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As I've already said in this thread, I really don't mind the new kit. However it doesn't seem right that season ticket discount apparently doesn't apply in the club stores until the start of August. 2013/14 STs should surely be valid for a 10% deduction on the 2013/14 kit from the day they're issued?

Hmm, I started a thread in the Buy/Sell section about some programmes my dad wants rid of - no interest in them from the members here it seems. Looks like I'll have to take them into this shop then.

It might just be a weird rendering effect but they don't look very round to me.

With 3 months off an athlete is likely to lose around 50% of their aerobic conditioning, so 5% per week sounds about right. If it's a linear loss, the most disciplined players should be reporting at approximately 70% of full fitness.

Sports science in action.

High defensive line, central midfield workhorses and pacey wingers doubling as strikers - Brazil had everything spot on to ensure Spain never got into their hypnotic passing rhythm. Neymar and Hulk caused all sorts of problems for Arbeloa and Alba; Pique and Ramos didn't exactly cover themselves in glory either. There's been a lot of chat about how the current iteration of Brazil is 'under par' (probably by people that take FIFA rankings seriously) but I think their play's been breathtaking at times and there's a great deal of promise for their generation. Strength in depth too. For me the standard of the Confeds has been a joy to watch, especially given the relatively low level of hype. Last night's final compared favourably with just about any World Cup of my lifetime.

Surprise surprise, it looks better worn than draped across a box in a warehouse. I'm fine with both. They're just kits at the end of the day. Stripey socks, stripes (in kind) on the shirt and shorts. I'm sure we can soldier through a season with that. £50 for a shirt is a bit rich mind, ST holder discount or not.

Which is probably what a large percentage of the fanbase will think, right before flocking to buy it. Initial outrage will just as predictably be followed by a mass of shirt sales. For the record I'm quite keen on it.

Ha, I quite like it. Would've worked better with Lotus F1 on the front but not going to throw a wobbly.

Not if you have a base level of savviness or common sense! Keep the OS up to date, don't download or respond to anything that sounds too good to be true. I run Lookout for the fact it can locate my phone - that it protects as an Antivirus is a bonus.

I do some data reviewing for Saints on FIFA - am able to put forward upgrades or downgrades per attribute for our players, although I can't directly update them myself. Many people seem to concentrate on players' overall ratings but that's just calculated from their other stats. If anybody has any suggestions (with statistical proof and/or links to back it up) I'm happy to put them forward to the editors. Was able to get Schneiderlin's stats significantly improved throughout last season because he performed so consistently well.

We even made £100k off his sale and he'd only been with us seven months! I would only have been 10 years old at the time but I'll never forget his brace against Forest.

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That's as may be, but the threads you start on here are still utter drivel.

For Android and web users, Google Calendar can do this automatically. Pick your favourite team and it populates your calendar with the relevant fixtures. https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37098?hl=en

You could also argue that in order to keep our best graduates such as Shaw we need to secure higher finishing positions in the league. That being the case, buying in quality now could be seen as a stop-gap until the club is more able to sustain itself.

Wanyama really would be a coup. Considering that we have very little physicality in our squad he can add it in spades. The lad's not ridiculously built, but his strength belies that. Has a bit of an eye for goal too which, Morgan's purple patch last season aside, we have been lacking of late.

Fair dos. Even stepping towards the emotional rather than logical end of the scale I'm happy with it, but then I'm big on clean, unfussy designs in my day job so that probably transfers to my taste. Each to their own of course.

By the same logic, isn't a change in the colour of shorts from black to red relatively minor? As is the shirt going from red and white to... Oh, staying red and white, just a different configuration?

Sure. So when people say they want 'traditional' stripes, they basically mean "this kit doesn't look like the ones from when I was younger"? It does seem a little strange to be so attached to some parts of our history only to completely disregard others. I wasn't yet born in 1985, but the Draper Tools kit introduced that year was fairly similar to what we're getting and I can't imagine there was such a fuss then. We've always played around with the usage of white on our kits. Not saying that I wouldn't prefer a striped kit, although I would say I was becoming slightly bored with variations on the same theme. Change isn't always for the worse, nor does it have to be permanent.

No EXIF data present, but then if you were going to be responsible for a leak you probably would take the 5 seconds required to delete it.

That blurry photo really isn't representative. Makes it look like a training top when I know for a fact that template looks a lot smarter in person. Having slept on the matter, if it matches Dan's mock-up from post #1424 then I'm happy enough.

Will there be a campaign to bring back blue shorts?

We paid in the region of £1.9m I believe. I'd say he's still worth that; if we let him go for little more than a million it would seem to suggest the club is keen to offload him. Sharp certainly did the job that was asked of him in the Championship but sentiment aside I guess we outgrew him. Top bloke though.

The Sun seem to think a £1.2m deal has been agreed with Reading for Sharp. Either way I can't really see him playing any part for us next season. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4158639/Football-Confidential-Latest-news-in-brief-from-across-English-football.html#ixzz2WjznMyhg