SecretSam

THIS. 100%. I am sick of 'retro' crap, harking back to when we were slightly less rubbish. Let's bloody look forwards. AND NO HORRID COLLARS. Round neck, v-neck, just none of those pointless little wings.

And it's not even proper rugby up there, it's that weird touch rugby thing

Late to the party as usual...

I think this is key. With a number of key players potentially OOC in the summer, we need to invest solidly.

I don't buy the kits, so I can't comment on quality, but I must say the yellow kit looks cheap. However, I do like the current black kit.

Right, season's effectively over. Speculation on the new kit can begin. I'll start: red home jersey. Probably some purple knocking about in the change strips.

Just watched the highlights. Hyam's probably still screaming, or has had to be sedated.

The best thing about the floodlights on pylons was it made finding grounds a doddle. Usually they were visible for some distance. Back in the days before Google Maps, you really didn't want to be asking someone on the street where the ground was...

Welll, that was unexpected

His eyesight must have been pretty good

Typical

Frankly, it's a silly rule but I can sort of see the point. Having said that, there's plenty of stupid celebrations that don't involve shirt removal. I personally hate the baby cradling or 'football up the jersey' ones. And dance moves. And acrobatics. Mind you, I also couldn't stand Shearer's dull as shit one-armed salute

I just replied on the Pack thread, always liked him. Back on Palmer - there's a lot of competition in that part of the pitch; shame we don't have a similar situation in defence

Always liked him as a player, although he was a bit Marmite for many. Glad he's doing well, always was a class act IMHO

Explain Doku, who's a "running with the ball" type of player?

But that would give us momentum for next season...

Helped by the fact that he started when he was still in nappies, and he was so big nobody dared drop him. Plus he could play every single position, sometimes all in the same game...

Seriously, THIS is why we need a decent CEO, to oversee things like Commercial activities that are in danger of becoming a joke

'Defacing' would mean that the original would be still there, but then written on/marked, etc. What Nike did was recolour the same flag shape. A shape of flag that is used by a number of countries. That's not defacing it, it's recolouring it. Defacing it would have been to write "England were poor against Brazil" across the flag. #PedanticRantOver I was saying that the number of people who hate England (across the world) is pretty big. I mean, our history is a little...checkered...

A good PM will understand all aspects of what's going on in their remit, and can drop in to any technical discussion to bring clarity and decisiveness. For all that I love to wind them up, used properly they can be absolutely priceless. But it's all worthless if the strategic direction, strategy and resources (including human) aren't there. They're mortals, not magicians.

The CEO absolutely has to be good at 'business'. Look at the hoots of derision from some when we appointed Gould, yet it was pretty clear early on he was an absolutely bang-on appointment. The DoF role I know less about, so I would defer to wiser heads, but if that person is involved in transfer dealings, they've got to have some sort of commercial brain. It's shocking that there's a vacuum in these roles.

That's a big, big market...

Bugger

32, 33?