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Yeah, and no-one blew that cross in for Prutton. Plus we took a load of people to Blackburn and rolled over not long after, and lost 5-2 to Watford in the league cup when half the Saints fans started supporting Watford at 4-0 down. It makes no difference to the players, might sway the ref though.

Ah, I didn't book the Chelsea ones, I didn't notice it for the West Brom game which I did do online (and we ended up with last but one row WW seats 1 and 2 because I was on there at 9am)? Maybe it's just on clubs with compatible sites?

For context - the Alkmaar shirts are basically the Spurs 3rd design from the year before: Difficult to see any themes or patterns in that lot other than the "open V" collar motif that seems to be on a few of the shirts, and that could all change next season anyway.

Looks a bit teamwear-y. Though still nice and unique even for parks kits. Even if the away seems to be a remake of an Umbro 1980s Watford kit.

Oh and East Fife and Baltimore Bohemians, according to Wikipedia.

Only found the Sao Paulo away so far. Suppose the white/black Colo Colo shirt is a form of "stripe" too. More of a last season at the Dell reverse Ajax style.

Queens Park in Scotland too, though I think they're "teamwear", which I've just noticed has a Newport phone number so is probably being run an old teammate of mine. I suspect Saints won't be getting their kit from this particular branch (which is the equivalent of Saints getting their kit from Sportsmania 24/7).

From initial checking, that's all the English and Central/South American ones, plus Alkmaar. I'll have a look around, I also know there's a 2015/16 catalogue out there. They seem to do a lot of bespoke stuff rather than templates for their bigger clubs.

Cruz Azul (H) (A) Others

Time for a bit of Under Armour research. Current shirts: Spurs (H),(A),(3rd),(GK) Alkmaar (H) and (A) Sao Paulo (H) and (A) Toluca (H),(A),(3rd), (GK) Colo Colo (A) (H) (GK) and (3rd)

It's very near "could happening" though.

Dunno, but who WAS Derby's keeper in 2008? Gazzanigga is still improving, whether he'll get to the level we want of him, who knows, but a few loan spells will do him good and there's obviously a view that he could get good enough and that he's worth the investment of his wages in the meantime. He's a better keeper than even the end of last season already just from being around another experienced keeper in Stekelenburg (one mistake in his entire spell after Saturday's fumble - which he still got to before anyone else). No reason to think he's low on confidence, he's played plenty of games since his last Prem one.

Probably been mentioned in this thread already but the scouting of Butland gets a decent amount of coverage in the book "The Nowhere Men" about football scouts by Michael Calvin. The particular match in question Butland had an absolute nightmare but it was 6 months before his Team GB call up.

They've done what now? How do you do that then?

It was deliberately designed to be "clever". But also not ready for human consumption.

Quite. I thought it was a dead-set penalty at the time and even repeated viewings of the player diving over an out of control Targett to avoid getting clattered but ensure there was still contact doesn't make it any less so. If Attwell had got any other decision right in the entire 90 minutes I'd be a little more inclined to think he saw it and decided it wasn't a penalty, but he just ran around missing the bloody obvious for 95 minutes, including a number of obvious deflections which he just did not see, so I can only assume he decided not to give anything in the hope that he'd keep a low profile. He also didn't book anyone for simulation, and there was certainly some of that too.

I doubt it. Solid, looked very comfortable on the ball, won headers, brought it out of defence, hit one excellent long diagonal and one which the defender headed off the pitch, didn't look troubled defensively but didn't have a lot to do. Will soon find out how good he is in the Man U and Chelsea matches. Decent though. I should also apologise to the front couple of rows near the disabled section for my mate "going live" with a work in progress which led to the following being shouted a bit too often: "Chim-chiminee-chim-chiminee chim-chim-chiree Who needs Yoshida when we've got V.D?" This was later amended to the less self-effacing "Who needs Toby when we've got V.V.D?"

I thought Tadic was one of our best players. Van Dijk did well but didn't have much to do, Tadic was creative and almost everything he did had an end product. Mane made a big difference when he came on too.

It was a less defensive line up than I'd anticipated, JWP was doing box-to-box rather than holding alongside Wanyama. We were comfortably on top and more times than not we'd have won it (though Attwell not giving the most obvious-looking penalty of all time ended up being the main difference, he was absolute garbage all match long in a variety of little-but-important ways, mostly in failing to spot deflections or fouls).

Yeah, so was I for about 2 hours, there are plenty of articles which exist and have been archived and indexed but can't be viewed online. I just thought the enormous green pointless thing was funny.

I could not care less, as I am confident that the noise made by the crowd has very little bearing on the performance of the players.

As I also have one (EDIT, no I don't, you're talking about a yellow away one with Euro/FA Cup numbering on the back - I never noticed that the 2003-era players' shirts didn't have the Saints embroidery on them before). They went into the stockroom for me when I got there to collect my Steaua match ticket, they'd already sold out of XL in the "with a shield on the back" replicas. This is a rare occasion when I like my quirky not-matchworn better than the standard replica one. I picked up a grey/yellow GK shirt from last season on eBay last week, some Skate selling it thought it was a training kit but it wasn't, plus I'm fairly sure we only sold the green/red and the yellow/navy ones, so that's a bit of a coup. Even though they weren't only used in the Newcastle match the way the yellow shirts were, there are probably fewer of those than the yellow shirts. I actually sold quite a few shirts as a result of this thread last time as I went through and stocktook them all and got rid of a load of duplicates, I have now started picking up the odd one here and there but not too worried about completing the set as basically it isn't possible. Still don't have the one St Chalet has 4 of though.

You weren't the only one. Tbh though I prefer replicas to matchworn. I have no idea why this is.

So Ward-Prowse for Romeu but otherwise as above.

It was a tad rhetorical.