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I doubt its genuine but could be wrong. It seems to appear every summer as a fan mock up.

Stunning home kit for me. Also love the detailing of the Dell and St Mary's.

Cheers Craig! Excited to see how it looks!

Danny fox, big Jos, STEVE, butterfield, Aaron Martin, Frazer Richardson, Chaplow, Sharpe and David Connolly to name a few no doubt. We had a young Lallana and Morgan (who lets be honest were new players at that level) and went on to develop into better and better players. We had Lambert who had never played at that level, Fonte who was a good solid player at that level, and a young cork who went on to have a decent enough prem career. The rest were league 1 / lower championship players. (not aimed at you SOG) - but that is not a strong championship squad. I do not understand the expectation that Adkins should have won the championship. Its like saying city could keep aguero (lambert), foden (lallana), diaz (fonte) and fernandinho (morgan). Then replace the rest of their team with a bunch of Burnley, saints, and palace players and still expect they win the league. Just doesn't hold water for me. He was a great manager for saints, agree that he was the right man at the right time. But we'd have been fine under him in the prem.

We'd have been a far more stable club under him, and we'd have had far less concerns over loyalty. To me, he's the biggest legend of those times, along with Lambert. And if we do ever get relegated, i would have him back.

The most important result is surely the 9-0. Brought the club properly back down to reality and highlighted exactly how much work still has to be done.

No No No. its all Eric Black's fault.

We're knackered now. Fair play to leeds. Read/Played us like a book.

VAR is just match fixing by the back door.

Where were the lines? That was clearly offside by today's standards. Also this ref has had a mare with respect to letting leeds' challenges go, not giving corners etc.

As a member of what I consider to be the silent majority, all I'll say is that IMO, BLM UK has zero place in football. Also fair play to those of you arguing that point. However there really is no point arguing politics on a football message board 🤷‍♂️. Either way, I certainly think no one should advocate the use (or even threats) of banning orders against those who express that viewpoint. Free speech should be absolutely sacrosanct in the UK. And clearly, every person on both sides of this debate recognises that racism should not be tolerated in today's society.

That game at old Trafford was the low point for squad depth - we fielded 11 "first team" players from the entire 18man squad, two of those being keepers, and only 8 (being generous) being players you'd expect to get any real game time normally. So whilst I don't disagree that it would be nice to see him have a run. This is a player who for most of the fans has purely been built up on here, who was clearly a long way down the pecking order prior even to his league debut, and who the manager sees daily and has yet to think is good enough. Given our finances and necessary squad rebuild, I'd rather we try to bank a few million pounds (through league finish), than drop positions due to the manager testing a player he doesn't think is ready - as frustrating as that may be for us fans 🤷‍♂️

If he's going to be given game time, it will be in CM alongside JWP, with Armstrong back out on the right. Or he'll come on as a late sub for Tella/Armstrong/redmond/walcott etc and they'll juggle the formation to put him in the middle. The manager and players see him in training everyday, if he's worthy of game time he'll get it. Saints don't have enough squad depth to ignore a suitable ability player 🤷‍♀️

He's in no rush and will wait and see how the euro's goes and whether he can put himself in the shop window. If nothing happens then he'll take the contract offer from saints.

I mean, i reckon we're going back in for Williams on loan.

Contract wise, nothing will happen with Ings until after the transfer window shuts.

Redmond assisted the palace goal and the penalty...

Huge fan of the pre match post raging because we finished 17th this season with no signs of progress 🤣

Basically this.

That interview is notable for the lack of "um". He's a promising youngest so will be good to see how he develops.

Well, i noted that the store webpage has been offline for "maintenance" for a couple of days now, and was cheekily wondering if there might be an announcement coming soon etc.

This was on the 4th page of threads which means I'm guessing the answer to this is probably a no.... 😄 But... has anyone heard any more news on the kits for next season or when they might be announced? Hold an glimmer of an outside hope that we might give the new kit an outing in the final game of the season.

Since are promotion to the net spend, Burnley are the only surviving team with a lower net spend that us - impressive since that's now approaching a 10year period. Obviously it was that pesky lower league debt that we accrued under NC - a debt that retrospectively must quite clearly dwarfed the wages/turnover ratios and transfer net spends of 18 other premier league teams over that same period... Why else would our net spend be so low...🙄

Are there any good cheap championship players that are aged 19-20? 😅

Interesting analogy. However i think you will find that the doors and engine from a Rolls Royce are each worth more than Carillo and Hoedt combined 🙃