• Bertie Bee retiring

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:01 am**

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Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:04 am**

Looking at the emoji, is he being replaced by a drum?

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:06 am**

24/25?

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:13 am**

Bertie Bee set to retire at the end of the season. A sad day for many youngsters. Club announcement doesn't say what our who succeeds Bertie. End of an era.

What a pity they aren't ceasing the bloody awful pitchside announcer as well.

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:13 am**

Please tell me people haven't fallen for this............

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:13 am**

Some folk show on the uptake

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:13 am**

April fool perhaps?

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:17 am**

Edin_Clouds wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:13 am
Bertie Bee set to retire at the end of the season. A sad day for many youngsters. Club announcement doesn't say what our who succeeds Bertie. End of an era.

What a pity they aren't ceasing the bloody awful pitchside announcer as well.

Have you looked at the date

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:18 am**

RIP Bertie

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:21 am**

Unbeelievable

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:23 am**

He is off to star in a "Bee" Movie

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:23 am**

Good try but the drum was the clue

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:54 am**

Heard its to do with the club now having to pay royalties to music artists when fans sing chants, and how Bertie is the beating drum of our atmosphere.

RIP

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:40 am**

There’ll be a sting in the tail somewhere!!

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:54 am**

date?

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 11:00 am**

brexit wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:54 am
date?

I’m assuming 3th May after the last game of the season

Although if we make the playoff it might be extended

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 11:05 am**

I’m assuming the whole April fool thing we used to have has changed somewhat?

Used to be the weird and wonderful, the strange and the unlikely, the infuriating and the ridiculously possible. Now it’s as close to feasible as you can get?

They’ve changed our colours, why not let the mascot go?

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 12:14 pm**

https://youtu.be/GpWJv7alqQE?si=9UuYpjpiLxNNcHxz

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 12:33 pm**

There has been a few good ones.
Turf Morgue and was it the wool 1916 shirt coming back , hey you have to smile .

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 2:27 pm**

There was one a few years back about the goals being made larger to encourage higher scoring matches. Marlon Beresford I think it was quoted as being outraged at the ridiculous idea.

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 2:52 pm**

ChrisG wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 2:27 pm
There was one a few years back about the goals being made larger to encourage higher scoring matches. Marlon Beresford I think it was quoted as being outraged at the ridiculous idea.

Hate to point it out but that “few years back” was the best part of thirty years ago.

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 2:53 pm**

ChrisG wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 2:27 pm
There was one a few years back about the goals being made larger to encourage higher scoring matches. Marlon Beresford I think it was quoted as being outraged at the ridiculous idea.

No wonder. Beresford had enough trouble keeping the ball out with the goals the size they still are.

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 3:12 pm**

wilks_bfc wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 11:00 am
I’m assuming 3th May after the last game of the season

Although if we make the playoff it might be extended

Today?

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 5:22 pm**

To be fair it's perhaps time that he was retiring? Then again, I was discussing just last Saturday how well Bertie was moving, he seems as quick as he ever was, but he must be a fair age by now.

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 5:24 pm**

AfloatinClaret wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 5:22 pm
To be fair it's perhaps time that he was retiring? Then again, I was discussing just last Saturday how well Bertie was moving, he seems as quick as he ever was, but he must be a fair age by now.

143 yrs old ... he has 1882 on his shirt ... born under the Beehole End

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 6:02 pm**

AfloatinClaret wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 5:22 pm
To be fair it's perhaps time that he was retiring? Then again, I was discussing just last Saturday how well Bertie was moving, he seems as quick as he ever was, but he must be a fair age by now.

Ignoring what day it is today, but various people have been in berties suit
The obviously very fit person when they did the assault course for example, and I'm reliably informed, a female once, just for a laugh

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 6:23 pm**

Burnley "Bosscat" is replacing him. MIAOW.

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 6:31 pm**

Lip wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 6:23 pm
Burnley "Bosscat" is replacing him. MIAOW.

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 6:51 pm**

Row x wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 6:02 pm
Ignoring what day it is today, but various people have been in berties suit
The obviously very fit person when they did the assault course for example, and I'm reliably informed, a female once, just for a laugh

Right hands up , who has been Bertie ?

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 7:13 pm**

Tribesmen wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 6:51 pm
Right hands up , who has been Bertie ?

I have. Just the once though (no, I wasn't sacked!)

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 7:16 pm**

elwaclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 2:52 pm
Hate to point it out but that “few years back” was the best part of thirty years ago.

Cheers Elwa, feel ancient now!

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 7:20 pm**

I remember Bertie Bee talking to Bill Shankley,
Asking if he had heard of the North Bank Highbury, Shanks said no he didn't think so,
But he had heard of The Longside Burnley

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 8:25 pm**

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Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 8:27 pm**

Bosscat wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 7:20 pm
I remember Bertie Bee talking to Bill Shankley,

Ha ha

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:21 pm**

Row x wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 6:02 pm
Ignoring what day it is today, but various people have been in berties suit
The obviously very fit person when they did the assault course for example, and I'm reliably informed, a female once, just for a laugh

Allegedly, at one point, Ronnie Rhino and Bertie Bee were the same person.

He was very fit.

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:24 pm**

dougcollins wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:21 pm
Allegedly, at one point, Ronnie Rhino and Bertie Bee were the same person.

He was very fit.

That rings a bell

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:19 pm**

dougcollins wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:21 pm
Allegedly, at one point, Ronnie Rhino and Bertie Bee were the same person.

He was very fit.

I think he was also the bull at Bradford for a time.

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:32 pm**

Enjoyed Pace getting in on the windup by implying we have a drummer on the way.

That suggests he has fully taken on board and received the loud message from fans.

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:58 pm**

CrosspoolClarets wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:32 pm
Enjoyed Pace getting in on the windup by implying we have a drummer on the way.

That suggests he has fully taken on board and received the loud message from fans.

Or it’s to signify a drum roll…

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 7:27 am**

dougcollins wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:21 pm
Allegedly, at one point, Ronnie Rhino and Bertie Bee were the same person.

He was very fit.

Braddy, top bloke.

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:09 am**

Braddy was the proper Bertie. He took the fan out on the pitch and made a fool of the duck !!!

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:04 am**

Tribesmen wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 6:51 pm
Right hands up , who has been Bertie ?

I’m Bertie Bee and so is my Wife.

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 10:07 am**

karatekid wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:04 am
I’m Bertie Bee and so is my Wife.

Kind of two bees in a pod

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 4:50 pm**

Tribesmen wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 02, 2025 10:07 am
Kind of two bees in a pod

Two bees, or not two bees? That is the question.

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:52 pm**

Bee a bad day if it's true. I’m buzzing to see the replacement. I’ll bet recruitment dept is a hive of activity with this?

Posted: **Thu Apr 03, 2025 2:01 pm**

ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:19 pm
I think he was also the bull at Bradford for a time.

I once hosted a corporate event at the Royal Armouries in Leeds. Ronnie Rhino and the Bradford Bull were both invited as special guests.

The two chaps inside hated each other, wouldn't speak and demanded separate changing areas!

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