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by Enola Gay
Wed Jul 16, 2025 5:09 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Name the most obscure Burnley player
Replies: 224
Views: 4753

Re: Name the most obscure Burnley player

ŽižkovClaret wrote:
Wed Jul 16, 2025 2:59 pm
Wayne Russell
Still remember a 3-0 defeat away at Boothferry Park under Clive Middlemass where he didn’t even look like a goalkeeper’s cousin.
by Enola Gay
Wed Jul 16, 2025 5:07 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Name the most obscure Burnley player
Replies: 224
Views: 4753

Re: Name the most obscure Burnley player

Tall Paul wrote:
Wed Jul 16, 2025 2:36 pm
Wayne Dowell
Didn’t he get seriously injured in that 94/95 game against Middlesbrough when Bryan Robson just sat in the centre circle hacking anyone who came near while a starstruck referee just let him do as he pleased?
by Enola Gay
Wed Jul 16, 2025 2:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Name the most obscure Burnley player
Replies: 224
Views: 4753

Re: Name the most obscure Burnley player

Charlie Bishop
Leigh Palin
Karl Bermingham
John O’Kane
by Enola Gay
Thu Jul 10, 2025 12:14 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Summer transfer window
Replies: 5371
Views: 637714

Re: Summer transfer window

Commy wrote:
Wed Jul 09, 2025 7:20 pm
Newcastle are getting annoying. They want ridiculous money for their players and want clubs to sell to them cheap.
Same as every other club in world football then. Including us…
by Enola Gay
Fri Jul 04, 2025 8:43 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Summer transfer window
Replies: 5371
Views: 637714

Re: Summer transfer window

Nice move for him, he can stay close to his families.
by Enola Gay
Sat Jun 28, 2025 3:09 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ARTICLE: Barnes back for more
Replies: 71
Views: 5521

Re: ARTICLE: Barnes back for more

Not as convinced as everyone else seems to be about this. For me we needed two strikers in this window. Having re-signed Barnes I still think we need two strikers in but we’ve now one fewer space in the squad to fit them in. He’s got form for proving people wrong, but signing people because they’re ...
by Enola Gay
Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:20 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ARTICLE: Goalkeeper Weiβ joins the Clarets
Replies: 43
Views: 3888

Re: ARTICLE: Goalkeeper Weiβ joins the Clarets

We’re signing a promising young keeper and people are whining that his introductory interview might have been naff. Peak UTC.

Reminds me of George Michael’s reaction to getting harangued by Paul Weller at Band Aid.
by Enola Gay
Thu Jun 26, 2025 12:59 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Spud Bros - PNE new sponsor
Replies: 79
Views: 5299

Re: Spud Bros - PNE new sponsor

CyrilEbokiPoh wrote:
Wed Jun 25, 2025 5:57 pm
For a family with three kids, who want all three kits and keeper kits. You must be talking a grand a year!?
Ever heard of the word ‘no’?
by Enola Gay
Thu Jun 26, 2025 12:57 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Raducanu
Replies: 48
Views: 6790

Re: Raducanu

Why does the BBC sports site give so much space to her? Like Cheney Hawkes she is a one hit wonder. This might - and I realise in advance this is a bold statement - be the most cretinously feckin’ stupid thing I’ve ever read in this board or its predecessor. Beating the rest of the world’s elite in...
by Enola Gay
Tue Jun 24, 2025 8:54 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Weiss confirmed ?
Replies: 42
Views: 5645

Re: Weiss confirmed ?

Posted this list on another thread but here you go, pick anyone from this lot. Joe Neenan, Chris Pearce, David Williams, Andy Marriott, Nicky Walker, Wayne Russell, Frank Petter Kval, Craig Mawson, Nik Michopoulos, Luigi Cennamo, Marlon Beresford (2nd spell), Danny Coyne, Nathan Abbey, Paul Rachubka...
by Enola Gay
Mon Jun 23, 2025 8:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Favourite ever Burnley manager / era
Replies: 85
Views: 3296

Re: Favourite ever Burnley manager / era

Kompany's first season, promotion under Coyle, early-era Mullen.

All got me excited to go to games again after their immediate predecessors had me seriously close to packing in regular matchgoing.
by Enola Gay
Mon Jun 16, 2025 1:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sports books/autobiographies
Replies: 18
Views: 1243

Re: Sports books/autobiographies

I really enjoyed Tony Cascarino's autobiography ghosted by Paul Kimmage. It was a good account of a decent but not top player including earnings and personal life I’d definitely recommend the Cascarino book. “In My Head, Son” by Pat Nevin is well worth a read as well. For more general books I’d go ...
by Enola Gay
Sat Jun 14, 2025 8:35 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Scams from DWP
Replies: 16
Views: 2086

Re: Scams from DWP

It is really awful how these nasty people target vulnerable seniors and newcomers, I’m 78 but savvy enough to know when I see a suspect text, email or phone call. We’ve all had scam text, emails and phone calls to deal with from time to time and they’re getting more frequent and sophisticated. The ...
by Enola Gay
Fri Jun 13, 2025 7:51 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley “partner” with X
Replies: 79
Views: 7297

Re: Burnley “partner” with X

Damo wrote:
Fri Jun 13, 2025 7:19 pm
X is great.
I can see why some people dont like it though.
The child like desire for people to reinforce your own truths is much better serviced on bluesky
Oh, the irony.
by Enola Gay
Fri Jun 13, 2025 3:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ARTICLE:Egan-Riley leaves Burnley
Replies: 200
Views: 14177

Re: ARTICLE:Egan-Riley leaves Burnley

IMO I think CJR. is probably thinking he isnt good enough for the Premier League yet, and to be exposed next season , would not be in his best long term interests. I can’t for one minute believe anyone who’s played a key part in a record-breaking defensive effort in the Championship would bottle th...
by Enola Gay
Fri Jun 13, 2025 3:09 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley “partner” with X
Replies: 79
Views: 7297

Re: Burnley “partner” with X

Stockbrokerbelt wrote:
Fri Jun 13, 2025 3:05 pm
Could X be our shirt sponsor?
I’d rather have Fun88 back.

Agree with the poster above, it’s fine for football but the amplification of the far-right and Musk dickriders combined with the frankly laughable amount of ads for crypto/AI/dropshipped garbage make the rest of it pretty much a cesspit.
by Enola Gay
Sat May 31, 2025 1:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Lee Grant
Replies: 55
Views: 6001

Re: Lee Grant

Not the worst keeper we ever had but in the top five. A list of selected Burnley keepers from my first season in 1986/87... Joe Neenan, Chris Pearce, David Williams, Andy Marriott, Nicky Walker, Wayne Russell, Frank Petter Kval, Craig Mawson, Nik Michopoulos, Luigi Cennamo, Marlon Beresford (2nd sp...
by Enola Gay
Sat May 31, 2025 12:43 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Lee Grant
Replies: 55
Views: 6001

Re: Lee Grant

quoonbeatz wrote:
Fri May 30, 2025 2:04 pm
Dave Williams was the first keeper I ever saw kick the ball from one penalty area to the other without it bouncing. Awesome.
Which in the teams he'll have been playing in probably made him on of our best attacking options.
by Enola Gay
Sat May 24, 2025 5:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Wilder
Replies: 65
Views: 10998

Re: Wilder

I’ve seen some horrible ad-infested websites in my time but sacre bleu, that one takes all the cakes.
by Enola Gay
Fri May 23, 2025 6:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Cheers, Norm
Replies: 17
Views: 2180

Re: Cheers, Norm

Do you want all the Norm entrances in one place? Course you do...

https://youtu.be/VXED2AVlbR0?si=36oPBU_B5RQE8n6U
by Enola Gay
Tue May 20, 2025 6:46 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Churlinov
Replies: 47
Views: 8780

Re: Churlinov

Darko could well have played himself into a permanent move for all we know. I don’t think he will be looked at over the summer by Parker, more likely he stays around where he is getting regular game time. Given we're already committed to the four incoming players on obligations-to-buy and how hard ...
by Enola Gay
Wed May 14, 2025 6:51 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Egan-Riley
Replies: 402
Views: 42489

Re: Egan-Riley

The entire backline was left exposed by our tactics. They had little to no protection and we played one of the highest defensive lines in Europe's top 5/6 leagues (top 6 percentile). We need more physicality across the pitch, this opens up a spot to go and grab a dominant CB to partner Esteve. Beye...
by Enola Gay
Wed May 14, 2025 12:30 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Egan-Riley
Replies: 402
Views: 42489

Re: Egan-Riley

People saying it’s OK if Egan-Riley goes because we’ve got Beyer and Ekdal coming back are remembering their PL performances very differently to the way I do.
by Enola Gay
Wed May 14, 2025 12:09 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sunderland v Coventry
Replies: 144
Views: 7077

Re: Sunderland v Coventry

Feel sorry for the Coventry players.

Their weirdo fanbase, not so much.

Be interesting to see how they blame us for it though.
by Enola Gay
Tue May 13, 2025 11:35 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Shirt colour for next season
Replies: 107
Views: 7178

Re: Shirt colour for next season

Superjohnnyfrancis wrote:
Tue May 13, 2025 6:36 pm
Did you buy one?
Assuming you mean last season's home shirt and not an arse, no I didn't. For reasons that have nothing to do with its colour and everything to do with the general lack of value for money inherent in just about all football shirts.

Not sure why that's in any way relevant, mind.
by Enola Gay
Tue May 13, 2025 5:52 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Shirt colour for next season
Replies: 107
Views: 7178

Re: Shirt colour for next season

I think the real question raised here is whether Superjohnnyfrancis has shown his arse on this thread as much as KRBFC did on his about Trent Alexander Arnold getting booed.
by Enola Gay
Tue May 13, 2025 10:10 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The “long throw”
Replies: 38
Views: 2666

Re: The “long throw”

When I saw it for the first time I remember thinking that Roberts’s long throw really isn’t.

Haven’t seen much to change my mind since.
by Enola Gay
Mon May 12, 2025 5:38 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Shirt colour for next season
Replies: 107
Views: 7178

Re: Shirt colour for next season

Are the Americans going to let us have our traditional colours back or are we the purple potions from now on? We had a purple shirt in 1991/92 and an awful lot of Burnley fans still cream themselves over it. No American owners then. Since we moved to changing the shirts every year I don't think the...
by Enola Gay
Mon May 12, 2025 12:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Trent booed by Liverpool fans
Replies: 98
Views: 4518

Re: Trent booed by Liverpool fans

That’s not always been true though, Alan Shearer and Steven Gerrard spring to mind. So born fans shouldn’t be fans anymore when they become professional players? Get rich and forget about the streets you grew up in or the local club that helped you become rich? An interesting view Point out where I...
by Enola Gay
Mon May 12, 2025 12:30 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Trent booed by Liverpool fans
Replies: 98
Views: 4518

Re: Trent booed by Liverpool fans

The day the collective penny drops with football fans that players - whether fans of the club or not - don’t and arguably shouldn’t think about a club the way a fan in the stand does, will be one of the best, most enriching and enlightening days in football history. Not holding my breath mind, but s...
by Enola Gay
Tue May 06, 2025 1:55 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Watford Sack Cleverley
Replies: 28
Views: 3498

Re: Watford Sack Cleverley

Well on course with my prediction that by 2030 everyone in the UK will have either been Watford manager or a Sugababe.
by Enola Gay
Tue May 06, 2025 11:22 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tarkowski _MNF
Replies: 56
Views: 4758

Re: Tarkowski _MNF

I suspect the reason he hasn't played more games for England is because he's seen as more of an old-fashioned, throw-your-body-on-the-line defender of a type that England (a team who tend to dominate possession and territory in about 90% of the games they play) largely don't need. And for the other ...
by Enola Gay
Thu May 01, 2025 8:51 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Would our owners know past players?
Replies: 64
Views: 3559

Re: Would our owners know past players?

Why would/should they?
by Enola Gay
Tue Apr 29, 2025 5:14 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Referee confirmed for Millwall game
Replies: 16
Views: 2862

Re: Referee confirmed for Millwall game

Thank Christ we’ve got promotion boxed off already.
by Enola Gay
Sat Apr 26, 2025 12:19 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Amdouni
Replies: 175
Views: 15390

Re: Amdouni

Walks in to the team ahead of Flemming for me, if he stayed this season he'd have scored 30+ goals Someone else has already mentioned it but people being given first-team places rather than earning them is exactly the kind of thing people gave Kompany pelters for. In the last PL season he showed th...
by Enola Gay
Wed Apr 23, 2025 3:06 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tunnel Trouble
Replies: 86
Views: 11489

Re: Tunnel Trouble

if it’s the same player I’m thinking of Choudhury had lost it long before the final whistle.

He was ready to kick off every time we made a sub and the outgoing player didn’t leave the pitch fast enough for his liking. Not surprised he saw his arse at the end.
by Enola Gay
Fri Apr 18, 2025 5:17 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Match thread v Watford
Replies: 680
Views: 25005

Re: Match thread v Watford

Watford fans whining all over social media because their gameplan of clattering anything in a claret shirt got found out. Love it.
by Enola Gay
Fri Apr 18, 2025 3:42 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Match thread v Watford
Replies: 680
Views: 25005

Re: Match thread v Watford

Edwards has been having 'one of those games' a bit too regularly recently.
by Enola Gay
Fri Apr 18, 2025 3:09 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Match thread v Watford
Replies: 680
Views: 25005

Re: Match thread v Watford

OK lads, any chance of us starting the match anytime soon?
by Enola Gay
Tue Apr 15, 2025 1:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: What is your "bogey" ground?
Replies: 61
Views: 3545

Re: What is your "bogey" ground?

Millmoor.

Been about three times and it’s always been a miserable experience, and not just because of the location and general ambience. Some truly shocking performances.
by Enola Gay
Mon Apr 14, 2025 4:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sheff United Game in Berlin
Replies: 17
Views: 1410

Re: Sheff United Game in Berlin

Belushi’s shows Championship games, I watched the 3-0 against Blackburn in there on my 50th. Might have to ask for it specially though.
by Enola Gay
Sun Apr 06, 2025 11:45 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Coventry City FC clich "Best Whinging Club" award
Replies: 88
Views: 9989

Re: Coventry City FC clich "Best Whinging Club" award

Weirdest fanbase in the League and it’s not even close.
by Enola Gay
Sat Apr 05, 2025 2:26 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The SUPER CLARETS vs Coventry - Match Thread
Replies: 376
Views: 12920

Re: The SUPER CLARETS vs Coventry - Match Thread

Get - and I cannot stress this enough - in.
by Enola Gay
Tue Apr 01, 2025 6:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Talksport now
Replies: 117
Views: 8939

Re: Talksport now

Do other fanbases have such a hard-on for getting their old players back as some Burnley fans do? If a non-Burnley fam suggested signing most of the players on this thread for their team their mates would probably have them sectioned. And that's before we get to the strange idea that it counts as mo...
by Enola Gay
Tue Apr 01, 2025 6:16 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Toffs Retro Burnley Shirt Sale
Replies: 19
Views: 3613

Re: Toffs Retro Burnley Shirt Sale

Yeah score draw are so much better than toffs. They've been left in the dust Define 'better'. Toffs were/are better quality and had an incomparably bigger range. Which could of course have been the problem, assuming there is one. Probably fewer overheads in concentrating on polyester-era England ki...
by Enola Gay
Thu Mar 27, 2025 11:12 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: A player on a private jet
Replies: 196
Views: 13194

Re: A player on a private jet

BREAKING NEWS: Man sits on plane. More as we get it.
by Enola Gay
Thu Mar 20, 2025 12:29 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: KFC Advert
Replies: 82
Views: 7106

Re: KFC Advert

Yep, weird af.

But you’re all thinking about KFC now, aren’t you?
by Enola Gay
Tue Mar 18, 2025 6:38 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Have Blackburn had the worst ever week in the championship?
Replies: 165
Views: 15218

Re: Have Blackburn had the worst ever week in the championship?

From the top flight. They picked up a Premier League football club in 2010, did they not? Is it acceptable for them to buy a Premier League outfit and turn them into this state? Would you accept this for Burnley if the roles were reversed? It does not matter where Rovers used to play in the 70s and...
by Enola Gay
Fri Mar 14, 2025 3:30 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tuchel & the England Squad
Replies: 57
Views: 4014

Re: Tuchel & the England Squad

Saw this posted earlier about young players, and it’s an interesting point; Tuchel signed an 18-month contract which only takes him to next summer.

He’s not there to bring through the next generation, he’s there ti win a trophy with this one.