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I'm pretty confident that if we're not making it ourselves it'll still be stripes, as the manufacturer/branding becomes the unique selling point again. If it was another Saints own job (and there's no reason it would be), that likelihood drops a small amount, just because they have to make it different enough from last season to encourage the floaters to buy one. I'm fairly comfortable that the people running the club are on board with stripes now as well.

Mix it up with some shots and crosses instead of walking it into the box. Make defences know they don't know what to expect, it compromises their defending as they can't over-commit to forcing play to be predictable by defending the thing they already know you're probably going to do. We'd need more crosses (and better ones too) and more shots to do that, though not when there's obviously no opportunity to shoot - Man City nearly conceded against Stoke by hitting two stupid shots with players right in front of them which got blocked and then they got nailed on the counter with players out of position trying to retrieve the loose ball. But to get decent shooting opportunities you need to move the ball quickly and control it out from under your feet. Corner set pieces are a bit predictable at the moment too, every near post inswinger is headed away.

Guessing it's because the Winchester Road roundabout forces it all back into 2 lanes again, thus defeating the object. Bigger picture is that we need the free bus tickets reinstated and someone to get their finger out to ensure there's actually public transport going where people want to go in the City after about 6pm. It is literally impossible for me to get a bus home from an evening match, and the route runs past my house and the top of Britannia Road.

I was back at home in Hedge End by 10:20pm, thanks to paying for car parking and heading out across the one-lane Northam Bridge quickly after the match, rather than parking at the wife's work near Oxford St for free and getting stuck behind all the traffic eventually headed up the Avenue, or out towards Millbrook. Saw the final whistle. I think the worst journey time back to South Wales I had for a midweek match took me 3 hours (about 1am) when the A34 was operating a rolling roadblock at 10mph for about 10 miles. It was one of the occasions I was glad I moved a lot more locally. We also managed to get up the walkway before it got silly for a change, thanks to being in the Northam. There are a LOT of roadworks in the area starting next week though.

Clicking on the properties, that seems to be Nuremburg's current shirt, which is a 2014/15 template (Swindon are also wearing a similar style). And the other link took me to last year's kit thread. PS It doesn't like "https:" URLs.

I'm sure they present it to us at every opportunity. Of course last time around that was far too much white for us...

Ohh, he's literally a lovely little pundit.

Not the only one, I've seen it happen about 3 times. However, that's also the least hoofy they've been in their last 3 visits.

I wouldn't go that far, just pointing out that now he's managed to have something resembling a run in a team he's starting to look much more comfortable dealing with the challenges of Premier League. He's still looking fairly run of the mill in a pretty poor Hull side, even if he did deflect a shot onto the post past Joe Hart last week.

I believe they literally parked the bus about an hour and a half before the match. They literally did not so after the red card. You literally do not know what literally literally means.

The one he didn't defend was the one when Yoshida headed wide (and should have hit the target).

I thought he looked rather...what's the word? "Gaston-y". Hopefully that's an anomaly not a longer term thing - although Gaston himself actually looked decent against Man City for Hull last week.

He was a lot more likely sent off, as he probably should have been when he made his second yellow card tackle of the night. Well, first yellow card tackle but he'd been booked already. If anything we left subbing him riskily late - he pretty much only sprinted to close Adrian down because we had a sub on the touchline and he must have thought he was getting taken off and may as well use up his energy.

Some of us were ahead of the game on that front, but even so it wasn't particularly worthwhile barracking Lambert for not being faster or younger. Enjoyed singing about him to Andy Carroll last night though, more so now that Lambert's stock has fallen so predictably that it's actually an insult rather than a verifiable fact as it used to be.

Pretty much all we need to do is mix up all of our short play near the goal with a few early crosses and we'll become a lot more threatening - we've got into a routine of always overplaying it near the box and we're a little too predictable as a result. A few earlier crosses from Tadic/Mane/Elia/Ward-Prowse that turn the defence will both make them think twice about not worrying about defending the line or the cross, and also give Pelle a few more opportunities where he doesn't already have a bloke stood in front of him ready to block. I'm not too bothered about his lack of goals as long as his role is creating space for others to score - which was the case up until last night. He's always been a bit ropy on the passing front with a tendency to dink rubbish balls and occasionally mistime shots, even when he was scoring.

Yeah, ok.

One of the biggest problems we had yesterday was the massive gap in the middle of the park when we had the ball in our own half. So many backwards passes when Schneiderlin would have been showing and taking a touch and progressing us up the pitch. Instead we held play up, nudged it sideways, let West Ham reorganise, and then tried to break them down. Some of that was Reed not being available and taking responsibility a little more in his own half - but I guess that's the learning curve and he's not going to find out without getting games. A little more urgency on the ball, some earlier crosses to force their defenders to face their own goal, and a little bit more nous in the central midfield positions and we'd have probably been 2 points better off. Slightly disappointed that we took so long pulling the second DM off the pitch when Allardyce hoiked Valencia at half time in response to the complete failure of their 3 up top and decided to add a more defensively capable wide player in Jarvis because they weren't getting or keeping the ball. It was like West Brom at home all over again except this time we were at least creating half-chances. Shame we didn't get the break, overall a pretty decent performance with some terrible choices in the penalty area.

It looks to me like adidas are playing mix and match with their styles this year. Plain V, plain round neck, button round neck, inset V and button collared shirts. Four different sleeve/shoulder options. Mesh, overlap, plain, and square-block (Cristal and NE kits) cuffs. Mesh overlap, plain overlap, plain and square-block hems.

A few more... Flamengo away O Lyonnais home and away Ajax (Home and Away) Milan Paraguay

Argentina (Home and Away): Home looks pretty plain and a different template (same as Millonarios) - no tape around the bottom at all and the shoulder section. Portland Timbers Ponte Preta - note the adidas stripes all the way down the sleeves - makes me think it must be teamwear (see Man U kit mock up above, they always leave a gap for the competition badge). Also, I think that blue thing is one of next season's adidas keeper's shirts. New England Revolution (away) [Toronto, Chicago away and Vancouver are the same template too, without the contrast yoke] Sporting Kansas (Columbus home/away are same, without the tartan bit)

So, under the assumption that we'll be wearing adidas (based on last year's rumour that we only went own brand due to time constraints after Cortese's deal-cancelling antics and had already agreed to rejoin them), here are some of the new 2015 MLS shirts and a other 2015/16 adidas leaks not already on the thread. They're pretty much all in line with the two main styles already out there from adidas - the mesh ones with the contrast tape at the bottom, and the ones with the contrast tape at the bottom on sides and back but not the front - and a previously unlinked collar style which looks a lot like our Championship promotion season one: Sporting Cristal: Millonarios: NY Red Bulls Seattle Montreal

No two ways about it, the home matches with West Ham, Spurs and Liverpool could all make things a little easier for us - provided we can win our games against the bottom half sides.

It's Leicester v Chelsea, and it's not currently scheduled because Chelsea are playing in the Capital One Cup Final instead. http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/matchday/matches/2014-2015/epl.match-preview.html/leicester-vs-chelsea Spurs are playing Chelsea in the Capital One Cup Final, but their match with QPR has already been moved from the date of the Capital Cup Final and will be played on Saturday 7th March as both sides are out of the FA Cup and won't be playing in the 6th Round on that day. http://www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/qpr-tottenham-hotspur-postponed-loftus-road-premier-league-2233389.aspx

Sunderland scored THREE OWN GOALS!

So far ahead of him he's arguably already on a downhill slope.