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- Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:01 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: All there in one match.
- Replies: 95
- Views: 7134
Re: All there in one match.
I thought we were down months ago because we just didn’t seem to be learning/improving but that has changed. Slowly but surely we are looking like a PL team. Probably just a bit too late, but who knows. I still feel that this season was a huge missed opportunity and the management was (criminally) s...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:07 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: So who's renewed their ST?
- Replies: 290
- Views: 17685
Re: So who's renewed their ST?
Wasn’t going to renew but my resolve cracked this morning!
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:04 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: James Trafford England call up
- Replies: 194
- Views: 13121
Re: James Trafford England call up
One for the future and I am sure he will go on to be a first class keeper. Only time will tell whether being thrown into the PL well before he was ready has helped or hindered his development. Hopefully this will help his confidence. His selection is a good thing however you look at it.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Ouch- feels like a defeat that!
- Replies: 52
- Views: 3421
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
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Silly yellow cards
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1805
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.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:28 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: West Ham United V The Clarets 2pm KO
- Replies: 617
- Views: 21392
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
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: West Ham United V The Clarets 2pm KO
- Replies: 617
- Views: 21392
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
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:13 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Unpopular opinions
- Replies: 126
- Views: 6344
Re: Unpopular opinions
It has felt from the start of this season that winning, or at least drawing, first team games is not a priorityJakubclaret wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:41 pmLots of things are strange. It's a club where people aren't making best interest decisions & there's a complete lack of accountability.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:01 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: If anyone cares- your team for tomorrow
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2047
Re: If anyone cares- your team for tomorrow
We might as well forfeit the remaining games.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:13 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: If anyone cares- your team for tomorrow
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2047
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...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:55 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Kompany press conference pre West Ham
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3929
Re: Kompany press conference pre West Ham
He would be lucky to get a job making the tea at Man City
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today's Football
- Replies: 206
- Views: 6588
Re: Today's Football
Some of our defending this season has been non-existential….
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:39 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today's Football
- Replies: 206
- Views: 6588
Re: Today's Football
Albert was a bloody good keeper. Would certainly get in ahead of Muric
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley v Hull U21 Latest
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1979
Re: Burnley v Hull U21 Latest
Defensive calamities? How un-Burnley like
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today's Football
- Replies: 206
- Views: 6588
Re: Today's Football
I don’t think anyone can argue that we are not bottom on merit.
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Fan’s View (version 2)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 4203
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……….
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Fan’s View (version 2)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 4203
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:31 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Fan’s View (version 2)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 4203
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
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:07 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Alan Pace
- Replies: 66
- Views: 4477
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.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:00 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The objective for the rest of the season
- Replies: 95
- Views: 5679
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...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:21 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Get this clown out
- Replies: 203
- Views: 10329
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
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:03 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Tad unlucky to lose today- me thinks!!
- Replies: 67
- Views: 3516
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.
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 4:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Trafford Contract
- Replies: 90
- Views: 5534
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.
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:43 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Worried more about next season
- Replies: 42
- Views: 2667
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.
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:15 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Bad as Laws era
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3090
Re: Bad as Laws era
Worse.
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: A slight glimmer
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1958
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...
- 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: 16631
Re: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate
Go: for the sake of God go…
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley vs Palace Match thread
- Replies: 733
- Views: 20675
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.
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:06 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley vs Palace Match thread
- Replies: 733
- Views: 20675
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...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:09 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Torquay Utd
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2304
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 ...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:03 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Torquay Utd
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2304
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…
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:23 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Torquay Utd
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2304
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…?
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:13 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Torquay Utd
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2304
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...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:59 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: Burnley shot down by the Gunners
- Replies: 57
- Views: 3048
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...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mike Procter (1946-2024)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1452
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.
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: What a ******* shambles!
- Replies: 142
- Views: 7676
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...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: VK OUT !!
- Replies: 347
- Views: 16175
Re: VK OUT !!
….following in the footsteps of …….Chris WaddleNewcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:07 amI’m genuinely starting to think VK will end up as a pundit, this season could potentially end his managerial career.
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: VK OUT !!
- Replies: 347
- Views: 16175
Re: VK OUT !!
I very much doubt this team would storm the Championship.
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:03 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: VK OUT !!
- Replies: 347
- Views: 16175
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...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:07 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s thread
- Replies: 302
- Views: 10621
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.
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:01 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s thread
- Replies: 302
- Views: 10621
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:51 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s thread
- Replies: 302
- Views: 10621
Re: Today’s thread
They call him Agent Kompany at Ewood…….
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:41 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s thread
- Replies: 302
- Views: 10621
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.
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s thread
- Replies: 302
- Views: 10621
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s thread
- Replies: 302
- Views: 10621
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
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:19 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s thread
- Replies: 302
- Views: 10621
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.
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s thread
- Replies: 302
- Views: 10621
Re: Today’s thread
Let’s face it: it was game over before we kicked off
- 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: 1489
Re: Today’s Blast from our Clarets Past (IV) - Kevin Hird
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.CharlieinNewMexico wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:36 amBlimey!
Hardest shot I’ve ever seen, Kevin Hird away at Cambridge.
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 10:12 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Shearer ...
- Replies: 52
- Views: 4322
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...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 2:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: Last gasp goal wins unlikely point
- Replies: 170
- Views: 6518
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 ...