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by Rowls
Tue Feb 27, 2024 8:54 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Louis XVII
Replies: 46
Views: 2897

Re: Louis XVII

Then his son became the dolphin and he became the Roy. Whatever that means.
by Rowls
Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:06 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Stoke
Replies: 37
Views: 4381

Re: Stoke

Fretters wrote:
Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:33 pm
I didn't know that, but £30m a season (referring to your next post) isn't that much if wages are included.
That's the permitted over-spend, not the permitted budget.

I think that would be a considerable sum in the Champ.
by Rowls
Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Stoke
Replies: 37
Views: 4381

Re: Stoke

My understanding is that owners can spend as much as they like, as long as the spend the money rather than simply loan it to clubs. Owners have been loaning clubs money, having a jolly and then pulling the plug on their little hobby, withdrawing funding and wanting their money back. Clubs have been...
by Rowls
Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:00 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Stoke
Replies: 37
Views: 4381

Re: Stoke

*obviously FFP makes that [being a billionaire] irrelevant. Must be so frustrating. My understanding is that owners can spend as much as they like, as long as the spend the money rather than simply loan it to clubs. Owners have been loaning clubs money, having a jolly and then pulling the plug on t...
by Rowls
Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Defensive Coaching
Replies: 45
Views: 1727

Re: Defensive Coaching

I think one of the problems is asking a bunch of blokes who’ve just met each other to play in a complicated system. VK himself admitted it has always taken his teams 100 sessions to get to grips with his systems, so why did he then throw away all of the work done to get to that point and dismantle ...
by Rowls
Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Defensive Coaching
Replies: 45
Views: 1727

Re: Defensive Coaching

The players aren’t good enough. As stated above Pep wouldn’t be able to get a tune out of them. It wasn't stated; it was a question posed and it's purely hypothetical and we cannot be sure on this. Are the players good enough? Well the jury is well and truly out on that. Results say they're not goo...
by Rowls
Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:46 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Defensive Coaching
Replies: 45
Views: 1727

Re: Defensive Coaching

Well this is incredibly patronising. Sean Dyche is very good at what he does. Kompany is trying (or was) to coach a much more complex system which is a lot harder to implement and it hasnt worked probably because of the standard of player we have. Theres a lot more goes into building a strong team ...
by Rowls
Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:31 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Defensive Coaching
Replies: 45
Views: 1727

Re: Defensive Coaching

helmclaret wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:30 pm
Defending starts from the front and we have no desire to press up there and the midfield is none existent.
This still comes under the category of "defensive coaching".
by Rowls
Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Defensive Coaching
Replies: 45
Views: 1727

Re: Defensive Coaching

So youve literally never seen thrm coach but have decided they are terrible at coaching? Thry might be, i dont know but its definitely not something we can state as a fact. From everything we have heard since this management team came in, i think the coaching side is probably one of the strengths. ...
by Rowls
Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:32 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Defensive Coaching
Replies: 45
Views: 1727

Re: Defensive Coaching

Buxtonclaret wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:29 pm
Yep.
Sorry Rowls.
I'm still in shock after watching that.
My excuse, any way.
We're all feeling the pain of having to try and digest this week after week.
by Rowls
Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:25 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Defensive Coaching
Replies: 45
Views: 1727

Re: Defensive Coaching

Buxtonclaret wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:22 pm
Sadly, the mistakes have been our only real consistency this season.
We seem rudderless off the pitch and leaderless on it.
That's unfair. We've achieved near-perfect consistency in being disorganised and shambolic in defence.
by Rowls
Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Defensive Coaching
Replies: 45
Views: 1727

Re: Defensive Coaching

I'm not disagreeing that our defending is poor. But we could have the most organised defence in the league and still concede if we have men sent off or mistakes from the goalkeeper or defenders. We won't know for sure unless we get organised. We had some very stingey defences under Dyche and they w...
by Rowls
Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:12 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Defensive Coaching
Replies: 45
Views: 1727

Re: Defensive Coaching

Being able to defend is irrelevant at this stage. It's mistakes that are costing us. Not organisation or strategy. We've conceded one goal today because we insist on playing tactics suitable for Barcelona. The other two have been scored by completely unmarked men. OK< maybe we were spoiled under Dy...
by Rowls
Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:10 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Defensive Coaching
Replies: 45
Views: 1727

Re: Defensive Coaching

How do you know? Have you actually seen them coach? You don't need to know what somebody has eaten to know that their turds are brown. You don't have to watch us train to know that we are disgracefully disorganised and weak defensively. You have to be blind or wilfully ignorant to not be able to se...
by Rowls
Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:04 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Defensive Coaching
Replies: 45
Views: 1727

Re: Defensive Coaching

Goliath wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:00 pm
Mike Jackson works with the defence doesnt he?
He might be the man with a title like "defensive coach" but nothing to do with our defensive coaching can be honestly or accurately described as "work".

Our defensive coaching team are stealing a living.

All of them.
by Rowls
Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Defensive Coaching
Replies: 45
Views: 1727

Re: Defensive Coaching

You only have to look at the defensive 'line' that we hold during a game to understand how poor the coaching is at our club. It's non-existent. Basic stuff like keeping a flat line. Not been apparent since Dyche left. Following runners down the line - no apparent organisation here or system that pl...
by Rowls
Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:54 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Defensive Coaching
Replies: 45
Views: 1727

Defensive Coaching

It has become apparent that we basically got away with not being able to defend last season because we could hold the ball and outgun teams. But whoever is our defensive coach is stealing a living. I haven't seen consistent disorganisation and a lack of cohesion like this since Stan had to sort out ...
by Rowls
Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: If Carling made **** goalkeepers
Replies: 26
Views: 1546

Re: If Carling made **** goalkeepers

These aren't 'basic saves' - they are saves that are keeping us in games for as long as humanly possible. Those of you trying to single out individual players for unique criticism are wrong. We are very clearly disorganised and shambolic as an entire unit. When you constantly ship 3-4 goals per goal...
by Rowls
Sat Feb 24, 2024 3:55 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Under 18s v. Sheffield Wednesday today
Replies: 3
Views: 527

Re: Under 18s v. Sheffield Wednesday today

Thanks sjb
by Rowls
Sat Feb 24, 2024 3:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: If Carling made **** goalkeepers
Replies: 26
Views: 1546

Re: If Carling made **** goalkeepers

And yet another good space on 42 minutes... Offside anyway but the ball has gone right across our box again.
by Rowls
Sat Feb 24, 2024 3:43 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: If Carling made **** goalkeepers
Replies: 26
Views: 1546

Re: If Carling made **** goalkeepers

He's made 2 or 3 good saves already. Q. What kind of team needs to rely on their keeper this often? A. A team so bad that the problems run beyond individual errors. Trafford is at fault for the red card but he's also only playing the tactics demanded of him and the team. The phrase is, "trust the pr...
by Rowls
Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:00 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Relegation Respite
Replies: 0
Views: 382

Relegation Respite

It's an unnatural and ungodly thing to do but I've given up on survival, And now I'm kidding myself that it provides me with a kind of spiritual inner calm and aloofness from events, whatever they may be. Oh no, sir, no no no you can't touch me. I am insouciance moulded into human form. I am nonchal...
by Rowls
Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:16 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: whatever happened to John Cofie?
Replies: 21
Views: 3446

Re: whatever happened to John Cofie?

Knowing now first hand what damage these accusations can do to a family i really believe naming anyone should not happen until a person is found guilty.But the headline from the opening posts link is nothing short of a disgrace implying the accused have actually commited the crime I'm all for anony...
by Rowls
Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:52 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: QPR' s Chair jailed
Replies: 41
Views: 3824

Re: QPR' s Chair jailed

"QPR footballer Ilias Chair is jailed for a year in Belgium after he fractured a truck driver's skull with a rock in a row on a kayaking trip" - Daily Mail
by Rowls
Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Beale gone at Sunderland
Replies: 24
Views: 2323

Re: Beale gone at Sunderland

Shaggy wrote:
Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:01 pm
I’m not talking about Mowberry, but Beale.
Either way it’s the final straw for both of them and will leave them rasping and feeling black and blue.
by Rowls
Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:26 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Zonal Marking = Marking Thin Air
Replies: 30
Views: 1661

Re: Zonal Marking = Marking Thin Air

NewClaret wrote:
Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:23 pm
Did we concede from a set piece today?

Think our problems lie elsewhere to zonal marking tbh.
We haven't been marking properly all season. Not tracking runners, zonal marking.

It all adds up to being shambolic defensively.
by Rowls
Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:51 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: What a ******* shambles!
Replies: 142
Views: 7277

Re: What a ******* shambles!

It's a lack of organisation thing.

Which is a coaching thing.
by Rowls
Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:45 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: RATE THE REF - Jarred Gillett v Arsenal
Replies: 30
Views: 1850

Re: RATE THE REF - Jarred Gillett v Arsenal

The guy looked over-promoted and out of his depth today. I don't think the problem is so much as his ability as a referee as the modern day premier league footballer's ability to be cheating constantly from the off and constantly undermining every single decision that a referee has to make, in every...
by Rowls
Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:57 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Zonal Marking = Marking Thin Air
Replies: 30
Views: 1661

Zonal Marking = Marking Thin Air

A zone has never scored a goal.

Thin air never scored a goal.

Unmarked men score lots and lots of goals, especially against us.

Who else is sick to the back teeth of watching our pathetic nonexistent defending?
by Rowls
Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Jordan North to leave BBC Radio
Replies: 24
Views: 3264

Re: Jordan North to leave BBC Radio

Jordan's in the Bob Lord today. Clearly everything has changed.
by Rowls
Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:54 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Carets / BFC Private reg plates
Replies: 74
Views: 3504

Re: Carets / BFC Private reg plates

Funniest I ever saw was a drug dealer gangster looking car driving around with the plate “3L1 CIT” which I worked out was meant to spell “elicit”. I desperately wanted to stop him somehow and explain that the word elicit is something entirely different to the word illicit, which is presumably what h...
by Rowls
Fri Feb 16, 2024 7:26 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Jordan North to leave BBC Radio
Replies: 24
Views: 3264

Re: Jordan North to leave BBC Radio

Typical loony leftie BBC.
by Rowls
Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Seven Virtues of Mental Health
Replies: 33
Views: 2242

Re: The Seven Virtues of Mental Health

Getting people back to ‘normal’ is an incredibly powerful long term benefit. Well, yes. Obviously it is. Nobody would surely argue otherwise? As I've stated just above, it's always heartening to know if people have been helped However as also stated above, we want to draw the distinction between pr...
by Rowls
Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:39 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Seven Virtues of Mental Health
Replies: 33
Views: 2242

Re: The Seven Virtues of Mental Health

Your article also says this: “But Professor Michael Bloomfield, consultant psychiatrist at UCL, said that while the paper adds to existing evidence about the benefits of exercise to depression, it's not possible to say yet if "exercise on its own is better than existing treatments including medicat...
by Rowls
Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Seven Virtues of Mental Health
Replies: 33
Views: 2242

Re: The Seven Virtues of Mental Health

The Telegraph is behind a paywall but here's an LBC story on the study showing exercise is twice as effective at treating depression than pills.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/exercise-twi ... udy-finds/
by Rowls
Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:26 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Seven Virtues of Mental Health
Replies: 33
Views: 2242

Re: The Seven Virtues of Mental Health

I know people who have taken medication for 18 -24 months for depression and it’s literally saved their life and given them a new start. That's good to hear. There can be some small short term benefit to taking these drugs. You should seek the advice of a GP on this matter. However, there is no sci...
by Rowls
Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Seven Virtues of Mental Health
Replies: 33
Views: 2242

Re: The Seven Virtues of Mental Health

Hello Rowls, Only just seen your long post. I will read it through but I'd just like to ask you two questions if I may: a) Have you ever spent time in or visited a psychiatric clinic? b) Do you believe depression-related suicide can be drastically reduced if everybody follows your advice? Hi Ecc Th...
by Rowls
Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:08 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: GDP Since start of Covid.
Replies: 48
Views: 1968

Re: GDP Since start of Covid.

All depends when you set the start button EU and UK have performed near identical since 2008. Our economies have NOT diverged since Brexit. We're performing better than the large economies of France and Germany, which is like saying Luton are playing slightly better than Burnley this season. The USA...
by Rowls
Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:06 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Seven Virtues of Mental Health
Replies: 33
Views: 2242

Re: The Seven Virtues of Mental Health

There's a study referenced today on the front page of the Telegraph demonstrating that exercise is TWICE as effective as medication in treating depression. It goes without saying that the this isn't taking into account potential side effects. What are the side effects of exercise? You'll feel health...
by Rowls
Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:46 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The ITV digital collapse
Replies: 52
Views: 3438

Re: The ITV digital collapse

Bosscat wrote:
Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:40 pm
We were in Rotherham looking for a parking spot when the news came the match was off...
Lucky you.

We were in a godforsaken pub supping John Smiths smooth. :lol:
by Rowls
Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:14 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Azhar Ali
Replies: 47
Views: 4208

Re: Azhar Ali

Or, as it turns out, the Labour candidate* for Rochdale opens his mouth.

*(as he was)

NB: I've no idea who claretandy is and I can't recall any of his posts.
by Rowls
Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:04 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Azhar Ali
Replies: 47
Views: 4208

Re: Azhar Ali

I'm 90% certain he sat next to/in front of/behind me and my dad in the Bob Lord for a few years. For some reason we had a season where I was number 113 and my dad was number 111, so 112 was open to a mystery guest and I'm sure it was often him. Yeah I think it's him. Found a pic from a few years ag...
by Rowls
Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:33 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Azhar Ali
Replies: 47
Views: 4208

Re: Azhar Ali

I'm 90% certain he sat next to/in front of/behind me and my dad in the Bob Lord for a few years. For some reason we had a season where I was number 113 and my dad was number 111, so 112 was open to a mystery guest and I'm sure it was often him. Definitely looks like him but I haven't seen him there...
by Rowls
Mon Feb 12, 2024 7:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: FAO BurnleyMickSouth
Replies: 31
Views: 4088

Re: FAO BurnleyMickSouth

Hi BurnleyMickSouth Can I just echo the kind wishes already given on this thread. You've shared your story and it's obvious that, to put it euphemistically, you've been through the mill but 'we're all very glad you're still here and still posting. I'm not much one for making friends to be honest but...
by Rowls
Mon Feb 12, 2024 10:24 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Lyle Foster
Replies: 44
Views: 4636

Re: Lyle Foster

I was more thinking about the 'Get on it with it' attitude. If you didn't need sectioning, you were fine. There was no in between. Thankfully attitudes changed. There's more thought and care taken about the language we use these days. I post much more carefully on this subject than on other topics ...
by Rowls
Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:41 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Lyle Foster
Replies: 44
Views: 4636

Re: Lyle Foster

Sadly, South Africa is where Great Britain was 20 years ago, in lacking understanding of Mental Health. Where we were 20 years ago in Britain was that depression was when your brain "went wrong" and the "cure" for this was to take chemicals manufactured by multinational pharmaceutical companies. Si...
by Rowls
Sat Feb 10, 2024 5:16 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: RATE THE REF - Tim Robinson v Liverpool
Replies: 14
Views: 906

Re: RATE THE REF - Tim Robinson v Liverpool

Poor. A litany of soft home decisions, none of which will show up on his report.

A. 12
B. 8
C. 21
D. 22
by Rowls
Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Board
Replies: 54
Views: 3999

Re: S l o w

S a m e
by Rowls
Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Blue card
Replies: 37
Views: 2248

Re: Blue card

claretonthecoast1882 wrote:
Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:20 pm
What colour for 2 blue cards ?
Don't jump the gun, we don't know the exact shade of blue yet.

My money is on a vibrant fushcia.
by Rowls
Wed Feb 07, 2024 7:35 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ARTICLE: FA Youth Cup night for the Clarets
Replies: 20
Views: 2060

Re: ARTICLE: FA Youth Cup night for the Clarets

Commy wrote:
Wed Feb 07, 2024 7:33 pm
I should have looked where it was as I'm only 7 miles away in Portishead on a course.
Dummy

edit [/end obscure 90s music reference joke]