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The "£1" goalkeeper was sold from Blackpool to Bradford - Blackpool aren't (yet) non-league...

It hasn't made the blindest bit of difference to anyone and I think it's mildly deluded to think it will. Unless the atmosphere is absolutely toxic and poisonous and there's a tangible threat to the players getting paid as per their contract, none of them are going to stay because people are being nice, or leave ONLY because people are not.

They've marked them with * on the printed fixture lists too. The reason they haven't announced the other games as moved is because they haven't announced tv matches after September and they don't want to have to announce moving any of them again.

Lol. They didn't seem to make much sense 28_F - weird floating circles, there was already cardboard packaging on the stuff, just a strange thing to add for no particular reason, especially as it introduces the opportunity to scag up the socks removing it.

Turns out those sock tag cardboard things I was on about earlier are just cardboard labels with Saints badge on one side and UA stuff on the other, fired through with the label attaching gun.

Interesting to know that the replicas have embroidered badges whilst the player shirts have the heat-seal badges. Not sure what that says about how often player shirts get used or how durable the heat-sealed ones are. While I think of it, there were loads of home shirts where the advert was still attached through the shirt to the inside of the back - didn't mark them but they needed to be prised apart! The ad on the away shirt is just the outline in white, but the home shirt has a full red plastic panel on it (as you can tell) and that could be pretty sweaty in this kind of weather.

FWIW it's cheaper to buy the shorts and socks from SportsDirect than in the club shop even with the 10% ST discount. The shirts are the same price as they are with the ST discount. You'll pay the Mike Ashley tax though... which is either postage or guilt if you click and collect. http://www.sportsdirect.com/football-shirts/premier-league-football-shirts/southampton-football-shirts

Because they're fitted the shirts sit like the season before last (own brand), however the sizes aren't a complete nonsense like they were then. As a guide, I was a XXL in the own brand home shirt and I'm XL in this one. I was a L in the last adidas shirt last season and also L the first (all red) adidas home shirt (and XL in the black with V neck "fitted" away the same season. Sounds like a M would probably suit you.

The only name I've ever had on mine is my own (and usually I don't bother). Plus I doubt some of them know they've got a vote.

Photo time: This is £95 (and look, white sleeves!) Hoodie: Controversial use of UEFA badges on striped back shirt which annoys the likes of me... Oh and this for comedy:

I like those so much I've bought the green and the red ones. Suspect they're going to get more of an outing than the shirts until the winter...

I'm an XL in the shirt and a L in the training top this year, the shirt is fitted (as it says inside), and I REALLY don't like the way it sits on my shoulders or around my only mildly fat gut. Think own brand Adidas hiatus kit with maybe half an inch more flexibility. I love the neon/lime green training top though. Will be wearing that a lot more than the shirt. No women's sizes in the away shirt for anyone wondering. May upload some pics of random stuff, and that jacket with the white sleeves does indeed have white sleeves AND it's £90.

Saints very much have had release clauses before, we had a load of relegation clauses written in under Lowe to protect the club in the event of reduced income - the problem was that we then lost everyone who might have stayed to get us straight back up by the following January because it was before the time when the parachute payments were enough to guarantee everyone's contracts for a full season in the Championship.

I didn't think we wanted players to stay? How are we going to keep improving if we end up stuck with players who aren't good enough to get sold, and how will the books balance if the idiots stop giving us loads of money for our players? Only half tongue-in-cheek...

The Pony tick is still going to take some beating. Barely stripes, massive brand logo, terrible sponsor just slapped on it, some of the printing was messed up too (my shorts had a rabdom white bit where the material was folded when it was coloured), and even the name and number were awful. This one is just a striped shirt with a pointless white bit on the shoulders and some wonky stripes where people aren't made in straight lines.

Incidentally, bit deal made about 7:30am opening for the shirt sales, the wife drove past the ground (and even stopped to have a look just in case) after 7:30am today and the place was still closed. Presumably it was only the West Quay store open - but that's not what all the tweets etc have said, including one at 6am today. Staffing problems? She didn't mention if there was a queue. I'll go down there today if I get a chance. As a rational consumer I'm going to want it as soon as possible because its usefulness is time limited. I'm intrigued about the circular card-looking Saints logo things on the socks I've seen in photos too... what are they, they're not on the sock itself and just seem to hang there?

We actually wore the white kit twice, because we nominated it as our home shirt for the FA Cup (FFS) and then got humped by Chelsea. The best bit about the whole situation for me was that we'd been selling off the yellow shirt the previous April to get rid of the Championship stock and then they ended up wearing it for about 10 matches when you couldn't buy it any more. A classic example of Cortese's shouting at people to make it happen in lieu of planning, one might think. And that red adidas shirt wasn't actively bad, though the badge and sponsor weren't particularly well thought out, but it was the least Saints-looking kit I've ever seen. As for the Sheff Weds kit, someone should hang for it. Their badge is just weird and they've been using it for a while now.

Some people are spending far too much time trying really hard to make bra-links here. The shoulder stripes are nowhere near where they'd be if they were "bra straps".

If you think its the teachings of any religion and not the manipulation of the poor and uneducated that's causing the terrorism you're a prime recruit for a suicide squad yourself. One of the goals of ISIS is to alienate muslims from the western societies they live in in order to make recruitment easier, and that kind of lazy "muslims are bad" half-wittery helps no end.

Yes, and the OS isn't exactly forthcoming, describing it as a "behind closed doors friendly" and choosing not to mention the opponents: http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/2016-17/20160714-pierre-emile-hojbjerg-pre-season-friendly-preview-3186464.aspx http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/2016-17/20160624-baltimore-southampton-training-camp-announcement-3152646.aspx

You could try googling it. I did this morning, brought up plenty of articles (mostly written after the Bataclan) explaining possible motives.

Cost me the £10 I bet on Ventspils at 7/1 too. :/

On the home shirt the collar's the same red as the sleeves because it's pre-dyed red material, the stripes are printed red on white material, so it's not hugely surprising there's not a colour match. I imagine on the Toluca shirt the panel is white material (as it will be on the Saints shirt) and the main body is the same pre-dyed red as the sleeves and collar. Having said all that I'd rather it was slightly non-colour matched and striped than a perfect match and plain red. I do have some slight reservations about how the sponsor logo will feel, it's quite a large area of sponsor to have sat on the front of the shirt and it affects a wider overall area than the veho/muvi ads did as they were more linear. I prefer that it's an added transfer rather than printed into the design though. Overall though I think having the same colour panel as sleeves would have worked better - whether it was all red or all white. Then there's the option of having the white stripes wider rather than the red ones.

442 writer is a skate, apparently.