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Corrected it for you 😜

Haven't Hummell already hinted at the 76 style candy stripes are due for a revival? I'm with you, really like mixing it up, evenly sized stripes are my probably my least favourite (and isn't there a stat about no-one in stripes having won the league or cup for ages? Liking the Barcelona variations, my favourite is #24, pretty much what we have now without the fading, would love us in a red and white#9 & #20 as well. Just no hoops - ever!

I'd like to go full MLG mode and claim I was just being ironic, but ....

As someone that doesn't like stripes, whether they're our "tradition" or not, that gets a definite like from me. Have to laugh at the marketing bo||ox though, it's a nice shirt, but no, it dosn't inspire me to be brave. I mean wtf is all that nonsense about?

I think some see him as brilliant for the same reasons Benali and Prutton became crowd favourites. Great blokes, totally commited, but raport with the fans doesn't win matches.

Well it works for Man City .... Admittedly their overall owners have a helluva lot more to splash around. And I'd imagine buying a player through one club and loaning him out to another in your group is a sneaky way of getting around some of the FFP rules. Plus sometimes we want a player for the future who needs to build up his points for a work permit, so sending him somewhere for guaranteed game time now can go towards that. Not to mention getting experience at higher levels than loans to the like of Ross County. Admittedly the Lis one was a strange one but has our - I mean SR's - purchase of the Turkish club even completed yet? It may be the only way of ensuring we got his registration for now . Lyanco going there again guarantees game time, yes at a relatively low quality but who knows what other clubs at what levels will end up in our "group". Probably still a lotmore competitive for him every week than turning out for the U23s. And are we the "poorest premier league club" ?

Could explain why we are good in the first half then come out looking knackered in the second half. Although Ralf must have an assistant for that, no-one could get round all 11 of them in a 15 minute break.

Pretty sure I recall from an episode of The Price of Football podcast a couple of months back that the terms of the loan that they pumped into Burnley (£90m?) made it repayable immediately if they got relegated. If that's correct they could take years to get back again

Expect to see him parading around in the new kit tomorrow lunchtime after his €8m transfer then 🤣

A summer of intrigue and very little work getting done. HMR. Mentally searching through my old memory banks - Help Me Rhonda ??

When, or even a few games before, the season ended I wanted him gone. All I could see was a stubborn manager making the same mistakes time and time again. BUT Since the season has ended I've changed my mind. He clearly has the backing of the new owners, at least for now, and that is good enough for me . 3 transfers in already, how involved RH was in those we will probably never know but it shows faith in him. If they wanted him out they'd have got rid by now before any new signings. But more importantly, the backroom staff changes that the new owners have made. Again we'll probably never know if they were with RH's blessing, at his request, or maybe against his wishes, but some have gone, new people have arrived, and he is still here. For the first time since he's been here we look like we are getting in the players (and backroom team) we want as opposed to making do with what we've got and whoever we could get late in the window after missing on the preferred targets whilst having to sell/loan out players before we could make signings. We're not made of money, for each new one in one has to go but at least we're shopping in the right order now. There is an air of change around the club, big changes, after too many stagnant, make do years. For better or for worse he looks to be part of that change. I'll give him one last chance, slate clean, fresh start. We're not going to be UCL contenders but I'm not unreasonably expecting 20 points by (was going to habitually say Xmas) the World Cup break. Anything less and it's probably "we're calling you in for a chat" time.

Either those seats are massive or we've just signed the world's smallest CB 😳

We have to remember where he spent last season. Was he slow at starting counters? or where the outfield players slow and making the runs for him to pass to? As for always talking to his defence for me that puts him ahead of McCarthy already, regardless of any other ability. The keeper is part of the defence unit, McCarthy often gives the impression he's a stand alone last resort if and when something gets through the back 4/5.

Agree. I think the two different stripe sections look a mess close up and just red and pink from a distance. Same shirt in two plain red and white sections would look awesome, fresh, stylish and (I think but I'm probably wrong, maybe Blackburn?) unique as a home kit in English football

To be fair, nobody has played at this level before until they've played at this level. No matter how young or old you can never be sure how good they'll be until they are thrown in at the deep end. From what I've heard from my Pompey insider I have every faith in him to ge, at worst, a step up from McCarthy and Forster.

Whatever it is the "potential tramway" (now there's a vision for the future) cuts right across the corner of it. Unless it goes over or under it.

Fitting the syllables to a tune...... Gavin Bazunu = Reuben Agboola Bazunu = Phil Boyer. If you need help with the tunes please contact anyone over the age of 60 🤣

The one on one was superb. The shot stopping, well to be fair he saved them all but you'd be disappointed to let any of those in. Looked very composed once in possession of the ball (compare with Pickford's excited schoolboy act every time he holds one). But most promising of all, watching tha, t he's already use to playing behind a sh|t defence and having to do all the work himself. Straight in as #1 hopefully.

Cheers I'll have to find that one sounds interesting. You're right it's a great podcast, really good take on the "business" of football as opposed to the usual tactics/transfer gossip etc. It's my regular commute listen but I've missed a few lately. When they do at least 2 a week I never get round to catching up on the ones I miss.

Do the clubs even get much input into the design anyway? With the biggest manufacturers working with 3 or 4 templates a year for most it's more likely to be you can have X, Y or Z and fitting in the team colours in accordingly. At least Hummel seem prepared to come with designs that are a bit different (although that doesn't always turn out to be a good thing)

I only get 3 posts a day, this one is the bottom of the pile, (to be fair I shouldn't pre-juge you ot your taste in women) you can find the rest yourself 🤣

I've corrected that for you. You've clearly never googled hot girls in football shirts 😜

Seems like a lot of teams are late releasing kits this year because contracts with sponsors and/or kit manufacturers don't end until 30th June. STORY HERE However, unless there are more deals ending this year than usual surely that applies every year? And also I don't think either situation applies to us does it? Certainly same manufacturer, not heard any mention of sponsor change (although can't even remember who sleeve sponsor is - Virgin?) . Maybe we are still waiting for Gareth Bale to make his mind up. 🤣

Stoke made all sizes up to 6xl available with no sponsor with Bet365's blessing. It was so popular they had to order more https://www.stokecityfc.com/news/2020/november/Sponsor-free-shirts-back-in-stock/