Sunglasses Ron

Anyone who's been to Newport will know that the River Usk is not, in any way imaginable, teal in nature. It's more a boggy pastel grey type colour.

Ughhh another barrier to Salisu’s development.

Thank heavens Ramadan is only held by Fifa once every 4 years.

Newport County's away kit from last season...

Really big if we can do this. He's definitely not VVD, but then he didn't join us until he was 24/25 and had those great years of development at Celtic playing in the Champions League. I have really high hopes for him over the next 2-3 years.

No, that was last year's goalie top!

If Che and Stu are happy with it then so am I 🙂

JWP, for me!

Yup Barca do it well, but then they're world class and we, ahem, aren't quite at that stage! 😃

We seem to have a mixed identity when it comes to kits. We're obviously not the only club that are in this position. Personally, I would love to see us permanently adopt the sash to set us apart from everyone else.

Interesting from the promotional photos that the web design appears to be based on the architecture of the roof at St Mary's. I've no problem with the kit personally as far more concerned about how we play when we're wearing it these days.

Sounds like he's the same height as Salisu (6ft 2in). Seems to be on the shorter end of the scale for central defenders, but then we had one of the tallest ones in history and his 'leap' seemed to make him shorter at times.

Unusual to be flaunting an old kit when announcing new signings. Would be cool if the club drop the bombshell that we're sticking with last season's kit!

I think he was top of all our lists for solving our defensive problems. Welcome to Saints 😃

Imagine if his name was Armel Hoedt-Dando! Poor bugger would never have a chance of making it here!

Yes, it's not unfair to say that. Let's hope the women's game will eventually truly stand on its own two feet.

I’m all for the women’s game growing and want my little girl to have the chance of dreaming to be a big star just like we all probably did when we were young. What’s really important is that it tries to be unique in its own right and not just try to bolt itself to the men’s game. I definitely don’t like some of the tricks currently being used to get our attention. Would love to see them using unique looking kits and promoting a creative-over-physical approach to playing the game.

The longer this goes on the more you wonder whether that highlighted bit of text has become engrained in the club. Do we now go into games knowing about this terrible record and thinking "we're going to lose, but that's ok as that's what we always do". Unlikely, but as good an explanation as any I guess!

Yes, of course, but it begs the question why has the first game of the season been such a problem for us over such a long period of time. I'm fascinated to understand this better!

I think I worked out last year that's it's two Premier League wins in 23 seasons (spanning 30 years): > Coventry away in 1999 (1-0) > West Brom away in 2013 (1-0) That's absolutely dreadful by anyone's standards. If you pro-rated that win rate (9%) over a season then we'd secure 10 points! Edit: Just checked our Championship / League 1 record and it was just one win seven seasons, Leeds home in 2011 (3-1).

It is what it is really, not much point in over-analysing. Not optimistic that we'll improve our horrendous opening day record, but then we did beat Spuds in that game last season.

Have edited your post for consistency as things are really starting to get confusing 🙃

Thanks! Yes, that is a bit of gamble really!

Have I missed the fee for Bazunu? If so, how does it compare to Henderson?

It's all making sense now, Bale, Bazunu and Ings all being announced this week with photos taken in our new kit 😃