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- Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Superbowl parade shooting
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2595
Re: Superbowl parade shooting
Anyone who unironically uses terms like “the PC woke brigade” is a) a Tory (or worse, such as Reform etc) and b) so divorced from reality as to be not worth listening to. Your freedom of speech extends to whining about “the wokerati” or whatever, of course, but my freedom of speech extends to label...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Superbowl parade shooting
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2595
Re: Superbowl parade shooting
So "the PC woke brigade" - whatever or whoever that might be - isn't a label? I didn't notice a similarly scathing one applied to the right wing by you. No apologies from me, I'm afraid, for pointing out the underlying bias of your post(s), deliberate or otherwise. No need for any apology, it’s you...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Superbowl parade shooting
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2595
Re: Superbowl parade shooting
"the PC, woke brigade who I personally feel are full of nonsense"....... "The PC woke brigade would be delighted by this!" Maybe you're right about people being "labelled one thing or another without any plausible point being made." ;) But at no point am I actually labelling anyone specifically, in...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Superbowl parade shooting
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2595
Re: Superbowl parade shooting
In response to those who have basically labelled me a far right wing Tory for some bizarre reason, here is my retort - Firstly can I just remind you of the original comment that I responded to, here it is below just in case you forgot - gangs run cities with impunity, various "groups" bring towns, c...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Superbowl parade shooting
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2595
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 4:21 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Superbowl parade shooting
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2595
Re: Superbowl parade shooting
The “concerns” outlined in the post you replied to were folk protesting peacefully against climate change, teachers not being allowed to beat children, and folk over-reacting to an unvarnished version of history (ie warts and all, rather than the British Empire being unimpeachably good) being taugh...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Superbowl parade shooting
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2595
Re: Superbowl parade shooting
Interesting to hear from Vegas and FCBurnley’s experiences living out there. Equally, I have a friend who lives out there working as a professor and he was pistol whipped on campus for his wallet requiring him to have metal plates put in his face. The point being of course is that many peoples exper...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:28 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Superbowl parade shooting
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2595
Re: Superbowl parade shooting
Exactly this. It's mad how much the 'woke lefties' get blamed even though we've had an increasingly right wing government running the country for the last decade and a half. Extreme ideologies from both the left and the right never ends well and history shows that. It’s not as simple as saying it’s...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Superbowl parade shooting
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2595
Re: Superbowl parade shooting
Yes, I agree, but if you look at the comment I was responding to, I wasn’t referring to the lunatic yanks running around with guns shooting people indiscriminately!!evensteadiereddie wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 11:53 amAnd I'm not sure many, if any, of the "woke, political correctness ideology warriors" - if indeed they exist - carry guns......
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:10 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Superbowl parade shooting
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2595
Re: Superbowl parade shooting
It's breaking down here, gangs run cities with impunity, various "groups" bring towns, cities,motorways etc to a stop to promote their agenda and the authorities look on, teachers threatened by parents for disciplining children, threatened with death threats if humanities is taught a certain way et...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 5:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Let’s talk about Benson!
- Replies: 100
- Views: 5116
Re: Let’s talk about Benson!
Strange how we don't have daily threads about Cullen not playing if we are going off someone not playing who was good last season, he was about the best. Fair point! I guess fans want to see creative, flair players who clearly have the ability to do extraordinary things with the ball. Benny certain...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 5:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Player Injury Information
- Replies: 66
- Views: 4009
Re: Player Injury Information
Sorry but this is rubbish. If you buy a match ticket you are entitled to entry to Turf Moor for that match. If you buy a season ticket (for this season) you’re entitled to get into Turf Moor 19 times. Nothing else. We had years of Dyche batting off injury enquiries with ‘touch and go’ and it was se...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:54 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Let’s talk about Benson!
- Replies: 100
- Views: 5116
Re: Let’s talk about Benson!
Lots of perplexing decisions made this season most of which will never know the reason for most likely. Which is fair enough I guess because I don’t believe that I have the right to know any reasons for decisions made and my thoughts are merely observations. However, it seems reasonable to me that ...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Let’s talk about Benson!
- Replies: 100
- Views: 5116
Re: Let’s talk about Benson!
Like many others, I still don’t understand why Benny never gets a game to be honest. The only thing we aren’t privy to is what’s going on in training and behind the scenes, although if this were a major problem then why even have him on the bench, which he has been on occasion in recent weeks. As ma...
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Esteve
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1903
Re: Esteve
Grabbed his calf as he went off by the looks of it which is not a good sign
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s thread - Liverpool v Burnley
- Replies: 601
- Views: 16855
Re: Today’s thread - Liverpool v Burnley
What a chance!
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 4:21 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s thread - Liverpool v Burnley
- Replies: 601
- Views: 16855
Re: Today’s thread - Liverpool v Burnley
Why didn’t Ramsey fall to the ground?? He’s got to recognise the importance of highlighting the obvious foul so even the useless tool in the VAR shed can’t miss it!!!
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s thread - Liverpool v Burnley
- Replies: 601
- Views: 16855
Re: Today’s thread - Liverpool v Burnley
Yet another soft goal conceded after another good start!!!!!! THIS is why we are going down.
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 3:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s thread - Liverpool v Burnley
- Replies: 601
- Views: 16855
Re: Today’s thread - Liverpool v Burnley
Great to see us fighting for every ball! Great first 25 this is
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s thread - Liverpool v Burnley
- Replies: 601
- Views: 16855
Re: Today’s thread - Liverpool v Burnley
In fairness, every chance we could lose today regardless of any team selection available to us! I just hope we make it as hard as possible for them to score by not conceding yet ANOTHER soft goal or three and I hope we get into them instead of sitting off and awaiting our fate!
Come on Burnley!!
Come on Burnley!!
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 8:50 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Did we change too much or too little?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 3437
Re: Did we change too much or too little?
Statisticians have a phrase “regression to the mean” which would support your theory about the table never lying. However, that would only apply if we played hundreds more games. 38 games isn’t statistically enough for chance not to have a big say. That is proven by today’s news about the clubs tha...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 7:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Did we change too much or too little?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 3437
Re: Did we change too much or too little?
And still we beat them but the referee decided they scored an equaliser. Actually I think Burnley really aren't that bad as the table points out. We could have easily have had the same amount of points Luton have. We got unlucky but there are some things in the transfer window we could have done be...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 5:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Did we change too much or too little?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 3437
Re: Did we change too much or too little?
I think the combination of transfers that haven’t paid off (yet), with the naive belief that we were somehow going to dominate possession the way we did last season has killed us. We basically started the season with the game plan of trying to dominate, trying to play out from the back at all times,...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: Last gasp goal wins unlikely point
- Replies: 170
- Views: 6347
Re: REPORT: Last gasp goal wins unlikely point
Interesting to hear people’s thoughts on how they are feeling about the club and football at present. I’m not sure that I know the answer, although I suspect one answer could be the commercialisation of the game leading to a severing of the close links to fans that used to exist. What do I mean by t...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 5:43 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: Last gasp goal wins unlikely point
- Replies: 170
- Views: 6347
Re: REPORT: Last gasp goal wins unlikely point
Personally, upon watching our performances in recent weeks, we look very low on confidence, which is understandable, but it has made us way too passive especially when defending. Prior to us conceding yesterday’s goals, which were both awful goals to concede, we had very much conceded overall posses...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 1:06 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Fed up
- Replies: 147
- Views: 6059
Re: Fed up
Pretty clear what the long term plan is and what we are trying to do. Kompany has name dropped Brighton several times and commented on how ‘this club doesn’t want to be one just hanging on every year’. Basically can we get to Brighton’s level (consistent top half finishes, winning their Europa Leag...
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 7:19 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clarets vs Fulham
- Replies: 403
- Views: 12661
Re: Clarets vs Fulham
Awful performance overall but at least we showed something resembling fight to somehow get a draw. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the next transfer window will be vital if we are to regain promotion again next season which is far from certain as things stand.
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:49 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clarets vs Fulham
- Replies: 403
- Views: 12661
Re: Clarets vs Fulham
Well, I’m sorry, but this is the worst performance of the season IMO. Just awful and rightly booed off the pitch
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clarets vs Fulham
- Replies: 403
- Views: 12661
Re: Clarets vs Fulham
Subs NOW please! Hook Ramsey and Vitinho
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clarets vs Fulham
- Replies: 403
- Views: 12661
Re: Clarets vs Fulham
Lost for words tbh with you. Apologies, that’s negative……..we’re doing really well!!
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clarets vs Fulham
- Replies: 403
- Views: 12661
Re: Clarets vs Fulham
Berge very deep
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:03 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clarets vs Fulham
- Replies: 403
- Views: 12661
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clarets vs Fulham
- Replies: 403
- Views: 12661
Re: Clarets vs Fulham
Do you think the fans could turn today if we don’t win? I think the atmosphere/ support has been quite remarkable given how bad we’ve been all season. Interesting question. I guess time will tell, but I think the fans will stick with it off of the back of last season along with the fact we have sig...
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 2:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clarets vs Fulham
- Replies: 403
- Views: 12661
Re: Clarets vs Fulham
Do or die today me thinks. Simply must win!
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 10:09 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Bellingham v Greenwood
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1266
Re: Bellingham v Greenwood
Just shows what a ridiculous world we live in when Bellingham could be done for basically saying it how it is!
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 8:02 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Team for Fulham
- Replies: 100
- Views: 5336
Re: Team for Fulham
Trafford Ekdal. Esteve. O’Shea Assignon. Cullen. AAD Brownhill. Berge Fofana. Foster 5-3-2 to try to stop us conceding more than 2 goals per game whilst maximising the potential pairing of Foster and Fofana up top. I am aware that AAD at left back isn’t ideal but I’m assuming Taylor is out injured f...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 5:48 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Tough times for Dwight Mcneil
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5071
Re: Tough times for Dwight Mcneil
Yes, that’s really tough for the lad and his good lady. Wishing them all the best
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 9:28 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Positives or clutching at straws
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3374
Re: Positives or clutching at straws
Okay great!
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 7:22 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Positives or clutching at straws
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3374
Re: Positives or clutching at straws
Positives, for this season, no…………unless we somehow now go on a 8 game winning streak which I would suggest is highly unlikely. Sorry, not being negative, and whilst we play some nice football at times, it’s results that matter in the end, and not pleasant comments from opposing managers stating how...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Thread for tonight?
- Replies: 503
- Views: 15579
Re: Thread for tonight?
Perhaps they realise that being at Burnley is just a short term project as far as they are concerned. As soon as they show promise and increase their player value they will be sold on for a profit. Which is fine by me owing to the fact that other clubs have made this strategy a success. However, wh...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Tonights Football
- Replies: 255
- Views: 10254
Re: Tonights Football
Fair play to Luton, they are giving themselves a real chance of survival owing to the fact they are a team greater than the sum of their parts and they really know how to defend and press…….which we don’t!
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: January transfer window rumours.
- Replies: 2353
- Views: 288075
Re: January transfer window rumours.
New signing in Esteve? Benson staying put for now? What’s not to like if both stories are true?
I really hope Benny gets a fair crack on that right wing assuming he’s fit and ready to go. Sub appearances might well be the way forward with him much like last season.
I really hope Benny gets a fair crack on that right wing assuming he’s fit and ready to go. Sub appearances might well be the way forward with him much like last season.
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 8:21 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Todays football
- Replies: 112
- Views: 4400
Re: Todays football
I watched City cut Spurs open at will last night and thought if they play like that against us it could be embarrassing then I watched Maidstone beat Ipswich i thought if we get some of their luck and play with their second half spirit we might at long last end our abysmal record against City or is...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 2:41 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Todays football
- Replies: 112
- Views: 4400
Re: Todays football
Won’t be seeing any Ipswich Town shirts out and about for a while!
Fair play to Maidstone!!
Fair play to Maidstone!!
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Can we avoid relegation? Points forecast.
- Replies: 87
- Views: 4292
Re: Can we avoid relegation? Points forecast.
If we can stop conceding 2/3 goals per game and if we can start scoring more than 1 goal per game, then yeah sure, we can do it!!! 🤣 Seriously though, joking aside, I’m personally not seeing anything in our performances on the pitch to suggest a dramatic turnaround is imminent. I really hope I’m wro...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:28 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Can we avoid relegation? Points forecast.
- Replies: 87
- Views: 4292
Re: Can we avoid relegation? Points forecast.
In response to the OP………no
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 10:56 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: January transfer window rumours.
- Replies: 2353
- Views: 288075
Re: January transfer window rumours.
This is currently what I’m expecting. Players leaving in the summer: Muric Roberts (if not Jan) Delcroix/Beyer I suspect one of them to leave and McNally take there place. Taylor Brownhill Berge Tresor (loan) Odobert Amdouni Foster Weghorst Obafemi Twine Redmond Benson (signed by whatever club he’s...
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 9:43 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: January transfer window rumours.
- Replies: 2353
- Views: 288075
Re: January transfer window rumours.
It depends on your perspective, we are that bad if you’re comparing us to the other established Prem sides, yes. We’re 19th best team in the country with a squad stronger than all the teams in the league below, so as you say we’re in a pretty good position on the whole. We’re in an envious position...
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 8:43 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: January transfer window rumours.
- Replies: 2353
- Views: 288075
Re: January transfer window rumours.
We really arent THAT bad. Weve thrown away late goals to West Ham, Luton and Villa along with VAR costing us in a couple of those along with the Forest game. Theres been far worse teams than us and Luton in recent seasons. We just lack experience, ruthlessness and a right back. The league table doe...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:18 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today's Football
- Replies: 68
- Views: 3734
Re: Today's Football
Agree. Do we know if his loan deal gives Bristol an option to buy at the end of the season?ClaretTony wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:08 pmA header apparently. I think he's playing as a number 10. He was always on the left wing for Hull and that is definitely not his position.