Badger

There’s a real 1970’s reference

Or plain white. (Hoping not)

See Peter Osgood, (back row)

Nothing to be embarrassed by really. Just be thankful. The following generations don’t have an FA Cup squad to try and identify.

Good excuse to see Channon in his prime

Different shirt designs 1976/7 shown here: I don’t recall ever seeing us at a match play in the shirt worn by Blyth. Although it was worn at Carrick Rangers, by some of the players from something I read years ago.

Firstly, issue a sad anorak alert. Following the posts with SidneyFudpucker and Kenilworthy ( good name for a rural Solicitors or such like ) I’ve looked into the 1976/7 shirt. I hadn’t realised it or remembered how inconsistent this was. The badge on Rodrigues and Stokes is fully on one of the red stripes, whereas it is across the two stripes for others including Channon and Holmes. This might be due to the size of shirt perhaps. The badge is on the white of Steve Williams & Osgood’s shirt. Williams and Osgood have a different design with central red stripe. Wonder how the Quality Control worked at Admiral in the 1970’s. Doesn’t matter of course as the teams that wore that (after the initial early season slumber in 76/7) were a joy to watch.

How many years did we keep that circle for ? Wasn’t it just 1976/7 the year after we’d won the cup? (Vague memory that it wasn’t now you mention it).

Just checked, and it appears the badge sat over the stripe on the original. Not as I remember it, but it was nearly 50 years ago.

Year after year we see better designs on here from supporters than they come up with. Really have to wonder what sort of twats are employed to design for the manufactures, and about the retards at the club who select them.

Seems a bit of a come down to leave a Champions League club for us at the moment. Even if he’s out of contract (no idea if he his).

sacrilege if it’s a plain red back.

Okay thanks for posting that. I don't recall that figure only the £20m upwards figures. Wonder if we have to pay any 'add-ons' to Arsenal instead of the uplift for staying up.

Nothing amazing or exceptional from the standard YouTube watch. But I’m sure he’ll tear it up at Goztepe. Still doesn’t make the signing a bad option, as he could be sold at a profit even if not arriving at St Mary’s as his next destination.

Not sure how accurate their figures are: Ramsdale won’t come cheap, though, with Southampton hoping for £20million in exchange for a player they paid £18m for just under a year ago. Thought we’d paid more than that from reports seen at the time.

I think Ted Bates tried to sign his father in the 1960’s. But Swindon refused to sell.

McLego

Sounds promising. Can’t see any reason not to have stripes on the back, other teams have retained them. If not then I’d prefer to discontinue with the stripes, and have red and white halves, or the Keegan era kit.

Article says he’s 23. Not a youngster as they call him. Wonder if it is to see how he does, or to improve Work Permit chances.

Its probably easy to sell the idea of playing at Goztepe to players seeing it as a stepping stone to Saints than bringing them the other way. Romulo is a good example. He’s done well at Goztepe and if given the option of coming to Saints (in the Championship don’t forget) or other options, say Feyenoord, or a Spanish club with prospect of European competition, staying in the SR group doesn’t seem attractive. Despite the tie up within the group, the players aren’t commodities to be moved around, we’d still have to overcome the human factor of players choice, and their bastard agents.

Rohl may be the last man standing. And Leicester might now be his last option. Seems a likely marriage of (in)convenience. Would have liked Rohl at Saints, but he certainly hasn’t managed his options well it seems. Added the Chansiri factor as well and it’s been a bit of a clusterfuck on his part.

I thought QPR or even Stafford Rangers were more his level.

Always worth remembering about Big Ron is that he was only 6’ or 6’1” so by no means a giant. But he used to get up a lot better and direct his headers better than the giants we’re now talking of. As did Lambert (6’2” according to Wikipedia). Tall Paul obviously doesn’t have the Paine and Sydenhams to act as providers. But if he did I suspect he’d still be a bit shit.

Some good research and time taken putting that together, thanks. (Depressing though seeing some of the names there)

The jury will as usual be selected entirely at random and will swear an oath.