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by theduke
Fri Jul 18, 2025 12:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tour de France 2025.
Replies: 110
Views: 5087

Re: Tour de France 2025.

Rumours Jonas is using his TT bike. Which seems mental to me.
by theduke
Thu Jul 17, 2025 4:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tour de France 2025.
Replies: 110
Views: 5087

Re: Tour de France 2025.

That is mental. A proper destroying
by theduke
Sun Jul 06, 2025 6:23 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 10345
Views: 1525476

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Apparently Everton have also sold their women's team to themselves.

Just haven't announced it
by theduke
Thu Jul 03, 2025 9:42 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Diogo Jota
Replies: 58
Views: 5986

Re: Diogo Jota

Tragic. Looks like its true. Liverpool have removd all news from their website and just have the Hillsborough memorial logo on it
by theduke
Tue Jul 01, 2025 8:10 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football World Cup
Replies: 3
Views: 476

Re: Football World Cup

They qualified by UEFA coefficients
by theduke
Tue Jul 01, 2025 7:42 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dear Pep
Replies: 13
Views: 2327

Re: Dear Pep

Pearcey wrote:
Tue Jul 01, 2025 5:21 am
I’ll be honest, I don’t really want to see Saudi sides doing well. The league absolutely stinks.
City are the original sport washers?
by theduke
Sun Jun 29, 2025 5:04 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mounjaro
Replies: 60
Views: 6686

Re: Mounjaro

ClaretinJapan wrote:
Sun Jun 29, 2025 7:21 am
So, feeling sick because you don't eat needs ameliorating by taking more drugs to make sure you don't eat. It's a strange world.
What? I didn't feel sick because I didn't eat?

I felt sick because I ate decent and drank. Now I'm eating less I don't feel sick when I drink
by theduke
Sun Jun 29, 2025 6:28 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mounjaro
Replies: 60
Views: 6686

Re: Mounjaro

Volvoclaret wrote:
Fri Jun 27, 2025 9:16 pm
What does it do regarding alcohol consumption?
On the lower doses it made me feel a bit sick. Prob cos I still ate a decent amount

Higher dose no issues, although 5 is prob my limit now
by theduke
Fri Jun 27, 2025 1:08 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mounjaro
Replies: 60
Views: 6686

Re: Mounjaro

I think the poster meant after you finish taking it. If you don't break the lifestyle habits that led to the weight gain in the first place, then you'll end up putting the weight back on. Yeah but I've been on it nearly a year now and it has broken my lifestyle habits. I don't snack at all now. At ...
by theduke
Fri Jun 27, 2025 6:36 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mounjaro
Replies: 60
Views: 6686

Re: Mounjaro

ClaretinJapan wrote:
Thu Jun 26, 2025 10:15 pm
And even if you avoid that outcome which is probably most people, you can't take it forever and will put the weight back on unless lifestyle and diet are changed.

Better to lose weight slowly, cut down on your pork life and get some exercise!

It does change your lifestyle and diet?
by theduke
Tue Jun 24, 2025 7:27 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mounjaro
Replies: 60
Views: 6686

Re: Mounjaro

TheFamilyCat wrote:
Tue Jun 24, 2025 7:14 pm
Are you familiar with the "5th dose" that you can extract with a normal syringe? Means you can make your pen last an extra week, or take your next dose before seven days, when the effects are wearing off.

I did it once but my appetite returned. So I'm not sure it's actually a 5th dose
by theduke
Tue Jun 24, 2025 5:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mounjaro
Replies: 60
Views: 6686

Re: Mounjaro

Tbh I just haven't tried a long ride. I could prob manage it with gels etc.

But I am smashing PBS on climbs
by theduke
Tue Jun 24, 2025 3:49 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mounjaro
Replies: 60
Views: 6686

Re: Mounjaro

I’ve looked at this recently as my sister uses it. I’ve been going to a SlimmingWorld group for nearly 6 years but I’ve crept up a bit this year. Lots of factors cause it to be honest. Does Mounjaro affect your energy levels due to the lack of calories you’re consuming? I cycle a lot and obviously ...
by theduke
Tue Jun 24, 2025 3:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mounjaro
Replies: 60
Views: 6686

Re: Mounjaro

ollieclarets8 wrote:
Tue Jun 24, 2025 2:45 pm
Can anybody pay private for it even if I only need to shift about a stone or is there still a strict criteria to meet?
BMI has to be over 30
by theduke
Tue Jun 24, 2025 8:19 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mounjaro
Replies: 60
Views: 6686

Re: Mounjaro

My wife has a complicated medical history (including friending 6 months in hospital in Rio with multiple blood clots in her lungs, legs and groin) - she has always been overweight and has diabetes (diet controlled) yet the doctors don’t prescribe her Mounjaro as she doesn’t meet the criteria ! We l...
by theduke
Tue Jun 24, 2025 7:51 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mounjaro
Replies: 60
Views: 6686

Re: Mounjaro

GetIntoEm wrote:
Tue Jun 24, 2025 7:22 am
How did you get it prescribed if don't mind asking?

I'm thinking of starting but will have to get it privately. Not asked GP
I used Asda
by theduke
Tue Jun 24, 2025 7:50 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mounjaro
Replies: 60
Views: 6686

Re: Mounjaro

Lost near 7 stone now since last September. Minimal side effects.

Absolutely no appetite anymore though. I barely eat 1000 calories a day
by theduke
Tue Jun 03, 2025 7:46 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Verstappen - Penalties
Replies: 45
Views: 4429

Re: Verstappen - Penalties

That car is only second fastest when Verstappen drives it. Apparently it's an absolute pig to drive, it's not that it really suits Verstappen, it's that he's been able to make it go fast. Listen to his comments, he doesn't really rate the car either. He's won 4 world titles by the age of 27. There'...
by theduke
Fri May 16, 2025 9:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Hill Dickinson Stadium
Replies: 35
Views: 3494

Re: The Hill Dickinson Stadium

3rd biggest naming rights deal in Europe
by theduke
Tue May 06, 2025 8:33 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Loom Loft sofas
Replies: 22
Views: 2393

Re: Loom Loft sofas

Does anybody have any direct experience with sofas from Loom Loft? We’ve seen a few we like but some of the reviews on Trust Pilot suggest they aren’t the best for longevity and customers have been told they are only designed to last around 2 years! I like to try to take extreme reviews with a pinc...
by theduke
Fri Apr 25, 2025 7:43 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Turf Moor Development
Replies: 84
Views: 6933

Re: Turf Moor Development

aggi wrote:
Thu Apr 24, 2025 7:26 pm
I think I read somewhere that the new Everton stadium has the same number of non-hospitality tickets as Goodison despite it being considerably larger.

That's not true. Not even close. There's about 10k more normal seats
by theduke
Thu Apr 24, 2025 5:25 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley/Everton dispute
Replies: 38
Views: 6755

Re: Burnley/Everton dispute

ecc wrote:
Wed Apr 23, 2025 7:12 am
£40m would come in handy. :)
Which is what we'll get when the sign Esteve
by theduke
Fri Jan 10, 2025 8:07 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dyche
Replies: 395
Views: 31146

Re: Dyche

If it is Moyes who takes over, lets hope their whiny fan base enjoy his free flowing football. They would find football a lot easier if they realised in isn't the mid 80s anymore and they are irrelevant when it comes to winning things. I know this seems really hard for ultra pro Dyche people to und...
by theduke
Fri Jan 10, 2025 8:06 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dyche
Replies: 395
Views: 31146

Re: Dyche

The bigger picture is that McNeil is injured, the squad is not the best, and he is on an atypical bad run - it’s more likely that they’d return to a norm soon. No evidence of that this time. Not a single player has come out on social media have they this time? The players wanted him out and by the ...
by theduke
Fri Jan 10, 2025 6:49 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dyche
Replies: 395
Views: 31146

Re: Dyche

IanMcL wrote:
Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:37 pm
If I was an Ipswich and Wolves fan, I would have a spring in my step now.

Everton for the drop.
Everton won 3 out of 19 games. Why are people acting like Dyche was a certainty to keep them up?
by theduke
Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:16 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dyche
Replies: 395
Views: 31146

Re: Dyche

I watched it and thought he was shaping up for his next job
by theduke
Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dyche
Replies: 395
Views: 31146

Re: Dyche

RVclaret wrote:
Thu Jan 09, 2025 7:49 pm
Frank and Areola aren’t stepping down to Everton.
Of course they would. Everton. Stay up and the job is very appealing next season.

New stadium and huge new finances.
by theduke
Thu Jan 09, 2025 7:42 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dyche
Replies: 395
Views: 31146

Re: Dyche

Stayingup wrote:
Thu Jan 09, 2025 7:20 pm
Everton. So many managerial changes and no upturn. The new owners must aspire to being a top six club. Sadly for them reality will blunt the aspiration. I wonder who they will appoint now?

Moyes until the summer then prob someone like Thomas frank or the Bournemouth manager in the summer
by theduke
Thu Jan 09, 2025 4:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dyche
Replies: 395
Views: 31146

Re: Dyche

Woodleyclaret wrote:
Thu Jan 09, 2025 4:40 pm
Absolutely mental decision Sean worked wonders at Everton and any manager has a huge task to invigorate an ageing squad who don't score
Everton are dumb enough to reappoint Moyes which will guarantee Championship football next season
All down to Dyche and his Jurassic park tactics
by theduke
Thu Jan 09, 2025 4:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dyche
Replies: 395
Views: 31146

Re: Dyche

Fully deserved
by theduke
Mon Jan 06, 2025 12:25 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dyche
Replies: 395
Views: 31146

Re: Dyche

Best manager since Moyes? What?

Koeman
Silva
Ancelotti

Just a reminder of the managers they've had since Moyes.
by theduke
Mon Jan 06, 2025 12:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dyche
Replies: 395
Views: 31146

Re: Dyche

People seem to forget that they sold Onana in the summer. How do they expect to improve selling their best players and not being able to replace them. The expectations are ludicrous. I'm pretty sure the signings they've made since Dyche has been there have basically just been players they could get...
by theduke
Mon Jan 06, 2025 12:19 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dyche
Replies: 395
Views: 31146

Re: Dyche

They've sold a lot of good players and not spent anything in terms of a net spend. Beto was a desperate January buy because of injury to Dom Calvin Lewin last season. I think the days of blaming managers for transfer spends are over because as often as not they don't have the final say in the playe...
by theduke
Mon Jan 06, 2025 12:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dyche
Replies: 395
Views: 31146

Re: Dyche

He's going to be sacked, and rightly so. been dreadful this season
by theduke
Fri Dec 20, 2024 9:23 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton now under new owners
Replies: 81
Views: 4431

Re: Everton now under new owners

That’s been very hard to do with the points deductions no money and the injuries Everton fans don’t appreciate what he has done!! The fans will get there way and get rid of Dyche one way or other They do, they just know that Dyche can't progress them. He's shown absolutely nothing to suggest he can...
by theduke
Fri Dec 20, 2024 9:20 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton now under new owners
Replies: 81
Views: 4431

Re: Everton now under new owners

Annual relegation fight? The last 3 seasons, whilst they've had to stop spending to finance a new stadium. Before that they had 1 didn't they? the Wimbledon season. So thats rubbish, Moyes and Martinez had them in europe consistently and in a cup final and 2 semi finals. Brentford have no ambition t...
by theduke
Thu Dec 19, 2024 9:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton now under new owners
Replies: 81
Views: 4431

Re: Everton now under new owners

He did. But he's still made Murphy, longstaff and willock look like too PL players.

Dyche doesn't have it in him. He's a firefighter, he'll make a side solid at the back and build from there, actually that's it.
by theduke
Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:17 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton now under new owners
Replies: 81
Views: 4431

Re: Everton now under new owners

fidelcastro wrote:
Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:06 pm
Everton have flirted with relegation for a few years now. I'm not sure they'll get the big name manager their fans think they're entitled to.
Of course they will. A big club and money attracts.

Villa were the same and got emery. You are massively downplaying the size of Everton.
by theduke
Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:00 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton now under new owners
Replies: 81
Views: 4431

Re: Everton now under new owners

On dyche. He acts like he's doing Everton a favour all the time.
by theduke
Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:59 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton now under new owners
Replies: 81
Views: 4431

Re: Everton now under new owners

You don't think Thomas frank... A manager who manages a team that plays in a 17k stadium that only has one ambition. To stay in the PL wouldn't want to manage a team that plays in a 53k stadium and wants to win things? I think you are deluding yourself a little. Probably due to the bad blood between...
by theduke
Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton now under new owners
Replies: 81
Views: 4431

Re: Everton now under new owners

Woodleyclaret wrote:
Thu Dec 19, 2024 4:25 pm
Thomas Frank would be off his head to take the Everton job he had a better one already.
Brentford have a ceiling. Everton don't really.

Thomas frank would walk over broken glass to manage Everton. As would loads of managers.
by theduke
Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton now under new owners
Replies: 81
Views: 4431

Re: Everton now under new owners

Yeah crazy comparison when Howe has signed Isak, Bruno G, Gordon, Tonali, and Botman - to name the top players Newcastle have signed who come to mind. He didn't sign any of them when he took over Newcastle that were adrift. He's improved averaged players like willock, Murphy and long staff. Dyche h...
by theduke
Thu Dec 19, 2024 3:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton now under new owners
Replies: 81
Views: 4431

Re: Everton now under new owners

Of course it's a big job. Forget the fact they are now debt free, or are moving into a big new stadium, or the fact they will prob be up to £100m per season better off. They are still one of the giants of the English game. Pre dyche Everton's managers included ancellotti, benitez they bullied Southa...
by theduke
Thu Dec 19, 2024 2:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton now under new owners
Replies: 81
Views: 4431

Re: Everton now under new owners

he didn't play Onana though, so it made no difference to him. Ancelloti had Everton 2nd on Boxing day. They fell off ( i imagine he knew he was going back to Real). I' m sorry but Dyche has failed his audition. He will never get a big job again. I compare him to Howe. Howe has shown that he could ta...
by theduke
Thu Dec 19, 2024 1:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton now under new owners
Replies: 81
Views: 4431

Re: Everton now under new owners

I'd argue 12th is about where Everton should finish. He hasn't had little investment. He's bought for decent money: Beto N'diaye O'Brien Chermiti My Everton family hate him. Of the 4 above he doesn't play 3 and plays the other out of position. He barley played Onana last season, he was forced into p...
by theduke
Thu Dec 19, 2024 12:36 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton now under new owners
Replies: 81
Views: 4431

Re: Everton now under new owners

There's a few reasons for it. Dyche comes across very unlikeable, Lampard didn't. Dyches football is horrendous to watch. His results have been awful, he's had a few small spells where they have won 5 in a row. Its masked the rest of his seasons. And to the people saying Evertonians would welcome Mo...
by theduke
Sun Oct 13, 2024 9:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: SpaceX
Replies: 36
Views: 2830

Re: SpaceX

I’m very pro space exploration. The Horizons Pluto probe, the Lucy missions to the Trojan asteroid belt, two of the more recent space adventures, both expanding our knowledge of the solar system. Not to mention the Webb space telescope, which has provided amazing images, and is revealing insights i...
by theduke
Tue Sep 24, 2024 4:14 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton...Another Season of Struggle?
Replies: 98
Views: 8328

Re: Everton...Another Season of Struggle?

Italian and English fans are very different though. Not sure it will bother Everton fans, they've literally had a dodgy Russian Gangster and his accountant running the club from Monte Carlo.

Moshiri hasn't been to Goodison in years
by theduke
Tue Sep 24, 2024 3:26 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton...Another Season of Struggle?
Replies: 98
Views: 8328

Re: Everton...Another Season of Struggle?

The (Friedkin Group) deal needs approval yet - from Premier League, the Football Association, and the Financial Conduct Authority. The guy is well rich though and would've been at least partly investigated re his previous attempt to buy Everton; doubt threll be a problem. Friedkin currently owns Ro...
by theduke
Tue Aug 20, 2024 9:28 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton...Another Season of Struggle?
Replies: 98
Views: 8328

Re: Everton...Another Season of Struggle?

A bit of a knee jerk. They didn't get battered really they just got hit on the counter twice. Everton could have scored a fair few.

Plus they were missing a few key players. They'll be fine this season they got 46 points last year and their squad is better now