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Yet Bournemouth have managed to avoid it, as have others

Are they going to 64 countries or had that not been decided?

Did we really get this far without mention of the Gun Dog display ?

Yes, gone up in my estimation for that alone.

Some good research. Thanks for that, interesting.

HT - entertainment. What absolute bollocks. Proves again, yanks don’t understand football. If they did, they’d have flown the Albion Band out there.

No hosepipe ban in your area ? (Assuming somewhere in Hampshire).

I can see the similarity but don’t recall it being called old gold at the time. Wolves were known to wear ‘old gold’ but our second strip was largely described as amber. Image of Hugh Fisher below (looks close to Wolves shade) Big Ron… as I remember the colours :

Yes, you’re right it’s not been revived. Probably because it has been supplanted by the yellow/blue combination, especially among you youngsters! I doubt the club will look to have an amber kit along with a yellow/ blue creation the same season. I’d forgotten the Solent green. I liked it second time round, kit was quite nice. In fact we’ve had a couple of decent white away or third shirts (Wembley 2017, and the FA Cup shirt v Coventry a few years back). Im not against the changes and experiments (within reason), but just don’t fuck up the home kit please !

As far as I’m aware through the 60’s and early 70’s until 1973/4 when it changed to yellow and blue. I was told in the 70’s that the amber and black was chosen as this was the colours of the Hampshire Regiment, although later read that we borrowed a kit from the regiment that was burgundy and blue. No idea of the source of this although Fitzhugh might expand on the story. Yellow and Blue was nothing unique to Saints and just followed a 70’s fashion trend at the time. This had previously been the away strip of Man Utd, Chelsea and Everton (and they’re the only ones I can recall, probably more) in the previous couple of seasons. I’ve tried finding footage of Saints in amber and black, but the majority of clips are black and white. This includes away v Man Utd (Ron Davies in his prime), Arsenal on Boxing Day (Eric Martin’s best game ?) , and York City in Cup.

Far too much I agree with, and common sense expressed here to register with those making decisions. If we can’t have a full striped kit then I’d like the Rank Xerox to become the standard default kit. With the sash reserved for anniversaries! Away kit - for me should be amber and black, but accept yellow and blue seems indelibly set for many. Don’t mind if that is varied with navy/yellow (as 2010/11) or stripes as last season. Third kit - I like the red and black, or sky/navy (again, Rank Xerox era)but should give some licence for the club to bugger about and vary it. Within reason. So no Japanese wallpaper designs or psychedelic ‘far out,man’ crap (2022/3 and this year). Two year cycle, good idea, but commercially the club and manufacturers probably wouldn’t suppory that.

Not sure, I recall Gecko did some badge designs. He might have been involved in the shirts at one point.

Fine. Until they turn round. Just looking at the clips on here and the backs look dreadful, very tacky.

It takes years of practice to build the confidence to perfect a dummy like that. You can’t coach it, it’s intuitive.

Introduce him slowly between now and the closure of the transfer window. A couple of goals pre-season and he’ll be at Chelsea before end of August.