Colinjb

Replace one philosophy.... with the same one?

I'm certainly not 60 years old thankyou!

I have to disagree. But then that is more about personal preference then club identity and I do respect that.

You are missing the point by boiling it down to logic. This is an emotional argument. Deep down, it's football... who cares what the team wear so long as they win, right? Massively wrong. It is identity, the identity we have associated with the the majority of our lives... even those who remember the blue shorted days will have known the now accepted format over the last 60 years... given a 90 year old fan that is in excess of 2/3's of their life. It is what we identify with and associate with our team.

It is your right to not care and hold a contrary opinion. I respect that.... respect our right to overwhelmingly disagree and desire to at least try to do something about it.

It doesn't matter. It's about what people want now. Hindsight has no relevance if there is discontent now. Riots used to be crushed with armed force back in the day. Should we do that in Brazil now? (Extreme example, yes.... but your unfeeling pragmatism has no place here, in a fundamentally emotional argument. We like the kits we have grown up with, known and identify with, we want to keep them!!)

Not all of us accept it like that. Transition occurs, but I and essentially everyone I know socially who support Saints do not. F**k the red kits. We are Southampton... we are red AND white. #saveourstripes

I'm not so worried about our own education system now.... I'm sure that has been edited to emphasise the bad. Nonetheless every American I have met seems to be at least a little ignorant/uneducated about some relatively straightforward things. Particularly when it comes to the rest of the world. Even the chavs down my local understand the concept of a 'mosque.' Did lol when the guy described Al Qaeda as an offshoot of the Masons....

I understand what you are saying, but the vast majority of the fanbase simply were not alive back then. Therefore the associated identity of the club is red/white shirts, black shorts and white/red socks.

A forum like this will always have a tendency to attract the more extreme and fanatical members of the fanbase. It is however one of the largest snapshots of fan opinion that can be found anywhere. The main contributors here may not represent the majority of fans but recent polls (such as the one on the kit style that would be prefered) attracted over 900 votes. Not all of those 900 will be regular forum contributors, there is a large amount of 'lurkers' who use the forum for information and leave the posting to others. As such it can be considered a reasonable port of call for fan views.... just you have to scratch beneath the surface to get the reality of the situation.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/saveourstripes/?notif_t=group_r2j Join one join all.

What the public wants.....

Truly hope so! Time will tell.

Vive la revolution!!!!

It's my other half's money that will be going onto it so i'll suggest it. Bit of a trip from Coventry to get there mind!

One thing, it does look as though it's probably a child's size from that picture.

That wouldn't make any sense mate, Liverpool now wear kits made by Warrior, havn't used Adidas for two years now and that shirt matches some of the already witnessed new patterns.

The first time was last/this year. Red Shirt/Shorts/Socks. We've had red shirts before, but the shorts and socks on top were the clincher.

Corrected for you.

Ahem.... https://www.facebook.com/groups/saveourstripes/ #saveourstripes

I was thinking more Middlesbrough.....

Yeah, that's actually ok.

One man cannot make a difference..... so I hope my statistical anomaly makes no ends. #saveourstripes

Nah, i'll palm that off to some other idio..... erm, comrade.

Hey, small steps and all that.