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Fair enough, I like this, it's still "a stripe" if people really want to get pooey about it.

Yeah, come on, I want to see a white front page with diagonal sash backdrop...

I'm sure they'd have worn something else if we played a team in white with a red sash - I'm guessing the change kit was "not to wear the red sash". By 1902 when Saints lost the FA Cup Final to Sheffield United (and were already wearing stripes like them) we played in plain white shirts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FA_Cup_Final_1902

Haven't yet looked at it too closely, but anyone know if the sash is also on the back ? I'm assuming not, for purposes of number verification, but it never stopped us sticking red with white and slapping numbers you can't see over the top before. (Except the 2003/4 UEFA Cup kit).

You don't want to be collecting your mud at the same time as the lovely new white kit, do ya ?

You don't have to believe it, there's a poll !

You mean the classically style polo-esque England shirt which is widely regarded as one of the simplest pieces of excellent design of recent years ? I bet you love that frigging disgusting flame kit and the rubbish Pony Tick one, don't you ?

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Well yeah, but the shorts are very very similar (apart from the piping and light grey bit on the side, I know...)

Shock as person who decided he wanted stripes months ago complains about it not being stripes. As for the kits great players wore, what's that got to do with anything ? Matt Le Tiss would have worn 20-30 different Saints kits, including non-stripes in the mid/late 80s, a load of non-striped away kits, and had some of his best moments in a really REALLY ugly home kit with a massive ugly Pony tick on the front which barely resembled stripes itself. It's a one off commemorative shirt for a season, it looks great.

Doesn't look dissimilar to the white / white / red away kit of 3 seasons back actually.

That made us look like Stoke. Ugh. My only question now is whether the sash is also on the back. There are a few decent shots on the video with more detail (badge looks ok on, btw), not sure you can tell from that. PS, My zillions of quid bet about the "little triangle" at the bottom on the side of the shirt was right, it has a gold umbro logo in it.

Can you mock that up as a BS cover please ?

I am amused. End of July, mereckons.

That doesn't even make SENSE.

Also, you've managed to get on every radio and telly programme going as a Saints Fan without needing to represent anyone anyway, so why dilute it ? Does make me laugh when people refer to the Saints Trust as anything other than an organisation that ceased being relevant in late 2007. AFAIK according to their policies on membership I'm still a member, but I only joined when we got cheaper Saints IFC match subs for a season for doing so, that must have been 3-4 years ago.

You can get a teamwear kit with the sash going the other way from the Umbro website for £15, tightar5e...

If it's "Tailored By" it will be an artificial blend of fibres which will have a soft cotton feel to it. Like the England kit.

Abso-bloody-lutely love it. Also LOLz that they used existing signings rather than hanging on for a new one, and a completely computer generated graphic for the background.

Edit as I've looked into it and I was talking ar5e For the sake of debate, here are some Serie A ST figures : http://english.gazzetta.it/Football/22-09-2009/season-ticket-sales-slump-milan-the-hardest-hit-501374007798.shtml But Swiss crowds ARE tiny

Shame we don't still have the easi-peel black kit with one red sleeve, the launch would have happened months ago then... those things removed themselves for some people.

Seeing as the last 5 years have seen us with 3 completely different striped kits (a nose-breaker in plain red and white with black swirly piping in a Nike-esque style) then mainly white with 2 red stripes and a big black band down the sleeve, then the current Umbro kit with the red shoulders, I'm sure they'd find a way to make even red/white stripes (again) look a bit different. They'll be missing a trick in 2011/12 if they don't manage to incorporate a central white stripe and white advert panel to make a white cross on a red background for Switzerland though... not that it hasn't been done already.

Interesting to note that while Julio Cesar calls it "a ball you'd buy in the supermarket", the reporter notes that the ball momentarily bends the wrong way sometimes. Every ball I've ever bought from a supermarket does that - the old plastic black panelled Division One team balls with the team names stencilled on them were great for "bending the wrong way" - if you clipped the right side of the ball right footed and caused it to spin anti-clockwise on it's axis the mental thing would bend to right eventually. I guess this is where we're going to end up with ball technology, 99p balls from the garage - and the only way to make that fair will be "rush goalie".

I'm as much a fan of football technology as anyone, but has it occurred to anyone at adidas, Nike et al, that players don't want a lightweight ball that pings about the place and "stays round", they want a solid ball that goes thunk and does pretty much what you'd expect it to? The trouble with the ball being "rounder than ever" and "maintaining its shape" is that the rapid re-formation of the natural spheroid and the differing air movement around opposite sides of the ball causes it to veer more in the air (especially as the ball's valve interferes with the "pure sphere" and causes movement as well). Some of the goals at altitude this year could be insane, though I suspect the "thinner air" also means less swerve, if less friction to slow the ball down. Quite looking forward to seeing how our Meon Valley League opposition cope with the 3 Serie A pro-quality balls from 2008/9 I've got us for next season. Probably be like watching table tennis.

He could have at least spent the money on a current kit. Or some magic beans.