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Can't wait to see which of the three clashing kits we'll wear at Wolves. I'd go for the yellow/blue, but who knows what the Premier League will say is ok? Maybe the one-off Saints Foundation charity auction shirt isn't dead yet. Course we could yet have white alt shorts and socks with the 3rd kit...

Wrongdiddly, my sideways-moving friend.

Let's look at the stats shall we... https://www.footyheadlines.com/2017/11/2018-19-kit-overview-all-leaked-18-19.html Arsenal - 2 released, 1 leaked Chelsea - 1 released, 2 leaked Liverpool - 2 released, 1 leaked Man City - 1 released, 2 leaked Man Utd - 1 released, 2 leaked Spurs - none released, 3 leaked Saints, 2 released, 1 leaked That puts us level with the two with the most kit releases and ahead of the other four "big clubs". So you're basically talking absolute rubbish.

Purchased, i.e. pre-ordered but it won't be sent until the day before on sale. I don't think they're particularly bothered about when the pre-orders are placed, given that they're already shipping the things from UA directly...

You can try. They won't send you one from an online booking from the OS until Thursday and they won't have the stock in the club shops for you to buy until Friday. Can get one from eBay for £50 inc postage but it probably won't turn up until after launch anyway.

Orrrrr, actually it's a really good design and lots of people will buy it. Away kit in particular is good. My only problem with it at the moment is that all of the illustrations of the kit on the OS Store are of the £100 "Authentic" one, not the £50 replica most people are going to be buying. Easy to tell, the authentics don't have the hexagon label at the bottom of the shirt.

Looks like it was done by a nine-year old. Collar gives it away as a Puma shirt, a 2010-11 Feyenoord Puma shirt as it happens.

The "rumoured pictures" were all made up concept kits done by people with even more spare time than me... never going to be the actual kits and treated as such on here. I still don't understand why people bother with them, it just muddies the water with people running off to their mates thinking it's the actual kit when there are always ten reasons it isn't and can't be. However, as I said earlier, mild annoyance the guy who did a mock up based on the HK leaks last week spawned a guess at the right away shirt design (and more annoyance he couldn't be bothered to show it properly).

Yeah, I hope they've got them in XXXXL as they'll be skintight. Saints Foundation income is going through the floor this season, will be nothing left for me to buy from them.

I think it looks fine, the team badge is predominantly red and white anyway so it just pulls together with that.

There's a red and white version of that too, it was on the Hong Kong leak.

Confused, so you're saying they put too much emphasis on it, and do it last minute. Pretty much can't be both. Fairly sure they had a plan but changed it slightly midweek to reflect the leaks.

I think it looks fine tbh. Mild annoyance that the bloke who guessed with his mock up guessed correctly.

Yeah, nothing much to complain about, I think they're both really good kits. Shame about the red back but, life eh.

Tbh Huddersfield's striped back has thrown all that up in the air. UEFA regs are posted above so people can check their queries for themselves.

Weirdly just found this Googling, which was in the 2016/17 kit thread and looks surprisingly like the "new" design. It has also just occurred to me that the GOAT with Le Tissier could also be a reference to the red/white with black pinstripes either side that Le Tiss was wearing in the last competitive match at The Dell (as well as the following two seasons at St Mary's), which are recreated on the front of the new shirt. But maybe I should just go to bed, I need to get drunk watching too much football tomorrow. Dunno what's going on with the thumbnail, I already deleted the source.

It was shared by Global Saints on Facebook, so they'd have had to have been in on it too... But tbh I'm just expecting them to reveal what we already know, tongue in cheek as the GOAT ad campaign because they have evidently thrown that video together at the last minute in response to the leaks. Not to mention they're revealing it on a day with four World Cup matches when no-one will be paying attention to the Saints kit launch. Or they could be making the whole thing up for virals and lolz and stuff, but Occam's Razor and all that. Add the OS leak to the same pile in that case.

They definitely do that. I've seen a few older ones for sale on eBay. Even so...

I don't know jack.

At the risk of looking like a complete mug (again ) I agree. They're acknowledging it to create doubt, and it's working. My only doubt is that both leaks are from Under Armour directly "accidentally" releasing something, but tbh that works perfectly well for getting virals out there anyway. If it's a deliberate strategy it's been very well done, because there's still a few things to unveil to keep interest (away shirt, all three socks colours and third shorts). Thing is the second leak also put some training kit out there which could have been advertised without anyone caring one way or another - at least it's nice again this year. I'd also point out that the G.O.A.T. Greatest of all time reference is about the kit launch, not the kit itself. Tbh Benali as Yoda and Le Tiss holding a goat already makes it amazing. Good of them not to use any current players as well, low risk strategy.

It's got black shorts and depending on whether the Premier League is using the dark/light contrast rules could be seen to be too similar. Obviously it isn't, but contrast isn't colour/hue.

Dunno, but we've worn red alternate ones for the past two seasons with our home kit (Europe in Milan and with third kit v Bournemouth and Man U in 16/17 and Newcastle in 17/18 ). Doubt we'll have white alt shorts with it when the point of it is to reduce the amount of white in what is effectively a reworked home kit.

It's temporary for this season, and yeah, it rubbish. Also surprised to discover how long it was they've gone without having a Terrier on their badge.

Clubs tend not to change shorts which don't match the rest of their kit unless they get caught out anymore - example being Arsenal choosing to create some red shorts last season at Huddersfield rather than wear their away kit, or away shorts with the home kit. Guessing we'll wear all red at Watford as well as some of the others mentioned above then. Could wear the home shirt, red shorts (assuming they're the third shorts) and either red or white socks, though. But probably won't.

Yup, not sure it's a myth, but there's been at least one exception every season so far...