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by Vino blanco
Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:12 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today’s thread
Replies: 302
Views: 9768

Re: Today’s thread

Surely it's time to bring Ramsey on to see what he can do.
by Vino blanco
Fri Feb 16, 2024 12:49 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Russia Invades
Replies: 10707
Views: 807001

Re: Russia Invades

The sooner someone puts a bullet through Putin's head the better.]
by Vino blanco
Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Foster and Beyer remain out
Replies: 61
Views: 3854

Re: Foster and Beyer remain out

Now that we have a left sided centre back in Esteve, I would love to see Beyer play alongside him in his accustomed position at right centre back. Why Beyer over O'Shea? The answer is simple for me....he's a better player.
by Vino blanco
Sun Feb 11, 2024 12:17 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Vincent Kompany...
Replies: 69
Views: 4344

Re: Vincent Kompany...

Use "got". Gotten is a word that seems to have slipped into general use only recently, American influences via the likes of Netflix, Disney etc. Not necessary to change a really useful word like 'got' in my humble opinion. You misunderstood. “Gotten” was the original past participle of the verb “ge...
by Vino blanco
Sat Feb 10, 2024 11:49 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Vincent Kompany...
Replies: 69
Views: 4344

Re: Vincent Kompany...

I find using the word "gotten" to be rather embarrassing. Do you find the use of the word “forgotten “ and “ill-begotten “ embarrassing as well? They all come from the Old Norse root verb “geta “ whose past participle is “geten, which leads to the English word “gotten”. The Oxford English Dictionar...
by Vino blanco
Sat Feb 10, 2024 11:04 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: VAR (AGAIN)
Replies: 44
Views: 3053

Re: VAR (AGAIN)

Don’t worry, everything will improve when the powers that be introduce the blue card system.
by Vino blanco
Sat Feb 10, 2024 7:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Liverpool v Burnley - Player Ratings
Replies: 43
Views: 3555

Re: Liverpool v Burnley - Player Ratings

From tv Trafford 4 a couple of decent stops but at fault for their first two goals. Vinny, it’s getting embarrassing now, please take the young man out of the firing line. Assignon 7 a proper right back at last. O’Shea 8 his best game in a Burnley shirt for me. Esteve 7 very good again. He could dev...
by Vino blanco
Sat Feb 10, 2024 4:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today’s thread - Liverpool v Burnley
Replies: 601
Views: 16250

Re: Today’s thread - Liverpool v Burnley

Trafford is becoming so embarrasing now its beyond a joke. Then amoudi decides to put their man through with a great fake pass. Words fail me with the naivety of this team.
by Vino blanco
Sat Feb 10, 2024 3:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today’s thread - Liverpool v Burnley
Replies: 601
Views: 16250

Re: Today’s thread - Liverpool v Burnley

MURIC, MURIC, MURIC. Somebody said after the goal that Trafford shoukd have stayed on his line....he should havr stayed in f.ckin bed.
by Vino blanco
Mon Feb 05, 2024 6:51 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Private Pike RIP
Replies: 29
Views: 2059

Re: Private Pike RIP

RIP Ian Lavender, part of one the best casts in any tv show ever. There are two shows just starting on Gold, which I shall be watching as I always do. One character who is still alive today is Caroline Dowdeswell who played Miss Janet King in five episodes of the first black and white series. She wo...
by Vino blanco
Mon Feb 05, 2024 5:43 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley v Fulham - Player Ratings
Replies: 115
Views: 6971

Re: Burnley v Fulham - Player Ratings

It’s not my style to denigrate other posters and no doubt you do possess good knowledge of football but if you truly think that it’s the keepers job to catch corners that far ahead of the front post you are honestly appearing not to understand the game. Every goal conceded from a corner is not the ...
by Vino blanco
Sun Feb 04, 2024 1:06 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Maxime Esteve
Replies: 51
Views: 5328

Re: Maxime Esteve

It was good to see a left sided centre back playing in the right position. He was calm, strong and in control: I also noticed that towards the the end of the game he had started telling other players around him what to do and where to mark. That is the sign of a leader, something we have been sadly ...
by Vino blanco
Sat Feb 03, 2024 8:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Clarets vs Fulham
Replies: 403
Views: 12166

Re: Clarets vs Fulham

Thank God for the three new signings. The rest were poor.
by Vino blanco
Sat Feb 03, 2024 8:17 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley v Fulham - Player Ratings
Replies: 115
Views: 6971

Re: Burnley v Fulham - Player Ratings

From tv Trafford 5 his first half performance was a 3, but he did improve in the second with a couple of regulation safe saves. Assignon 7 good debut performance, solid with pace. O’Shea 5 decent Championship player Hekdal 5 looked lost today Vitinho 4 Vinny knows he’s poor at right back so he wisel...
by Vino blanco
Sat Feb 03, 2024 5:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ramsey
Replies: 72
Views: 4203

Re: Ramsey

I think he and Tresor have been sh!te in every game so far this season. It's signings like this is the reason we are where we are. I hope they both prove me wrong, but I am far from convinced
by Vino blanco
Thu Feb 01, 2024 10:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Manchester City v Burnley - Player Ratings
Replies: 37
Views: 3485

Re: Manchester City v Burnley - Player Ratings

From tv Trafford 6 two early flaps at crosses cannot be good for the rest of the defence, plus not great distribution. Vitinho 5 I’ve never seen a right back get skinned as much as him. He’s okay going forward but he simply can’t defend well. O’Shea 6 I still don’t see a PL centre back Ekdhal 6 look...
by Vino blanco
Sun Jan 14, 2024 2:31 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: VAR taking the pxxx again
Replies: 30
Views: 2048

Re: VAR taking the pxxx again

I'm watching the game. A fabulous strike from outside the box given offside for some reason or other, after what seemed like a five minute delay to the game.
by Vino blanco
Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:30 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The season has made me more angry than i have ever been!
Replies: 85
Views: 4810

Re: The season has made me more angry than i have ever been!

Agree 100 percent, but I'm more frustrated than angry.
by Vino blanco
Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:06 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley v Luton - Player Ratings
Replies: 70
Views: 4525

Re: Burnley v Luton - Player Ratings

From tv Trafford 6 Punched at a few when he could have caught them, flapped badly at one, a couple of decent saves, in no man’s land for the goal but it would have been a foul at Old Trafford or Anfield Vitinho 6 not a good defender O’Shea 7 did ok against their big men Ekdal 7 I give him man of the...
by Vino blanco
Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Andros Townsend
Replies: 32
Views: 5207

Re: Andros Townsend

criminalclaret wrote:
Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:37 pm
We've seen so little of Redmond it's hard to even know!
Correct.....not good enough to get into the starting eleven.
by Vino blanco
Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:38 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Hands up if you don't know the rules
Replies: 10
Views: 1144

Re: Hands up if you don't know the rules

Don’t worry about, the refs don’t know either.
by Vino blanco
Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:36 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Andros Townsend
Replies: 32
Views: 5207

Re: Andros Townsend

I would file him along side Redmond as not good enough.
by Vino blanco
Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: We’re as good as down, Kompany is clueless, we have gone backwards
Replies: 154
Views: 7465

Re: We’re as good as down, Kompany is clueless, we have gone backwards

Agree on the heart and leadership bit but surely our Champ winning team was smaller and weaker (physically). Maatsen and THB were physically smaller (by a distance) than O’Shea and Taylor. Berge is bigger than any midfielder we have/had. Odobert / Koleosho / JBL are stronger/bigger/faster than Bens...
by Vino blanco
Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: We’re as good as down, Kompany is clueless, we have gone backwards
Replies: 154
Views: 7465

Re: We’re as good as down, Kompany is clueless, we have gone backwards

I have been resigned to relegation since Palace beat us at home. We have definitely gone backwards since last season mainly due to a disastrous, incomprehensible recruitment plan in the summer, when we deconstructed a very good footballing team and replaced it with a bunch of light weight, naive pla...
by Vino blanco
Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:53 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Nothing But Positives Tonight
Replies: 74
Views: 6955

Re: Nothing But Positives Tonight

I feel we have been down since we got beat at home by Palace: my biggest worry is that this team will struggle to finish half way in the Championship next season.
by Vino blanco
Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:49 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: TRAFFORD
Replies: 808
Views: 30379

Re: TRAFFORD

I feel safer with Muric between the sticks.
by Vino blanco
Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:30 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mike Tresor
Replies: 184
Views: 10265

Re: Mike Tresor

I've said it many times on here, Tresor and Ramsey are two players I can not get my head round. I have no idea why we bought them, they are so far from PL standard it's not true....they will struggle in the Championship next year.
by Vino blanco
Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:16 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tottenham v Burnley - Player Ratings
Replies: 121
Views: 11257

Re: Tottenham v Burnley - Player Ratings

From tv Maurice 8 a couple of dodgy passes out late on, but for some reason I felt safer with him in the nets Vitinho 5 Roberts is a better rb O’Shea 6 awful first 20 minutes when he gave the ball away non stop leading to danger. He did improve in the second half. Delcroix 8 mom, his best performanc...
by Vino blanco
Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Strap yourselves in fellow Clarets
Replies: 13
Views: 1851

Re: Strap yourselves in fellow Clarets

bf2k wrote:
Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:19 pm
And if we go down this bunch will bounce us straight back bigger and stronger.
I wish I had your confidence on this one. I’m not sure.
by Vino blanco
Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:32 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ramsey
Replies: 58
Views: 7616

Re: Ramsey

I thought he was awful. I just don’t see what he brings to the team.
by Vino blanco
Tue Jan 02, 2024 1:00 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: First day back at work?
Replies: 26
Views: 2727

Re: First day back at work?

I took early retirement 18 years ago and have lived on the Costa del Sol for the last twelve years. Mrs. Vino and I had our breakfast at 11,30 this morning in a small restaurant by the beach, where we could watch a few sun worshipers getting a few rays....... I often what the poor people are doing.
by Vino blanco
Sun Dec 31, 2023 5:59 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Aston Villa v Burnley - Player Ratings
Replies: 56
Views: 4923

Re: Aston Villa v Burnley - Player Ratings

Trafford 8 no doubting his shot saving ability and he is improving the rest of his game Vitinho 5 I shall repeat what I have been repeating on here for two months...he can not mark one on one and is simply not a good defensive fullback O’Shea 6 good in bits but always liable to an error Delcroix 6 l...
by Vino blanco
Sat Dec 30, 2023 6:27 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dear PGMOL
Replies: 210
Views: 13705

Re: Dear PGMOL

Dear PGMOL, can Burnley FC have that woman referee every week, please? I’m totally p!ssed off with these useless, clueless, sanctimonious men refs we have to put up with.
by Vino blanco
Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:45 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: PNE v DL
Replies: 17
Views: 2202

Re: PNE v DL

bobinho wrote:
Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:40 pm
Is there not?
No, there is not.
by Vino blanco
Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:32 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley v Liverpool - Player Ratings
Replies: 93
Views: 6873

Re: Burnley v Liverpool - Player Ratings

From tv Trafford 9 mom Vitinho 5 I’ll repeat what I’ve said on here countless times..one on one he is not a good defender O’Shea 7 good in the air, average on the ground Beyer 6 poor first half, much better second Taylor 7 did ok Odobert 7 why oh why does VK play him on the right? When he switched t...
by Vino blanco
Tue Dec 26, 2023 10:56 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tresor...
Replies: 60
Views: 5774

Re: Tresor...

Sorry, but I think he’s been poor (nearly said cr&p) so far. We were poor in attack tonight until he was taken off and Wilson moved out to the left. Why oh why did VK start off with Wilson on the right with Tresor on the left doing sweet FA?k
by Vino blanco
Sun Dec 24, 2023 3:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Fulham v Burnley - Player Ratings
Replies: 60
Views: 6358

Re: Fulham v Burnley - Player Ratings

Trafford 7 he is learning, but to be honest, Fulham never pressurised him in the six yard box. Vitihno 7 still dodgy on one on one situations, but he did work hard. O'Shea 7 gave away some silly free kicks charging into the back of players for no reason, but he was much calmer today. Beyer 7 steady ...
by Vino blanco
Sat Dec 23, 2023 2:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Match thread - Fulham v Burnley
Replies: 549
Views: 24030

Re: Match thread - Fulham v Burnley

Sunshine, blue skies and 18°C here on the Costa del Sol. Setting off to watch the game with the Benalmadena Clarets in 5 mins. I'm resigned to relegation now so I'm looking forward to the team at least showing effort and desire today.
by Vino blanco
Sat Dec 23, 2023 2:16 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Re: Today's Games
Replies: 21
Views: 1508

Re: Re: Today's Games

jrgbfc wrote:
Sat Dec 23, 2023 2:12 pm
United have been dreadful again.
I know, it's great isn't it.
by Vino blanco
Wed Dec 20, 2023 12:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: U21s v Preston
Replies: 24
Views: 3312

Re: U21s v Preston

I watched the recent under 21s game v Liverpool which was shown on Lfctv. Massengo played and scored two goals and was by far the outstanding player on both sides. He is one of this younger generation we have signed who does actually look the part. Pacey, hard working, central midfielder, who has gr...
by Vino blanco
Mon Dec 18, 2023 3:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Obefemi
Replies: 56
Views: 7292

Re: Obefemi

He’s proper poorly at the moment. I’ve asked him to text you via the club when he is feeling a bit better.
by Vino blanco
Sun Dec 17, 2023 5:26 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley v Everton - Player Ratings
Replies: 129
Views: 23790

Re: Burnley v Everton - Player Ratings

From tv Trafford 5 one excellent save but the rest of his game is weak. Everton knew exactly how to pressure him. He must be nearing the moment when he is rested. Vitinho 6 not great one on one, which is a distinct disadvantage for a full back. O’Shea 5 struggling at this level Beyer 6 under constan...
by Vino blanco
Sat Dec 16, 2023 9:25 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Awful
Replies: 147
Views: 31693

Re: Awful

Last season was one of my favourites ever watching the Clarets: we had a team which played fabulous, attacking football, running off the ball into space, team mates passing into that space eveyone knowing what they were doing. When I look at today's starting eleven I see only two players, Brownhill ...
by Vino blanco
Wed Dec 13, 2023 4:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Sick Rose
Replies: 18
Views: 3311

Re: The Sick Rose

There was a young woman called Rose,
Who had a large wart at the end of her nose,
When she had it removed
Her appearance improved,
But her glasses slipped down to her toes.
by Vino blanco
Mon Dec 11, 2023 2:33 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Brighton v Burnley - Player Ratings
Replies: 49
Views: 8764

Re: Brighton v Burnley - Player Ratings

From tv Trafford 8 excellent shot stopping kept us in the game, but minus one for extremely poor distribution. Vitihno 7 good game, but he's still not great one on one as a defender. O'Shea 8 his type of game: under pressure and had to use his physical presence. Beyer 8 again had to defend well agai...
by Vino blanco
Wed Dec 06, 2023 2:54 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Wolves v Burnley - Player Ratings
Replies: 67
Views: 9037

Re: Wolves v Burnley - Player Ratings

From tv and after a good night's sleep to get rid of my frustrations after the game. Trafford 6 he was partly culpable for their goal, there are times when playing it out from the back is not an option Vitihno 7 not a bad performance, but I'm still not convinced he is a defender. O'Shea 5 sorry but ...
by Vino blanco
Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Kompany’s Subs
Replies: 66
Views: 8596

Re: Kompany’s Subs

Our substitutions have been incomprehensible all season, as was our decision not to sign a striker or two in the summer.
by Vino blanco
Tue Dec 05, 2023 8:32 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Match Thread - Wolves v Burnley
Replies: 605
Views: 59076

Re: Match Thread - Wolves v Burnley

Ridiculous goal to give away just before half time. We really play suicide football at the back sometimes. Also can't understand bringing Guddy on to replace Luca, and then playing Laarsen on the left. I'm really annoyed.
by Vino blanco
Sun Dec 03, 2023 2:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: West Indies v England
Replies: 18
Views: 2222

Re: West Indies v England

70/0 off 7 overs. Salt and Jacks playing like a 20/20 game.
by Vino blanco
Sun Dec 03, 2023 1:54 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley v Sheffield United - Player Ratings
Replies: 80
Views: 8841

Re: Burnley v Sheffield United - Player Ratings

From tv Trafford 7 two good saves and his mixed distribution of short and long was much faster and crisper than before. Vitihno 7 good alround game O'Shea 7 did very well in the physical battle with McBurnie plus good pass for second goal, but some of his other passes were poor. Beyer 7 our best cb ...