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There's a thread briefly mentioning it here: https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=25559.0 Attendance was 32,021 ish in a season when Liverpool's average attendance was 44,586 and that was near capacity. http://european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/live.htm League Cup 4th round, the Skates took about 15,000 (as you'd expect for a match where a third of the usual home crowd turned up and unallocated standing was still a thing, though of course back in the day lots games were pay on the day so it's probably a guess anyway). So in the context of 2/3rds of the home team's fans not being interested in watching a 4th Division team in a foregone conclusion, and the manager being happy to patronise them, I suppose it could have been a thing that a nice bloke might have said. FWIW the Skates' home average that season was 15,850 as they got promoted from the bottom division, so I dunno where the other 850 were.

He could probably still get away with standing completely still and passing to the runners at that level, but I can't see him binning off a year of Championship wages which he'll get whether Warnock wants him there or not, in order to get a much lower deal at Eastleigh - unless they plan on paying him more over 2 years than he'd get in the one year left on the Cardiff deal. Anyway, the important thing is that he's not signing for Portsmouth.

I think you'll find the problem was your point being completely ambiguous. Anyway, you're still wrong if you consider time actually spent on the pitch rather than just goals from a players who had far fewer appearances: Lambert in 2013/14 scored 14 goals in 39 starts (a goal every 2.78 games) Austin 9 in 13 starts (a goal every 1.44 games, better than Lambert) Gabbiadini 6 in 11 (a goal every 1.83 games, better than Lambert) Rodriguez 6 in 16 starts (a goal every 2.66 games, better than Lambert) Long scored 5 in his 19 starts (a goal every 3.8 games - and he got subbed off a LOT more than Lambert) Redmond is the only player who played anywhere near the same number of games, he got 8 in his 39 games from out wide (a goal every 4.875 games). I mean, it's not his fault he's old, but he was clearly on the decline from the time he hit the Premier League and it's no surprise that he's not doing much even in the league below now, there comes a point when your knees just can't adjust quickly enough any more. FWIW Rodriguez outscored him in 2013/14 as well. Also, on the bright side, Gallagher might have some upside next season if he's outscored Austin from the season before in the Championship...

If he does the Anfield Rap I'm happy for him to go for free.

Amazing how often a completely incredible rumour gets dropped on Sky Sports News and SkyBet already have a market on it...

There are those two possibilities and that Newcastle are going to sell these and wear compliant shirts, I doubt too many fans would complain (I would ).

He scored 4 goals. In the Championship. Two of those were against Rotherham. Sam Gallagher scored 12 goals in the same division for a team that got relegated. As for our Premier League strikers in the league above... Long scored 5 - more than Lambert (6 if you count the one for Ireland) Rodriguez scored 6 - more than Lambert Austin scored 9 - more than Lambert (and 11 in the same league as Lambert the season before) Gabbiadini scored 6 - more than Lambert (plus another 5 for Napoli and one for Italy) Redmond scored 8 - more than Lambert (plus 1 for England U21s) That leaves Olomola and Seager, who I doubt anyone would consider "our forward players last season" if asked. I'm going to go for "you're talking absolute cobblers by absolutely any measure of anything resembling reality".

He's going to look like a bargain by the time the rest of the Premier League has finished slinging around the remainder of the new tv money. Everyone's got about £100m each more than they had this time last year, give or take some pre-emptive wage rises.

Difficult decision really, he's English and homegrown which ups his value, and he often scores goals on the rare occasions when called upon, but I'm pretty sure he's not likely to be a starter any time soon. So the question really is "does the "12m cover the cost of replacing him?", which I guess is always going to be "yes" for Saints or we wouldn't sell him in the first place. Whether that replacement is a cheap signing or Gallagher/Olomola/Seager etc remains to be seen.

Dunno about everyone else but as a rational consumer I'll buy from whoever's the cheapest - and if it's just a 10% ST discount that brings it to the same cost, I'll go wherever's cheaper to get to. Won't be taking up the online offer; even I don't care about the cartoon poster, I'm a kit loser not a poster collector. It's because I've got no guarantee the sizing will be the same as last year, though there's no particular reason to think it isn't, I'd rather try one on. Also, I am fatter.

Who's telling them that? And isn't their job to report, not just make judgements? Why are they not sharing this with us?

They've showed the back of the shirt (with the new Prem numbers too) - begs some questions about the plain back/panel edict if a team can get away with it purely because they weren't a Prem side when designing it. Personally I'd make them have a white panel for matches, and only flog the striped ones to the fans.

Yeah, if it wasn't for Le Tiss everyone would hate that tick kit even more. Also covered two of only eleven seasons Saints have worn black socks.

We had one of the best defensive records in the division last season DESPITE the CB partnership for the last 4 months. Stuck that lot behind Kante (as well as Romeu) and with a keeper that stops more than Forster and you'd win the Premier League if you could also score.

He's not getting remotely close to Cardiff's first team, though if there's a time and place for using a third/fourth choice striker, against a lower league club at home in Round 1 of the League Cup is it... FWIW a friend of mine who watches Cardiff can't believe he was ever a Premier League striker, I did mention that he was looking a bit past it a good year before we sold him and that was three years ago...

Spotter's Guide for the easily confused. Manuel Pellegrini: Mauricio Pellegrino: (can't see any future problems here) San Pellegrino: Mauricio Pochettino:

They're contracted to replace every shirt style every summer - it's been over 10 years since we had a kit that was planned to last more than one season (the flybe own brand kit with the thick black stripe down the sleeve). I say "planned" as the 2009 home Umbro flybe home shirt only stuck around due to administration and the 2011/12 yellow aap3 away only stuck around for 2012/13 because there was only one match the white away could be used for, they even stopped selling it in summer 2012. And I agree with the previous point that navy shorts is for a separate retroing, as it doesn't go with the early 80s kit.

I'm not hugely keen tbh, missed opportunity to fully retro-up the away kit in the old school navy/sky, and I don't get the logic of the second successive black away shirt even if it is sort of negative colours of red and white. It's alright though. Love the home shirt.

Pics from earlier trip to store...

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Depends what they do with the back of their shirts - if they go with a white panel we'd wear black, if they go with a black panel we could wear the home shirt or an alternate kit. Don't know what they're going to do because the only back of the shirt shot shown so far has stripes, which (apparently) they're not allowed.

Completely agree.

Would be better if they'd got the socks right - they have SAINTS on not UA. EDIT: Actually they have UA on the front and SAINTS on the back so I will retract my snark...

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