I’d suggest it’s likely he will be in our squad should we be back in the Championship (likely).
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- Sun Dec 10, 2023 4:25 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Michael Mellon
- Replies: 106
- Views: 22042
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 11:27 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Michael Mellon
- Replies: 106
- Views: 22042
Re: Michael Mellon
Notched again yesterday
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 7:02 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Charlie Taylor
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3943
Re: Charlie Taylor
He could move Beyer out there and play Ekdal in the centre. We could do with Ekdal against Everton anyway imo
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 10:08 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Rays of hope at Sussex by the Sea
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2681
Re: Rays of hope at Sussex by the Sea
so the September thing is now gone
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 3:28 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sky & TNT retain Premier League rights
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3799
Re: Sky & TNT retain Premier League rights
There are other benefits to Sky other than the direct revenue from the rights sale. Primarily it is the constant 24/7 promotion of the PL, the pushing of the stories around the league, its clubs and personalities. Sky is a non-stop publicity machine for the league. There are indirect revenue advant...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:27 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sky & TNT retain Premier League rights
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3799
Re: Sky & TNT retain Premier League rights
I assume you have plucked £10 a month out of thin air. I highly doubt the PL could build a subscriber base from scratch, allowing for all the costs that come with running a service (we shall ignore also the slight issue of what happens when there is no PL over the summer) and achieve the same revenu...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Is VK learning anything?
- Replies: 66
- Views: 9125
Re: Is VK learning anything?
Game management was pretty concerning yesterday, it didn't seem to be the management team were reading the game very well. At all.
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Match Thread - Wolves v Burnley
- Replies: 605
- Views: 60350
Re: Match Thread - Wolves v Burnley
We are bread and butter for established Premier League teams. Very nice to play against. There will be at least one major defensive mistake a game presenting a key opportunity. Whilst at the other end even when we do create clear cut chances we find them hard to convert.
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:34 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Kompany’s Subs
- Replies: 66
- Views: 8663
Re: Kompany’s Subs
and 2 changes in injury time? Really?
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 10:03 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sky & TNT retain Premier League rights
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3799
Re: Sky & TNT retain Premier League rights
There may be a 70% increase in the number of matches to watch, but there is a negligible increase in the number we can watch live because the extra 70% are mostly at the same time as another match (eg. Sundays, or the last match of the season). Agreed, though, it's less than inflation, so the value...
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:34 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Ollie McBurnie
- Replies: 54
- Views: 8908
Re: Ollie McBurnie
The first red card of his career so he can’t be that bad considering he’s 27. For what it’s worth we need a player the same I’d consider signing him next season, give us abit of height and a player who can bully a defender. Would have been ideal last season to hold the ball up. Next summer he shoul...
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 2:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: A home win at last and a big home win
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1961
Re: REPORT: A home win at last and a big home win
A chuckle in our boots and a spring in the step today, Well done CT.
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 9:52 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: The home defeats keep coming
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4740
Re: REPORT: The home defeats keep coming
Not sure what your point is here as that's nothing we don't already know. There were plenty of people on here saying when we got promoted it was bittersweet because it means you have to go up to the PL. It's a necessary evil, using the PL money to keep a small club like this towards the top end of ...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 9:38 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: The home defeats keep coming
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4740
Re: REPORT: The home defeats keep coming
If we can replicate Brighton's strategy why did Tony Bloom have to put so much money in the club if it's possible for other clubs to replicate what Brighton have done without his finances? We already are doing it. Really the only question now is whether we have a Cucurella, Mac Allister, Mitoma, Ca...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 8:33 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: The home defeats keep coming
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4740
Re: REPORT: The home defeats keep coming
And just as an aside, our transfer strategy this season looks remarkably like a version of theirs from years past.
I guess the likes of Luton and Sheffield Utd will be looking at it with the same shock and awe you have for Brighton's strategy, and pondering the same barriers to entry.
I guess the likes of Luton and Sheffield Utd will be looking at it with the same shock and awe you have for Brighton's strategy, and pondering the same barriers to entry.
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 8:29 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: The home defeats keep coming
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4740
Re: REPORT: The home defeats keep coming
But without the money in the first place (almost half a billion) they would never have got to where they are now. That's something we can never compete with. Brighton ran a net negative transfer spend of between. £50-70M for a number of seasons while they got established. They have bought the odd p...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 10:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: The home defeats keep coming
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4740
Re: REPORT: The home defeats keep coming
Not really. I'd rank all of our successful championship seasons above all of our premier league seasons bar the one we finished 7th. I've seen us stick it to the big boys plenty of times and it's all a bit meh now. Enjoyable being in the top league but there's less of an edge to it, knowing that so...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 10:42 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: The home defeats keep coming
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4740
Re: REPORT: The home defeats keep coming
It does need emphasising though that Brighton have been funded to rhe tune of nearly half a billion to get to where they are now and they spent many millions on players who turned out to be complete duds before making good profits on others. We can't afford that luxury of writing off a £20 million ...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 9:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: TV Gameshows
- Replies: 50
- Views: 4869
Re: TV Gameshows
There was an excellent one on recently called 3 by 3 which showed a lot of promise.
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 9:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: The home defeats keep coming
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4740
Re: REPORT: The home defeats keep coming
Bang on. I want us to be playing as high as we can but it's largely a waste of time for anyone but about 6-7 clubs being in this division. No chance of winning it, very little chance of getting into Europe and when you do it just costs you a lot of money and has an adverse effect on your domestic s...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 9:19 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sacking Kompany
- Replies: 218
- Views: 26626
Re: Sacking Kompany
I’m a complete realist. This set of highly talented young players we’re accumulating may take a while to develop, things are rough right now (but improving with a more settled side), we may be relegated, we know from the last 24 months relegation isn’t necessarily the end of the world(in fact it wa...
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 6:51 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Zeki v Muric
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2795
Re: Zeki v Muric
Have you not been watching our current centre backs?ClaretTony wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 1:22 pmTurned Nathan Collins - good finish but I don’t think I’ve seen a defender make as many big mistakes as Collins does.
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 2:19 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: What is Berge’s best position?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3693
Re: What is Berge’s best position?
One of few signings that seem to have worked so far.
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:30 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: From BBC Sport Transfer Gossip
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3207
From BBC Sport Transfer Gossip
Burnley are interested in winger Crysencio Summerville, 22, but Leeds are not willing to let the Dutchman leave for any less than £25m. (Football Insider)
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 12:58 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: Record breaking defeat as Palace take the points
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2405
Re: REPORT: Record breaking defeat as Palace take the points
Credit to you CT for continuing to churn out detailed reports from our games. Must be tough to write them at times.
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 12:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Liam Gallagher Definitely Maybe Tour
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5327
Re: Liam Gallagher Definitely Maybe Tour
At least he's performing as LG and not Oasis. One of my biggest gripes is bands continuing to trade on the name when massive changes are made to the line up. For example Big Country without Stuart Adamson, New Order without Hook etc. The biggest culprits by far though are UB40 without Ali Campbell ...
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 7:18 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Club update following supporter feedback
- Replies: 175
- Views: 11773
Re: Club update following supporter feedback
Any chance to have a dig. Boring after a while I'm afraidClaretTony wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 6:12 pmDrums still wouldn’t surprise me given who it is that wants it but mercifully no mention.
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 12:08 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Lee Howey - Undr the Cosh (Spoilers)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4405
Re: Lee Howey - Undr the Cosh (Spoilers)
waste of bandwidth space
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 11:33 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: Bournemouth brings another tough day on the road
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3241
Re: REPORT: Bournemouth brings another tough day on the road
We said on the way back how much the side lacks leadership and strength. I believe firstly we really have to start making more use of the Premier League experience we have. Last season in the Championship it benefited from the likes of Jack Cork and Ashley Barnes but those players have not been rep...
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 7:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Brentford v Burnley - Player Ratings
- Replies: 59
- Views: 11474
Re: Brentford v Burnley - Player Ratings
Trafford 7 Roberts 4 Al-Dakhil 4 O’Shea 5 Taylor 5 Cullen 4 Berge 4 Trésor 3 Amdouni 4 Odobert 3 Foster 6 Koleosho 4 Brownhill 5 We have players not up to this level of football - YET ...but seemingly not willing to put the hard yards in. A very bad recipe. Next week's performance will be very revea...
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 3:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: Bad day at Brentford without a drumroll
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4978
Re: REPORT: Bad day at Brentford without a drumroll
It was a performance bordering on unacceptable to me. Far too passive, no energy or determination. We have to be at the top of our games to win games at this level. that was nowhere near it.
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 6:20 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: First game this season
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1487
First game this season
This reminds me of our first season / Brian Laws version. Good Premier League teams sniff vulnerability and exploit it. We whiff of it from a mile away. It's difficult to understand an area of strength. We won't be for changing, Kompany is too deep into the experiment and Pace has been seduced by it...
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 11:35 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Brentford
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1852
Re: Brentford
The Express Tavern will be very busy and I believe now has restrictions around away supporters. The Bell would be a better option and is 5 minutes walk away on the river.
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 11:51 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Which players have impressed you this season?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3025
Re: Which players have impressed you this season?
Maddison the signing of the summer.
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 11:09 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Andros Townsend.
- Replies: 79
- Views: 7959
Re: Andros Townsend.
There will be plenty of players who have verbally said they will sign for us before going elsewhere. That's business.
- Mon Sep 25, 2023 1:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Our Set Piece Coach
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4018
Re: Our Set Piece Coach
by type I assume you mean someone who actually uses those attributes?It Is What It Is wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 11:10 amNeed a Weghorst type forward in the box .....we desperately lack height and muscle.
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 11:02 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Kompany's pragmatism
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2629
Kompany's pragmatism
I saw quite a few shifts in this game, showing Kompany does not have a fixed mindset. Bodes well:
Taylor at left back
More long passes when needed
Return of Robert's long throw
Brownhill's energy back in midfield.
General slowing of game in places where it was required
Taylor at left back
More long passes when needed
Return of Robert's long throw
Brownhill's energy back in midfield.
General slowing of game in places where it was required
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 10:39 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sean Dyche will be smuggly looking on...
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4690
Re: Sean Dyche will be smuggly looking on...
The money and the level of spending has moved on again since we were last there
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 6:28 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Where's the experience
- Replies: 0
- Views: 416
Where's the experience
When every player is signed with some sell on in mind, difficult outcomes are on the horizon. How many prem games in that team today?
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 10:13 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Charlie Taylor
- Replies: 61
- Views: 6124
Re: Charlie Taylor
And then you woke to find your Football Manager game had gone into standby mode.
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 10:05 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Maatsen video on social media
- Replies: 51
- Views: 4763
Re: Maatsen video on social media
One question left outstanding is whether he has signed a new contract at Chelsea or whether he is letting his contract run down
- Fri Sep 01, 2023 10:34 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Massengo signs in for the Clarets
- Replies: 48
- Views: 6263
Re: ARTICLE: Massengo signs in for the Clarets
Almost 150 pro games by the age of 22 not including numerous International appearances. That's a serious step up in quality from players we have signed in that profile previously.
- Fri Sep 01, 2023 10:01 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 2023/24: Newcastle United v Burnley – Ticket Information
- Replies: 100
- Views: 7625
Re: 2023/24: Newcastle United v Burnley – Ticket Information
Reappraising points-based systems for tickets is absolutely the right thing to do over time because they become self fulfilling. Some people have been shut out for years in the Prem and others who do go regularly appear to have fostered an attitude that somehow it's their right to go to every game n...
- Sun Aug 27, 2023 4:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clarets v Villa Match Thread
- Replies: 422
- Views: 18533
Re: Clarets v Villa Match Thread
It's obvious that Kompany's approach at this level is going to be different to Dyche's. We are going to have to accept that an attempt to go out, win games and try to dominate is going to see us on the wrong side of some results some of them will be heavy. It's about whether we can win enough games ...
- Thu Aug 24, 2023 6:14 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mission to Burnley (including spoilers from page 9)
- Replies: 868
- Views: 54072
Re: Mission to Burnley (including spoilers from page 9)
the Chinese are in.
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:44 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: TurfCast - Director of Fan Experience, Russell Ball
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2395
Re: TurfCast - Director of Fan Experience, Russell Ball
Had dealings with Russell last season around an away game and found him to be a nice bloke.
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 4:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: No TV games for Burnley in October
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2019
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 10:47 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s Blast from our Recent Clarets Past (XII) - Nik Michopoulos
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1502
Re: Today’s Blast from our Recent Clarets Past (XII) - Nik Michopoulos
Debut was Huddersfield away wasn’t it? Sure he was a late replacement for Crichton who was late due to being stuck in traffic? Started Ok. By the end, the less said the better. He and Beresford were as bad as each other that final season. I hadnt realised he had played a few full internationals for...
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 6:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Costelloe heads north to St Johnstone
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1665
Re: ARTICLE: Costelloe heads north to St Johnstone
The two things could be linked
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 3:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Foster on top as season kicks off
- Replies: 12
- Views: 912
Re: ARTICLE: Foster on top as season kicks off
The most positive thing Kompany could say about him was that his fee would look small in Prem terms. I am not convinced that was an entirely ringing endorsement.