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Seems to be working now... but also seems to be an opportunity for data cleansing before they do a mailshot.

Link doesn't work for me - were you just linking to the ST page because something changed (eg info deletion), because if so, they've taken it down altogether? Which is relatively normal anyway given that you can't buy season tickets or half-season tickets any more. The possible pricing of European games and ST options is going to be an interesting one.

Ok, here are all the various different "pieces" of pretty much all of the adidas styles released so far, chances are what Saints get will have one piece from each of these images. Note also that the "squared" shoulder bit forces the shirt to have the "squared" cuff bit too. Plus the Chelsea one above, seeing as they've crapped about with the template. I expect Man U will do the same, and Bayern, and Real, but that's about it. Even Milan and Ajax have only been allowed a very minor tweak or addition to the standard. Of course the main body of the shirt can have pretty much anything they like printed on it. And why yes, this was all my own work.

Oh and here's a slight variation on the original Liverpool leak, it's still ugly:

Just spotted the Chelsea leaks - they've got a variation on the standard templates (as usual), in this case with a hybrid collar and cuffs. Which match. Only graphics of the away and third, here. I am bored and thus halfway through producing that mix-and-match template thing I mentioned above.

Dates confirmed as above on UEFA's website: http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/news/newsid=2197303.html It'll also come in handy for planning the group stage matches.

It's a fairly messy (see grey lines not matching the red stripes) photoshop using 2015/16 adidas templates in the Football Manager format. I should know, I've done plenty of them in the past. Useful indicator though, and I think it looks fairly decent. FWIW, that template would probably have mesh holes around one of the sleeve/cuffs and possibly a second mesh hoop around the hem. Though NY City FC's away shirt has the same style without mesh, but then they released that in late 2014 so it could yet be a prototype (as the home shirt is older than the club!). At some point when I'm REALLY bored I'll probably do a cut and paste of all the different options from the screenshots on previous pages so we can see what they all look like. If I can be ar5ed . Plus obviously there's no guarantee of stripes (though it looks likely) and no guarantee of the thickness or kind of stripes they'd be anyway.

Other than it being a yard behind Mane, who had to halt his run, change his balance and throw his back leg out to get the ball under control, making his job that much more difficult than for something in his path. And Yoshida was unmarked too. He put it in with pace, and we scored from it, so it was just about good enough, but that was mostly Mane's doing, not Yoshida's.

Fair, but my research time this week was taken up ruining the Adrian red card thread with pointless links to National FA Ref's Advice documents and Archived copies of the Laws of the Game.

Receivership is the bit after Admin isn't it? You're permanently closing and they're selling your stuff to get some money back, as opposed to you keeping your stuff and trying to negotiate a resolution with the people you owe.

Football League, and they were anything but arbitrary until Mawhinney stepped down and they went a bit soft. They always punished the club, and they always punished the club according to the rules they had set out. Of course the Skates completely dodged the impact of the -10 in League One for not paying a penny of their Prem/Championship admin CVA (which was a condition of them being allowed into L1), as it didn't come into effect until they came out of admin, by which time they were already being relegated to L2 and the -10 had precisely zero effect and wasn't enforced the following season either, thus rendering there no effective punishment for going into admin twice in quick succession without paying a penny back to original non-football creditors.

Unfortunately the only one I uploaded was Newport fans singing "Oh when the 'Port go steaming in" with the wife singing "Oh when the Saints" over the top of it. The "3 divisions of feck up" song is on my NAS at home, and I can't get at it from here.

No idea where it is at the moment, but I'm pretty sure it's not in my office. Might have put it on FB so will check there a mo.

It was a pretty poor pass though.

Can someone quickly dig out some Saintsweb and media quotes telling us that without Cortese there's no club? I fancy a laugh, we are truly privileged as football fans to have the current setup. If nothing else it shows how easy success can be with the right infrastructure in place. The old chairman had some input into that, nice of him to disappear when it became obvious he couldn't give us the sustainability part of it - though I guess it remains to be seen if we really can operate at that level in the longer term within those parameters .

The use of "telly" in that interview was clunky as hell and smacked of him trying too hard to be both colloquial and informal, and is exactly the kind of thing others are referring to as grating. Other than that, which didn't really bother me but stood out like a sore thumb, I thought it was a pleasing interview with a few interesting details scattered here and there without actually giving anything away. Nice to know we intend to keep trying for Europe and have plans to be successful at it, even if that should be bloody obvious. Strange how no-one on here is dissecting it and referring to him lying about stuff any more, isn't it?

FWIW, that Skate shirt is last year's in youth sizes (it's taken them ages to shift all the other stuff which has been under £10 since September). They're clearly keeping the home shirt from this season at full price until they get rid of last year's stock, because who the hell would pay £35 for one, and they've already reduced the 2014/15 away, keepers' and third shirts to £15.

Total fan share valuation (with £2.50 added).

I actually bought that USA 94 kit, home and away. Can't believe I got rid of them, along with the 1990 US blue shirt. Absolute classics.

FWIW I went to Bucharest on my own for 5 days due to wanting to minimise flight costs and spent most of the time in the Ibis hotel bar / Irish bar / other Irish Bar just getting drunk on the 60p Tuborg (as the robbing sods had put the prices up ) and reading The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy the rest of the time. I didn't get back home until after Saints had played Everton on the Sunday! Even so, I still had the awesome match, the mental coach trip to the match with police motorbike outriders, people falling in 5 ft deep puddles in the coach/car park in pitch blackness, the fit blonde policewoman, trying to work out who was buying stuff from the shopping mall at western prices, ordering random pizza for 30 in the hotel bar, going to see Dinamo and National's grounds in Bucharest, giving a Steaua fan $5 for his scarf and the look of utter delight from him, singing Saints songs in the hotel bar for 3 nights, riding on their marble-halled subway system with basically no-one on it, visiting Ceausescu's Palace, watching other fans and getting soaked from head to toe by a truck going through a pothole outside the hotel, to look back upon.

The problem with it is that you might think Saints would only have 1 season in CL, but the contracts of the kind of players we'd need would most likely be 4 years. It's the equivalent of getting relegated from the Prem but without parachute payments (and with a squad still good enough for the top 6).

Agreed, it is normal, but it's why we're not ready yet.

Useful clarification, I hadn't actually noticed that.

They've been 16:15 kick offs on Sunday all season, having moved backwards from the 16:06 kick offs previously, presumably as a result of a couple of 2pm kick offs having 10+ minutes' injury time and messing with their ability to show both and a bit of build up.

We spent plenty of time not crossing the ball from plenty of wide positions against West Ham.