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I don't think anybody is really suggesting this are they? 'Everybody' understands that there are much greater things to get wound up about, and in the big scheme of things what shirt your football team wears is relatively small beer. Flip that over and shouldn't the same apply to the club? The 'club' may want to: play in red/re-brand/move-on, but is it really such a big deal for them? The vast majority of fans clearly want the club to wear some variant of red and white stripes/black shorts. If there is a reason we are moving to a predominantly 'plain' red style shirt (and red/white shorts) and the evidence tends to point that way, then surely it is not unreasonable for fans to expect a small explanation/justification? The club seem to be putting their desire to play in plain red/white ahead of what 'most' supporters want, if this really is such a big deal for them (they make more money / solids are more successful than stripes / advertisers pay more for solid colour over stripes / teams play better in red / stripe teams never win anything / foreign nufans prefer solid colour / vision coaches prefer solids to stripes etc etc etc) then they should share this with the fanbase who would be far more accepting of these changes if they came out and honestly explained the rationale behind the changes. If it is no big deal to the club (either way) and they can't provide a rationale explanation then people IMO are entitled to be disgruntled. Nobody thinks any of this is more important than real-life, but it is quite annoying in a football-shirt type of way.

Easter should be interesting then.....

No Bruce in your top 100? Or have you gone for something different to Darkness on the Edge etc.

LOL!!!! Realised that after I posted and I left it to see how long it would last... also quoted by Bletch further down the thread .. it should of course be the incomparable 'All Mod Cons'.

Although the VO2 max test is just a sort of scientific equivalent of 'running till you puke', I think Alpine can rest easy that the players will be given a thorough seeing-to over the next couple of days.

I guess if they've looked after themselves they might come back at 80% of match fitness? Guess it's hard to measure accurately in that they can very accurately measure the players' physical condition but 'match fitness' is a far more abstract concept? Also throw in that very few players will have finished the season at 100%. I'm sure the players are in the right hands and hopefully they will all build steadily to be Saints-fit for the first league game.

http://news.techworld.com/networking/3446243/manchester-city-fc-rolls-out-high-density-wifi-at-etihad-stadium/ Saw a thread on here a while ago that said it 'couldn't be done', obviously it can looking at this. Let's be 'avin it, in a go-ahead, customer focused, can-do stylee. Only for me before the game, at HT and afterwards but a real boon to all those that can't watch the game without their phone in their hand.

Luca Modric CDAJFU, is this the sort of thing?

Add Dean Richards to that list too.

Channon for me too. Those we have loved: Eric Martin, John McGrath, Big Ron, Tommy Jenkins, O'Neil, Shilts, Boyer and Ted, Jimmy Case, Steve Mills, Golac, Steve Williams, Peach, Holmes, MLT, Mark Dennis, Bally, Killer, CMFG, Beatts, SRL. Reckon Boruc could be next on my list, a definite cult hero in the making.

Not seen that before! Thanks for sharing. Agree, unless Contador can find some form it looks like this could be one of the most one-sided tours of recent times? And to think we didn't even have a team three or four years ago. Main interest could switch to Cav v Sagan for the green jersey and you'd have to fancy Sagan for this. This year's reading, to while away the boring bits (LOL) Charly Wigelius, Domestique, For 11 years I was a professional cyclist, competing in the hardest and greatest races on Earth. I was in demand from the world's best teams, a well-paid elite athlete. But I never won a race. I was the hired help. When my mum dropped me off in a small French town aged 17, I was full of determination to be a professional cyclist, but I was completely green. I went from mowing the team manager's lawn to winning every amateur race I entered. Then I turned pro and realised I hated the responsibility and pressure of chasing victory. And that's when I became a domestique. I learned to take that hurt and give it everything I had to give, all for someone else's win. When the order came in to ride it was I pushed out with the hardest rhythm I could, dragging the group faster and faster, until my whole body screamed with pain. There were times I rode myself to a standstill, clutching the barrier metres from the line, as the lead group shot past. But that's what made me a so good at my job. As my career took off, I started looking at the fans lining the route, cheering us like heroes. The passion for cycling oozed off them, but they couldn't know what it was really like. They didn't see the terrible hotels, the crazy egos or all the **** that goes with great expectations. Well, this is how it is… And a quick, easy-but-painful must-read 'Wide-eyed and legless': In 1987, the Tour was won by Irishman Stephen Roche. It was the first time the champion had hailed from outside the Continent or the States and the first time in 20 years a British team - ANC Halfords - had competed in the world's toughest and craziest race. Jeff Connor not only stayed with the British team but also found himself an unofficial team member. From Halfords ANC in 1987 to Team Sky in 2013, read and weep at how useless we were!

David Bowie - Hunky Dory ABC - The lexicon of love The Jam - Going Underground The Clash - London Calling Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the edge of town (sorry to: The Smiths, Prince, Marvin Gaye, Pistols, Rolling Stones, Stone Roses, Carpenters, Eddie Cochran, Costello, Curtis Mayfield, etc etc. Hounds of Love is a great shout!)

BOTH UTTER SHYTE! Arsenal home kit and the away kit of B+W top/white shorts has zero Saints connection. Pathetic. LOL at those that kept on about black and gold. Why?

Maybe NC will bow to fan power next year and keep our commercial partners onside too? All hail the Black and White stripes with Zebra Finance as the shirt sponsors. What's your problem? It's stripes isn't it?

#redredwhine

Didnt realise he was only 21! Plays with a strength and maturity far beyond that, we really are stock-piling some young talent!

More of a 4-1-2-1-2 possibly? Derry's front sweeper! Clyne - Lovren - Forren? - Shaw --------- Wanyama ----------- ----- MS ---- JC ------------ ------- Gaston --------------- ----- J Rod ----- NEW/RL ------ Clyne and Shaw licence to thrill down the flanks. Compact 3 at the back. Is that really a possible Saints team I've just written down???

I think the big terrace is the old North bank at Wolves. I stood on those barriers (or a wooden step our Wolves supporting friends carried for their kids to stand on, or on my dad's shoulders)about half way back as a nipper (would have been 7-9 yrs old) and saw Saints at Molineux several times when we were exiled in the midlands. I also stood in about the very same spot that guy with the flat cap is standing on a Boxing Day (I think) in late 60's/early 70's and saw Man Utd with Best, Law, Charlton etc, on a pitch that was absolutely frozen solid, would never have played it nowadays. As the picture shows the bottom of the terrace was about waist height and loads of kids would be down the front with their arms and shoulders reaching up on to the running track. Happy days.

Edible H. to make a fancy humble pie to decorate the said millinery. You didn't really think I was going to eat the actual hat did you?

This would be a top top signing. I'd said I'd eat my hat if we got anywhere near him, there's still a way to go but who knows now? Just off out for some edible haberdashery (hopefully).

Goldstone ground?

The Bristol City and Hearts shirts are nothing like each other - although they are both pretty naff in their own individual way. The Arsenal-stylee mock-up above is also pretty gross, got a feeling this isn't going to end well .....

Surely room for big Ron on there now?

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Yeah I'm impressed We've signed a potentially decent player. You can buy season tickets. We're due to release a new shirt some time soon. What other club can give you this?