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by Culmclaret
Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:33 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ouch- feels like a defeat that!
Replies: 52
Views: 2997

Re: Ouch- feels like a defeat that!

At least we have added another team to the exclusive list of those we have taken points from. That is now six teams we have taken anything from
by Culmclaret
Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:31 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Silly yellow cards
Replies: 26
Views: 1610

Re: Silly yellow cards

The best defensively organised teams, however robust, have good disciplinary records because they know how to defend properly. Under Dyche everyone thought we were a dirty team but we generally had exemplary disciplinary records because we were bloody good at all aspects of defending.
by Culmclaret
Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: West Ham United V The Clarets 2pm KO
Replies: 617
Views: 16913

Re: West Ham United V The Clarets 2pm KO

At least we are off the bottom. I am pretty sure without checking that 1896/97 is the only season that we have ever finished bottom of a league in nearly 130 years of playing league football. Avoiding bottom spot is all we have to play for now
by Culmclaret
Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: West Ham United V The Clarets 2pm KO
Replies: 617
Views: 16913

Re: West Ham United V The Clarets 2pm KO

Just the sign of a rank bad side. Finds itself 2-0 up through a measure of good fortune and still can’t hold on. Even the worst teams win the odd game but we can’t even do that now
by Culmclaret
Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:13 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Unpopular opinions
Replies: 126
Views: 5760

Re: Unpopular opinions

Jakubclaret wrote:
Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:41 pm
Lots of things are strange. It's a club where people aren't making best interest decisions & there's a complete lack of accountability.
It has felt from the start of this season that winning, or at least drawing, first team games is not a priority
by Culmclaret
Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:01 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: If anyone cares- your team for tomorrow
Replies: 34
Views: 1815

Re: If anyone cares- your team for tomorrow

We might as well forfeit the remaining games.
by Culmclaret
Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:13 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: If anyone cares- your team for tomorrow
Replies: 34
Views: 1815

Re: If anyone cares- your team for tomorrow

Easier to predict how the game will go than the players playing. It'll be a variation of - -Keep the ball fairly well for the first 10-15 mins. -Maybe create a half chance but nothing to worry WHU. -After about 15 mins we'll start giving the ball away regularly. -No central midfield, no pressing, n...
by Culmclaret
Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:55 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Kompany press conference pre West Ham
Replies: 41
Views: 3727

Re: Kompany press conference pre West Ham

He would be lucky to get a job making the tea at Man City
by Culmclaret
Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today's Football
Replies: 206
Views: 5496

Re: Today's Football

Some of our defending this season has been non-existential….
by Culmclaret
Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:39 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today's Football
Replies: 206
Views: 5496

Re: Today's Football

Albert was a bloody good keeper. Would certainly get in ahead of Muric
by Culmclaret
Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:37 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley v Hull U21 Latest
Replies: 20
Views: 1907

Re: Burnley v Hull U21 Latest

Defensive calamities? How un-Burnley like
by Culmclaret
Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today's Football
Replies: 206
Views: 5496

Re: Today's Football

I don’t think anyone can argue that we are not bottom on merit.
by Culmclaret
Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:10 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Fan’s View (version 2)
Replies: 58
Views: 4005

Re: Fan’s View (version 2)

If the odd glimpse from one or two players constitutes an objective measure of talent then fine. Otherwise we’ll just have to disagree! And stop press: the Blades are no longer below us, so we are officially the bottom of the pile. I’ll really try to put a positive spin on that……….
by Culmclaret
Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:20 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Fan’s View (version 2)
Replies: 58
Views: 4005

Re: Fan’s View (version 2)

KRBFC wrote:
Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:05 am
You don’t see the raw talent in Koleosho and Odobert?

Then you’re just being negative, stop with the ultra negative view and assess things objectively.
My objective assessment is that we are on course to get the second lowest points total in PL history
by Culmclaret
Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:31 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Fan’s View (version 2)
Replies: 58
Views: 4005

Re: Fan’s View (version 2)

….or alternatively he is one of the worst managers ever to grace the PL. I see zero evidence of learning and precious little of the raw talent we are supposed to have recruited. I am all for balanced views but I just cannot see any positives….except Sheff U are marginally worse… for now
by Culmclaret
Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:07 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Alan Pace
Replies: 66
Views: 4168

Re: Alan Pace

It is not the ‘results’ that are ‘hard to take’ it is the abject performances both individually and collectively, but at least we are enhancing our global brand in leisure and lifestyle.
by Culmclaret
Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:00 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The objective for the rest of the season
Replies: 83
Views: 4058

Re: The objective for the rest of the season

I am a bit lost as to what the objective was at the start of the season, let alone what it is now. Sadly we have a manager who has been consumed by his own ego, stubbornly adhering to an outmoded style of play with a disjointed group of duds which he was responsible for recruiting. The football is u...
by Culmclaret
Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Get this clown out
Replies: 203
Views: 9301

Re: Get this clown out

Very likely to be our worst ever season in terms of points per game. That will be one thing that no apologist for this disaster of a manager and his wretched project will be able to argue away
by Culmclaret
Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:03 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tad unlucky to lose today- me thinks!!
Replies: 67
Views: 3207

Re: Tad unlucky to lose today- me thinks!!

I said a while back we would be lucky to get any more points this season. Take Luton and Sheff U out of the equation and we’ve amassed a princely six points in 24 games. Take Fulham out of the equation and it is two in 22. This guy is an utter Klown. This is beyond terrible.
by Culmclaret
Sun Feb 25, 2024 4:00 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Trafford Contract
Replies: 90
Views: 5209

Re: Trafford Contract

As I understand it, the aim of the project is to play s**t football and lose every week. Safe to say we are well ahead of schedule.
by Culmclaret
Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:43 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Worried more about next season
Replies: 42
Views: 2507

Re: Worried more about next season

Not really worried about next season. I have no idea what sort of squad the third reinvention will bring. All I know is that we will start with 0 points and that we will need around 90 points for automatic promotion.
by Culmclaret
Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bad as Laws era
Replies: 70
Views: 2842

Re: Bad as Laws era

Worse.
by Culmclaret
Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:26 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: A slight glimmer
Replies: 27
Views: 1886

Re: A slight glimmer

Just feels like someone who after last season thought he could walk on water. To prove it, he did something counter-intuitive and seemingly bonkers, which was to completely dismantle last year’s successful team. This turned out to be …er….bonkers. Then he just got lost in the fog of his own ineptitu...
by Culmclaret
Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate
Replies: 424
Views: 14526

Re: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate

Go: for the sake of God go…
by Culmclaret
Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:14 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley vs Palace Match thread
Replies: 733
Views: 17686

Re: Burnley vs Palace Match thread

Much as I think our summer recruitment was c**p I would back almost any professional manager to get more out of this team than the clueless Kompany.
by Culmclaret
Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:06 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley vs Palace Match thread
Replies: 733
Views: 17686

Re: Burnley vs Palace Match thread

Let’s face it, Kompany could not have made as big a hash of this season if he had tried. I think he’s gone psychologically and is almost deliberately pressing the self destruct button. We’ve been ultra patient with him but he needs to go now for our benefit and his. Difficult to,see how he reconstru...
by Culmclaret
Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:09 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Torquay Utd
Replies: 39
Views: 2155

Re: Torquay Utd

I remember getting soaked wet through while freezing my bits off when we played them at their gaff over the Christmas period back in the old Fourth Division days. We got beat 2-0. It was an awful game of hit-and-hope in the sleet and mud, but what I remember the most is getting lashed by a wintery ...
by Culmclaret
Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:03 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Torquay Utd
Replies: 39
Views: 2155

Re: Torquay Utd

For those of us a certain age, happy memories of results on the Grandstand classifieds such as Torquay Utd E Stockport Co E…
by Culmclaret
Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:23 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Torquay Utd
Replies: 39
Views: 2155

Re: Torquay Utd

Our last visit was the pre-season friendly in 2011. My first sight of a couple of young lads called Kieran Trippier and Benjamin Mee. Whatever happened to them…?
by Culmclaret
Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:13 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Torquay Utd
Replies: 39
Views: 2155

Re: Torquay Utd

What a shame, always felt like a the friendliest of the three Devon league clubs but I suppose lives in their shadow. Torquay itself has a population of only about 60 odd thousand but there are other nearby towns like Paignton and Brixham etc so you have thought it could easily sustain a league tea...
by Culmclaret
Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:59 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: REPORT: Burnley shot down by the Gunners
Replies: 57
Views: 2823

Re: REPORT: Burnley shot down by the Gunners

I know in many ways we have little choice but to stick with Kompany. but I want him gone. He does not deserve to be here. That he has completely drained the huge reservoir of goodwill he accumulated last season is scarcely believable, Yet he has been that bad. On the law of averages I think even a d...
by Culmclaret
Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mike Procter (1946-2024)
Replies: 18
Views: 1396

Re: Mike Procter (1946-2024)

Very dangerous fast bowler who also bowled very respectable off spin. A very aggressive bat. Barry Richards, Graeme Pollock, Eddie Barlow and Mike Proctor: all world class.
by Culmclaret
Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: What a ******* shambles!
Replies: 142
Views: 7120

Re: What a ******* shambles!

I think we have been incredibly patient with him. Lots of slack cut in the expectation that things would get better and that even if we were relegated one could have confidence in next season. What we have had however is flatlining, bordering on deterioration, with a lack of intensity and fight whic...
by Culmclaret
Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:10 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: VK OUT !!
Replies: 347
Views: 14799

Re: VK OUT !!

Newcastleclaret93 wrote:
Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:07 am
I’m genuinely starting to think VK will end up as a pundit, this season could potentially end his managerial career.
….following in the footsteps of …….Chris Waddle
by Culmclaret
Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: VK OUT !!
Replies: 347
Views: 14799

Re: VK OUT !!

I very much doubt this team would storm the Championship.
by Culmclaret
Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:03 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: VK OUT !!
Replies: 347
Views: 14799

Re: VK OUT !!

Nobody on earth would keep us up because of the total disaster authored by Kompany. Rather than build on a good platform by strengthening in key positions he decided on a demolition job, on top of which he brought in dross and a boy keeper. I really don’t want him here next season because his projec...
by Culmclaret
Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:07 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today’s thread
Replies: 302
Views: 9375

Re: Today’s thread

He may or may not be able to get us back up but what is the point. He won’t learn anything about the PL in that process and he clearly hasn’t learnt anything this season.
by Culmclaret
Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today’s thread
Replies: 302
Views: 9375

Re: Today’s thread

FCBurnley wrote:
Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:59 pm
Fortress Turf Moor eh Vinnie
Well, he did say he wanted to make it ‘hell’……….certainly succeeded there
by Culmclaret
Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:51 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today’s thread
Replies: 302
Views: 9375

Re: Today’s thread

They call him Agent Kompany at Ewood…….
by Culmclaret
Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today’s thread
Replies: 302
Views: 9375

Re: Today’s thread

If Kompany had any decency he would walk. His fingerprints are all over this utter shambles of a season. Yes he did very well at a lower level last season, with a comparatively large budget, but this season is clear proof that he is miles behind the modern game at the highest level.
by Culmclaret
Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:36 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today’s thread
Replies: 302
Views: 9375

Re: Today’s thread

Westleigh wrote:
Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:33 pm
As a pretty well certain to be relegated team ,& thinking about other seasons we’ve gone down this must be the worst team ever compared to the rest of the league.
I can’t think of a worse one. I would be genuinely surprised if we win again this season.
by Culmclaret
Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:31 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today’s thread
Replies: 302
Views: 9375

Re: Today’s thread

Going backwards I am afraid. There is not one thing I have seen this season which would convince me that this man can manage at Premier League level. Sadly we are stuck with him now in what looks like it is going to be a mutually destructive embrace
by Culmclaret
Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:19 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today’s thread
Replies: 302
Views: 9375

Re: Today’s thread

I just couldn’t summon up the enthusiasm for the 540 mile round trip today. Please can we just end the season now and fast forward to next August in the Championship. This is serving no purpose at all.
by Culmclaret
Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today’s thread
Replies: 302
Views: 9375

Re: Today’s thread

Let’s face it: it was game over before we kicked off
by Culmclaret
Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today’s Blast from our Clarets Past (IV) - Kevin Hird
Replies: 22
Views: 1411

Re: Today’s Blast from our Clarets Past (IV) - Kevin Hird

CharlieinNewMexico wrote:
Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:36 am
Blimey!
Hardest shot I’ve ever seen, Kevin Hird away at Cambridge.
That one certainly ‘stayed hit’ and in the first minute too. We were 0-4 up after 35 minutes in a game that was undoubtedly the highlight of a woeful season.
by Culmclaret
Sun Feb 11, 2024 10:12 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Shearer ...
Replies: 52
Views: 4123

Re: Shearer ...

Let’s face it. We re total bobbins. Teams don’t have to play well or try particularly hard to beat us. Against teams other than the two who came up with us plus Fulham we’ve managed a princely two points. Just think about that. Awful recruitment and clueless management. We will be the first 100 poin...
by Culmclaret
Mon Feb 05, 2024 2:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: REPORT: Last gasp goal wins unlikely point
Replies: 170
Views: 5957

Re: REPORT: Last gasp goal wins unlikely point

It’s a big leap to go from being fed up to concluding that we have lost all confidence in the manager and it appears many players feel the same. Personally I see no evidence whatsoever for that. More likely the pressure of a relegation battle is weighing some players down. Kompany was too good for ...
by Culmclaret
Sun Feb 04, 2024 6:49 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: REPORT: Last gasp goal wins unlikely point
Replies: 170
Views: 5957

Re: REPORT: Last gasp goal wins unlikely point

Couldn't agree more. Sums it up very well. Like CT I never imagined that I would feel this way about Burnley FC. There have been some rough periods in my time following the Clarets: - 75/76, 79/80, 84-7, 94/95, the second half of 2009/10 - to name but a few - but this season just feels numbing.
by Culmclaret
Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:38 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Post match presser
Replies: 183
Views: 8300

Re: Post match presser

He's had less than a full season in the premier league. I think its unfortunately the case that most fans are intellectually and temperamentally incapable of having any sort of perspective or sense of time. ….but we are making NO progress whatsoever. We were dire yesterday. Fofana got us out of jai...
by Culmclaret
Sun Feb 04, 2024 8:54 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Post match presser
Replies: 183
Views: 8300

Re: Post match presser

Unfortunately, all that Boskamp said when Kompany left Anderlecht is now playing out. Sadly he has proved that his is intellectually and temperamentally incapable of managing at the highest level