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by Exeterclaret
Sun Nov 26, 2023 1:57 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sacking Kompany
Replies: 218
Views: 26482

Re: Sacking Kompany

Jakubclaret wrote:
Sun Nov 26, 2023 10:22 am
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I'd hardly say that's dominant more even.
Who's your tinder match?
by Exeterclaret
Fri Oct 06, 2023 4:10 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley FC 2023/24
Replies: 28
Views: 2224

Re: Burnley FC 2023/24

tarkys_ears wrote:
Fri Oct 06, 2023 1:06 pm
Go on then, who can name them all?!
All but third from left back row!
by Exeterclaret
Wed Oct 04, 2023 3:51 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Brentford ticket
Replies: 0
Views: 580

Brentford ticket

Apologies if I've missed an existing thread but looking for 1 Brentford ticket. Does anyone have any spare?
by Exeterclaret
Mon Oct 02, 2023 11:19 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Brentford ticket needed
Replies: 18
Views: 2549

Re: Brentford ticket needed

Also looking for one.
by Exeterclaret
Sat Aug 26, 2023 7:26 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today's football
Replies: 96
Views: 5384

Re: Today's football

Vincent'sCap wrote:
Sat Aug 26, 2023 7:16 pm
What's happened to Danny Ings head ? 😆
Hair transplant it looks like. Didn't even know he was bald!
by Exeterclaret
Tue Aug 15, 2023 1:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.
Replies: 15428
Views: 1646166

Re: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.

Is the Lukabakio deal now dead? Tavolieri tweeted on Saturday that it could be hijacked by Sevilla, but to my knowledge no one of any repute has updated since. Sevilla also look to be in for Lozano too, so don't know if it's an either or. Longer it is that there's no updates, the less likely the de...
by Exeterclaret
Mon Aug 14, 2023 11:18 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.
Replies: 15428
Views: 1646166

Re: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.

It’s obviously a player by player basis and there will be positive and negative examples… but in this case there is a reason Hennings signed for a Championship side for 500k, while Lukebakio is a full Belgian international wanted by Champions League sides for > £10m. Anyway no need to talk about hi...
by Exeterclaret
Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:17 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.
Replies: 15428
Views: 1646166

Re: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.

A snippet from Kicker in Germany this morning saying Lukebakio to us is still imminent.

https://www.kicker.de/lukebakios-wechse ... fermeldung
by Exeterclaret
Fri Aug 11, 2023 7:04 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.
Replies: 15428
Views: 1646166

Re: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.

Me either, and from my YT scouting he looks pretty average, but Newcastle and RV see him as a marquee signing so hopefully a big player. Would prefer we were securing another midfielder and LB to be honest. Inter, Atalanta and Villareal have been interested recently. I think it's fair to say he's a...
by Exeterclaret
Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:20 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: O/T The rebuilding of Dresden
Replies: 21
Views: 1342

Re: O/T The rebuilding of Dresden

Like yourself, I'm not sure but the Soviets general uselessness would have helped, as well as their focus being on Berlin. However, even the most deliberately imposing imperial Soviet architecture has more to it, aestheticall speaking, than brutalism ever will. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_...
by Exeterclaret
Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: O/T The rebuilding of Dresden
Replies: 21
Views: 1342

Re: O/T The rebuilding of Dresden

I see you used the word bureaucracy…. I’ll use it myself in a moment, but to respond to your final sentence, yes it has. But it needn’t have been, and that’s my point. It’s ARTIFICIALLY harder, and it’s been designed that way on purpose. Nowt changed overnight, other than the level of bureaucracy. ...
by Exeterclaret
Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: O/T The rebuilding of Dresden
Replies: 21
Views: 1342

Re: O/T The rebuilding of Dresden

Why has that changed anything? You can still live there, no problem. Sure those people who are ****** off about us leaving and not pumping money into their honey pot have managed to make it more protracted and difficult in the hope it scares the other big donators away from leaving, but you can sti...
by Exeterclaret
Thu Jul 27, 2023 12:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: O/T The rebuilding of Dresden
Replies: 21
Views: 1342

Re: O/T The rebuilding of Dresden

Spend a lot of time there as my girlfriend lives there. Neustadt, the other side of the river from the old town, is a great little place. Full of cheap bars and restaurants and always a good vibe. Hope to move there if I can make it work. Shame about Brexit on that one.
by Exeterclaret
Sun Jul 16, 2023 10:56 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.
Replies: 15428
Views: 1646166

Re: Summer transfer window 2023 - rumours, links and discussion.

Kicker linking us along with Southampton to Bruun Larsen again. Bit thin on details but mentions the possiblity of a permanent or a loan.

https://www.kicker.de/bruun-larsen-zieh ... kel#twfeed
by Exeterclaret
Wed May 10, 2023 9:03 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Should there be a designated Cocaine room in the CFS
Replies: 127
Views: 7697

Re: Should there be a designated Cocaine room in the CFS

I think all drugs should be decriminalised. Drug dealing should still be illegal and drug taking of certain substances should still be illegal but not a criminal offence…..if that makes sense. I think it was Portugal that went down that route with good success. Weed should be legal and taxed. Use t...
by Exeterclaret
Wed May 10, 2023 8:49 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Should there be a designated Cocaine room in the CFS
Replies: 127
Views: 7697

Re: Should there be a designated Cocaine room in the CFS

I worked 20 hour shifts for 5 days at Glastonbury in my youth so im clued up On stimulants. Why anyone would like drugs at a football ground is beyond me. It’s a societal problem. When I was at uni the majority of us used to partake in some form of chemicals, but as soon as we all graduated it basi...
by Exeterclaret
Mon May 08, 2023 8:38 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The King’s Coronation Message
Replies: 289
Views: 11451

Re: The King’s Coronation Message

The police can keep protesters physically separate without silencing them completely. That's good policing. Authoritarian policing is seizing placards and arresting peaceful protestors. If, hypothetically, say we had a leftist government with an authoritarian streak, I do suspect certain members of ...
by Exeterclaret
Mon May 08, 2023 8:15 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The King’s Coronation Message
Replies: 289
Views: 11451

Re: The King’s Coronation Message

You very cleverly avoided answering some important points there, meanwhile the anti Burnley, Rovers supporting peaceful protester is still sat outside Turf Moor as kick off gets ever closer...what should the police do? It's not the quite same though is it? Tribal football rivalry is known to result...
by Exeterclaret
Mon May 08, 2023 8:03 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The King’s Coronation Message
Replies: 289
Views: 11451

Re: The King’s Coronation Message

Let’s be honest no one had a clue what these tossers were planning. They could easily have caused a scene and to be brutally honest it was probably better for their own protection. I wouldn’t have been surprised if a few of them were close to getting their heads kicked in. The police will no doubt ...
by Exeterclaret
Mon May 08, 2023 7:22 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The King’s Coronation Message
Replies: 289
Views: 11451

Re: The King’s Coronation Message

Depends on your definition of peaceful The idiots who glue themselves to motorways and stop people getting to work and ambulances to hospital could be classed by some as peaceful....do we just let them carry on unhindered? Somebody with a banner obviously intended to annoy thousands of people gathe...
by Exeterclaret
Mon May 08, 2023 4:49 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The King’s Coronation Message
Replies: 289
Views: 11451

Re: The King’s Coronation Message

Genuinely, you don't think your day would be ruined if a noisy demonstrator was waving a placard and whatever else they were doing, right next to you at a moment when you're trying to watch the parade? I think it would. Unless, of course, you're working on the idea that the parade as a whole is wha...
by Exeterclaret
Sun May 07, 2023 9:31 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The King’s Coronation Message
Replies: 289
Views: 11451

Re: The King’s Coronation Message

Benson wrote:
Sun May 07, 2023 8:56 am
As is the right to enjoy an event without having it ruined by a vociferous minority.
Ladies and gentlemen we've got a fascist.
by Exeterclaret
Sat May 06, 2023 4:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The King’s Coronation Message
Replies: 289
Views: 11451

Re: The King’s Coronation Message

bfcjg wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 3:18 pm
I'm sure that will be recouped with the increased trade in the souvenir, hospitality etc etc market. Don't blame Charles for the useless incompetent politicians of all colours who have let our country stagnate.
I don't blame him. Doesn't mean I don't hope to one day see a Republic.
by Exeterclaret
Sat May 06, 2023 2:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The King’s Coronation Message
Replies: 289
Views: 11451

Re: The King’s Coronation Message

Pretty disturbing the met arresting the head of Republic. Complete waste of money and time that was.
by Exeterclaret
Sat Apr 29, 2023 7:27 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The new song
Replies: 21
Views: 3647

Re: The new song

New version of allez allez allez.
by Exeterclaret
Sat Apr 29, 2023 7:06 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The new song
Replies: 21
Views: 3647

The new song

Incredible. Gonna be singing it for years and so we should. A seasonthat wil live long in the memory. UTC
by Exeterclaret
Tue Mar 28, 2023 12:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Succession
Replies: 20
Views: 3205

Re: Succession

ArmchairDetective wrote:
Tue Mar 28, 2023 11:49 am
Really?! :o
Just little things like at one point a (very minor) character called Stefan Strauss appears and the production company being called Project Zeus. Little nods to the Heads out there.
by Exeterclaret
Tue Mar 28, 2023 10:16 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Succession
Replies: 20
Views: 3205

Re: Succession

I've never seen this as I dont think I have access to the channel(s) it's on. I've seen some good reviews of it from people who's opinions I respect so would like to watch it. The most recent teaser for me was an interview in The Telegraph last week with one of the main players (Sarah Snook) https:...
by Exeterclaret
Tue Mar 28, 2023 9:10 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Succession
Replies: 20
Views: 3205

Succession

Any fans on here? Very promising first episode for the final series.
by Exeterclaret
Thu Mar 09, 2023 12:20 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Gary Lineker
Replies: 262
Views: 7035

Re: Gary Lineker

Good luck to him in his tax avoision battle with the HMRC, I think he'll need it. As for his political opinions; he's perfectly entitled to them. The problem isn't Gary Lineker. He's a decent chap by all accounts. The problem is BBC rules not being strong enough to effectively enforce it's commitme...
by Exeterclaret
Wed Jan 25, 2023 8:12 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer window rumours.
Replies: 3424
Views: 456511

Re: January transfer window rumours.

Was about to bemoan Brexit (what a ****show btw guys) but then remember he's south african
by Exeterclaret
Fri Jan 13, 2023 2:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Speaking other languages
Replies: 102
Views: 3846

Re: Speaking other languages

English is considered by academics to be the only global language. Not sure if that equates to us being lazy, but it's the most spoken one in the world by non-native speakers. Those foreign language lessons in schools could definitely be put to better use Hard disagree on this. You gain so much ins...
by Exeterclaret
Fri Dec 23, 2022 2:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: January transfer window rumours.
Replies: 3424
Views: 456511

Re: January transfer window rumours.

123EasyasBFC wrote:
Thu Dec 22, 2022 5:33 pm
There’s a report in Germany that there actually didn’t a buy clause for Beyer

https://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Sport/Footb ... ip/Burnley
Bild are reporting no buy out clause. Hope they're wrong.

A lot of Gladbach's fans are keen to see him back too.
by Exeterclaret
Sat Dec 17, 2022 5:09 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Jordan Beyer
Replies: 156
Views: 13188

Re: Jordan Beyer

Won't be long before he's gets a full international call up. So good at carrying the ball.
by Exeterclaret
Fri Dec 09, 2022 10:00 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Wout has scored!!!!
Replies: 44
Views: 5000

Re: Wout has scored!!!!

Getting embarrassing now some rubbish that's trotted out about Weghorst.
by Exeterclaret
Fri Nov 25, 2022 10:14 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Wales v Iran
Replies: 129
Views: 4699

Re: Wales v Iran

Great cross just then from Roberts
by Exeterclaret
Thu Nov 17, 2022 2:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Skopje , North Macedonia....anyone been ?
Replies: 5
Views: 667

Re: Skopje , North Macedonia....anyone been ?

I've spent a couple of days there. Slightly odd place. The main square and city centre was completely redesigned in the past 10 years with kitschy neo-classical architecture. The citadel was worth a visit. Wasn't a huge amount of nightlife and the food was nothing to write home about. If you're in M...
by Exeterclaret
Tue Nov 15, 2022 9:50 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Benefit system to get a 10.1% pay increase
Replies: 631
Views: 19927

Re: Benefit system to get a 10.1% pay increase

But National minimum wage will rise by less. Are we literally the only country in the world that doesn't reward the working people. You'll have a shock when you realise what the rest of western Europe and the Scandanavian countries pay out in unemployment benefits. 60% (67% if you have children) of...
by Exeterclaret
Mon Nov 07, 2022 9:43 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Union Berlin
Replies: 19
Views: 2770

Union Berlin

Were top of the table in the Bundesliga until this weekend. They got turned over 5-0 by lowly 14th placed Leverkusen. Fans chanted always look on the bright side of life.

It's not just us; it happens. UTC
by Exeterclaret
Fri Oct 28, 2022 10:25 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Prince Harry
Replies: 73
Views: 3884

Re: Prince Harry

Anything that tears the royal family apart - I'm front row with the popcorn.
by Exeterclaret
Mon Oct 24, 2022 11:51 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Adam Curtis - TraumaZone 1985-1999
Replies: 8
Views: 812

Adam Curtis - TraumaZone 1985-1999

Any Adam Curtis fans on here? Thoroughly recommend his latest on the fall of the Soviet Union, the establishment of democracy and its rapid disintegration in Russia. Some fascinating footage this time without his trademark narration. It still works well and the whole series is expertly crafted. The ...
by Exeterclaret
Wed Sep 28, 2022 8:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Baked Bean Republic
Replies: 8
Views: 1112

Re: Baked Bean Republic

Stayingup wrote:
Wed Sep 28, 2022 8:01 pm
Aye run us down. It'll lift everybody's spirits.
But we are a bit **** tbh. Have been for a while.
by Exeterclaret
Mon Sep 19, 2022 12:49 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Queens funeral
Replies: 120
Views: 6919

Re: The Queens funeral

Newcastleclaret93 wrote:
Mon Sep 19, 2022 12:47 pm
Hopefully gets a lifetime ban from this board.
Why should it? It's not abusive at all. He just doesn't feel the same about today's events as you.
by Exeterclaret
Mon Sep 19, 2022 12:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Queens funeral
Replies: 120
Views: 6919

Re: The Queens funeral

Top Claret wrote:
Mon Sep 19, 2022 12:47 pm
I wish you would **** off you ignorant disrespectful prick
Chill out mate
by Exeterclaret
Mon Sep 19, 2022 12:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Queens funeral
Replies: 120
Views: 6919

Re: The Queens funeral

Lancasterclaret wrote:
Mon Sep 19, 2022 11:21 am
We do do this kind of thing really well
We do, it can't be denied. Definitely gives us a certain amount of soft power. I would trade it for something tangible that matters like a strong, functioning welfare state in heartbeat though.
by Exeterclaret
Sun Sep 18, 2022 8:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Beyer
Replies: 54
Views: 7024

Re: Beyer

Vino blanco wrote:
Sun Sep 18, 2022 8:43 pm
Ich spreche sehr gut deutsch und kann Dir garantieren, die richtige Aussprache seines Namens ist wie das englische Wort “buyer”.
Ich stimme dir zu.
by Exeterclaret
Sat Sep 17, 2022 7:22 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: David Beckham
Replies: 88
Views: 6188

Re: David Beckham

Tw@ wrote:
Fri Sep 16, 2022 11:15 pm
Spot on mate! All the ‘look at me I’m uber out there with my hatred for anything respectful’ clowns seriously need to take a look at themselves and realise how stupid they look once they grow up!
Or maybe they do just genuinely think it's all a bit silly.
by Exeterclaret
Tue Sep 13, 2022 3:56 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: What did the Queen mean to you?
Replies: 210
Views: 8694

Re: What did the Queen mean to you?

Agree with you on the House of Lords, that either needs major reform or completely scrapping, it's crazy that in the 20th century we still have such an archaic system in our democracy. I equally take your point that any king or queen could prove useless, and there have been a fair few rum ones thro...
by Exeterclaret
Tue Sep 13, 2022 2:14 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Who’s been given the Bank Holiday off and under what circumstances ?
Replies: 48
Views: 2918

Re: Who’s been given the Bank Holiday off and under what circumstances ?

claretonthecoast1882 wrote:
Tue Sep 13, 2022 1:02 pm
Wonder if those who seem to take great delight in letting you know how much they object to the Queen will be having the day off rather than choosing to work
I'll be enjoying myself on a nice day off. Hoping for nice bit of September weather for a pint or two in my local beer garden.