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by timshorts
Fri Feb 11, 2022 7:55 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Oldest player seen at Turf Moor in your lifetime?
Replies: 45
Views: 3176

Re: Oldest player seen at Turf Moor in your lifetime?

Claretforever wrote:
Fri Feb 11, 2022 7:07 am
I’m struggling with the fact that Ron Futcher is only 65 now. How has he remained 65 for over 30 years? :shock:
He has chained his twin brother up in the loft and gone the full dorian grey.
by timshorts
Wed Feb 09, 2022 7:44 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Name the Clarets forwards
Replies: 21
Views: 2042

Re: Name the Clarets forwards

Devils_Advocate wrote:
Mon Feb 07, 2022 11:32 am
The blokes on the front row are Dyche's main targets for this summer.
Ok
John Ritchie, Alan bloor, George Eastham, Harry burrows, Dennis Smith?
by timshorts
Tue Feb 08, 2022 10:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: fao hoskinsgoalatswansea
Replies: 24
Views: 2291

Re: fao hoskinsgoalatswansea

Whitgord wrote:
Sun Feb 06, 2022 1:11 pm
What a run, don’t remember seeing that before.
Neither do I, and I think I saw it live......
by timshorts
Tue Feb 08, 2022 10:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: In Memoriam
Replies: 58
Views: 6788

Re: In Memoriam

You can add man United's champions league prospects to the list now after the second half performance today. Even Paul merson saying that we deserved the point.

Hope all those remembered were able to enjoy it in the afterlife. If they can somehow help us get something from the Scousers, even better.
by timshorts
Sat Feb 05, 2022 7:22 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Six Nations 2022
Replies: 116
Views: 6392

Re: Six Nations 2022

Ah yes the Bosses game, dead sound they are. There's the thing. It's only like that in England. That's why the rest of us have it bred into them to want England Rugby to lose every game. And to be honest, there are patches in England where it is not like that either - the west country and east Midl...
by timshorts
Fri Feb 04, 2022 10:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: A favourite song for each decade you’ve been here!
Replies: 28
Views: 1690

Re: A favourite song for each decade you’ve been here!

60's. Generally, what I heard in the 60's was pretty shite all round, but much later I got to hear hendrix, jefferson airplane, velvet underground etc. For the sheer exuberant power though ill pick "communication breakdown" by zeppelin which just makes the time frame. 70's. At the time, I'd have bee...
by timshorts
Sun Jan 30, 2022 10:59 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Most number of grounds
Replies: 38
Views: 3186

Re: Most number of grounds

Not the correct team, but in one 12 month period I saw rye play home games at Tunbridge Wells, little common, bexhill, lancing, rye, Ringmer and arundel. Most were as a result of a fire, but the last one was "cricketers on the pitch". Makes me think that in the clubs early days, we may well have pla...
by timshorts
Sun Jan 30, 2022 7:52 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mason Greenwood
Replies: 300
Views: 30797

Re: Mason Greenwood

Ched Evans, Lee Hughes and the ex-Plymouth (?) keeper returned at other clubs but in this day and age, can anyone realistically see Greenwood pulling another shirt on after this, let alone an MUFC one ? The circumstances in the ched Evans case were so far from similar fact to this, I don't think th...
by timshorts
Sun Jan 30, 2022 7:35 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: NFL. Brady
Replies: 21
Views: 2141

Re: NFL. Brady

So that instead of talking about cincinatti we have half an hour of talking about Brady again. And then another lot when he actually does retire. It's a bit like turning on to watch Southampton v burnley and the build up is bleating on about Liverpool and man u. Somebody has said something to scheft...
by timshorts
Sat Jan 29, 2022 11:45 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: NFL. Brady
Replies: 21
Views: 2141

Re: NFL. Brady

A slightly strange tribute to him on sky sports. As if they'd never heard of deflategate.

Hands down the most successful qb of all time. I never warmed to him, mainly due to his little tantrums with team mates during games. Not a person I'd want to play with. A bit like Roy Keane.
by timshorts
Thu Jan 27, 2022 7:17 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Rabbi Matondo
Replies: 12
Views: 2396

Re: Rabbi Matondo

Yes he's quick, but......

I can't admit to being really excited when he comes off the bench. A bit like when jonny Williams comes on.
If anderlecht have taught him to cross the ball it might be a different matter.
by timshorts
Mon Jan 24, 2022 8:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ranieri sacked
Replies: 100
Views: 7387

Re: Ranieri sacked

dsr wrote:
Mon Jan 24, 2022 5:10 pm
If sacking the manager meant an improvement in results, then why aren't Watford top 4 every year?
Because they don't sack people often enough. Every 3-4 weeks would be optimum.
by timshorts
Sun Jan 23, 2022 8:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Will the D of Y ever see inside a courtroom?
Replies: 128
Views: 8838

Re: Will the D of Y ever see inside a courtroom?

Burnley Ace wrote:
Sun Jan 23, 2022 8:25 pm
The poor qualify for Legal Aid, it’s the middle class that can’t afford it.
It's a civil action.
by timshorts
Sun Jan 23, 2022 6:27 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: NFL playoffs
Replies: 70
Views: 4247

Re: NFL playoffs

Packers was a shock. Will be interesting to see what happens there next year if Rodgers goes The salary that Rodgers is due to get next season will mean that he is likely to stay, I'd have thought. My guess is that he tries to lie low this off season as the packers hierarchy try to get him to exten...
by timshorts
Sun Jan 23, 2022 6:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: NFL playoffs
Replies: 70
Views: 4247

Re: NFL playoffs

[quote=Belial post_id=1730391 time=1642939845 user_id=713 I fancied the Bengals, though to win on the road after Burrow being sacked 9 times shows they're a solid team throughout [/quote] Not sure it says that about their on-line. Let's see who they get in the championship game. Rams in the sbowl mi...
by timshorts
Sun Jan 23, 2022 7:18 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: NFL playoffs
Replies: 70
Views: 4247

Re: NFL playoffs

Well done bengals. Two sides from strong divisions go through again.
Two more away wins tonight please.
by timshorts
Sat Jan 22, 2022 6:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton fans today
Replies: 26
Views: 2557

Re: Everton fans today

I haven't been in the away end at OT, just the home end for Carrick's testimonial and I don't recall them banning lids from bottles. Wembley take your bottle lids. Somewhere else did it too a few years back, but can't remember where we were. It's sort of annoying when you need water to take your dr...
by timshorts
Fri Jan 21, 2022 5:31 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tommy Hutchison
Replies: 55
Views: 7689

Re: Tommy Hutchison

I travelled on the Merthyr team coach a couple of times when he was with them. On one of those, someone must have mentioned that I was a supporter of the opposition. That happened once a year when Merthyr played at Boston united while both were in the conference. Usually I was on the supporters coac...
by timshorts
Fri Jan 21, 2022 8:13 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: New changes to Highway Code
Replies: 26
Views: 2049

Re: New changes to Highway Code

Rileybobs wrote:
Thu Jan 20, 2022 11:52 pm
Baby Jesus isn’t in heaven because Jesus died when he was of adult age.
So heaven is full of old people then?
Just with their dementia cured and not needing false teeth any more?
by timshorts
Fri Jan 21, 2022 8:06 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Talk sport this morning
Replies: 111
Views: 9097

Re: Talk sport this morning

I think this thread is just a parody thread designed to allow some politics to get passed the mods. I haven't worked out exactly which of the present cabinet is represented by each of the "presenters", but cottoned on when people started complaining that the quality had recently gone downhill and th...
by timshorts
Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:30 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: NFL playoffs
Replies: 70
Views: 4247

Re: NFL playoffs

My first year in the US was 1992. In the middle of nowhere, we had a giant aerial mast on our roof, which I could turn (by hand) to point different directions towards different cities tv stations. On Sundays we’d point at Tampa about 60 miles away so we could watch some football. They went 1-15 wit...
by timshorts
Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:07 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Misogyny rife of football messageboards
Replies: 58
Views: 3353

Re: Misogyny rife of football messageboards

It's clear as day on here when Emma Hayes, Chelsea's WSL manager, is added to the conversation about available jobs in men's football :lol: There are a lot of clubs I'd happily see her manage. It's her voice that grates. It's got nothing to do with her being a woman. The man in the cinch adverts ta...
by timshorts
Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Misogyny rife of football messageboards
Replies: 58
Views: 3353

Re: Misogyny rife of football messageboards

Murray would certainly beat Raducanu, and if it wasn't 6-0 6-0 I'd fall over backwards. He hits the ball too hard and covers too much ground. Someone suggested a few years back that Serena Williams should play Djokovic and she laughed at the idea. She said she wouldn't win a game. That's why women'...
by timshorts
Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:45 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: NFL playoffs
Replies: 70
Views: 4247

Re: NFL playoffs

I felt like their offence never really clicked though and showed it's full potential. On paper it should've been so much better. It did last year until Prescott got injured. But like our forward line, their o-line is beginning to show its age, and I doubt Martin and Prescott are back to 100%. On yo...
by timshorts
Wed Jan 19, 2022 6:26 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: NFL playoffs
Replies: 70
Views: 4247

Re: NFL playoffs

Only game I’ve ever watched in person was a home game for The Bengals on a work trip to Cincinnati many years ago. It doesn’t feel like they’ve done anything since. I would love them to make the Super Bowl but it seems unlikely going off the comments of those of you who watch the game regularly. We...
by timshorts
Tue Jan 18, 2022 7:23 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Africa Cup of Nations quiz: Can you name all the winners?
Replies: 5
Views: 365

Re: Africa Cup of Nations quiz: Can you name all the winners?

12. Forgot the one second on the list.
by timshorts
Tue Jan 18, 2022 7:00 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: FAO defouronblondes
Replies: 16
Views: 2688

Re: FAO defouronblondes

Is this a work meeting?
by timshorts
Mon Jan 17, 2022 9:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Users Browsing the Forum.
Replies: 14
Views: 2550

Re: Users Browsing the Forum.

I don't know why anyone is knocking him. I think he's scored 10 goals a season for at least 9 years.
by timshorts
Sat Jan 15, 2022 7:57 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Midget Gems
Replies: 90
Views: 5735

Re: Midget Gems

LoveCurryPies wrote:
Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:31 pm
I’ve read this several times. It’s one of the most repulsive things I’ve ever read. Maybe I’m totally misreading your post....part of me hopes so.
Yep. The Duke of York clearly will have to be renamed if he gets convicted.
by timshorts
Sat Jan 15, 2022 7:37 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Good article in the Mirror
Replies: 28
Views: 4557

Re: Good article in the Mirror

Meanwhile the same paper is lauding Steven Gerrard for spending 25million on a dodgy left back who can't get into a misfiring Everton team.
by timshorts
Fri Jan 14, 2022 3:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Lost the Spark
Replies: 50
Views: 4160

Re: Lost the Spark

The only sport I now have on series link is the sumo wrestling but even that has been tainted a bit by the thoughts that some bouts are being bought.
Wakatakkage doing his best impression of burnley the first 4 days of this basho.
by timshorts
Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:57 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Which transfer disappointed you the most
Replies: 99
Views: 5542

Re: Which transfer disappointed you the most

Andy gray. To Charlton ffs.

+ Wasn't happy when chaplow left, or kindon or Alan West.
by timshorts
Wed Jan 12, 2022 4:04 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Newcastle 2022/23 Season
Replies: 4
Views: 1187

Re: Newcastle 2022/23 Season

I like that shirt. And the green and navy blue halved one which showed that you can do halves in a football shirts and not look like pricks.
by timshorts
Sun Jan 09, 2022 7:55 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Australia-England 4th test (SCG)
Replies: 159
Views: 6205

Re: Australia-England 4th test (SCG)

See what can be done after a few warm up matches. Almost good enough.
by timshorts
Sat Jan 08, 2022 2:06 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Life's to short to.........
Replies: 9
Views: 1113

Re: Life's to short to.........

bfcjg wrote:
Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:19 am
Wear cheap socks. No more 10 pairs for a fiver from George like walking on sandpaper and more holes then a princes alibi .
And more sweat.
by timshorts
Sat Jan 08, 2022 2:03 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Benjamin Mendy
Replies: 44
Views: 3395

Re: Benjamin Mendy

SalouClaret wrote:
Sat Jan 08, 2022 9:57 am
I never knew Mendy was in Corrie.
He wasn't. He was in some under age girls or something like that, allegedly. It was Prince Andrew that was in corrie, but he's defending that as it was len fairclough whose acting was like a statue.

I think that's where the thread has got to.
by timshorts
Sat Jan 08, 2022 1:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bands that were ONE album wonders.
Replies: 37
Views: 1964

Re: Bands that were ONE album wonders.

Bruce Springsteen.
Lots of different album covers, but the contents all sound the same.
by timshorts
Sat Jan 08, 2022 1:33 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Gordon Harris farts
Replies: 17
Views: 1972

Re: Gordon Harris farts

A bespectacled Leighton James got lost in our back garden / allotment (In Burnley) after he got off the bus at Rosehill Road instead of Clevelands. We had to guide him through brambles and barbed wire fence. This was a couple of days after he had played a starring role for Wales in a World Cup qual...
by timshorts
Mon Jan 03, 2022 2:27 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: New Years honours list
Replies: 80
Views: 3951

Re: New Years honours list

RingoMcCartney wrote:
Mon Jan 03, 2022 10:19 am
My voting history isn't political!?

:lol: :lol:

Give yer head a wobble you clown 🤡

:lol: :lol:
In the context in which it was delivered, it seems unlikely that it was political.
by timshorts
Mon Jan 03, 2022 2:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Joe 'Joffy' Gelhardt
Replies: 13
Views: 2490

Re: Joe 'Joffy' Gelhardt

evensteadiereddie wrote:
Sun Jan 02, 2022 10:05 pm
With a **** nickname like that, we did well to to leave him alone.
Was he named after the King of zamunda?
by timshorts
Mon Jan 03, 2022 2:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Players goal celebrations/Covid
Replies: 14
Views: 1142

Re: Players goal celebrations/Covid

Auto-booking for anyone doing the ear cupping or finger on the lips routine - half of the time to their own fans, which is bad enough.
It would be "taunting" in the nfl, and whilst that rule is way ott it wouldn't be in that instance.
by timshorts
Mon Jan 03, 2022 2:07 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Shearer Questioning the tactics and numerous players:
Replies: 30
Views: 3028

Re: Shearer Questioning the tactics and numerous players:

Shame the former Newcastle manager couldn't practice what he preached when he got them relegated. He is spot on though,and he normally talks us up. He didn't get them relegated. He took over late in the season when they were already pretty screwed and only one in four could escape - at which point ...
by timshorts
Sun Jan 02, 2022 9:19 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: New Years honours list
Replies: 80
Views: 3951

Re: New Years honours list

The scientists deserve it,really?? Yes. And a lot more than television personalities and tennis players. Particular congrats to long suffering pilgrims fan professor Jonathan van tam. A loyal boston united supporter even if he can't sing in tune. The star of all those lockdown broadcasts from no. 1...
by timshorts
Sun Jan 02, 2022 9:04 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Don't watch this film
Replies: 31
Views: 3974

Re: Don't watch this film

Watched : Joker which was crap, The Mask with Jim Carrey also crap and another to avoid The Green Hornet which was crap. Didn't finish any of them. Sometimes the trailer says enough to put me off watching anything. That is the case with all three of those. Thanks for the confirmation. It doesn't ge...
by timshorts
Fri Dec 31, 2021 8:32 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 3rd Ashes Test - Australia v England - MCG
Replies: 355
Views: 13079

Re: 3rd Ashes Test - Australia v England - MCG

Interesting that he has already been looking at English batsmen. He also picked Vince as the one with potentially a solid technique. From the brief interview, he stopped there, so probably couldn't find another five.
by timshorts
Fri Dec 31, 2021 8:25 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Who was your Dad's or grandads favourite Burnley player ?
Replies: 38
Views: 1571

Re: Who was your Dad's or grandads favourite Burnley player ?

I think my dad's was probably eric potts. Not someone that I remember ever getting a mention of on here. Can't answer for either grandad. One I never met. I always assumed that he was probably a jack, if anything, but at best football would have been his second language as a club rugby player in Car...
by timshorts
Fri Dec 31, 2021 8:09 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Man Utd v the Clarets - match thread
Replies: 671
Views: 25824

Re: Man Utd v the Clarets - match thread

Yes I had at the idea that he was with either BT or Sky but there again I don't/won't have satellite. But as you can see from Vino's post it's neither. He's not on sky. Thankfully. And I'm sure he was already on the prick list although maybe that's only the case for international week as he probabl...
by timshorts
Thu Dec 30, 2021 7:25 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Man Utd v the Clarets - match thread
Replies: 671
Views: 25824

Re: Man Utd v the Clarets - match thread

MACCA wrote:
Thu Dec 30, 2021 3:49 pm
In that case as we need goals, what's Bobby Zamora and Craig McKail-Smith up too?

Must try harder
They are busy. However, Peter ward might be available - and with his bandy legs he would be even better at winning penalties now than he was in 1979.
by timshorts
Wed Dec 29, 2021 6:14 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 3rd Ashes Test - Australia v England - MCG
Replies: 355
Views: 13079

Re: 3rd Ashes Test - Australia v England - MCG

TheFamilyCat wrote:
Wed Dec 29, 2021 12:06 pm
Patel?
England spin coach. Min patel.