Ted Bates Statue

Are you asking about marathon on a kid's scooter or Channel swim with a wetsuit? Personally I would do neither, because both would still be a pain in the arse without saving very much time, and officially you would be disqualified, despite all the expense of hiring a boat and pilot.

From what I've heard it's not a walk in the park even as a relay. There's a good chance of getting sea sickness on the boat during rest periods, so you have to swim your later stints while coping with nausea and vomiting. What surprises me is that the team elected to use wetsuits. The Channel swim is unique in that wetsuits are not permitted, so it's not actually a valid crossing. Still a decent feat, but It's a bit like doing the London Marathon on a kid's scooter - just choose a different event if you really want to do an endurance sport that way.

Makes a lot of sense, although at the time of your conversation, wasn't the sash the only non-standard stripes kit since the first Friends Provident kit? I'm not defending the stripes, although they have their place in our tradition. Just observing that sash kits are always likely to be best sellers. Otherwise we would surely see a lot more away kit and training kit sales.

In stark contrast to the two earlier efforts above, nearly every single line of this seems to fail to scan. Even slurring the words and speeding it up doesn't save it. Disappointing.

I don't tend to check the TV listings but I am frequently informed that Pompey get battered everywhere they go, so you probably don't notice when Sky show all of those instances because it's just routine at this point. Compare and contrast with the concept of David Norris Day, an occasion of mild annoyance at the time, which still yielded us a point that helped us on the way to promotion 🤣

The competition closing date to be part of the photoshoot is tomorrow, so the following Monday sounds about right. Thanks for passing on the info, interesting to hear the sponsor logo is red - wouldn't it clash with the red behind it?!

I love the Feyenoord-style halves, would be nice to see a kit like this and not like the late-80s red and pink that a lot of us are so fond of. I would be happy to see this, the sash and the Keegan era kit appear every ten years or so, to give some variety amongst the bog-standard traditional stripes. I'm not keen on the 19th Century quarters personally - it does work well for Wycombe with their darker colours, but in red and white it would look too gaudy.

I think the red sash with red arms is a decent effort. Always appreciate a sash shirt, except for Boro five years ago when it looked like it had fallen off. Your login issues might be related to having to verify your email address. I can't find the original forum message but think it was meant to have an effect from this month.

Must have been the 8/10 transfer window.

Can't remember for certain, but being a local lad and (I assumed) supporter, I always felt his preference would have been to stay with us. Obviously it didn't work out that way so it's completely hypothetical.

Late 80s style maybe...? Some call it 80s Denmark, I call it pink and red

There is no god.

There is a competition for junior saints members to be in a photoshoot around St Marys and become one of the first to wear the new kit. Closing date is 12th June so I think we are still a few weeks away from seeing it, unless it gets leaked sooner. Until then, we'll have to put up with other Hummel releases or mock-ups on twitter by people with maybe a bit too much time on their hands. I'm going to stick my neck out and say it will be "back to basics" stripes.

It's being streamed legally on youtube. Dortmund have pulled one back but running out of time, they need two more.

I'm doing mental gymnastics to see how he could be persuaded to stay. Perhaps he could do what Niemi did, stay and see how we get on until January. By that point we would have an idea if we're in the hunt for promotion, if it looks like we're drifting then he moves on, fair enough.

I would be willing to bet that a lot of Everton's players don't have relegation clauses. If they go down, it could get painful for them.

I won't begrudge the club for being ruthless, having been relegated with multiple games to go. If we were still in with a chance of staying up at this point, I would be calling shenanigans like when Adkins got sacked having steadied the ship after our tough run.

Hopefully more along the lines of 2006, without breaking the bank this time around. I think we spent quite a bit more than the sums below suggest, relatively speaking. For some reason Rasiak is missing although thought he originally joined on loan, and then signed for £2M in the summer. Bradley Wright-Phillips Man City Nominal 05 Jul, 2006 Pele Belenenses Signed 10 Jul, 2006 Jermaine Wright Leeds Free 10 Jul, 2006 Kelvin Davis Sunderland £1,000,000 21 Jul, 2006 Rudi Skacel Hearts £1,600,000 29 Jul, 2006 Jhon Viafara Portsmouth Signed 04 Aug, 2006 Chris Makin Reading Free 16 Aug, 2006 Inigo Idiakez Derby £250,000 31 Aug, 2006 Marek Saganowski Troyes Signed 28 Jun, 2007 https://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=2471&teamTabs=transfers&season_id=136

That's sound logic but you need to factor in the cost of living crisis and inflation, it will be higher than you expect as a result.

Being a cynic, he might be planning on helping Saints by getting a move elsewhere and freeing up transfer and wage funds. £25-£30M to a midtable side might do it. Personally however, I would prefer him to stay. It's not his fault that we failed to get a striker for him to partner.

To be fair, it's quite rare for a young player to give a good account of himself in a relegation campaign, particularly at the end of one. Only instance I can think of is Adam Lallana in 2008 when we stayed up.

I get what you're saying, but it's like penalty shootouts. You don't really want to contest one if it's your own team, but the drama for neutrals is huge. Sport at its best. As a consolation, it might galvanise them to get the job done next year - think Huddersfield Town the year we pipped them out of League One.

The De Zerbi bit feels much like someone trying to cover for themselves, a bit like when Les Reed would get his mate Jeremy in the Telegraph to put out a friendly article to control the narrative. Easy to say "oh, we almost got it spot on." I never heard of him until he pitched up at Brighton, and i don't believe for a second he was on our radar. On the other hand, there were rumours swirling about interest in Nathan Jones for a while before Hasenhuttl got sacked. We got the man we wanted all along, simple as.

Vibes of "We should sell him to Watford for a tenner" circa 2018 in this thread. Also, the same shit was said about Hojbjerg and he's been playing for a big 6 side ever since he left. No, we're not going to get an improvement on JWP in a lower division.

Bit of a late one but it's the Hampshire Senior Cup Final - it's the penalty shoot-out