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Looked a bit Lallanaesque in the YouTube clip to me. In a good way. No alice band. Interesting to know what’s he like out of possession. Whoscored makes positive reading though: https://www.whoscored.com/Players/342877/Show/Joe-Ayodele-Aribo Other articles mention Fulham, Palace & Forest interest

Hoping it’s Kaladjzik (sp) or is that too ambitious ?

Not sure he was available for much of it.

Our new 5’2” centre forward modelling it as well.

So that the teal wave effort doesn’t ever see the light of day would be a good reason.

Don’t think he’s anywhere near Broja in terms of ability or potential. Not same position either.

Yes he was but difference being that Pulis Snr wasn’t or hasn’t been involved at Saints (unless you include a rumoured agreement with Rupert to take over at some stage).

Wasn’t Alan Ball’s son an apprentice at Saints at one point ? Lawrie’s son Chris McMenemy was with us, and later had a coaching role. Neither of their sons got near playing for the first team though.

No. Just No. What next, “play up Soton, Soton play up …” ?

In fairness I don’t mind the colours as a change. But the design.FFS, fine as a leisure shirt if that’s your sort of thing but it really is the ‘first Ted Bates statue’ of football shirts. Wonder when some stupid fucker in our commercial dept will have that interwoven or embossed on a Saints shirt.

… but like the late 1960’s, fashion was shite … Seems it wouldn’t have been out of place in 1967 San Francisco. Far out, man …

In the words of the prophet, John McEnroe .. what, you cannot be serious !

Think we’re after Dai Gestive , best Welsh Centre Forward since Big Ron.

Some of the more zany or complex concept kits might be expensive, but why more than the ludicrous grey lines on our kit ? Generally seems bollocks to me, why should the WBA kit be more than ours to manufacture? Think it was established years ago that they’re all made for a pittance. Any additional cost is probably negligible compared to the retail price

Think we and our new recruitment chief are competing with the La Liga club to sign his younger smaller brother. If we sign him we’ll have to list them as Lavia Majora and Lavia Minora in the squad. (Try getting that on the back of your shirt).

Not sure Downes is a similar profile to Lavia from the clips seen. Downes looks a neat and tidy passer of the ball - especially in a match against us when we were down to 10 men - but no real footage of tackles etc. In summary I thought he looked a ‘JWP lite’ version (without the free kicks!). Lavia looks more robust and appears to offer a bit more in the DM role in challenges and tackles. Just a view and perception of course. Could be totally wrong, after all we know how YouTube made De Ridder a six minute world beater.

If it’s so blindingly obvious to the likes of you and I you have to wonder how our Commercial Dept / Directors missed it. WBA also managed a stripe down the back to make it seem complete rather than the designer running out of time in completing the effort. That WBA design in r/w, whilst not being the ideal is much better than our piss poor effort.

Haven't seen or heard that, the only one I'm aware they might trot out again was the 'Danish pyjama' shirt, in red and what appears pink halves.

This is where the blame lies in my view.

With your user name I respectively suggest your eyesight may have been impaired by too much time under strobe lighting. (Only joking I realise it's a matter of taste, and the 'flame effect' from the 80's is much better than the new 'wave' pattern).

Have to agree with you on this. On attending away games we often kill a bit of time pre-match looking at a club's shop. I wouldn't compare us with the larger clubs where it is geared for tourists but by comparison with clubs of our status at the time of the match (Middlesbrough, WBA, Brighton) I've found them to be a bit more imaginative in the range available in particular retro shirts etc. Did think of you and wonder what you'd make of Brighton on our visit in April, where they has an area set aside for rainbow merchandise ! At leasT, with the exception of the shirt, we haven't gone down that route.

Was thinking the same. Hope he goes to Reading as he might be in with a chance of a coaching role when Ince is either found out, or has a fall out with the board, whichever comes first.

Possibly, although that doesn't have the same swirl effect to my eyes.

Hope they are wrong. The green/ army fatigues shirt is awful. The contrast stripes look as if its a tribute to the groundsman paying tribute to the 1976/7 Admiral stripes. The blue is hideous and puke ! Wonder what inspired that ffs: Is it designed on a 1960's psychedelic experience, or a Paisley wallpaper ? Or perhaps it's a puzzle book, just hope the players don't spend 90 minutes looking for something in the design.

Don't recall the booing although many fans became indifferent to him. I liked him when he arrived at the club and felt sorry for him how it turned out. He lived up to reputation as being a good hard running MF for a while but two broken legs seemed understandably to knock his confidence and he didn't seem to recover from that with us. Credit to him - and Pulis though - as he certainly recovered form at Stoke.