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by JohnMcGreal
Thu Oct 02, 2025 3:17 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: From the Bee Hole End podcast…
Replies: 159
Views: 9483

Re: From the Bee Hole End podcast…

FWIW I find Daz pretty measured and able to take off the Claret tinted specs. Seems logical to be concerned whether we can score enough goals to stay up. A lot of people (myself included) had doubts for well over half of last season that we didn't have enough goals in us to get promoted. It turned ...
by JohnMcGreal
Tue Sep 30, 2025 7:22 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton v West Ham
Replies: 31
Views: 2225

Re: Everton v West Ham

Imagine selling your soul to whatever Hill Dickinson is. It's such a shame that this happened both for the club and the sponsor that has powered Everton towards the level of irrelevancy that they probably deserve these days. It's an international law firm that was founded in Liverpool and is still ...
by JohnMcGreal
Sun Sep 28, 2025 9:34 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Parker post match interview v Cardiff
Replies: 45
Views: 4513

Re: Parker post match interview v Cardiff

Good job we sacrificed the cup to rest players. We might not have scored without all that extra energy, and had to suffer another 5-0. I don't think we rested players against Cardiff with only yesterday's game in mind. Avoiding injuries to key players will benefit us massively in the weeks and mont...
by JohnMcGreal
Wed Sep 24, 2025 3:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Parker post match interview v Cardiff
Replies: 45
Views: 4513

Re: Parker post match interview v Cardiff

dibraidio wrote:
Wed Sep 24, 2025 2:18 pm
How much did that XI cost? Humphreys, Hannibal, Ugochuckwa, Broja, Edwards, Flemming....Tresor. You'd expect them to have enough about them to see off a league one side.
Around €105 million according to transfermarkt.co.uk

The magic of the cup.
by JohnMcGreal
Wed Sep 24, 2025 3:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: more planned alterations at Turf Moor
Replies: 246
Views: 15175

Re: more planned alterations at Turf Moor

Rileybobs wrote:
Wed Sep 24, 2025 1:42 pm
It's a hell of a time to be an LED display manufacturer.
by JohnMcGreal
Sun Sep 21, 2025 8:45 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Florentino Luis
Replies: 49
Views: 5897

Re: Florentino Luis

He was excellent.

The calibre of the players we signed this summer is seriously impressive and better than anything we've done previously.

This group has a really good chance, I think.
by JohnMcGreal
Sun Sep 07, 2025 9:46 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bronwhill confirms departure
Replies: 388
Views: 46605

Re: Bronwhill confirms departure

Thought the discussion on the latest FTBE podcast was pretty disappointing re Brownhill's move. No debate at all about some of the obvious moral issues, just one big group apology for naked greed and even praising it as a virtue. I thought at least one of the contributers would have taken a more cri...
by JohnMcGreal
Sat Aug 30, 2025 8:19 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Lyle Foster
Replies: 185
Views: 15304

Re: Lyle Foster

Just like the start of the 23/24 season, Lyle has looked excellent at this level. Long may it continue.
by JohnMcGreal
Sat Aug 30, 2025 6:19 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bronwhill confirms departure
Replies: 388
Views: 46605

Re: Bronwhill confirms departure

OK We're talking taxes, but deflect away and find any excuse you want The only deflecting being done is by people who are keen to defend very rich people making themselves even richer whilst turning a blind eye to the atrocities taking place around them. If all a person cares about is how much mone...
by JohnMcGreal
Sat Aug 30, 2025 3:52 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: THE SUPER CLARETS vs Man U - Match Thread
Replies: 708
Views: 23568

Re: THE SUPER CLARETS vs Man U - Match Thread

It's a miracle we're still in this game. We should be 3 or 4 nil down.
by JohnMcGreal
Sat Aug 30, 2025 3:37 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bronwhill confirms departure
Replies: 388
Views: 46605

Re: Bronwhill confirms departure

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote:
Sat Aug 30, 2025 2:24 pm
It's still 100k a week in a country that doesn't tax people to the hilt

Anyone with half a brain would take it given a chance
Doesn't tax people to the hilt but does murder innocent people based on their sexual orientation.

No thanks. A grim 'state' for grim, soulless people.
by JohnMcGreal
Thu Aug 28, 2025 5:25 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bronwhill confirms departure
Replies: 388
Views: 46605

Re: Bronwhill confirms departure

Newcastleclaret93 wrote:
Thu Aug 28, 2025 11:25 am
I can’t believe there are actually real people that want to pay tax.
No further questions, your honour.
by JohnMcGreal
Thu Aug 28, 2025 8:11 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bronwhill confirms departure
Replies: 388
Views: 46605

Re: Bronwhill confirms departure

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote:
Wed Aug 27, 2025 10:18 pm
100k a week tax free?
He'd be a fool not to take it
Maybe it's just me but I think there's something morally questionable about someone who wouldn't want to pay any tax at all on their earnings.

It's sociopathic.
by JohnMcGreal
Thu Aug 21, 2025 11:57 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Access for home fans
Replies: 745
Views: 43062

Re: Access for home fans

Just go through Holcombe drive, be no difference I don't park up there, but I know that a lot do. The route through the memorial gardens onto Holcombe Drive and joining Belvedere Road is about 435m longer than it is from the west side of the JH stand and walking up Ormerod Yard. That's a fair bit o...
by JohnMcGreal
Thu Aug 21, 2025 11:26 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Access for home fans
Replies: 745
Views: 43062

Re: Access for home fans

I think people should see how it goes before deciding they are no longer going to games, or leaving earlier because of an extra 3 minute walk. For all we know this has been recommended by the police. I'm sure it's been thought about. It's going to take a lot longer than an additional 3 minutes for ...
by JohnMcGreal
Wed Aug 20, 2025 5:08 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Access for home fans
Replies: 745
Views: 43062

Re: Access for home fans

Idiotic.
by JohnMcGreal
Sun Aug 17, 2025 5:39 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 2025/26: Tottenham Hotspur V Burnley – Ticket Information
Replies: 403
Views: 20170

Re: 2025/26: Tottenham Hotspur V Burnley – Ticket Information

jrgbfc wrote:
Sun Aug 17, 2025 5:02 pm
How was the atmosphere in the away end yesterday? Generally find London away games very hit and miss.
Raucous on the concourse before kick off but pretty subdued outside once the game started.
by JohnMcGreal
Sat Aug 16, 2025 8:33 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Three word honest reactions
Replies: 107
Views: 8927

Re: Three word honest reactions

Very strange game
by JohnMcGreal
Fri Aug 15, 2025 10:44 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: A week on an NHS Ward
Replies: 110
Views: 6353

Re: A week on an NHS Ward

A strange reply, but typical of the unwarranted adoration the NHS receives. As to irrational a state only obligations are that provide defence for the citizens (so yes we need the forces), enforce the laws that the citizen agree and ensure that any contracts between parties are honoured. I find it ...
by JohnMcGreal
Fri Aug 15, 2025 8:41 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: A week on an NHS Ward
Replies: 110
Views: 6353

Re: A week on an NHS Ward

The NHS is a socialist ponzi scheme. You are basically stuck in a system with no choice of service provider. But even worse the NHS have no choice but to treat you even if you are drunk or a drug addict. It is an ideological scam, inefficient cult. The re-branding of it as my NHS is horrifying it i...
by JohnMcGreal
Tue Aug 12, 2025 12:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Announcer Vs Lazio
Replies: 112
Views: 7028

Re: Announcer Vs Lazio

Claretnick wrote:
Mon Aug 11, 2025 2:27 pm
Yeah the chap at Anfield is first class, he always sounds calm and relaxed :)
George Sephton. He left Liverpool at the end of last season after 54 years.

Definitely worth a cheeky bid.
by JohnMcGreal
Mon Aug 11, 2025 1:09 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Driving Eye Tests
Replies: 46
Views: 2943

Re: Driving Eye Tests

What they should be doing: 1. New migrants into UK to pass a UK driving test 2. Banned drivers retake a UK driving test after the ban 3. Adverts on proper driving practice (no undertaking, middle lane hogging, drug driving etc) 4. Everyone retake a test every 10 years including a health and vision ...
by JohnMcGreal
Mon Aug 11, 2025 10:21 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Booing the Jota minutes' silence
Replies: 120
Views: 7568

Re: Booing the Jota minutes' silence

Firthy wrote:
Sun Aug 10, 2025 6:55 pm
If you don't like the National Anthem then go and live in another country.
:lol:
by JohnMcGreal
Wed Aug 06, 2025 1:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Guardian has us finishing 20th
Replies: 50
Views: 3571

Re: Guardian has us finishing 20th

Outrageous prediction. Any football writer worth their salt knows this team will finish in the top half comfortably.
by JohnMcGreal
Thu Jul 31, 2025 9:56 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 2025/26 Away Kit
Replies: 83
Views: 6747

Re: 2025/26 Away Kit

Very nice!
by JohnMcGreal
Tue Jul 29, 2025 3:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Cricket field stand
Replies: 888
Views: 62374

Re: Cricket field stand

Leisure wrote:
Tue Jul 29, 2025 3:14 pm
Agreed, it could but hopefully minimal number of fans will be affected.
Even if it is a minimal number, it's not good enough. Those people have coughed up for another ST just like thousands of others. They don't deserve to be messed about.
by JohnMcGreal
Tue Jul 29, 2025 10:54 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Cricket field stand
Replies: 888
Views: 62374

Re: Cricket field stand

Chairman Alan Pace is excited about the enhancements
Well, if Alan is excited then that's enough for me. Who cares if you're being moved away from friends and acquaintances if you've sat with and talked to for years?
by JohnMcGreal
Thu Jul 24, 2025 9:13 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ekitike
Replies: 9
Views: 1796

Re: Ekitike

Salas
by JohnMcGreal
Fri Jul 18, 2025 10:10 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 2025/26: Tottenham Hotspur V Burnley – Ticket Information
Replies: 403
Views: 20170

Re: 2025/26: Tottenham Hotspur V Burnley – Ticket Information

Good news for Spurs who can now sell an additional 1000 tickets at full price.

Poor do for Burnley fans who would easily have sold the 3000 allocation.
by JohnMcGreal
Fri Jul 18, 2025 3:12 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: BFC partnership with X
Replies: 150
Views: 6537

Re: BFC partnership with X

This precisely echoes my own experience of X which I deleted from my phone and feel much better for having done so. Horrendous hate-filled content completely at odds with how I want to feel about life. On this basis , and my opinion that Musk is a truly weird and badly-intentioned individual, I don...
by JohnMcGreal
Wed Jul 16, 2025 6:24 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Pace/ALK set to buy Espanyol?
Replies: 681
Views: 45525

Re: Pace/ALK set to buy Espanyol?

Will Espanyol become everyone's favourite underdog?
by JohnMcGreal
Tue Jul 15, 2025 12:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Pace/ALK set to buy Espanyol?
Replies: 681
Views: 45525

Re: Pace/ALK set to buy Espanyol?

Not sure on the accuracy of this report around Espanyol being the parent club given we are far bigger than them in financial terms. But whether it’s true or not I’m still massively against the multi club ownership model irrespective of whether we are the parent club or the feeder club. If Espanyol ...
by JohnMcGreal
Tue Jul 15, 2025 12:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Pace/ALK set to buy Espanyol?
Replies: 681
Views: 45525

Re: Pace/ALK set to buy Espanyol?

Tbh i'd rather we loan fringe players to La Liga on say 50% salary contribution vs Championship on 100% I think the players will benefit, and i think it makes us a more attractive prospect for young development players Why would a club like Espanyol be interested in taking our fringe players on loan?
by JohnMcGreal
Sun Jul 13, 2025 8:13 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: From the Bee Hole End - Sean Dyche special - tomorrow
Replies: 83
Views: 6809

Re: From the Bee Hole End - Sean Dyche special - tomorrow

Good booking for the pod and some nice bits of insight there, even if it is a bit rehashed at this stage. He could have done with a few more challenges. For example when he wheeled out his clever saying about a philosophy based on winning games, one of the podders should have said 'like Moyes at Eve...
by JohnMcGreal
Tue Jul 01, 2025 6:08 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Lucy Letby
Replies: 52
Views: 4816

Re: Lucy Letby

Hi Bordeaux, my source is Private Eye and that publication has been running with the Letby case for quite a while. The latest iteration is Part 23, and I quote from the that issue. Please be assured this is but an example. "Evans initially suggested babies had died from injected potassium chloride....
by JohnMcGreal
Tue Jun 24, 2025 9:45 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Oddies
Replies: 270
Views: 35154

Re: Oddies

CyrilEbokiPoh wrote:
Sun Jun 22, 2025 9:03 pm
This is going to be emotional. Out the freezer for tomorrows dinner at work. The last ever corned beef pastie

Might have been worth a few quid if I left it a bit! :cry: :lol:
Has that been in your freezer for 20 years?!
by JohnMcGreal
Mon Jun 16, 2025 3:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sports books/autobiographies
Replies: 18
Views: 1480

Re: Sports books/autobiographies

A Season with Verona by Tim Parks is still one of my favourites.
by JohnMcGreal
Sat Jun 14, 2025 12:14 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley “partner” with X
Replies: 79
Views: 8201

Re: Burnley “partner” with X

Lol. "Russell Brand" indeed. Other posters might know who I've really copied with that post. It's a fairly famous passage. Clue: It isn't Russell Brand. It's George Orwell. A man who despised the nationalistic, far-right politics of the fascists so much he actually signed up to fight and kill them ...
by JohnMcGreal
Sat Jun 07, 2025 8:21 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Postecoglou
Replies: 96
Views: 6646

Re: Postecoglou

Not sure about Frank being better to stay put at Brentford. Lost Toney last year, looks like they’re about to lose Mbuemo to a team that finished five places below them. Tottenham massively underperformed in the league considering the players and budget they have. I think he's probably taken Brentf...
by JohnMcGreal
Sat Jun 07, 2025 8:02 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Knighthood for Beckham
Replies: 42
Views: 3251

Re: Knighthood for Beckham

The honours system is all a bit silly, really.

As for Beckham, he's spent a lot of money on crisis management and PR agencies over the years so it's nice that he's finally made a return on it.
by JohnMcGreal
Tue Jun 03, 2025 7:23 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Champions league final
Replies: 86
Views: 5940

Re: Champions league final

Claretitus wrote:
Mon Jun 02, 2025 7:53 pm
Funny, they all take to the streets “ fighting “,and “ demonstrating “, against what? God only knows. Where was their show of force when the Nazis were around? Yet another meek surrender from the Gaels. Horrible people.
Christ almighty....
by JohnMcGreal
Sun Jun 01, 2025 8:08 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Champions league final
Replies: 86
Views: 5940

Re: Champions league final

There was only going to be one winner last night.

PSG have been the second best team throughout the competition after Arteta's Arsenal.
by JohnMcGreal
Sun May 25, 2025 8:06 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Play off final Saturday 24th
Replies: 446
Views: 20540

Re: Play off final Saturday 24th

There’s a pretty good chance we would not be one either if it were not for the play off system in which we finished 6th when we first got promoted to the PL. Pretty sure we finished 5th in 08/09 and Preston snuck into the play-offs in 6th place. I really thought that United would do it this time. M...
by JohnMcGreal
Sat May 24, 2025 11:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Books for the Summer
Replies: 57
Views: 4422

Re: Books for the Summer

Longsidebovril wrote:
Sat May 24, 2025 8:09 pm
If you like factual books.. i highly recommend Killing Thatcher. A book about the Brighton bomb and the before and after. One of the best I’ve read.
I took this on holiday last year and finished it in a few days. Couldn't put it down. Fantastic read.
by JohnMcGreal
Fri May 23, 2025 8:51 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Serie A
Replies: 23
Views: 1819

Re: Serie A

Scott McTominey might just be the greatest player in Napoli's history.
by JohnMcGreal
Wed May 21, 2025 8:35 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: the 96 sponsor.....
Replies: 66
Views: 6567

Re: the 96 sponsor.....

Usual reminder, it's nowhere near as filthy as the sport you follow, with it's human trafficking, racism and misogyny on and off the pitch, large scale violent disorder - remember Burnley fans have killed 2 people in the last 20 years or so and domestic abuse reports rise massively after a bad resu...
by JohnMcGreal
Sat May 17, 2025 8:36 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Hill Dickinson Stadium
Replies: 35
Views: 3877

Re: The Hill Dickinson Stadium

Time moves on is a statement of the obvious. But things don’t have to change for the worse. Nor do clubs have to chase money for the expense of their soul, for a sum that doesn’t really shift the competitive dial. The “product” is an intangible glue that binds together that local community like a t...
by JohnMcGreal
Fri May 16, 2025 9:35 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Hill Dickinson Stadium
Replies: 35
Views: 3877

Re: The Hill Dickinson Stadium

£10m a year can go towards our compensation I suppose :lol: But how dehumanising can it get? Goodison, like Anfield and Turf Moor, is so iconic that it could never be renamed for a few pieces of silver. Now, it feels soulless. Next they will be renaming the whole football club itself. So sad. But i...
by JohnMcGreal
Tue May 13, 2025 7:37 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Trent booed by Liverpool fans
Replies: 98
Views: 5392

Re: Trent booed by Liverpool fans

Your McManaman reference is very odd. Owen yes, but McManaman won more at Madrid than we would have at Liverpool, even getting MOTM in the CL final. Liverpool weren't even qualifying for the CL. His book 'El Macca' is a brilliant read about his time there. He really settled well there and enjoyed s...
by JohnMcGreal
Mon May 12, 2025 1:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Trent booed by Liverpool fans
Replies: 98
Views: 5392

Re: Trent booed by Liverpool fans

I think it's pretty shitty of Alexander-Arnold and don't think booing him is unfair. Don't think it's comparable to players leaving us because that's necessary to move upwards in your career, this isn't. I don't think it even matters if it's an upwards move or not. He's won everything at Liverpool ...