 07, 2024 12:34 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Amdouni
Replies: 133
Views: 17075

Re: Amdouni

I think VK is incredibly lucky not to have been sacked ..it is rubbish talk about projects ...kids talk on football manager ...it is 3 points on a Saturday which is important...but I would give him the first 15 matches of next season It depends on what his understandings with Pace and the board are...
by Hipper
Sun Jan 07, 2024 8:43 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Amdouni
Replies: 133
Views: 17075

Re: Amdouni

Personally I'd say that Foster, O'Shea, Odobert, Koleosho, Berge and Trafford have all noticeably improved. I'd agree mostly with that. Not sure on Koleosho as he was good to start with but I don't think got better - no real end product. Odobert the same. I'd add Delacroix, based only on Friday. Un...
by Hipper
Sun Jan 07, 2024 8:35 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: How things have changed
Replies: 10
Views: 2420

Re: How things have changed

Bfc wrote:
Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:29 pm
Cabbage, don't be expecting Jasmine tea when you come to my house for a brew. It will be in the usual beaker, not in a bone China cup and saucer.
What's wrong with drink tea out of the saucer?
by Hipper
Sun Jan 07, 2024 8:32 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: RATE THE REF - Sam Barrott v Tottenham (F.A Cup)
Replies: 22
Views: 1503

Re: RATE THE REF - Sam Barrott v Tottenham (F.A Cup)

Al Dakhil and Tresor were ready to come on. The papers were with the fourth official and he had the board at his knees.
by Hipper
Sat Jan 06, 2024 5:07 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Amdouni
Replies: 133
Views: 17075

Re: Amdouni

Funny. I started reading this thread thinking 'yes, yes, I agree with that' and then realised that it was started in September after three matches. Yet here we are talking about him in exactly the same way. He does not seem to have progressed whereas others have. I would like to see Brun Larson give...
by Hipper
Sat Jan 06, 2024 4:51 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Foster
Replies: 21
Views: 4396

Re: Foster

I thought it was an interesting sub that gave us more energy up front and led us to have more of the game and look a bit more threatening. I agree though it had little overall effect - we created very little.
by Hipper
Sat Jan 06, 2024 4:49 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: How things have changed
Replies: 10
Views: 2420

Re: How things have changed

I got mine from Whittards:

https://www.whittard.co.uk/
by Hipper
Sat Jan 06, 2024 4:36 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: RATE THE REF - Sam Barrott v Tottenham (F.A Cup)
Replies: 22
Views: 1503

Re: RATE THE REF - Sam Barrott v Tottenham (F.A Cup)

Again from TV so no ratings. It was a good performance and I can only make a few nit picks. 1. Our two yellows. I think both given for the Spurs players rolling about in agony. They were nothing incidents at best so I'm not sure why Cullen's one was checked for, presumably, a possible red. 2. Their ...
by Hipper
Sat Jan 06, 2024 4:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tottenham v Burnley - Player Ratings
Replies: 121
Views: 11216

Re: Tottenham v Burnley - Player Ratings

From TV. Muric 6 Solid goalkeeping. Saveable saves and safe on crosses and corners. Passing difficult because, as has been widely discussed, players aren’t available to pass to. My only criticism of him was his performance on the goal. I’m not saying he could have saved it (a brilliant strike by Por...
by Hipper
Thu Jan 04, 2024 12:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: James Webb telescope
Replies: 33
Views: 2888

Re: James Webb telescope

I don't pretend to understand Spiral's opus but what I think I understand is that it is no help whatsoever! You may be right that we can only understand the universe using maths but most people don't think like that. I certainly don't. Beyond simple equations like E=mc2 I'm lost. Firstly we need the...
by Hipper
Thu Jan 04, 2024 12:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: James Webb telescope
Replies: 33
Views: 2888

Re: James Webb telescope

One statistic that really boggles my mind, is the fact that every single star that we are able to see from Earth with the naked eye, is in our own Milky Way galaxy. Stars in the trillions of other galaxies are just too far away to be visible, except to telescopes like Hubble and James Webb. Some of...
by Hipper
Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:47 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley Town centre Bar break ins
Replies: 85
Views: 8370

Re: Burnley Town centre Bar break ins

Speeding. Speed limits are there mostly for people's safety (also for traffic management and air pollution). Anybody who drive's over the speed limit is driving without consideration. People who get caught do not have my sympathy. Burglaries. We (in Hertfordshire) recently had a burglary at a Pizza ...
by Hipper
Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The weather
Replies: 28
Views: 3784

Re: The weather

I prefer a more mathematical method - storm 2024-1, 2024-2 etc.. Or you could extend it to a whole date when it first hits the UK or is discovered - storm 2024-1-2 or whatever.

Or some number plate method with a letter for the year and another letter for the storm.

I'm full of good ideas.
by Hipper
Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:10 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: James Webb telescope
Replies: 33
Views: 2888

Re: James Webb telescope

You have to also remember that we have only been in space for sixty years or so. It's taken us humans something like two million years to achieve this. Then take into account our precarious and perhaps unusual situation - how our solar system and earth itself evolved leading to the the peculiarity t...
by Hipper
Mon Jan 01, 2024 11:19 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dear PGMOL
Replies: 210
Views: 13596

Re: Dear PGMOL

quoonbeatz wrote:
Mon Jan 01, 2024 11:03 am
It's a really easy job.
I remember you said that before.
by Hipper
Mon Jan 01, 2024 10:34 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: MEANWHILE
Replies: 3
Views: 1381

Re: MEANWHILE

'At the beginning of 2023, Mr Potter said his wife told him about a holiday club in Lanzarote she wanted to visit. He wanted to take her but he could not swim.' Didn't he realise you don't have to swim to Lanzarote? I'm surprised a paratrooper wasn't taught to swim. After all you can land anywhere ...
by Hipper
Mon Jan 01, 2024 10:30 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dear PGMOL
Replies: 210
Views: 13596

Re: Dear PGMOL

But the referees (through the instructions they have been given) reward that cheating. If cheating was punished rather than rewarded it would be a much more risky option and far fewer players would do it. There's pretty much no downside to exaggerating or initiating contact so why not do it? I don'...
by Hipper
Mon Jan 01, 2024 10:16 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Benson to Southampton
Replies: 562
Views: 56955

Re: Benson to Southampton

Potentially some performance benefits to it apparently… https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12896337/amp/Liverpools-Wataru-Endo-reveals-reason-wears-gum-shield-matches-midfielder-says-makes-look-like-fighter.html I’d only sell Benson to Southampton if it meant we got Clarke in return...
by Hipper
Sun Dec 31, 2023 6:51 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: RIP John Pilger
Replies: 32
Views: 2574

Re: RIP John Pilger

His work was certainly thought provoking which made him different and interesting. However I later thought he had an agenda and no longer trusted his reporting.
by Hipper
Sun Dec 31, 2023 6:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: RATE THE REF - Stuart Attwell v Aston Villa
Replies: 47
Views: 3985

Re: RATE THE REF - Stuart Attwell v Aston Villa

ClaretTony wrote:
Sun Dec 31, 2023 12:29 pm
Villa penalty - if that's a penalty, the game is broken, it's a dive and nothing other than a dive. The, in the aftermath, Jacob Ramsey punches Connor Roberts. It's seen by Attwell who YELLOW cards him.
The game is broken for me and likely many others. I just wish I wasn't addicted to it.
by Hipper
Sun Dec 31, 2023 6:19 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dear PGMOL
Replies: 210
Views: 13596

Re: Dear PGMOL

Most referees are football fans and have likely played football but probably not at any significant level. How many fans on here have not played football yet sit in judgement of players and referees? More to the point, how many people on here have actually had a go at refereeing? Try it. Watch a gam...
by Hipper
Sun Dec 31, 2023 5:56 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Benson to Southampton
Replies: 562
Views: 56955

Re: Benson to Southampton

Benson. Last season was his best ever at age 27. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Benson Can he get better? Doubtful. Can he play at Premier League level. Unlikely. If we can get good money for him now is the time to sell. Zaroury. Impressive start last season but post World Cup I thought he was...
by Hipper
Sun Dec 31, 2023 5:08 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Fosters Improvement
Replies: 119
Views: 8340

Re: Fosters Improvement

The Sky Soccer Saturday pundit covering our game yesterday was ex player Steve Sidwell and during the second half commented “Lyle Foster has been really excellent and wouldn’t look out of place in a top six side”. If Lyle stays fit and well, and continues his rate of progression scoring goals, I wo...
by Hipper
Sun Dec 31, 2023 12:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Staring into the abyss, with some optimism…
Replies: 69
Views: 4901

Re: Staring into the abyss, with some optimism…

I always look for a positive in any conversation relating to BFC and right now, it’d be very easy to throw the towel in on the season. So how do we go about trying to enjoy the rest of the season, when the outlook in the short term, doesn’t look too great? UTC We're still in the FA Cup. Perhaps we ...
by Hipper
Sun Dec 31, 2023 12:06 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Puns: What's the UK's funniest business name?
Replies: 74
Views: 4441

Re: Puns: What's the UK's funniest business name?

Emma Peel of the Avengers was apparently M Appeal which equals Man Appeal.

New Musical Express - NME - Enemy.
by Hipper
Sun Dec 31, 2023 11:31 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dear PGMOL
Replies: 210
Views: 13596

Re: Dear PGMOL

The biggest issue in the Premier League is not the quality of referees but the incessant cheating by the players, probably encouraged (certainly not discouraged) by their managers.
by Hipper
Sun Dec 31, 2023 11:23 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: RATE THE REF - Stuart Attwell v Aston Villa
Replies: 47
Views: 3985

Re: RATE THE REF - Stuart Attwell v Aston Villa

Key decisions: Burnley goal given offside - Likely was a whisker offside but on the freeze frame they used to draw lines Fosters blur of a boot was approximately 2 foot long. Just goes to show the cameras aren't quick enough to accurately call those. Deliberate handball - Foster looks to be getting...
by Hipper
Sat Dec 30, 2023 7:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dear PGMOL
Replies: 210
Views: 13596

Re: Dear PGMOL

It looks to me like the handball has given Foster an opportunity to score. Without the handball the defender is in control even after it bounces off his thigh.
by Hipper
Sat Dec 30, 2023 10:13 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: More Woes for Turkish Football
Replies: 5
Views: 1249

More Woes for Turkish Football

After the punching of a referee by a club president and later another president taking his team of the pitch after a non award of a penalty: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67688071 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67767410 .... we have this debacle in Saudi Arabia: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sp...
by Hipper
Fri Dec 29, 2023 3:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Puns: What's the UK's funniest business name?
Replies: 74
Views: 4441

Re: Puns: What's the UK's funniest business name?

There was a house moving company called Tooth Removals.
by Hipper
Fri Dec 29, 2023 2:58 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Puns: What's the UK's funniest business name?
Replies: 74
Views: 4441

Re: Puns: What's the UK's funniest business name?

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by Hipper
Fri Dec 29, 2023 7:24 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Should we refuse to have these refs.
Replies: 44
Views: 3251

Re: Should we refuse to have these refs.

I reffed the team I used to play for and was accused by my former teammates of being biased against them!

Yet their opponents said they were impressed I wasn't biased at all!!!

Of course the reality was I was equally useless for both sides.
by Hipper
Thu Dec 28, 2023 6:43 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Get Eric Dyer
Replies: 56
Views: 6075

Re: Get Eric Dyer

More than that though - A Milner type for example set standards from players that have played at the very top for a prolonged period. Jay and Redmond have undoubtedly had good careers in the PL in football and Vigouroux will have a lot of knowledge etc on life as a footballer that's dotted about a ...
by Hipper
Thu Dec 28, 2023 5:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Pop Musicians lost in 2023
Replies: 5
Views: 565

Re: Pop Musicians lost in 2023

I see that they list Sixto Rodrigues who’s remarkable life was told in the film ‘Searching for the Sugar Man’. Sold more records then Elvis Presley in South Africa apparently. We saw him give a perform in Birmingham about ten years ago which was the last time he played in this country I think. As I...
by Hipper
Thu Dec 28, 2023 5:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Pop Musicians lost in 2023
Replies: 5
Views: 565

Re: Pop Musicians lost in 2023

Blimey, I didn't realise Randy Meisner had died. He played bass with the early Eagles amongst others and had a high voice which was great for harmonies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqYxTg-0aTo

Of the Stone Canyon Band, only the drummer, Pat Shanahan, survives.
by Hipper
Thu Dec 28, 2023 5:27 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Pop Musicians lost in 2023
Replies: 5
Views: 565

Pop Musicians lost in 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2023_deaths_in_popular_music One not mentioned - perhaps he wasn't really pop - was Rod King, a pedal steel/Hawaiian guitar player who's claim to fame was playing the pedal steel on The Hollies 'Jennifer Eccles': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoOZsOcfqEQ Pedal...
by Hipper
Thu Dec 28, 2023 5:17 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The End of Roverrrrrrrsss?
Replies: 25
Views: 3070

Re: The End of Roverrrrrrrsss?

There used to be people that say KinG with an extended 'G'.

I know it's a song where perhaps anything goes but here's an example, at 1.08:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV27FvZjq-o

I think the Oldham boys, Barclay James Harvest, often used that 'G'.
by Hipper
Thu Dec 28, 2023 4:52 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Get Eric Dyer
Replies: 56
Views: 6075

Re: Get Eric Dyer

If you get chance go watch lallanas interview on Talksport today. Talks about the importance of having experienced pros around. He talks about how some of there young talent wouldn’t have progressed without the experienced pros around them That may be so but on this thread we are talking about expe...
by Hipper
Thu Dec 28, 2023 3:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Get Eric Dyer
Replies: 56
Views: 6075

Re: Get Eric Dyer

123EasyasBFC wrote:
Thu Dec 28, 2023 12:19 pm
When we got linked with Dier and Evans in the summer, a lot on this site turned their nose up, 2 players who would of been a massive difference, we tried to get Milner to again would of been massive.

Look at the impact Barkley and Townsend are having on Luton
Look at the impact of Redmond.
by Hipper
Thu Dec 28, 2023 3:35 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Who are we catching?
Replies: 108
Views: 7115

Re: Who are we catching?

From what I've seen there is nothing to suggest that we have the capability to get the 'eight or nine wins' that some say we need. I wouldn't say I was OK with it but I find myself resigned to it. As I wrote somewhere before, how can anyone think you can use a group of mostly no or limited Premier L...