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I had a quick look around to see which teamwear styles fit the description above - the Admiral West Ham style shirt here fits it - though not "stripes" in the way you'd expect... and yes, I'm sure people would prefer the one next to it.

Incredible to think that given the opportunity to play in a competitive match with nothing to lose at a World Cup, Hodgson decides to play Smalling, who should be nowhere near an international squad based on previous performances. Phil Jones you can at least make a weak case for. Picking Milner makes no sense either, he's already had the experience. Even accepting the wish to give people a run out (which is by no means definitely the right thing to do) it's a weird selection. It should be a team of fringe players who haven't had a chance before and might go on to become regulars, without established players in the positions where there are possible replacements, and maybe there's a case for putting Lampard in for a goodbye. My team would be Foster/Forster (half each) Johnson (because Smalling is even worse and not improving and there's no other option) P Jones (he at least may improve) Cahill (because one of the CBs has to play and I wouldn't have Smalling near the team) Shaw Wilshere Henderson (readily accept this is not a good DM pairing at the moment, but short of picking Gerrard again, there's only Phil Jones, and he's needed at the back). Lallana Barkley Sterling Lambert (accept this is arguable given his longer-term upside but what's the benefit of Sturridge/Welbeck/Rooney? Bit of a sentimental one admittedly and using Sturridge there might be more logical as he will be first choice for a few years) Subs to be used Foster/Forster half each Jagielka for Wilshere, pushing Jones into DM (or for Barkley, pushing Wilshere and Jones forward) Lampard for Lallana on 80 minutes for goodbye appearance, assuming he's knackered!

Something and nothing really, nice to know we're investing in the infrastructure though. From the article on the OS, the only reason they're installing them is to increase visibility (duh) and to reduce flicker on slow motion tv replays. Given that they've also said they can be switched on instantly and don't need to warm up, is there going to be some kind of phased switch-on if they have to be used unexpectedly during gloomy weather matches, because suddenly whacking that lot on in one go could be rather distracting!

Fair enough.

It's just a fantasy kit using templates in photoshop. Doesn't bear any resemblance to any current Puma templates for a start. The only surprising thing about it is that it didn't originate in this thread.

Think it looks better than the illustration, but I'd hate it as a Saints kit.

You do hear the Northern Irish using it though.

I got 9 (irony), but about 5 of those I've always done.

Well, there's the post immediately above yours... And what about you boasting about having an iPad AND Tapatalk? Hmmmm?

Ah, but 5 years training with the academy kids and he might be able to control a ball, then because he already has athleticism, we could mould him into something useful, like we did Kenwyne. Whatever happened to him, anyway?

I wonder how cheap their 2013/14 shirts will get on SportsDirect? I've just checked and at £9.59 (and having been at that price for at least 2 weeks) they still have: Home shirt infant and junior sizes 12, 1-2, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12, 13 Home shirt adult sizes S, M, L, XL Plus numerous away, third, goalkeeper and training kit. They must be chuffed about the booming market in size 3-4 kids' shirts though, assuming they ever stocked them. Same goes for the 2XL, 3XL and 4XL home shirts - though they do still have all of those in the away shirt, and all sizes except 4XL in the third kit. In short, they still have bloody loads of them. At under £10. In all sizes. For all kits. http://www.sportsdirect.com/SearchResults?DescriptionFilter=Portsmouth%20Football%20Shirts#dcp=1&dppp=24&OrderBy=discountvalue_desc

You have now, and that's kinda the point. Terrible sponsor photoshop on that first kit, haven't seen one that bad since last season's hastily-assembled aap3 ones, and the "players wearing the shirts" video that didn't show their faces and the front of the kit with the sponsor on in the same shot.

Ok, technicality, people born in Winnipeg but having lived for a significant amount of time in Germany are likely to speak German.

Especially ones born in Germany, like Ralph. And ones born in France, like, um, Michel Platini.

Geoff Ward is the new head coach of Adler Mannheim June 19, 2014 The Adler Mannheim Geoff Ward as their new head coach. The 52-year-old Canadian thus succeeds by interim coach Hans Zach, who had taken over the eagle after the separation from Harold Kreis on January 1, 2014. The former assistant coach of the Boston Bruins Signs With the Eagles a three-year contract until 30 April 2017. "I am very pleased that we were able Geoff Ward win for us. It is our absolute favorite candidate was from the beginning, "said Adler Daniel Hopp, CEO commitment to the new coach. "We have a very early first talks and were immediately convinced of his ideas and concepts," said Hopp on. The first four years of his coaching career, which began at the age of 27 years in 1989, Geoff Ward spent as assistant coach at the University of Waterloo. For the first time as head coach, who was born on April 08, 1962 Ward worked at a youth team of the Waterloo Siskins that it led directly to the title win in the 1993/94 season. After a four-year commitment to the OHL Kitchener Rangers team, another year with the Guelph Storm and the Arkansas River Blades in the EHCL to Ward decided in 2000 for a move to Germany and hired the EC Bad Nauheim. But after a few months, the 52-year-old returned to North America and signed a five-year contract with the Edmonton Oilers. First Ward worked as an assistant coach with the Hamilton Bulldogs, before he was appointed as head coach during the 2002/03 season. Ward led the AHL team to the finals of the Calder Cup and was subsequently elected together with his predecessor Claude Julien the best AHL Coach of the Year. After his year as a "Development Coach" of the Edmonton Oilers Ward moved to the Seilersee to the Iserlohn Roosters. But a year later he left the Roosters back towards NHL to take up a position as assistant coach with the Boston Bruins. There he celebrated in the seven years also his greatest success when he won the Stanley Cup with the Bruins in 2011.

Unless my German is worse than I thought, it's not Ralph. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adler-mannheim.de%2Ftopstories.php%3Fd%5Bnr%5D%3D4162

You must be really bored then?

Pretty sure I am for knowing that from memory.

Was excellent for sharing stuff with my FB friends who weren't there. Useless 3G at the moment and 4G is only better because very few people are currently using it in the area.

Worth pointing out that rather than "being one of the only clubs not to have announced a new kit", we are still, at the moment, one of the majority of Premier League clubs who have not announced anything. Villa and QPR have launched both, Newcastle away only, Liverpool home kit only (leaks of others), Chelsea home kit only, Sunderland and West Ham away, Stoke home, Spurs nothing, West Brom nothing, Burnley nothing, Man City nothing, Everton nothing, Leicester nothing, Swansea nothing, Man U nothing, Arsenal nothing (leaks months back though), Saints nowt, Hull nothing, Palace nothing.

We'll find out at 11am tomorrow (CET), won't we?

Saw a bloke walking through Winchester wearing one of those on Monday. A Newport "Robert Price" sponsored rugby shirt, I mean, obviously. Haven't seen a Skate shirt here since 2009. The season's The9 Derby is August 30th, Newport County back at Fratton. West Ham away can ram it.

Kenwyne was first choice centre forward for 2 full seasons in the Championship (2005/6 and 2006/7) and also started first game of 2007/8 before going on strike. He was also a Saints player in the first team 2 years prior to that and had already played for the club in the Premier League, let's not pretend he wasn't an integral part of the team at the point when he left, shall we? He scored 16 goals for Saints the season before we sold him. Not as long a spell as Lallana, but if it wasn't for Saints he'd have been playing in Trinidad & Tobago for W-Connection. He had EVERY responsibility to the club. Agreed that "refusing to play" and "agitating for a move" are a long way apart though.

I'm expecting us to play hardball up to at least £35m, and personally I wouldn't sell for less than £40m. If we have to. Liverpool's valuation needs to reflect that we don't want to sell AND the cost of getting an experienced replacement of similar quality. As for the original question, no, selling for loads is not a tougher message than potentially not selling at all.

It was last season, the thing we've been lacking is a hard-working mobile striker who bothers centre backs by pressing and moving when the ball is on the floor around the area, and gets in the box and finishes - if we had one of those we wouldn't be so reliant on midfielders breaking forward through the back line. Though Rodriguez is exactly that, he's been successful out wide so it would be nice to have a couple of people who could do that in (and around ) the area.