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Just found the AZ 3rd kit: Also wouldn't be surprised if Saints ended up with red/white or red/red versions of their away or 3rd socks:

I used to buy Pro Evo on Japanese imports for my PS2, but the game has not improved an inch since then, still looks like a load of clunky robots on tracks, still the same collision detection issues, played the demo, still the same, PLUS the editing stuff that used to be the best bit is being sucked out of the game gradually. Yoshida looks excellent, no surprise with him being a Japanese player - Bertrand, Pelle decent too, but not a patch on the FIFA16 models. Some of them are just awful.

There was a link to the Russian visa process a lot earlier in the Europa League only thread we had.

In my experience so far I've found that (apart from me being useless generally), Pelle's woodwork detection rating is too low.

Not Gaston meant the "he is" doesn't refer to Gaston.

I've heard both the Wanyama chants, Come on you reds, OWTSGMI and probably a few others I've forgotten. There's already a squad update, noticed some big changes in some Newport ratings ( untested kids to tested but not very good kids) but not so much for Saints players.

He is. Not Gaston.

They'd all have to get to Petersfield first.

My gran's sitting in a chair looking out of a window in South Wales. She was a table tennis champion in her day, but might even struggle to match that set-piece now. By the way, if anyone is interesting in buying some worthless* Newport County Supporters' Trust funds or just making a donation: http://www.ncafctrust.org/index.php *worthless in the sense that the rules are documented for Newport in this highly transparent document here: http://www.ncafctrust.org/downloads/Model_Rules.pdf"

I think I'd prefer Platini in charge to pretty much any of them, but it's just like Blatter to try and take his rivals down with him.

I don't believe you.

Pelle is not "generally static". Pretty much every measure of every match this season has shown him to be the complete opposite of static.

Which "certain styles of defence" are they then?

There's a hyphen in light-hearted, you know.

Nope. I was sat next to my wife, you know.

Might be...

It's also not the same thing. Transitions can happen anywhere on the pitch, breaks tend to have to come from defensive positions.

You mean this one?

A few things I noticed from the video above - Van Dijk on free-kicks (!), Juanmi fairly heavily involved with a lot of the goals despite people saying he was unimpressive, Cedric put the ball in for the penalty decision, and great through ball assists from Davis for the 6th and Gaston for the 5th which you are very unlikely to see in the Premier League due to the time and space for the passer and the runner.

Yeah, I remember the "Pelle is in an offside position but idiots are berating him for not going for the ball" thing, hadn't realised the context of the long run before though.

I think if we play to feet rather than early high balls into the hole with a striker dropping in and winning it in the air then we have better choices than Pelle in that role. It's a very similar problem to the one we used to have with Lambert, the system falls apart without the key player in that role and we don't have a replacement with the same skillset - there is a difference in that we have competent replacements in Long and Rodriguez with other strengths, but scoring lots against MK Dons doesn't really prove anything other than that MK are poor at the moment.

His style just doesn't fit the first team. McQueen has been a lot better at the Pelle-style leadership role, for Seager to get a game in the first team we'd have to completely revamp how we play, and as they're not doing that to accommodate Rodriguez or Long I can't see us doing it for Seager. His skills are movement around the box and finishing, he's by no means the kind of target man or creator Pelle is.

Pelle's movement is excellent, he spends a lot of time linking midfield and creates space for one of the supporting 3 midfielders to push in behind him, AND he also gets into the box to offer a threat after he's laid it off, which was the bit of Lambert's game that was sorely lacking. He was carrying a knock in the second half after a couple of collisions so it's hardly a surprise his workrate dropped off - for the first time this season. Agreed that we need to know how to play without him, but we all know Long and Rodriguez can play up top already, and stuffing a Championship side in bad form doesn't really make that argument any stronger. I suspect we'll cross that bridge when we come to it, but I can also see that, irrespective of Pelle's ability, a less rigid position up top and having 4 fluid players without a key centre forward position would be very difficult to defend. A 4-6-0 (or more accurately 4-2-4-0) could bring back the attacking swarm we had under Pochettino, but with someone actually running where Lambert used to amble about. Of course, I'm not keen on False 9s.

I have managed to miss all three of our 6-0 away wins in the past 10 years - Wolves, Oldham and MK Dons. This is also only the second match this season I've missed, the other being the 2-2 draw at Newcastle - so I can't take any credit.

Did we really get £20 million for Lovren? Really?