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by RMutt
Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:16 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tonights Football
Replies: 255
Views: 9700

Re: Tonights Football

Personally hope we keep doubling down on the strategy and signings the gems we have been doing. Looks like that’s the case with Esteve coming in. Great stuff. The problem being that this long term view is very different to connect with when compared to the immediate cut and thrust of a survival bat...
by RMutt
Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Cost of Living
Replies: 198
Views: 11967

Re: Cost of Living

The fact that he can pack in his £120,000 job for an £80,000 job plus a part time second one, and be better off, tells you all you need to know. What will this second job be? It can’t be much if he’s putting all his effort into his constituency can it? It will be a glorified lobbying position, where...
by RMutt
Sun Jan 28, 2024 5:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bacup Borough FC
Replies: 39
Views: 2498

Re: Bacup Borough FC

Rawtenstall FC (Burnley’s first opponents at Turf Moor) played on Burnley Road opposite St James the less church. No trace of it now as houses built on it. Interesting follow up to that then, is that Charles Sutcliffe, who did the Football League fixtures, lived in a house built on that side of the...
by RMutt
Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:36 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football games growing up
Replies: 31
Views: 1984

Re: Football games growing up

What you Lancashire folk call cuppies was Wembley in the Midlands. Any other regional variations for this game? Wembley in Rossendale too, as I recall. Also the ability to just wander up and join in a game with relative strangers. I remember doing this well into my teens. Often on a full sized gras...
by RMutt
Sat Dec 30, 2023 7:00 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dear PGMOL
Replies: 210
Views: 13547

Re: Dear PGMOL

Well the laws of the game define ‘deliberate’ in a different way than we would use that word in every day life. Players hardly ever handle a ball deliberately, but are often penalised for deliberate hand ball. I think in this instance it was definitely deliberate. There is an extra and quicker arm ...
by RMutt
Wed Dec 27, 2023 7:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
Replies: 100
Views: 5953

Re: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy

Rowls wrote:
Wed Dec 27, 2023 7:04 pm
Ah, no.

That's the point.

It would appear you didn't know the facts before you posted. Wine could only be sold in the volumes approved by the EU.
Haha, well it looks like you’ve got me there. Although I’ll stick with the other point, only a tiny minority really cared.
by RMutt
Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:54 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
Replies: 100
Views: 5953

Re: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy

I thought you could sell it in a pint bottle as long as the metric equivalent was also shown?
I suspect most people weren’t that bothered, particularly our younger generation.
In fact I don’t think they were that bothered about the whole thing until an allowed to be vocal minority made it an issue.
by RMutt
Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:31 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Welcome to the Jungle
Replies: 49
Views: 4584

Re: Welcome to the Jungle

deanothedino wrote:
Wed Dec 27, 2023 5:57 pm
The game was awful. One of each prize so the later contestants had to have multiple goes to then win nothing.
It was like they hadn’t actually considered the token might fall into the same slot. I’m sure they panicked when it happened and then made the rules up to fit.
by RMutt
Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
Replies: 100
Views: 5953

Re: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy

This is a thread full of sophisticated lolz. But does anybody seriously think that the EU rules prohibiting certain bottle sizes were especially worthwhile? Who seriously thinks that selling wine in a pint sized bottle should be a prosecutable offence? I think you’re flogging a dead horse with this...
by RMutt
Sat Dec 16, 2023 1:22 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Urban Legends
Replies: 81
Views: 13393

Re: Urban Legends

I remember being told about a bloke who had been cleaning a motorbike engine in his back yard with petrol. His wife had got fed up of the bucket of petrol in the yard and had thrown it down the outside toilet. When he came home from work he went to the toilet, sat down and threw his fag end between ...
by RMutt
Tue Dec 12, 2023 3:35 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid Enquiry
Replies: 128
Views: 19409

Re: Covid Enquiry

And if that is all true, there will be a vast bloodletting of the ministers and civil servants who conspired to deliberately reduce the amount of PPE available. Why do you think that very senior civil servants were doing this? I can only imagine civil servants were directed to. If so, that will be ...
by RMutt
Tue Dec 12, 2023 3:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid Enquiry
Replies: 128
Views: 19409

Re: Covid Enquiry

And I forgot to mention. Obviously, also connected to the Tory party.
by RMutt
Tue Dec 12, 2023 3:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid Enquiry
Replies: 128
Views: 19409

Re: Covid Enquiry

I suppose they could have done all the tests, gathered the evidence, followed the normal processes, then decided... Its not like we were in a rush or anything You are missing the point. There were established companies that already supplied the NHS ready and able to supply PPE. And in some cases at...
by RMutt
Mon Dec 11, 2023 10:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid Enquiry
Replies: 128
Views: 19409

Re: Covid Enquiry

I suspect the meaning behind "no-one was to blame" is not trying to say that no mistakes were made, but is trying to say that the primary reason why covid struck down so many people around the world was not because of politicians. Obviously doing things differently might have helped - Sweden being ...
by RMutt
Mon Dec 11, 2023 9:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid Enquiry
Replies: 128
Views: 19409

Re: Covid Enquiry

He didn’t award it though, that’s my point Yes he put people forward for it, but he didn’t sign anything off Let’s not forget, it was desperate times, we needed PPE. The French had kept our order for themselves The stuff from Turkey wasn’t up to scratch Both of those were orders via official channe...
by RMutt
Mon Dec 11, 2023 8:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid Enquiry
Replies: 128
Views: 19409

Re: Covid Enquiry

Hancock put four ‘business’ ‘ forward on the VIP lane I think.
by RMutt
Mon Dec 11, 2023 7:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covid Enquiry
Replies: 128
Views: 19409

Re: Covid Enquiry

I think a lot of people thought the inquiry would be a waste of time and money. And if they didn’t before it started, they must certainly think it now given the amount of lies and deceit that have been on show from the main decision makers in place at the time of Covid. If people were prepared to te...
by RMutt
Sat Nov 04, 2023 11:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bad fish smell
Replies: 23
Views: 3725

Re: Bad fish smell

Odd one this. But I have to say, yes.
by RMutt
Mon Oct 30, 2023 3:35 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Your lowest point as a Burnley fan
Replies: 145
Views: 9632

Re: Your lowest point as a Burnley fan

😀I’m going down there in three weeks. Is a 6 ft 4 inch man going to struggle. Oh is Leighton James a tour guide there? I’m sure you’ll be fine but don’t wear your platform shoes. I think Brian Flynn might be more suited down there! They turned all the lights off at one point, it was unbelievably bl...
by RMutt
Sun Oct 29, 2023 12:45 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The handball
Replies: 74
Views: 7211

Re: The handball

These decisions feel like they affect us disproportionately because teams at the bottom will have a much lower points tally. And getting relegated is surely a much bigger consequence of lost points? I suppose if you’re going for Europe, a point or two can make all the difference at the top too. But ...
by RMutt
Fri Oct 27, 2023 8:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Another 18 people massacred in America
Replies: 73
Views: 3948

Re: Another 18 people massacred in America

No. As I said, I don't want that debate right now. I don't think the USA school system has changed significantly in the past 20-30 years. I'm confident that good schooling might help reduce the instances but I wouldn't put bad schooling down as a cause of mass shootings. Mini whoosh there, as it wa...
by RMutt
Fri Oct 27, 2023 7:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Another 18 people massacred in America
Replies: 73
Views: 3948

Re: Another 18 people massacred in America

I think Rowls will get round to it in the end, but what he’s getting at, is the fact that they haven’t embraced enough Michaela type schools.
by RMutt
Fri Oct 27, 2023 6:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Your lowest point as a Burnley fan
Replies: 145
Views: 9632

Re: Your lowest point as a Burnley fan

I once went down the Big Pit in South Wales.
by RMutt
Thu Oct 19, 2023 7:56 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Let’s make Turf Moor a fortress again…
Replies: 133
Views: 13858

Re: Let’s make Turf Moor a fortress again…

Has any other club done this before? If so, I’d be interested to see what the results of the consultation were. It’s always seemed to me that great atmospheres tend to go along with an element of naughtiness. Daft young lads who’ve had a drink perhaps. Pyrotechnics etc. Certainly the case when you s...
by RMutt
Thu Oct 19, 2023 4:52 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley and Blackburn Accents
Replies: 70
Views: 6136

Re: Burnley and Blackburn Accents

CoolClaret wrote:
Thu Oct 19, 2023 4:38 pm
There's a ton!

People getting priced out of MCR moving to commuter Towns

No wonder the Traffic in Rawty is horrific
I think these Mancs might be to blame for this ‘Rawty’ thing too……Rocky!
by RMutt
Thu Oct 19, 2023 3:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley and Blackburn Accents
Replies: 70
Views: 6136

Re: Burnley and Blackburn Accents

The scouse accent in particular. It's so exaggerated now, compared to 30 years ago. Watch any old footage of Liverpudlians being interviewed and it's so much softer than how they speak today. Perhaps a deliberate show of identity. (Not an attack on scousers btw). Funny how you slowly tune in to the...
by RMutt
Wed Oct 18, 2023 9:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Drummers required...DRUMMERS
Replies: 378
Views: 36328

Re: Drummers required...DRUMMERS

Not keen on the drum idea. When I’ve heard them at away grounds I’ve always thought they were tiresome and a bit fake. What about the megaphone users you see abroad. The ones who never watch the game because they’re facing their own supporters not the pitch. Get one of them at the front of the Crick...
by RMutt
Tue Oct 17, 2023 11:10 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Darren England, Howard Webb, and the lunatics running the asylum
Replies: 32
Views: 3147

Re: Darren England, Howard Webb, and the lunatics running the asylum

1 Darren England was never removed from the PL list, he just wasn't selected for the last game week. 2. I doubt very much that Webb is stupid. 3. England didn't get a ban of any kind, he just wasn't selected, and PGMOL are of the opinion that the goal you refer to was correctly ruled out by referee...
by RMutt
Sat Oct 14, 2023 11:14 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Willie Morgan MBE
Replies: 37
Views: 3993

Re: Willie Morgan MBE

Stayingup wrote:
Fri Oct 13, 2023 9:52 pm
Did he sit on the ball once at Deadwood, being you know cocky, during a 4-1 win for Burnley?
Pretty sure my dad has told me he once bamboozled a fullback and ran up the wing taking the defender with him leaving the ball behind. I’ll check next time I see my dad.
by RMutt
Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:45 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: One rule for the rich....
Replies: 44
Views: 4701

Re: One rule for the rich....

As an add on to this. I surprised at the sentences given to the burglars that stole from his daughter. I think about seven years each. It was a massive amount they took, but in terms of her overall wealth perhaps not that great. I get the feeling that if some old lady in Burnley was robbed of her th...
by RMutt
Mon Oct 09, 2023 6:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Socks
Replies: 20
Views: 2907

Re: Socks

I remember reading years ago about the psychological and therefore physiological advantage of feeling that you look good whilst participating in sport. I suppose the poseurs amongst us get an even greater advantage from thinking they look great whilst playing. I used to do a lot of running and it wa...
by RMutt
Wed Oct 04, 2023 9:16 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: HST2
Replies: 184
Views: 12603

Re: HST2

Does anyone actually believe the money promised for other projects will actually materialise? It might materialise as tax cuts before the next election. As I said earlier, how many of the promised hospitals have we got? They can say what they want because a combination of the electorate’s short mem...
by RMutt
Wed Oct 04, 2023 2:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: HST2
Replies: 184
Views: 12603

Re: HST2

Let’s see whether these new northern projects actually happen. And how many are genuinely new? These people have promised us forty new hospitals in the past, few of which have actually been built. It’s easy these days to kick the can down the road and then later say financial circumstances have chan...
by RMutt
Wed Sep 27, 2023 10:36 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Cup draw
Replies: 158
Views: 17852

Re: Cup draw

Well we know Sean doesn’t take the cups seriously, so a good chance to get through.
by RMutt
Sun Sep 24, 2023 6:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Hand ball
Replies: 55
Views: 5071

Re: Hand ball

Surely people don’t want every hand ball decision to be called incorrectly just because one of ours was? I’m not a statistics expert, but would it make any difference? They would all just be the opposite of what they should be, given when they shouldn’t be, not given when the should. At least it wo...
by RMutt
Tue Sep 19, 2023 4:06 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: How does the PL fix the VAR problem?
Replies: 70
Views: 3452

Re: How does the PL fix the VAR problem?

Are you sure the PL thinks there is a problem? I don’t think they do. They won’t bat an eyelid at last night’s decision. They will look at the use of VAR objectively (ironic, given the type of mistakes we are talking about) from a statistical point of view. How many wrong decisions have been overtu...
by RMutt
Sat Sep 16, 2023 3:43 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today's Games 16/09
Replies: 170
Views: 7900

Re: Today's Games 16/09

Big three being us, Preston and Blackpool I presume.
by RMutt
Sat Sep 16, 2023 2:49 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Clarets sign Muslim Athlete Charter
Replies: 150
Views: 9403

Re: Clarets sign Muslim Athlete Charter

I wonder if this is all getting a bit over thought. Is the initiative not about accepting that players might need an area to pray and time to do it? Also perhaps taking in to consideration players’ needs around Ramadan with regard to food and drink when they may be fasting and so on?
by RMutt
Tue Sep 12, 2023 2:00 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Matt Le Tissier
Replies: 222
Views: 11948

Re: Matt Le Tissier

So Bill Gates is telling the world’s politicians what to do, so he can make more money? Why are they listening to him? It was suspected that Liz Truss and Kwazi Kwarteng were listening to financiers before unleashing that budget. Is it too big a step to think that other politicians may be listening...
by RMutt
Tue Sep 05, 2023 9:23 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: What Josh says
Replies: 75
Views: 7892

Re: What Josh says

I’ve got no idea why we continued to chip those balls out to Al-Dakhil. It was obvious Spurs knew that if they got tight to Cullen and closed Trafford down then our only way out was to Al-Dakhil. They stood 10-15 yards off him to tempt the pass. When it was on the ground or throw out it was fine, b...
by RMutt
Tue Aug 29, 2023 2:45 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Villa 3rd Goal Offside
Replies: 35
Views: 4700

Re: Villa 3rd Goal Offside

I do wonder sometimes whether referees have become so accustomed to players protesting for decisions, that when the gesticulation doesn’t happen they just happily play on. It seems we are a team that doesn’t get in the referee’s face. I’m sure Dyche would have told players not to, and Kompany also s...
by RMutt
Mon Aug 28, 2023 3:42 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: My concerns…
Replies: 144
Views: 8810

Re: My concerns…

I made many of the same points as CoolClaret at the game yesterday. A of the optimism towards this year was built on the way the team performed last year. But it’s like we have an almost completely different team this year. Some of that is out of the club’s control, last year’s loan players etc. but...
by RMutt
Sat Aug 26, 2023 3:06 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Most annoying celebrations
Replies: 30
Views: 2086

Re: Most annoying celebrations

by RMutt
Fri Aug 25, 2023 9:06 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Saudi League
Replies: 66
Views: 3395

Re: Saudi League

It seems the Just Stop Oil supporters are are actually football fans after all. Without the oil money, when the world turns to sustainable energy sources, will the Saudis be able to afford all this sports extravagance?
by RMutt
Tue Aug 22, 2023 11:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Signing reveal videos……..??..
Replies: 17
Views: 1308

Re: Signing reveal videos……..??..

Memes are free marketing for the copyright holder. Nobody is objecting to that. The Delcroix reveal felt like we'd entered our avant-garde arthouse era where there's probably some deep meaning to it but nobody understands what it is, because I personally hadn't a scooby what was going on in that on...
by RMutt
Sat Aug 19, 2023 1:04 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 70's TV
Replies: 61
Views: 3267

Re: 70's TV

BabylonClaret wrote:
Sat Aug 19, 2023 12:51 pm
Flashing Blade was a live action French programme set during the Franco Spanish war
Half an idea there was an animated Three Musketeers. I wonder it that’s the one?
by RMutt
Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:19 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Your favourite line from a song is
Replies: 250
Views: 15292

Re: Your favourite line from a song is

His heart organ was where it should be
His brain was in his arse
His hand was well out of his pocket
His psyche is in the hearth
by RMutt
Sun Aug 13, 2023 1:36 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: OT Will Hay
Replies: 30
Views: 2325

Re: OT Will Hay

Robb Wilton is another old character who must have shifted his music hall act to film.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4GQe8CKCr ... aWx0b24%3D
by RMutt
Sat Aug 12, 2023 8:39 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Royal Dyche
Replies: 72
Views: 9202

Re: Royal Dyche

IanMcL wrote:
Sat Aug 12, 2023 8:31 pm
Ha! Yeas that's him! He wasn't singing though!😁
I spotted you. The bald chap who laughs it off, stood with a black bloke.
by RMutt
Sat Aug 12, 2023 8:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Royal Dyche
Replies: 72
Views: 9202

Re: Royal Dyche

I walked along that row yesterday, after the match. Just as I approached it, a VERY tall young man, late 20s' perhaps, walked past me and knocked ne, when it was just as easy to pass without. He then walked half a dozen steps and caught someone else. Put it down to pug ignorance at the time, howeve...