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Home kits are still full price and only available in XXL and upwards last time I checked. The black away kit is 50% off.

Which also totally suited him given the fixtures Saints had ahead of them.

The thing is, you're about the only person that thinks not appointing Hoddle is in any way relevant to the ensuing debacle, which was caused as much by Lowe's failure to stick with the relatively successful manager he DID appoint, as anything else. And the desperate reaching to try and make out that a manager who has subsequently failed to achieve success anywhere after Saints would have duplicated his middling successes is quite sad. Sturrock was getting the mid-table results Hoddle had got when he "left".

Don't make me post the finishing positions of the teams we still had to play when Hoddle jumped ship again... it was basically most of the top 8 that we still had to play, meaning his record for 2001/2 before he abandoned Saints on the sly was gathered mostly from playing against all of the bottom half twice - and with all the top teams piled together an unbeaten run against the rest wasn't as tricky as it might have been. He evidently took a look at the remaining fixtures and thought "I'm not having any of THAT".

I didn't just make it up !

They must have updated it on the weekend to show the seating plan because since the day after the last game of the season that link has shown blank content where they took off the old season ticket info.

Cortese. We don't "traditionally" do this. Under Lowe we usually had one launch immediately after the end of the season, and/or one a few weeks before the new season. Even though we had three kits (as per Premier League rules) we didn't ever to my recollection change all 3 at once, phasing them with the home kit changing one year and the away and third changing the next until the Umbro deal came along three years ago, which was meant to change both (of only two) kits every season.

Unlikely to be that template as it isn't in line with our ITKer's posts. And as for the sash kit on the teamwear site, that's been there for at least 13 months.

Is there anyone NOT expecting the ST news today ? It was this date a year ago IIRC.

I happened to be at a wedding at the resort where the Cardiff City training ground is on the weekend, and took this very appropriate pic of one of the empty spaces :

New Sunderland away style released, familiar template : Also, West Brom are going with adidas kits from this season, so that's one lookalike we can rule out.

You appear to have missed Southampton 8th (2003) from your list, bizarrely.

They do receive a share of the television rights alone for the period 2010-2013 which are worth £1.782 billion though, so they can afford to be generous. Even in 2006 the average Premier League team receives £45 million a season compared to a million for Championship clubs and that was prior to the enormous overseas deal.

You're right, as my card expired literally days after the STs went on sale. I got a letter saying something about card being declined and phoned them up to point out that I gave them the expiry date when I bought the ST and why didn't anyone mention it then. Gave them the new card details and no further problems. A DD would have come straight out of the account without the card changeover being an issue. The key to it being that I had the ST in my possession by then.

LOLz.

We did that one at Orient too, forced a good save on that occasion. In fact we did it in practically every match for the last 6 weeks or so with one of Lambert or Harding clipping it in. Lambert also tried a low pass instead of a shot at Bournemouth which was comically bad, and then decided he was better off just lamping the next one. 3-1. I can't see the Fonte far post fake working much in the Championship, it was pretty dismal defending to allow it in the first place - and much of the misdirection is caused by "knowing" Lambert will shoot, which Championship sides will need to be educated in before it will work at all.

Half of it's stereotyping and half basing the odds on the number of likely takers at this stage of proceedings.

IIRC Cortese has already stated a goal of wanting home-grown Saints at the top level. It's unlikely for any number of reasons anyway. As for jumping all over someone for wanting top level teams to somehow reflect their surroundings and prevent homogeneity in the Premier League with an argument about the employment of UK nationals by foreign companies, I think you're missing the point. It's an argument about football clubs and local identities, not unemployment.

There are plenty of current Prem sides that couldn't beat the Man Utd 2nd XI they finished up with at St Mary's, but I actually agree with you about building before we get there, Cardiff are stranded in the Championship much to my amusement but they've got a few Prem-quality players there already.

Me too, hypothetically speaking.

Bit of a faux pas, but they might employ lots of Sotonians...

Weren't Bishops a former sponsor of the Skate Cheats ? Or was that a different Bishops ? That's still fairly local, and they do plenty of clubs already so not a big deal. LOL at the pillocks' comments on there saying "use blue ink" and "change Southampton to Scumhampton", like the printer has any kind of editorial comment.

That was the point.

Not when you need to win every match to get promotion, no.

Fair enough, not sure I'd recognise Dale Stephens without his arms out come to think of it.