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by andyh
Wed Feb 22, 2023 12:52 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Films which disappointed you
Replies: 138
Views: 5194

Re: Films which disappointed you

Blue Velvet… maybe it was watching it with a true fan who afterwards spent 30 mins explaining the bits I hated and why they were genius.
by andyh
Wed Feb 22, 2023 9:58 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Weghorst
Replies: 130
Views: 13589

Re: Weghorst

I think he would be perfect for our style of play. I know it is unlikely but I’d love him to play for us next season.
by andyh
Tue Feb 21, 2023 6:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Millwall v Burnley match thread
Replies: 440
Views: 18495

Re: Millwall v Burnley match thread

Can they do it on a cold February night in Millwall?
Not sure it is dropped so much as rotated.
by andyh
Tue Feb 21, 2023 2:33 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover
Replies: 12654
Views: 1224996

Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

I’m afraid this all goes over my head. Chester I know that you were worried/critical about the clubs finances last year. Without going into any detail (again it would go over my head) are you still worried? Our on field activities seem to be going from strength to strength and the outgoings and inco...
by andyh
Mon Feb 20, 2023 5:25 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: big brother is watching you
Replies: 115
Views: 6357

Re: big brother is watching you

You can’t say you support Burnley these days… i know some are offended by our sheer existence.
by andyh
Sun Feb 19, 2023 3:49 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Do you irrationally like/dislike any other teams?
Replies: 104
Views: 4659

Re: Do you irrationally like/dislike any other teams?

Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool and
Liverpool Reserves
by andyh
Sat Feb 18, 2023 5:07 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sheff Utd forum in total meltdown
Replies: 99
Views: 12051

Sheff Utd forum in total meltdown

People on there saying they won’t win another game all season. And I thought we were the masters of pessimistic over reacting.
by andyh
Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:49 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Villa/Arsenal
Replies: 11
Views: 1128

Re: Villa/Arsenal

Bizarrely the BBCreport said it was a 2-2 draw for around 20 mins after the game. Bemoaned Arsenal not winning and everything. Must have been published by mistake it get surreal.
by andyh
Tue Feb 14, 2023 11:53 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Most Entertaining Golfer
Replies: 34
Views: 1683

Re: Most Entertaining Golfer

Top 2 already mentioned… but Arnold was good value back in the day.
by andyh
Tue Feb 14, 2023 10:51 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Neil Warnock
Replies: 56
Views: 4380

Re: Neil Warnock

Mid 1990’s Buffon at Parma Warnock at Huddersfield, 2023 … same.
by andyh
Mon Feb 13, 2023 2:03 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Promotion
Replies: 28
Views: 2890

Re: Promotion

Promotions come and go. I’m still pinching myself about us playing so well. How we go in the FA cup this year and the league next season is a huge unknown. We have gotten so used to winning I wouldn’t be surprised if we exceeded expectations. I’ve got £20 on fa cup at 50/1. I will put a flutter on t...
by andyh
Mon Feb 13, 2023 1:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Neil Warnock
Replies: 56
Views: 4380

Re: Neil Warnock

Might be an inspired choice
by andyh
Sun Feb 12, 2023 1:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sheff Utd/Middlesbrough
Replies: 77
Views: 5950

Re: Sheff Utd/Middlesbrough

My accumulator hope for a home win… I’ve been doing £15 doubles on Burnley and Sheff Utd since Christmas and I’m £500 up.
by andyh
Sat Feb 11, 2023 3:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ekdal
Replies: 23
Views: 3799

Re: Ekdal

Milltown1882 wrote:
Sat Feb 11, 2023 3:49 pm
How do we keep finding these guys? What a player.
FM23
by andyh
Sun Feb 05, 2023 1:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Forest-Leeds
Replies: 58
Views: 2730

Re: Forest-Leeds

I see what you did there :D
by andyh
Sat Feb 04, 2023 2:49 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Expectation last July
Replies: 54
Views: 2608

Re: Expectation last July

I’ve got a £10 on us being champions at 14/1. So I guess I’d be on a 9… however I wasn’t that confident and it certainly could have gone a different direction.
by andyh
Sun Jan 29, 2023 2:12 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: one game per three days
Replies: 45
Views: 3703

Re: one game per three days

Not much in terms of rotation or sports science in those days. Maybe it is failures like ours that ultimately meant it is approached differently these days.
by andyh
Sun Jan 29, 2023 1:57 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: one game per three days
Replies: 45
Views: 3703

Re: one game per three days

If only we had a big squad of great players :shock:
by andyh
Thu Jan 26, 2023 10:57 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer window rumours.
Replies: 3424
Views: 449197

Re: January transfer window rumours.

Erm, only Nixon has suggested that from what I’ve seen. This is getting surreal. Good players arriving day after day. One more centre mid is surely the only slot from an optimum squad. Not only do we look like getting promoted… it looks like we will have a solid team for next season already at the ...
by andyh
Thu Jan 26, 2023 7:32 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: What has surprised you the most this season
Replies: 70
Views: 3132

Re: What has surprised you the most this season

How he has sourced a team, mostly made up of players who don't know each other, playing so effectively, so quickly, and evolving at the same pace, is remarkable. Totally agree with the rest of your post but strangely our new players probably knew much more about each other than we did. We’ve shoppe...
by andyh
Mon Jan 23, 2023 1:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Our best ever January?
Replies: 15
Views: 1495

Re: Our best ever January?

ClaretTony wrote:
Mon Jan 23, 2023 1:00 pm
I think Adebola came a couple of months later - the big three in 2004 were Neil Wood, Bradley Orr & Paul Rachubka.
3 claret legends
by andyh
Sun Jan 22, 2023 1:03 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Players playing with their hair
Replies: 17
Views: 1383

Re: Players playing with their hair

Ralph Coates was always sweeping his comb over out of his eyes. :D
by andyh
Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:06 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Have a look at this
Replies: 10
Views: 2075

Re: Have a look at this

I think Sean Dyche started the togetherness. I know most of those players have moved on or are moving shortly but every one of our new signings commented on the great atmosphere and attitude. That doesn’t get built in 8 months. The Ashley cab service and the other great professionals that we had all...
by andyh
Sun Jan 22, 2023 9:58 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer window rumours.
Replies: 3424
Views: 449197

Re: January transfer window rumours.

Time will tell, but I think almost a certain that we won’t even entertain a bid for Gykores whilst he’s valued at them sorts of sums. Perhaps ten million but nothing more I agree with you (for once). Gykores at 20m might appeal to an Everton or West Ham and we really don’t want to be fishing in the...
by andyh
Sat Jan 21, 2023 8:46 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: West Brom Fans reaction...
Replies: 85
Views: 9394

Re: West Brom Fans reaction...

Transpennine wrote:
Sat Jan 21, 2023 8:43 pm
Back on topic.
Good bunch the Baggies, always have been. Realistic with no delusions of grandure. Proper club; proper fans.
This exactly. Like Stoke a very similar club to ours in many ways. Working class (is that even a thing anymore) fan base.
by andyh
Sat Jan 21, 2023 7:49 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer window rumours.
Replies: 3424
Views: 449197

Re: January transfer window rumours.

Getting relegated was the best thing that has happened. We’ve cleared out a whole raft of players on salaries that have been inflated by our stay in the Prem. Now we have a squad confident from winning matches at a lower level that I think will surprise many next year. Exciting times. (And it could ...
by andyh
Sat Jan 21, 2023 8:34 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Disappointed
Replies: 2
Views: 840

Re: Disappointed

:shock: We can’t see games out… look at all those points dropped from winning positions. :D
by andyh
Fri Jan 20, 2023 7:03 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer window rumours.
Replies: 3424
Views: 449197

Re: January transfer window rumours.

Also he looks as one footed as you could ever be. He may be fast but he has less than 30 career goals. 10m Euros is an obscene amount for someone he has yet to do it in a top league.
by andyh
Fri Jan 20, 2023 7:57 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: City-Spurs
Replies: 132
Views: 3777

Re: City-Spurs

Those older members can probably remember the big team on Merseyside being Everton. Things do change but very slowly over decades and generations.
by andyh
Fri Jan 13, 2023 2:49 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: VK wins manager of the month
Replies: 24
Views: 2973

Re: VK wins manager of the month

Nonayforever wrote:
Fri Jan 13, 2023 1:28 pm
Is that Harry Kane on the back row ?
No but I spotted John Terry on there :D
by andyh
Tue Jan 10, 2023 11:09 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Accrington Stanley at Wembley?
Replies: 80
Views: 4981

Re: Accrington Stanley at Wembley?

He is right. We did reach the 2 leg semi of the League Cup and lost to Liverpool, although we won 1 0 at home. That was the only game my mum ever went to with me and dad. She was fuming after it because of the on field violence of the Liverpool team. Memory may he fading but Case and Souness were t...
by andyh
Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:25 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: John Lydon
Replies: 20
Views: 2077

Re: John Lydon

Quicknick wrote:
Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:22 pm
I was worried he was dead then.
Me too…
by andyh
Wed Jan 04, 2023 6:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer window rumours.
Replies: 3424
Views: 449197

Re: January transfer window rumours.

Rumours from an Adanaspor fan page that we’ve signed Youssef Aït Bennasser for £100k. https://mobile.twitter.com/adanafans/status/1610593039935750145 Cheap but a strange signing to me if true. Looked decent on the ball when I watched clips. French speaking Moroccan. So more than possible. 26 caps f...
by andyh
Wed Jan 04, 2023 6:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Magic Numbers 2022/23
Replies: 180
Views: 18789

Re: Magic Numbers 2022/23

If we can match the last 10 games in the next 10 we will be in touching distance of the finish line and half the division already will be unable to catch us.
by andyh
Tue Jan 03, 2023 8:46 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dwight
Replies: 378
Views: 32761

Re: Dwight

Really poor again though.
by andyh
Mon Jan 02, 2023 8:59 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer window rumours.
Replies: 3424
Views: 449197

Re: January transfer window rumours.

randomclaret2 wrote:
Mon Jan 02, 2023 8:52 pm
Not sure about the Surridge link, but Chair might have legs...
Might need to table a bid soon.
by andyh
Mon Jan 02, 2023 7:51 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: A Song
Replies: 33
Views: 1610

Re: A Song

When you’re smiling
by andyh
Mon Jan 02, 2023 11:41 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Is this our best season ever?
Replies: 18
Views: 1203

Re: Is this our best season ever?

I’m old enough to have seen the 70s promotion team and in terms of sustained good football I would say this is in some ways the best since then. Added to that is that it is a young team and in many respects a new team. We have scored some amazing goals. However we are only halfway through and we are...
by andyh
Sat Dec 31, 2022 5:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Traitors
Replies: 103
Views: 7742

Re: The Traitors

I really don't watch much regular TV at all and I'm definitely not a fan of "reality" shows featuring rubbish celebrity wannabes who get right up my nose, so I'd shown absolutely no interest in watching this until my son and wife insisted we spend some "family time" binge watching and we've just fi...
by andyh
Sat Dec 31, 2022 3:09 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Could we actually beat every team at least once?
Replies: 13
Views: 1896

Re: Could we actually beat every team at least once?

That's perfectly achievable in my view, probably the 3 hardest on paper we host at TM, in Sheff Utd, Watford and West Brom, and our home form is formidable in this league over a long period. The 2 derbies could be tricky, however we are a completely different animal to the side who drew with Lasher...
by andyh
Thu Dec 29, 2022 8:38 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer window rumours.
Replies: 3424
Views: 449197

Re: January transfer window rumours.

Sat next to his mother. There’s more chance of signing her and putting her out to stud. She can certainly produce ‘ballers. The way things are going this approach may not be too far fetched. Maybe offer to buy up first option on all the England Women’s team offspring. With double money if sired by ...
by andyh
Wed Dec 28, 2022 6:38 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: XI
Replies: 54
Views: 2577

Re: XI

Current VK team.
None of last year would improve what we have based on the way we are playing. Collins at CB would be nearest.
by andyh
Wed Dec 28, 2022 2:07 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dwight
Replies: 378
Views: 32761

Re: Dwight

I have said this often. Dwight is a poor player. He is one of the main reasons we got relegated. In a side with few creative slots if one is permanently occupied by someone who neither creates nor scores then you are in deep trouble. We were last year, now Everton are. Would he have been ok in a VK ...
by andyh
Wed Dec 28, 2022 9:18 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Weghorst….IF
Replies: 19
Views: 2741

Re: Weghorst….IF

But what he said was he wanted to play top league football to realise his dream of playing for the Netherlands. Not sure that makes him a bad apple. However those making the decisions know him better thankfully.
by andyh
Wed Dec 28, 2022 9:11 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Weghorst….IF
Replies: 19
Views: 2741

Re: Weghorst….IF

Gotta say if he wasn’t our player but we were linked with him I would be delighted as I think he was the ideal player for our current system. If there is a recall option I’d be happy if he was the only incoming this window.
by andyh
Mon Dec 26, 2022 8:36 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Grand Old Team.
Replies: 103
Views: 8522

Re: Grand Old Team.

Dyche is seen as a gamble by the majority of clubs, certainly in the Premier League and certainly over the "brand" of football that he offered up. We know that he can and would adapt with money, if he was given it, but that wasn't to be. A rod for his own back and a victim of his own success. Then ...
by andyh
Fri Dec 23, 2022 4:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: With half a season gone
Replies: 51
Views: 2610

Re: With half a season gone

AGENT_CLARET wrote:
Fri Dec 23, 2022 4:16 pm
Who is your player of the season so far for me it's got to be Benson
Cork… but Zaroury and Benson have been the most exciting.
by andyh
Wed Dec 21, 2022 7:09 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Man Utd v Burnley match thread
Replies: 446
Views: 12358

Re: Man Utd v Burnley match thread

We have every chance with that team.
by andyh
Mon Dec 19, 2022 6:26 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Are we a better team than last year?
Replies: 87
Views: 4204

Re: Are we a better team than last year?

claretspice wrote:
Mon Dec 19, 2022 4:42 pm
Either or neither. He'd fit in perfectly in between them in the role Brownhill has played, or either side of the centre forward. And I reckon he'd be the best player in the team.
I know it is all about opinions but I’m surprised anyone holds this one.
by andyh
Sun Dec 18, 2022 4:36 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Two BFC scenarios: pick one
Replies: 78
Views: 4014

Re: Two BFC scenarios: pick one

2… var is killing my enjoyment… and winning is nice,