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by Rowls
Wed May 06, 2020 11:34 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Scunthorpe v Burnley on youtube
Replies: 57
Views: 5147

Re: Scunthorpe v Burnley on youtube

It was hard getting a drink that day. We were stopped going into Scunny three times by the same coppers. With the ground being out of town the only thing within miles serving booze was a Bernie Inn type steak restaurant. There were a few panicked families sat cowering together at their tables as th...
by Rowls
Wed May 06, 2020 3:58 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Current Season Void Or Continue
Replies: 662
Views: 38721

Re: Current Season Void Or Continue

Great news about the Bundesliga
by Rowls
Wed May 06, 2020 2:39 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Can anyone do better
Replies: 26
Views: 2266

Re: Can anyone do better

45.051
by Rowls
Wed May 06, 2020 2:38 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Can anyone do better
Replies: 26
Views: 2266

Re: Can anyone do better

Second go - 44.91 seconds.

Still the same age.
by Rowls
Wed May 06, 2020 2:37 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Can anyone do better
Replies: 26
Views: 2266

Re: Can anyone do better

Please post your age after your score.

54.101 seconds. 39 y/o
by Rowls
Wed May 06, 2020 2:09 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Scunthorpe v Burnley on youtube
Replies: 57
Views: 5147

Re: Scunthorpe v Burnley on youtube

claretburns wrote:
Wed May 06, 2020 2:05 pm
Was it the year before Gillingham were in the final as well when City scored them 2 last minute goals?
Yep.
by Rowls
Wed May 06, 2020 1:09 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Charlie Taylor next in the spotlight
Replies: 45
Views: 4554

Re: Charlie Taylor next in the spotlight

bobinho wrote:
Tue May 05, 2020 9:14 am
Play for England this lad... you wait and see.
Iloveyoubrady wrote:
Tue May 05, 2020 10:37 am
Yep he’s absolutely class. Good job people don’t realise how good he is.
I've got a good feeling about Charlie too. He's one of the finest "natural athletes" I've ever seen in our shirt. Here's hoping!
by Rowls
Wed May 06, 2020 9:09 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Scunthorpe v Burnley on youtube
Replies: 57
Views: 5147

Re: Scunthorpe v Burnley on youtube

As it stands on the morning:

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by Rowls
Tue May 05, 2020 7:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Any idea what this might be?
Replies: 18
Views: 2023

Re: Any idea what this might be?

Good evening, jd. The photos were taken from our back garden just south of Norwich with a hand held Canon. Thank you all for your suggestions. One photo certainly looks like a 4 but the object was so very high that it would be an enormous balloon for a 4-year old. Here's another view - IMG_1114.JPG...
by Rowls
Tue May 05, 2020 6:42 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Euro 96
Replies: 18
Views: 2054

Re: Euro 96

I'd watch the Scotland game and the Holland game again.

How Gazza didn't get on the end of that cross in the semi-final though :(
by Rowls
Tue May 05, 2020 6:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: For close followers of our younger players
Replies: 38
Views: 3876

Re: For close followers of our younger players

I've never seen the youth players either. But looking at their stats, dates of birth and playing champ manager gives you a good feel for how they're going to progress. Some people might smirk or pour hot scolding ice over such notions but there's something in it. I'm right nearly as often as I'm wro...
by Rowls
Tue May 05, 2020 6:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Any idea what this might be?
Replies: 18
Views: 2023

Re: Any idea what this might be?

It's a balloon in the sha[e of a number 4.
by Rowls
Tue May 05, 2020 3:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: What have you thought of doing ?
Replies: 14
Views: 1036

Re: What have you thought of doing ?

Since I moved into my house in 1993 I've caught the back of my head on an infuriating dumb stupid metal hook in the understairs cupboard countless times. Yesterday it took me about 45 seconds to unscrew it with some pliers. When I got the Hoover out this morning, I felt this gushing sense of satisf...
by Rowls
Tue May 05, 2020 1:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ARTICLE: Wembley and my dad’s FA Cup promise
Replies: 17
Views: 1845

Re: ARTICLE: Wembley and my dad’s FA Cup promise

Thanks Tony, great article.
by Rowls
Mon May 04, 2020 11:52 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Scunthorpe v Burnley on youtube
Replies: 57
Views: 5147

Re: Scunthorpe v Burnley on youtube

I'm still pretty surish that Brentford had an outside chance too, seem to remember having to check on what they were doing too. Edit: Nah was just Gillingham, I've checked, sorry. You're perhaps getting mixed up with the end of the Waddle season (97/98) when we had to beat Plymouth AND rely on Bren...
by Rowls
Mon May 04, 2020 6:56 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Scunthorpe v Burnley on youtube
Replies: 57
Views: 5147

Re: Scunthorpe v Burnley on youtube

Really looking forward to this one.

I can't remember too much of the game because at least half of my concentration was on the transistor radio pressed to my ear.
by Rowls
Mon May 04, 2020 3:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: For close followers of our younger players
Replies: 38
Views: 3876

Re: For close followers of our younger players

I remember at the end of Dyche's first half season he was annoyed with our crowd for being very unforgiving when he brought on the youth player Steven Hewitt. I'm just thinking aloud that IF the season resumes and it is behind closed doors, it might offer a good opportunity to blood a few youngsters...
by Rowls
Sat May 02, 2020 10:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 1987 cup final
Replies: 26
Views: 2841

Re: 1987 cup final

JohnDearyMe wrote:
Sat May 02, 2020 10:05 pm
Sorry, getting him mixed up with Kevin Kilbane!
I had to look up who was who today which is the only reason I noticed!
by Rowls
Sat May 02, 2020 9:58 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 1987 cup final
Replies: 26
Views: 2841

Re: 1987 cup final

*Brian Kilcline

It was the first ever game of football I had the attention to watch all the way through.
by Rowls
Fri May 01, 2020 11:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Political Imagery
Replies: 25
Views: 1086

Re: Political Imagery

Join the conversation
by Rowls
Fri May 01, 2020 11:39 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Political Imagery
Replies: 25
Views: 1086

Re: Political Imagery

Image
by Rowls
Fri May 01, 2020 10:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: I’ve been waiting for this lockdown all my life
Replies: 9
Views: 1399

Re: I’ve been waiting for this lockdown all my life

Ah yes, we all remember Urt Nigen and Warlon Barasfird :D
by Rowls
Fri May 01, 2020 10:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today's Premier League Statement
Replies: 41
Views: 3068

Re: Today's Premier League Statement

Sorry, it must just be me, but I get the impression this statement doesn't actually state anything new apart from the "creation of the Government medical working group for a return of elite sport, which met for the first time this morning." Perhaps its purpose was to "reassure" people that the seas...
by Rowls
Fri May 01, 2020 10:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: I’ve been waiting for this lockdown all my life
Replies: 9
Views: 1399

Re: I’ve been waiting for this lockdown all my life

dougcollins wrote:
Fri May 01, 2020 10:01 pm
Best footy game ever.
2nd best.

Player Manager with the kick off engine was the best ever.
by Rowls
Fri May 01, 2020 10:04 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: I’ve been waiting for this lockdown all my life
Replies: 9
Views: 1399

Re: I’ve been waiting for this lockdown all my life

Gary Parkinson was a world beater for us on SWOS.

Start him at right back so the software doesn't recognize him as being "out of position" and then change formation to put him up front - he does a passable impression of Ronaldo if you do this.
by Rowls
Fri May 01, 2020 8:32 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Yoghurt Burps
Replies: 17
Views: 1812

Re: Yoghurt Burps

Yoghurt is a foodstuff produced by fermenting certain bacterial cultures in milk.
by Rowls
Fri May 01, 2020 7:07 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Kieran Trippier in trouble
Replies: 52
Views: 5688

Re: Kieran Trippier in trouble

tim_noone wrote:
Fri May 01, 2020 5:21 pm
What's fraud? Got to do with kieron trippier.
What's fraud, but a second hand evasion?
Who needs accounts when accounts can be cozen?
by Rowls
Fri May 01, 2020 7:00 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Yoghurt Burps
Replies: 17
Views: 1812

Yoghurt Burps

Stop pretending it never happened to you too. This happened to everybody. You sit down. You open your yoghurt and then - pflllurrp plop. The yoghurt trumps out a yoggo-burp and you have splooshy drops of yoghurt on your top. This is an appeal for help. Scientists of UTC! Your messageboard needs you!...
by Rowls
Fri May 01, 2020 6:03 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The end of cash?
Replies: 180
Views: 8627

Re: The end of cash?

The end of cash? It's possible but it's also premature. Cash still has the potential for something that a monetary transfer does not - it has an inherent worth. I'm genuinely scared of a financial collapse that could see the "value" of this digital "money" disappear entirely. If that happens (and it...
by Rowls
Thu Apr 30, 2020 9:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Economic fallout from Covid 19
Replies: 20
Views: 1725

Re: Economic fallout from Covid 19

Economic fallout will be immense and felt for years. It WILL spark a worldwide global recession. This has already begun. Making predictions is a mugs game, but here's a few from me: The return of inflation High unemployment in Europe A fresh Euro zone/EU crisis - Greece, Spain and Italy among the wo...
by Rowls
Thu Apr 30, 2020 5:39 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Name the ground
Replies: 45
Views: 3345

Re: Name the ground

To give people a clue (as long as I've guessed correctly) this ground was replaced by the club in 1996.
by Rowls
Thu Apr 30, 2020 5:38 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Name the ground
Replies: 45
Views: 3345

Re: Name the ground

Yup I've got it but I'll leave it for others to have a guess.
by Rowls
Thu Apr 30, 2020 5:37 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Name the ground
Replies: 45
Views: 3345

Re: Name the ground

Nope it's not wrexham!
by Rowls
Thu Apr 30, 2020 5:36 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Name the ground
Replies: 45
Views: 3345

Re: Name the ground

1. Raceourse - Wrexham

Second one might be abroad
by Rowls
Thu Apr 30, 2020 3:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Guess the Game From the Programme..
Replies: 13
Views: 1582

Re: Guess the Game From the Programme..

Could be early in the season or else I'd wager towards the end.

So I'd guess either vs Gillingham or vs Plymouth.
by Rowls
Tue Apr 28, 2020 8:03 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: French leagues
Replies: 75
Views: 5085

Re: French leagues

Swizzlestick wrote:
Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:07 pm
They’ve ended the season but not decided to void the league yet. Still to be decided.
However, the government has ruled out behind closed door options.

Hope to Heaven that the UK doesn't rule out behind closed doors options. It would be stupid to cancel that perfectly good option.
by Rowls
Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:14 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Hilarious moments in our games
Replies: 82
Views: 8083

Re: Hilarious moments in our games

The Birmingham supporter at Saint Andrews who tried to escape arrest for fighting with his own supporters by running away from the police on the backs of the chairs.

Watching him helplessly gaining momentum before his inevitable graceless fall was brilliant.
by Rowls
Sun Apr 26, 2020 8:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football Grounds Quiz
Replies: 21
Views: 1688

Re: Football Grounds Quiz

You can still see the remnants of that monolithi terrace behind the stand at the Valley. It's the stand to the right of the away end. It must have been a sight to behold but I gather it was so large that it was rarely, if ever, "full" (before or after the capacity was reduced) and fell into disrepai...
by Rowls
Sun Apr 26, 2020 10:45 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football Grounds Quiz
Replies: 21
Views: 1688

Re: Football Grounds Quiz

Unfortunately the descriptions that accompany the old pictures make the answers far too obvious so it's best to try and avoid reading them if you actually want to be challenged.

However, they're nice old images anyway and it will pass a few minutes.

Enjoy!
by Rowls
Sun Apr 26, 2020 10:27 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football Grounds Quiz
Replies: 21
Views: 1688

Football Grounds Quiz

Here's a fun little quiz about identifying old football grounds on the BBC:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52394131
by Rowls
Sun Apr 26, 2020 10:24 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Kim Jong Un dead?
Replies: 77
Views: 7103

Re: Kim Jong Un dead?

Rowls lives in a little ideological world and selects statistics to suit himself. Identical to Corbyn, but the other end of the political scale Nonsense. There are three choices for China: 1. Economic Communism (including poverty and starvation) & military dictatorship 2. Market capitalism (includi...
by Rowls
Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:58 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Kim Jong Un dead?
Replies: 77
Views: 7103

Re: Kim Jong Un dead?

This "China" of which you speak. Would this be the same, cuddly, "China" whose response to the Coronavirus that emanated from Wuhan City, China. Was to weld peoples front doors up to prevent them from leaving their state owned homes? Think about that for a moment. " You may not leave The Peoples So...
by Rowls
Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Kim Jong Un dead?
Replies: 77
Views: 7103

Re: Kim Jong Un dead?

COBBLE wrote:
Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:39 pm
Yes, don't forget the bat food, or the aspirational students who were wiped out in Tiananmen Square, or the million of Uighuirs in concentation camps.
Correct. It doesn't negate any of that.
by Rowls
Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:27 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Kim Jong Un dead?
Replies: 77
Views: 7103

Re: Kim Jong Un dead?

No, China is a shining example of what market capitalism can achieve. China has driven the efforts to alleviate world poverty. It is well on the way to becoming the primary world superpower thanks to adopting market capitalism. What does all this mean? Well it probaly means an end to era of American...
by Rowls
Sat Apr 25, 2020 8:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Kim Jong Un dead?
Replies: 77
Views: 7103

Re: Kim Jong Un dead?

It would be nice if North Korea could adopt some market capitalism (like China) followed by some democracy.

The potential of that country is immense.
by Rowls
Sat Apr 25, 2020 8:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Danny Ings' Burnley goals
Replies: 25
Views: 2574

Re: Danny INGS..........all 42 goals

It was a real joy to watch Danny playing for Burnley.
by Rowls
Fri Apr 24, 2020 8:56 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ARTICLE: Fans stunned at 1981 prices
Replies: 20
Views: 3509

Re: ARTICLE: Fans stunned at 1981 prices

Pstotto wrote:
Wed Apr 22, 2020 9:29 pm
£1.90 to stand on the Longside? They saw us coming...
Going by the Bank of England inflation calculator it's a whopping ...

....

....

£7.34

Which goes to show how much wealthier we are, on the whole, than even in 1981.
by Rowls
Thu Apr 23, 2020 8:10 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Happiness
Replies: 53
Views: 3327

Happiness

What's the key to happiness folks?
by Rowls
Tue Apr 21, 2020 5:51 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Teatime Quickie
Replies: 53
Views: 3166

Re: Teatime Quickie

oh ffs
by Rowls
Tue Apr 21, 2020 5:51 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Teatime Quickie
Replies: 53
Views: 3166

Re: Teatime Quickie

Or actually 28