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I will, when there's something to discuss. Which won't be until at least October or whenever UA launch a teamwear brochure. Far less fun when we know the brand and the sponsor already...

Last season being allowed a striped back (and we can see why with the farking preposterous new Premier League number designs), so I'm glad we did.

What amuses me is the wild veering between "it's only a kit" and "it's the worst thing ever", often with some people claiming the groupthink is the latter when all the evidence is the former. Personally I'm not particularly bothered about it either way, and let's face it, if *I'm* not that bothered...

I'm a year into my "not picking an NCAA College Football team to support" spell precisely because I have nothing specific to hang an affiliation on. I basically became a Saints fan because the city was the right kind of distance from my home when I was looking for a University, the Avenue and the Common were green and pleasant when I arrived, and because the University seemed disorganised on their reorganised open day and did the course I wanted to do. It took time for the rest of it to happen...

Not only not true, but the last time they checked Saints had one of the most widely-scattered fanbases within the UK in the Prem.

The flaw I can see is that people will want to see the team wear the shirt they buy, rather than being happy that they have a fundamentally useless alternative. They sell enough of them no matter what - the red adidas thing proved that (although I was pleased to see shedloads of them turn up at the concourse sale a few weeks back).

Oh and FWIW I think the away kit is incredibly uninspired and outright boring - the green thing from last season looks like an iconic masterpiece in comparison. Heard interesting stuff about it being "different", but sheesh, it's just bland (and it also looks like one of the recent Liverpool aways, which is a bit silly).

The badge looks bigger because there's a large black border as well as it possibly being larger anyway as well (some of the other pics seemed to show a white border not black?) - the UA logo seems pretty big too, so maybe they've just shown smaller shirts?

Obviously we saw this a few days ago. I think it's about a 7.5/10. The white yoke looks a bit weird and I don't like that it's an old template, but it looks alright. Good to see the sponsor looks quite decent, we shall see what it's made of, and whether it's a sweat magnet on the front of the home shirt. And the online shop confirms the back is indeed striped - for the last time. The red yoke mockup version is better than the white one (but it was fairly obvious seeing the sail and the early video that it was going to be the white one). Having said that, they'd better be selling the red-backed one in the store rather than just making it player stock, irrespective of whether it also has the red yoke on it or not. Also, having just seen the new Prem numbers, I'm REALLY hoping they're not using them until next season (and hopefully redesign them entirely). Just pointlessly over-produced.

That's interesting - not until next season though presumably - they've left it too late for this season, some clubs have had their 2016/17 shirts on sale for months already? And yeesh, ridiculous number design.

It's navy.

Tch, thread title needs inspiration.

The "follow-up" injury was a foot injury and subsequent op - it was implied that it was to do with changes in his body due to the original knee injury, which makes sense, there are often knock-on effects where people subconsciously adapt their posture or walking to compensate for the pain stimulus. My knee rehab had me doing a bunch of strengthening exercises for supporting muscles, then one legged squats on my bad knee to get the body used to the pain because I'd developed a way of walking that meant nothing went through the middle of my knee at all to avoid the threat of it giving out when walking (e.g. downstairs). I didn't get any foot problems, I just started pulling my hamstrings far more frequently once I'd knackered my knee - or maybe that was old age rather than lack of stretching...

Scored a lovely little goal against MK Dons earlier in the season, just needs a preseason and no further injuries from the previous injury, but he should be hopeful that's behind him now.

Ah-ho-ho.

Weirdo.

Villa keeper shirts here, almost certainly going to be the Saints ones too:

I don't think anyone in the U18s or above will be surprising anyone who's paying attention, nor were the 4 you mentioned much of a shock at the time, especially not Shaw who I was aware enough of in advance to watch in his debut after months of speculation on when he'd get a start. No-one knows exactly who'll "take" at the top level but most people have an opinion on the likely candidates.

He's no quicker than Pellè and I think McQueen is actually much more similar to Pellè in style.

That would probably depend on whether we'd stated that we wanted to win a cup (as with last season, then lost to the eventual FA Cup Runners Up in the first match) or if the club felt player development was more important. Looks to me like the U21s will have a shot at winning the (competition formerly known as the) JPT this season anyway, we're already too far into the League Cup to risk the kids!

Numerous brands have started doing it, Nike with the England shirt before this one ("Stadium" and "match" versions). There were £100+ not player stock "player shirts" doing the rounds as long as as 2002 when Nike brought out their daft mesh lined template as used in the 2002 World Cup, the replicas were much more straightforward but you may recall Diego Forlan not getting his back on after scoring for Man U (I think against Saints, actually). Adidas and UA have done similar. They now have the mildly comical situation of having "replicas" (£50ish), then "player style" replicas (£90ish), and then the actual shirts the players wear which they still don't generally sell.

Fair point tbh. Though for me it's just Saints (and Newport County) shirts, and it's the first thing to go when money gets squeezed.

Not a good time for the US$ to get mighty against the £ either...

It wasn't hideous, it was just a crappy generic red kit that wasn't Saintsy. Speaking of crappy and generic, here's the garbage Spurs away, dodged a bullet here.