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- Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:39 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Controversial comment
- Replies: 57
- Views: 3902
Re: Controversial comment
It’s as hard / easy to stay up this year as any other year. The idea the quality of a league of 20 teams varies that much from one season to the next is weird. It’s like when you say the Championship is a poor league one year. As if it’s anything other than a division full of players not quite good ...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:59 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Any comment from Ian Wright on Ben White yet?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2664
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:34 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Harnessing AI to Improve our Performances
- Replies: 18
- Views: 754
Re: Harnessing AI to Improve our Performances
I remember a year or two ago, AI seemed totally mindblowing / terrifying. Now it seems really obvious and a bit s***. Disappointing.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: League One
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3498
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Assignon, Esteve and Fofana
- Replies: 68
- Views: 3480
Re: Assignon, Esteve and Fofana
Steve's alright, don't think Fofana will fancy the Championship, Assignon can return to wherever he came from.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:05 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Blackburn will
- Replies: 103
- Views: 6379
Re: Blackburn will
It's nice having that record but I'd rather play them. We've all seen us lose to them loads before, the world doesn't end. Them being in League One would be funny, and we'd be guaranteed to keep the years building up on our unbeaten run, but you don't get days like that glorious 3-0 last season that...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sheffield Weds v Leeds
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1626
Re: Sheffield Weds v Leeds
Rohl has done an amazing job there up to now, they were as cut adrift as us not long ago.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Wooden spoon derby
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2428
Re: Wooden spoon derby
Almost certainly the lowest standard 'top flight' game you'll ever see, and I'm 100% there for it. Get it first on MOTD. Backpasses getting sliced into the crowd, three consecutive passes getting 'oles', hapless defending. Genuinely looking forward to it.. proper lower league football but in the big...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:06 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Wooden spoon derby
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2428
Re: Wooden spoon derby
I knew we didn't win there that much, and having been at off top of my head the FA Cup game 2-2, a 3-2 win there and a 3-3 draw I would never have guessed it was that bad. Oh well it's either 19th or 20th we finish then The 3-2 there under Coyle was brilliant, comfortably Chris Eagles best game for...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clarets vs Bournemouth - Match Thread
- Replies: 472
- Views: 10212
Re: Clarets vs Bournemouth - Match Thread
Semenyo is definitely a man, I don’t care what the IOC say.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:05 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Crucial 7 days at Ewood ? ....
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2284
Re: Crucial 7 days at Ewood ? ....
Everything tells you to concentrate on our own problems and increasingly miserable season. But it requires real discipline not to find this a bit funny.
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:07 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Paul Heckingbottom interview
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3941
Re: Paul Heckingbottom interview
Heckingbottom touched on it there, about the difference in athleticism and physicality too. If you're going to have a lot of young lads, or diminutive players in this league, they better be absolute world beaters. You can understand Dyche always having an emphasis on that side of it. Even so, it doe...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:30 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Paul Heckingbottom interview
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3941
Re: Paul Heckingbottom interview
He lives near us, never heard a bad word about him although I didn't warm to him as a manager either. He talks a lot of sense here.
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Appearances for promotion winners
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1733
Re: Appearances for promotion winners
When we went up with Dyche, our best players hadn't been on loan either, which is a factor. There's more gone wrong than that, but after Forest went up with a load of loan stars, they spent £150m and just about made it. Tella, Maatsen and Harwood Bellis were all big players for us. I probably agree ...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:40 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today's Football
- Replies: 103
- Views: 3002
Re: Today's Football
Only just caught up on this stat, you would never have believed that if you only skimmed the coverage as I did yesterday.
Chelsea started and finished the match with a younger side than Liverpool.
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 7:10 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Worried more about next season
- Replies: 42
- Views: 2507
Re: Worried more about next season
We’ll have a completely new team again by August. No idea if they’ll be any good this time.
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Half time entertainment v Arsenal
- Replies: 69
- Views: 3322
Re: Half time entertainment v Arsenal
A few references to non-league here, but honestly that's what we should aspire to at half time. You can easily get warm food and a pint without queueing for 20 minutes. You can check the scores. You can talk to your mates / family. It's actually enjoyable.
Just recreate that on a much bigger scale.
Just recreate that on a much bigger scale.
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Favourite films of all time
- Replies: 123
- Views: 4187
Re: Favourite films of all time
The Lives of Others
Dead Man’s Shoes
Hot Fuzz
Festen / The Celebration
Dead Man’s Shoes
Hot Fuzz
Festen / The Celebration
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Is Relegation such a bad thing really?
- Replies: 146
- Views: 5242
Re: Is Relegation such a bad thing really?
There isn't an option to consistently be a top 6 championship club. You either get promoted or you get worse. Unfortunately, that's true. You get maybe a couple of seasons at most, from then on you're fighting against League One while juggling debts if you're a club of our size. We got a bit lucky ...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:02 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Are poor coaching techniques at fault
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1399
Re: Are poor coaching techniques at fault
It was quite often a nervy watch last season every time we conceded a set piece.. particularly at Bramhall Lane. We got away with it partly because we had so much possession and also Muric to his credit improved noticeably over the season. This season it's been ruthlessly exposed. We have less posse...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Blue card
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2209
Re: Blue card
I was just thinking that what the game needs is some more added layers of complexity, ideally around rules and officiating.
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:30 am
- 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
Always hard to know if you’re really ‘falling out of love with football’ or we’re just having a bad season. Not many people are saying this when we’re winning the Championship. That said, even last season, although it gave me some of the very best moments following Burnley, i still found myself look...
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 6:54 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Jimmy Anderson
- Replies: 48
- Views: 3343
Re: Jimmy Anderson
To be playing to that level, away in India at 41 shouldn’t be possible in this modern era of super fit young athletes. Agree with all the above, Burnley should be making more of it.
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 4:48 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Adios JDT
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2402
Re: Adios JDT
I actually think he’s a good manager, properly had his hands tied there, which is great.
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Bacup Borough FC
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2498
Re: Bacup Borough FC
Nice video, everything right with football is still going on at non-League. Find myself watching more of it these days.
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: A class above the rest
- Replies: 58
- Views: 2911
Re: A class above the rest
Yeah, all the ones mentioned like Wright, Cole and Heath really showed the sobering difference in levels as they could still look a class above as they neared retirement and dropped down the leagues. McMin was a good shout also. For us Defour was different as he wasn’t showing the lower leagues what...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 7:12 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Pineapple !! Pineapple...it's a step to far.
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3183
Re: Pineapple !! Pineapple...it's a step to far.
I’m all for embracing change but as the OP says, this is crossing the line. It’ll be a cold day in hell before a goddam pineapple ends up near my breakfast.
Why try and fix the one perfect thing in this country.
Why try and fix the one perfect thing in this country.
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 1:00 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Belgium VAR
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3593
Re: Belgium VAR
Crazy that they’re doing this. Over a 23rd minute disallowed penalty over encroachment. Wouldn’t even make the top 20 bad VAR calls in our league. Hopefully it sets a precedent and we see it happening in the Prem and Champions League, then everyone accepts it’s ludicrous and killing the game and we ...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 7:20 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Horrible flu going round
- Replies: 62
- Views: 4933
Re: Horrible flu going round
I was thinking about this the other day as the missus was saying how many people were off ill at her work. Made me realise I've not had so much as a cold since having Covid in 2020 (which was pretty mild). That's a decent run of dodging stuff.
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:53 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Blackburn rovers finances at mercy of judge in india
- Replies: 75
- Views: 5981
Re: Blackburn rovers finances at mercy of judge in india
Whatever the worst case scenario is, that's what I'd like to see happen.
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 8:51 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: "Vomit Inducing" Accent.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2106
Re: "Vomit Inducing" Accent.
For me, nothing beats the Roadman/Mandem accent for inducing vomit. Worst accent I've ever heard. I was watching that particularly grim episode of 24hrs in Custody on Ch4 this week and I must admit, one of the questions I’d have asked the murderer guy was why is a 33 year old man from Bedfordshire ...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 5:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Northampton Town (a) 1986 - assistance needed please
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1256
Re: Northampton Town (a) 1986 - assistance needed please
Surprisingly, we did actually beat them at home in 86/87 when they won the league easily. A win which later turned out to deny them a 100 pts total and was also a fairly important 3 points for us in the end.
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 9:26 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Joey’s in bother again
- Replies: 349
- Views: 25268
Re: Joey’s in bother again
I hope not, it's a shame to see him where he is now. However, it's more likely he's close to bankruptcy, everyone needs to do something to pay the bills and once the League One / Two manager jobs dried up, I guess this is his chosen path.
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mr Bates vs the Post Office
- Replies: 305
- Views: 28254
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Joey’s in bother again
- Replies: 349
- Views: 25268
Re: Joey’s in bother again
I was kind of hoping he was just going down this route to grift some easy money off people with flags in their bios but unfortunately it appears he has genuinely fully lost it. He'll be protesting 15 minute cities with Rickie Lambert in a week or two.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Delcroix
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4837
Re: Delcroix
Faultless tonight, our best player. O’Shea improving fast too. Shame the season is half finished.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 6:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 2023/24: Manchester City v Burnley – Ticket Information
- Replies: 75
- Views: 4726
Re: 2023/24: Manchester City v Burnley – Ticket Information
Respect and sympathy to anyone putting themselves through this again.
I think my personal GD tally in this one is 19-1, I’m sure plenty have much worse.
I think my personal GD tally in this one is 19-1, I’m sure plenty have much worse.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:14 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: FA Cup 3rd Round
- Replies: 69
- Views: 5608
Re: FA Cup 3rd Round
No way any football authority is going to back down now but VAR has ruined top level football. It’s a much poorer ‘product’ and the decisions are no different.
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 4:02 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Get Eric Dyer
- Replies: 56
- Views: 6055
Re: Get Eric Dyer
It's a bit difficult to understand people still thinking a player of DIer's calibre wouldn't be a massive upgrade for us. To have seen us this season and not noticed the gulf between an established top 6 player/England international and our players is astonishing, regardless of if you're a negative...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:38 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Barton
- Replies: 195
- Views: 32392
Re: Barton
It's actually a pretty interesting topic but little chance we'll get into it before it gets derailed. My grandad in particular was a staunch socialist / union man.. borderline Communist. Voted Labour from 18 until he died. But he had certain views which would place him 'far right' today. That's not ...
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 4:34 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: HISTORY MAKING: First Female Premier League Referee (Fulham v Burnley)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4668
Re: HISTORY MAKING: First Female Premier League Referee (Fulham v Burnley)
Wish her all the best, great achievement. Hope it goes well.
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 9:28 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Michael Duff - Sacked
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2941
Re: Michael Duff - Sacked
Shame he left Barnsley, they loved him there and were making progress. One step forward and two back going to Swansea.
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 6:40 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sky & TNT retain Premier League rights
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3721
Re: Sky & TNT retain Premier League rights
The bubble hasn't burst but TV income has definitely peaked. The only option is to give more and more games away to try and keep the same money coming in. The 'unofficial' streaming services were inevitably going to hit the value of these deals eventually.
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 10:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 2 questions from today
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4091
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 10:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Does today's result really mean anything?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4849
Re: Does today's result really mean anything?
Today definitely confirmed one thing, we’re still the best team in the Championship.
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:33 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sheffield Utd fans
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5011
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:07 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Tonight’s football
- Replies: 59
- Views: 3409
Re: Newcastle Utd....robbed
Couldn’t care less about Newcastle but VAR has made a North East Counties League match more enjoyable and exciting to watch than a top end Champions League game.
It’s like there’s two different sports now and I know which one I prefer.
It’s like there’s two different sports now and I know which one I prefer.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 6:52 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Price if a pint where you live
- Replies: 144
- Views: 12411
Re: Price if a pint where you live
There’s a pub in our town in South Yorkshire where you can still get a pint for £1.60. A few yards away there’s a bar where it’s £6 for a lager. All depends on your clientele I guess. I like both places, the cheap pub isn’t rough, just an old man type pub where they have horse racing on all day. Rem...
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 7:35 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gazza a Claret
- Replies: 51
- Views: 5024
Re: Gazza a Claret
He was a 34 year old, depressed alcoholic with numerous other physical and mental issues. The blame should lie with our club for that fiasco.
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 12:46 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Waddle talks Burnley
- Replies: 67
- Views: 7183
Re: Waddle talks Burnley
He seems a top guy, very popular in Sheffield and loves football at any level despite playing right at the top. But even though he was poor as a manager for us, it could have been worse. Got really lucky with Andy Payton falling out with his Huddersfield manager mid-season. Without that, we'd have b...