The Kraken

Thoughts..... Personally I think that would have been much better.

Would have been interesting to see the reaction if we'd have had black shorts and white socks. I don't mind the shirt too much. The logo is a bit naff but the shirt itself is quite smart. Its just tying it with red shorts and socks which seems a bit weird.

Congratulations , you win the Runners up position in the "St. Dave from Sweden impressionism awards". Impressive adaptation of the familiar boring, long-winded nonsense. Good use of capitals. But nowhere near enough italics and underlining to win first prize. Better luck next time.

Everyone is complaining about the shirt. They're all forgetting how amazing the look will be with the red foam hands that all St. Mary's attendees will be wearing this season, adorned with the "Manchester Red Devils, we're coming for you" slogan.

I don't think I'd mind the red shirt so much, if it just had a hint of being "Saints" about it. Maybe black shorts and white socks might have done it. We'll never know now though. Away kit is really nice. But runied IMO by our "new" Liverpool home kit and the white one being the accompanying away number from that era.

Because it turned out to be right? And, because there was no picture associated with the "red and white pinstriped shirt" idea, so its a good plan to make your own mind up after actually seeing it. And because no-one had any idea of the shorts and socks, and therefore how the whole effect would look? If posting in an annoying way was shunned you'd have been gone shortly after you started, you intolerable bore. At least he got something right; a skill seemingly well beyong your fat-fingered grasp.

If that was a pre-requisite I don't think anything would get done on this forum.

Quite.

And seriously, someone tell The9 how wonderful he is for getting it right so long ago. Its getting embarassing now watching him clamour for kudos.

Agreed, and he's relatively slim. Imagine if you tried to wedge your ample bulk inside that shirt. Urgh. I can understand now why you were previously so put off by it.

Does someone want to give The9 a pat on the back for being ITK; he's practically f*cking begging for it, you ungrateful dogs.

That's true Phil. I was saying the exact same thing earlier when I was down the pub with Barack Obama.

Here's a non Photoshopped version; Chris from Soccer AM. Looks even worse. And the stuck on logo is laughably poor :lol:

I think overall they do a good job considering the restrictions they're under. They have an average daily sales figure of 31,000, with an estimated 80,000 people reading the paper every day. Compared to www.saintsfc.co.uk's unique daily visitor figures of 8,000. So there is a relatively huge market of either Saints fans or general supporters with a passing interest who won't have visited the OS and yet who quite probably want to read about Saints (my mum and dad get the Echo every day, neither actively support Saints yet they'll always have a read through the sports section). While I do find some of their reporting a bit poor I think the overall content is pretty decent; especially for the traget audience. And often find the constant Echo bashing on here a bit embarrassing and needless.

Don't be silly DD; ask any football fan around the country what kit Saints normally play in and you'll be hard pushed to find someone who doesn't know the right answer.

Who said they can't? They just don't. The Echo's readership is not the same as SFC's target audience. And there are plenty of Saints fans or supporters who don't read the OS or internet boards every day.

Then consider yourself fortunate for it was awful. The worst thing about that kit is that it coincided with MLT in his prime and so a large number of his goals were scored wearing that monstrosity.

Oh I did notice that the left hand side of the picture is all very PC, showing SFC's inclusive policy towards asians, blacks and baldies.

Do you not remember the Pony tick? And the blue away version of it. Christ, I'd venture those were two of the worst kits ever in football, let alone for us.

Where is Dean Hammond? I know he's no Brad Pitt but he's the skipper at least; I thought he might have been given some prominence at the front of the pic.

Don't mind the shirt too much, the red shorts and socks don't work IMO. The away kit would look quite classy if it weren't for the fact that it completes the whole Liverpool theme. Anyone think Cortese might have been a Liverpool fan growing up?

Christ, this place is going to go into meltdown in about 43 minutes.

Season tickets came out last month. I think Saints might be seriously damaging your health.

Are you sick from the anticipation of it all? I refuse to believe this is just a common cold.

Ha ha. Though I do sometimes feel a bit sorry for the Echo and the stick they get. They have a substantial readership who don't visit the OS, don't come on message boards, and yet still want to read daily Saints-related news. The football club refuse to deal with the Echo, they don't get any access to interviews, soundbites or leaked news reports, and I think they are still not allowed press access to the ground on a matchday. So they have to fill the back pages every day with information they can glean from the OS, news and gossip gleaned from other club sites and message boards, and opinion pieces from "fans representatives" like SISA and the Saints Trust (where they let themselves down IMO). With that in mind it's kind of natural that they'll too often have to get by with non-stories and space filler, as (for their readership) that is much better than no reporting at all.