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by Eyesofblue2
Tue Aug 12, 2025 6:08 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Name the ex Claret
Replies: 30
Views: 2089

Re: Name the ex Claret

sandy richardson wrote:
Tue Aug 12, 2025 1:05 pm
Some will remember Peter Coyne from that team. Scored a hat-trick [?] at Wembley in a televised game.
I think he signed for Colne Dynamoes not long before they folded.
by Eyesofblue2
Wed Jul 16, 2025 6:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Name the most obscure Burnley player
Replies: 236
Views: 6736

Re: Name the most obscure Burnley player

Richard Dixey
by Eyesofblue2
Mon Jul 14, 2025 9:14 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: One realistic signing
Replies: 25
Views: 3292

Re: One realistic signing

Ross Barkley
by Eyesofblue2
Tue Jun 24, 2025 9:43 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Best chippy East Lancs area
Replies: 82
Views: 5962

Re: Best chippy East Lancs area

Clayton St. Chippy in Great Harwood.
by Eyesofblue2
Thu Jun 05, 2025 11:20 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Team pic - but do you know the players?
Replies: 66
Views: 4075

Re: Team pic - but do you know the players?

Bfc wrote:
Thu Jun 05, 2025 5:22 pm
Jack was the social secretary at Lucas, which in the 60s was a big employer, with a thriving membership. At one time I seem to recall they had a Social Club on Parker Lane.
The last time I was in there will be about 30 years ago, the 'turn' on that night was Tavares.
by Eyesofblue2
Mon Aug 12, 2024 10:33 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: BET365
Replies: 5
Views: 584

BET365

No idea who their odds compiler is, but he/she/it has no idea about BFC, their goalscorer odds for us tonight are just bizarre. First Goalscorer, Hountondji 6/1 Obafemi 6/1 Amdouni 13/2 Jay 7/1 Foster 15/2 Tresor 8/1 Koleosho 8/1 Odobert 9/1 Zaroury 10/1 Benson 10/1 Twine 10/1 Ramsey 14/1 Redmond 14...
by Eyesofblue2
Tue Jul 09, 2024 10:27 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Players Houses
Replies: 100
Views: 10133

Re: Players Houses

King Arthur used to live on Malham Wend in Barrowford.
by Eyesofblue2
Thu Jun 27, 2024 7:14 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tour de France, 2024 edition
Replies: 132
Views: 7294

Re: Tour de France, 2024 edition

burnley007 wrote:
Thu Jun 27, 2024 10:10 am
ITV should do more live cycling.
Their coverage is so much better than Eurosport. I love Ned and David.
I always found it strange that SKY should throw so much money at sponsoring a team, but never covered the Tour on their sports channels.
by Eyesofblue2
Wed Jun 12, 2024 1:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Newcastle bid £15m for Trafford
Replies: 482
Views: 38592

Re: Newcastle bid £15m for Trafford

CoolClaret wrote:
Tue Jun 11, 2024 8:13 pm
A great manager maximises what talent he has at his/her disposal and creates a system/gameplan/tactics to maximise the collective.
Any possibility you could have a word with Gareth CC, although I expect it's too late now.
by Eyesofblue2
Wed May 29, 2024 9:11 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: One day in Bordeaux
Replies: 4
Views: 1110

Re: One day in Bordeaux

I'd recommend eating at La Belle Epoque on the Quais Louis XV111. Spectacular dining room, haven't been for a few years but we ate there often when we lived just outside Bordeaux.
by Eyesofblue2
Tue May 28, 2024 9:02 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Title winning Burnley team 1960’s?
Replies: 37
Views: 2364

Re: Title winning Burnley team 1960’s?

Of course we were fluid positionally, we didn't stick rigidly to 4-2-4, but basically we played a back four, two CMs, two wingers and two strikers. I can remember one of the inside forwards, as 8 and 10 were called back then, being called a schemer, the wing halfs, 4 and 6, would be described as att...
by Eyesofblue2
Mon May 27, 2024 11:34 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Title winning Burnley team 1960’s?
Replies: 37
Views: 2364

Re: Title winning Burnley team 1960’s?

It always looked like 4-2-4 to me. Back four Angus Cummings Miller Elder, Jimmy Mac and Adamson midfield, two wingers, two strikers.
by Eyesofblue2
Tue May 21, 2024 8:19 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Kompany to Bayern Munich?
Replies: 2090
Views: 164614

Re: Kompany to Bayern Munich?

kenyon6923 wrote:
Tue May 21, 2024 9:03 am
Tuchel to a rookie that has just got 24 points out of 114 !!!!! wow would be so bizarre. His stubbornness, tatics and the way he uses subs so so out of his depth - it's like us employing Coleman and Bell
Please leave Jimmy Bell out of this, he's managing Clitheroe now.
by Eyesofblue2
Thu May 16, 2024 10:12 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Premier League to consider getting rid of VAR
Replies: 61
Views: 3165

Re: Premier League to consider getting rid of VAR

Sadly it's not going to happen, there is zero per cent chance of enough clubs voting to get rid of it. Anyway it makes no difference to us, somehow we'll just have to manage without it in the Championship, how on earth the 24 clubs will cope without it I have no idea.
by Eyesofblue2
Fri May 03, 2024 5:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Eye surgery
Replies: 19
Views: 1974

Re: Eye surgery

I've had laser surgery at Burnley Gen, went OK, no complaints at all.
by Eyesofblue2
Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:58 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Long gone nightclubs
Replies: 196
Views: 28065

Re: Long gone nightclubs

forzagranata wrote:
Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:41 pm
The ad in the paper used to say "Hawthorns - for the Nicer People'
Indeed it was, there was some high class totty frequented Hawthorns.
by Eyesofblue2
Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:57 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Long gone nightclubs
Replies: 196
Views: 28065

Re: Long gone nightclubs

forzagranata wrote:
Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:41 pm
The ad in the paper used to say "Hawthorns - for the Nicer People'
Indeed it was, there was some high class totty frequented Hawthorns.
by Eyesofblue2
Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:45 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ashley Barnes - Horse Racing Ban
Replies: 32
Views: 5486

Re: Ashley Barnes - Horse Racing Ban

I always liked the old Lester Piggot story, probably apocryphal, but it's worth bearing in mind if you're betting the geegees. He was asked to ride a 2yo at Newmarket a few weeks before Royal Ascot, it was making it's debut and he was asked to give it a 'quiet' ride, a gentle introduction to racing,...
by Eyesofblue2
Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mark Clattenburg - Forest
Replies: 30
Views: 3776

Re: Mark Clattenburg - Forest

I can still remember him going card daft in the second half of a Burnley v Hull game in the 14/15 season, it was quite bizarre, 10 yellows virtually all for no good reason, none that was apparent anyway, it wasn't a dirty game and was being played in a good spirit by both teams. I wouldn't trust Cla...
by Eyesofblue2
Sun Feb 11, 2024 10:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Josh Brownhill
Replies: 76
Views: 7283

Re: Josh Brownhill

longsidetrumpet wrote:
Sat Feb 10, 2024 10:35 pm
Er, the totally untried Massengo in the heart of a Premier League midfield? Give me strength
Would that be the same totally untried Massengo, who last May was playing in the French Liguue 1, against a PSG team containing Ramos, Mbappe and Messi ?
by Eyesofblue2
Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:11 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer window rumours.
Replies: 2353
Views: 346007

Re: January transfer window rumours.

Ric_C wrote:
Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:53 am
Luke Ayling going to Boro

Will Leeds now come in for Roberts?
Hard to know why they wouldn't, makes perfect sense from their point of view.
by Eyesofblue2
Mon Dec 25, 2023 9:38 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Padiham FC advice
Replies: 15
Views: 2358

Re: Padiham FC advice

Never failed to find somewhere to park on East St, leading up to the ground.
by Eyesofblue2
Sat Dec 16, 2023 11:08 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Reception for Dyche etc tomorrow
Replies: 115
Views: 20563

Re: Reception for Dyche etc tomorrow

I won't be there, but if I was I would stand and applaud him all the way across the pitch. After what he's done for our club he deserves nothing less.
by Eyesofblue2
Wed Dec 13, 2023 11:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tonight’s football
Replies: 31
Views: 4865

Re: Tonight’s football

Scott Twine started for Hull at Boro, subbed after an hour, peripheral, never really in the game.
by Eyesofblue2
Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:35 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: U21 v Liverpool - Updates
Replies: 120
Views: 11732

Re: U21 v Liverpool - Updates

No idea why Massengo hasn't featured yet, but his last three games for Auxerre were against Paris St Germaine, Lens and Touluse, which would suggest he's a bit above the level of our U21 team.
by Eyesofblue2
Tue Nov 14, 2023 1:05 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Storm Debi
Replies: 37
Views: 4389

Re: Storm Debi

More like high wind and a bit of rain Debi than a proper storm, although I believe a pensioner's umbrella blew inside out in Great Harwood.
by Eyesofblue2
Sat Sep 23, 2023 8:23 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ayr Gold Cup
Replies: 4
Views: 834

Ayr Gold Cup

Previous requests for help with the Stewards Cup and Great St Wifred turned out quite profitable, now it's the Gold Cup up at Ayr. I'm going with Aleezdancer in the belief that Kevin Ryan has had this race as a target for Aleezdancer all season. Of course it's probable that half the field have been ...
by Eyesofblue2
Sat Sep 23, 2023 8:05 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: England Women v Scotland Women tonight
Replies: 18
Views: 1606

Re: England Women v Scotland Women tonight

Only saw the second half, but on that 45 minutes the best team lost. Bit disappointed in England, they didn't seem capable of much except hanging on to their one goal lead.
by Eyesofblue2
Fri Sep 22, 2023 9:46 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Referee’s- are they getting worse?
Replies: 26
Views: 3051

Re: Referee’s- are they getting worse?

In one respect I do sympathise with them. With all the VAR nonsense and the ever changing directives, especially on handball, the opportunity for them to use their common sense and experience has been stripped away. The poor buggers must not know if they're coming or going, a lot of them are now out...
by Eyesofblue2
Sat Sep 02, 2023 10:05 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Maatsen video on social media
Replies: 51
Views: 5961

Re: Maatsen video on social media

With unknown add-ons bringing the fee to a total way beyond anything we were likely to agree to pay and with Maatsen turning the deal down, I can't help thinking this deal was set up by Chelsea more to help alleviate their FFP problems than anything else. It's possible Maatsen decided he didn't want...
by Eyesofblue2
Mon Aug 28, 2023 8:17 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: What's the single greatest progressive rock song of all time?
Replies: 38
Views: 3382

Re: What's the single greatest progressive rock song of all time?

Joeandy1920 wrote:
Mon Aug 28, 2023 6:40 pm
Suppers Ready-Genesis
Hard to argue with that, but I'd have it just 2nd to The Court of the Crimson King.
by Eyesofblue2
Sun Aug 27, 2023 8:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Villa team bus bricked
Replies: 237
Views: 27462

Re: Villa team bus bricked

DCWat wrote:
Sun Aug 27, 2023 7:14 pm
It wasn’t done today. I think that the plan is only for certain games.
I'm bemused by this, if it makes a difference, do it every game, if it doesn't, don't do it at all.
by Eyesofblue2
Sat Aug 26, 2023 7:59 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: York Horse Racing Today
Replies: 38
Views: 3521

Re: York Horse Racing Today

Scriptwriter each way in the Ebor and one last chance in the 4.10 for Mr Wagyu.
by Eyesofblue2
Sat Aug 26, 2023 7:56 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: York Horse Racing Today
Replies: 38
Views: 3521

Re: York Horse Racing Today

4midable wrote:
Thu Aug 24, 2023 11:17 pm
2.15 friday
Ffos las
GOING THE DISTANCE
backed it at 9/2
Should go off as fav tomorrow so good to get the odds now
Confident ride from Laura, giving every impression she knew she was on the winner.
by Eyesofblue2
Fri Aug 25, 2023 8:19 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: York Horse Racing Today
Replies: 38
Views: 3521

Re: York Horse Racing Today

The Nunthorpe looks a cracking race and at the price I'm having a bit each way on Karl Burke's Dramatised. It won the Queen Mary and the Temple Stakes and you can forgive it's run in the Kings Stand where it was drawn on the wrong side and raced in a group of three. It's not best drawn again today b...
by Eyesofblue2
Thu Aug 24, 2023 9:29 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: York Horse Racing Today
Replies: 38
Views: 3521

Re: York Horse Racing Today

Bit of a shocker yesterday, just Designer and three seconds. Hoping for some return from Northern Express today, only been out of the first six once in it's last 14 runs. What could possibly go wrong ?
by Eyesofblue2
Wed Aug 23, 2023 11:04 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: York Horse Racing Today
Replies: 38
Views: 3521

Re: York Horse Racing Today

Similar to above Ryan Moore is Even money with Willy Hills to ride one winner and given he is riding Paddington it is buying money (max £10) as ClaretsPadiham says Thanks for the heads up BS, I'd missed that one. Like you say almost stealing money, even if Paddington doesn't get it done he has plen...
by Eyesofblue2
Tue Aug 22, 2023 9:35 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.
Replies: 15428
Views: 1964123

Re: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.

Vegas Claret wrote:
Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:43 pm
it makes a nice change from being able to name the entire starting 11 for a season in a 4-4-2 ! Opposition scouts will actually have to do some work now :D
Never mind the opposition scouts, us Burnley fans will actually have to do some work now.
by Eyesofblue2
Mon Aug 21, 2023 10:24 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mission to Burnley (including spoilers from page 9)
Replies: 868
Views: 74076

Re: Mission to Burnley (including spoilers from page 9)

Burnley1989 wrote:
Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:51 pm
We had this debate on Saturday in my local and the general opinion was Wilder & Rooney
My instant reaction was that Fat Sam was the Dyche clone, but you'd think Wilder must have been in the running.
by Eyesofblue2
Mon Aug 21, 2023 10:13 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.
Replies: 15428
Views: 1964123

Re: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.

Nori1958 wrote:
Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:03 am
I don't think we'll hang around if villa are messing about, not our style anymore
It's nearly two weeks since Vinni was suggesting this was done and dusted, so Villa are messing us about and we are still hanging around.
by Eyesofblue2
Mon Aug 21, 2023 10:13 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.
Replies: 15428
Views: 1964123

Re: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.

Nori1958 wrote:
Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:03 am
I don't think we'll hang around if villa are messing about, not our style anymore
It's nearly two weeks since Vinni was suggesting this was done and dusted, so Villa are messing us about and we are still hanging around.
by Eyesofblue2
Sat Aug 19, 2023 4:53 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Great St Wilfred, Ripon 3.15
Replies: 8
Views: 1298

Re: The Great St Wilfred, Ripon 3.15

We didn't do too badly DC, we'll have to get together again for the Ayr Gold Cup.
by Eyesofblue2
Fri Aug 18, 2023 11:52 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Great St Wilfred, Ripon 3.15
Replies: 8
Views: 1298

Re: The Great St Wilfred, Ripon 3.15

Cheers DC, Sophia's Starlight is also on my shortlist and I will be backing it. I'm going to wait until 9am in the morning to put my bets on, then I can get a BOG.
by Eyesofblue2
Fri Aug 18, 2023 10:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Overrated things...
Replies: 235
Views: 18339

Re: Overrated things...

Two things for me, they are both horrendously expensive and my missus can't get enough of either. Lobster and Champagne.
by Eyesofblue2
Fri Aug 18, 2023 10:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Great St Wilfred, Ripon 3.15
Replies: 8
Views: 1298

The Great St Wilfred, Ripon 3.15

It's only a couple of weeks since I was asking for help to solve the Stewards Cup puzzle at Glorious Goodwood, and now I'm in need of more assistance, I love the Great St Wilfred, it's one of the highlights of the flat season, but it's a bugger finding the winner. A bit of research has shown that th...
by Eyesofblue2
Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:50 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today’s Blast from our Recent Burnley Past (XIII) - Trevor Steven
Replies: 34
Views: 2699

Re: Today’s Blast from our Recent Burnley Past (XIII) - Trevor Steven

It must have been sometime around 1980 and I went on't Turf for a reserve team game. There was this 16 year old kid called Trevor Steven making his reserve team debut and I had never seen the like before and I never have since. Even at that young age he was simply head and shoulders above anyone els...
by Eyesofblue2
Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:20 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Henri Lansbury
Replies: 12
Views: 2197

Re: Henri Lansbury

Foiled by Lansbury, but Craig Dawson is still playing, I sincerely hope we haven't given up on him yet.
by Eyesofblue2
Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:25 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today’s Blast from our Recent Clarets Past (XII) - Nik Michopoulos
Replies: 26
Views: 2000

Re: Today’s Blast from our Recent Clarets Past (XII) - Nik Michopoulos

He played the Tuesday before v Palace in the cup but wasn’t due to play at Huddersfield. A bit like Andy Lonherhan at Preston, I’m not convinced he could see shots coming from long range. Totally agree, I think his long distance vision was shot, anything from outside the area he rarely even moved. ...
by Eyesofblue2
Mon Aug 14, 2023 6:06 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.
Replies: 15428
Views: 1964123

Re: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.

Would rather see all of Jay, JBG, Cork and Bastian go before Josh, who played nearly every game for us last year, and well enough for VK to make him captain. We need however to play him an advanced midfield rather than a defensive one. His pressing qualities are excellent. If there is any talk of h...
by Eyesofblue2
Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:43 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.
Replies: 15428
Views: 1964123

Re: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.

False 9, a 10, an 8, a 6, and now a double pivot building presumably on a single pivot. Then there was the one of a player playing between an 8 and a 10 which someone quietly explained might be a number 9. Totally dispels the late, great Bill Shankly's notion of football being a simple game. Thankf...