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Episode 223: Let's talk about kits, baby!
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Southampton – It's the day of the kit launch (hopefully)! So we take the time, to blind rank some kits, talk our favourite kits and what we'd like from this seasons kit!
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Introduction to Daily Southampton Podcast
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Southampton, part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. My name is Greg Elliott and as always joined by my good friend and wonderful co-host, Zach Ingo Finch.
00:00:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
How doing mate, you alright?
00:00:22
Zak
Yeah, good mate. I'm feeling feeling good. It's a thousand degrees still. That's because, you know, we're trying to try to record what we can and unfortunately it's just always hot.
00:00:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:00:31
Zak
So it's
Episode Focus: New Goalkeeping Coach
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Zak
just the way it is now.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
just always but We had a wonderful, detailed episode yesterday where we went deep into the career of our new goalkeeping coach. And so in an effort to completely change the tempo, we're just going to have fun today.
Speculation on Upcoming Kit Launch
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The club have alluded to something that is going to happen today. and now it is either going to be ah ah kit launch or we're going to look rather foolish. but Right?
00:00:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's where I'm at. If it's not a kit launch... If it's just like they're putting a pool table in the Dell pub, then that's hilarious and that's great. But we're going to assume that it's a kit launch and we're going to look at some kits. I don't know you about you, a but i I love a kit.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
love a Saints kit. I basically live in my like collection of of Saints tops. It's...
00:01:23
Zak
i've got I've got a fair i' got fair for over the years that I've built up now, which is at least probably, I'd want to say, 25% of my wardrobe.
00:01:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:01:32
Zak
I don't wear them as much as I i probably should. depends where I'm going. Obviously, my my wife is from the the enemies at Neck of the Woods, so I just don't risk wearing it outwardly if I have to go anywhere near Portsmouth, even even if it's like the outer villages that are technically part of Winchester County Council or City Council. I'm just like, you know?
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
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Zak
but
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Global Sports Podcast Network
you you'll know this about me, Zach. that I don't put a huge amount of thought into the clothes I put on my body. i i am very much a grab-off-the-pile-and-crack-on person.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
And as you know, there have been many occasions where in my son's football league, a lot of his games are Portsmouth way, and completely unconsciously, i have ended up in the middle of Portsmouth or Gosport in a Saints kit when it's far too hot to wear a coat.
00:02:20
Zak
oh great there oh there
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Global Sports Podcast Network
So, it know, sometimes you just, you know... Thankfully, nobody has ever more than jokingly called me out on it. let's Let's just say that sensible heads prevail, and it's the minority of people that would take it in a worse
Blind Rank Game: Evaluating Football Kits
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direction. but But kits are great, and I thought to start us off today, mate, we'd do something that we'd never done before, and We're not social media people.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm sure that comes across.
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Zak
yeah Ha ha ha ha
00:02:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't even remember the names of half of the social medias that we do. But look, one of the things that is hot on social media is a blind rank.
00:03:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now, I am aware of that, and before the show I know that I had to explain to you what that entailed. So I know for a fact that this is going to be great.
00:03:15
Zak
Totally yowing me there. Like, it was like, so obviously I don't want to tell you that suck eggs. You a blind ranking is, right? And like, explain to me like I'm 12.
00:03:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
So we're going to do a blind rank. I've got a random list of kits in front of me. We're going to take a look at them, give a brief description for our audio listeners of what that kit looks like.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
And then we're going to assign it a position one to five. And the the fun twist is that we're not going to know what's coming behind that. So we might give something first and then a better kit will pop up with it.
00:03:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that's the the format we're going to go with. So let's just do it. It's going to be brilliant. I'm so excited, Zach, honestly. All right.
Top Kit: 2014-2015 Home Kit
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So let's start with the Away kit. A slightly out there controversial pick. I quite like it.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
It's the black and the sky blue, green coloured kit.
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Zak
Oh, that ends in the sky. i just I've just realised Greg's organised this. And what listeners don't know, but I know about Greg, is that you're, like, slightly colourblind.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
hey
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep, that's only going to add to the description, mate.
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Zak
yeah
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Zak
it
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Zak
Oh, I wouldn't say it's sky blue, mate.
00:04:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mate, I am going by the description I've got of the kit on the website that I sent you.
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Zak
It's probably...
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Global Sports Podcast Network
i don't know what to tell you.
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Zak
Oh, sure. Let's go with that.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
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Zak
It's the, it's the, it's our, yep.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
the old Virgin Media sponsor with the the black and bluey-greenish, I would say, stripes.
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Zak
Yep. a
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Global Sports Podcast Network
What what do you make of this, Kit, mate? What do you think?
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Zak
It's, it's all right. It's not my favorite away kit ever. It's not blowing anything away. I'd say probably like four out five for me.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Fourth? Yeah?
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Zak
Yeah, that's probably where I'd put it.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay.
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Zak
I don't hate it. I'd wear it. But if I'm i'm thinking, i'm looking at pretty much most of the things that have come since, and I probably prefer them.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
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Zak
I think that the idea of like, you know, we've it's red and white stripes, right?
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
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Zak
I try to verse it a little bit. It's just a bit weird. but
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. don't hate it, but if I don't think it breaks. I think you're right. I don't think it breaks anywhere near my top.
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Zak
Having strokes?
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Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm not convinced it would be in any top five lists normally.
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Zak
No.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
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Zak
Having strokes on the awake kit and not the home kit, I think, was a bit brutal decision.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
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Zak
Like, going have strokes home in it, right?
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Mad. Alright, selection number two. a a bit more traditional. 2014-2015 HomeKit.
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Zak
Ooh.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Now I think this ranks highly for me. I'm going to throw that one out there.
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Zak
It's got to be like a two, right? i'm I'm scared of going one in case. so So first or second? What were you saying, Greg?
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Global Sports Podcast Network
I think it's got to be top.
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Zak
Really? you ought to say Okay.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I don't...
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Zak
okay
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Global Sports Podcast Network
i just it To me, it's like the golden era, right? like so
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Zak
it is
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Such good time. Such a good time to be a Saints fan. It's the classic stripes.
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Zak
it was It was after we had the year of looking like Liverpool as well, right?
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Global Sports Podcast Network
The nice, solid red sleeves.
00:06:31
Zak
Because we had the year before where I really, really liked the Black Away kit.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:35
Zak
Really, really enjoyed that. But the home kit, as much as I could just picture Lallana and it scoring, it it just was a Liverpool kit, right? Like, that's what people said and that's why.
00:06:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:45
Zak
So, yeah, it was you're right. It was the return back to the classic stripes in an age where it was just good time be safe start.
00:06:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
but Was it even the season that we had it Tom Ketteridge, the comedian, come and wrap James Ward-Prowse in a striped bandage because it heals faster with stripes?
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Zak
I don't remember that.
00:07:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is that the launch as well?
00:07:04
Zak
That says that says about, but that's about right.
00:07:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mate, that was my favourite kit launch of all time. I'm pretty sure they... presumably not in real life, like covered someone's car in stripes because because the stripes are back and that they're scientifically proven to be better.
00:07:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know. We'll dig that one out from the archives at some point. know
00:07:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Great. I feel really truly feel like our social media team for the longest time have been pioneers of what is now ah ah pretty standard approach to things like player sign-ins and kit launch.
00:07:36
Zak
it's it's like It's like Burnley, right? Burnley do a lot of good stuff like that nowadays, but I'm still thinking of the time of like when we got to Europe and stuff, and they had the little...
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:45
Zak
We've had the the Ralph Express train animations, but then the one where it was like Milan, and then you had Portsmouth with the little tiny nameplate on the table. I think it was like... that thing we've We've done some really fun stuff over the years.
00:07:56
Zak
I really i really think we were we were like the proper peak of it, and now it's just lost amongst the...
00:07:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. yeah It's everywhere.
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Zak
Yeah.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Alright, next up.
Ranking Various Kits: 22-23 Away, 97-98 Goalkeeper, 23-24 Third
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Global Sports Podcast Network
so So we're sticking that one, did we say? So we've got one and four. Alright.
00:08:07
Zak
Yes, mate.
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Zak
and four. So where else?
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Global Sports Podcast Network
So we've got two, three, and five left. Next up, the 22-23 away kit. This is the the signs of the ocean kit.
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Zak
Two. Two.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Very polarizing.
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Zak
Two. Two would have been the first for me if it wasn't the fact that we probably had to have red and white stripes, in my opinion. But yeah, two.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Two.
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Zak
don't know you feel about it.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Mate, really this kit.
00:08:29
Zak
It's a bagging kit. are you chatting about?
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Global Sports Podcast Network
i really like this kit and i I'm inclined to agree with you too, i think that maybe you and I don't share the consensus of the entire fan base and that might be a controversial pick.
00:08:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I'm with you. i love it. It's one of my favourite kits.
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Zak
But it' it's, all quite right it's, like it's such a good kit.
00:08:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:08:53
Zak
The one that looks like, the one that looks like waves is, beautiful kit.
00:08:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah. Yeah.
00:08:57
Zak
For, for I admittedly, it was the only good thing about relegation that season was at least when we played away, we had a nice kit.
00:08:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
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Zak
There you go.
00:09:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
I agree, two. we've got three and five left. Let's hope no absolute bangers come up.
00:09:07
Zak
Okay.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
It had to make the list. we We briefly looked at it before the episode started, but it it had to be it. the The...
00:09:21
Zak
trying to figure out where it is now if you lost it.
00:09:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've lost my list. That's it. I've lost it. It is the ninety seven ninety eight Southampton goalkeeper Kit, the old Sanderson sponsor.
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Zak
That is...
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Zach.
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Zak
It sort of looks...
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Global Sports Podcast Network
If you think 90s...
00:09:41
Zak
Yeah, if you think mike tea's goalkeeper kit, not the blue one, the orange one, it looks like my man's sofa.
00:09:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's proper like... of It's proper... Yeah. Like it's proper grainy video Premier League year style goalkeeper kit, right?
00:09:56
Zak
Yep, the years of Pony, it's, know, I don't know what the pattern is. The pattern is like a sort of 1970s penthouse. I feel like this would plastered along the sofas of like a rich bachelor who has like a dipped-in sofa. You know when you walk in and the sofa goes down?
00:10:18
Zak
but Those old-style...
00:10:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:10:20
Zak
You'd be sipping on a drink and like the the rest of the the house is like that. This person has a carpeted bathroom. Like,
00:10:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah
00:10:28
Zak
That's the vibes.
00:10:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:10:30
Zak
Do you like it there, Greg? Would you wear it?
00:10:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'd wear it but I don't think that's a high bar no i think guys I think that I've worn some really questionable kits so I don't know if that's the real question is that three or five where you think that sits on the list
00:10:35
Zak
No? Do you like it more...
00:10:47
Zak
The problem the problem i have is that like I think it's better than the other away kit we had. But the problem is is that I don't know if it's going to be better than what comes third. And I don't want to have something to automatically be last. And this is why I've realized this game is fun.
00:11:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Zach's working out the tweaks that come with the social media games.
00:11:04
Zak
Oh, this is awful. like i guess fifth.
00:11:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Alright.
00:11:09
Zak
It's there. Sure. Sure.
00:11:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then all our last one.
00:11:13
Zak
on Just realised the pads it's got as well and the... in
00:11:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
but make If anything, that's an argument to move up to third. good. Yeah. so good Alright, our final one. The 23-24 third kit from our last championship promotion.
00:11:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Obviously the kit we wore at Wembley. The black kit.
00:11:38
Zak
Oh, I'm happy that being third. I love that kit. That's probably one of my favourite kits. The one that's like New Forest here. The one that was to be...
00:11:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, the new Forest themed. Yeah.
00:11:46
Zak
Not the stained glass goalkeeper top that was a bit weird. The New Forest, the black kit, Adam Armstrong, score it at Wembley. Yeah, 100%. That's third.
00:11:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:11:54
Zak
That's its third for me. I'm happy with that.
00:11:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah? Are you happy with how that list has come out? Are there any, the in hindsight, like you'd swap around?
00:12:01
Zak
Four and five, probably, but that's about it.
00:12:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah?
00:12:04
Zak
Yeah, just because I think that the goalkeeper kit's really weird, but the other away kits fight. I don't know. makete Maybe, maybe would swap top and second. Just a personal preference. I know that's upsetting because it's not the red and white stripes, but...
00:12:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Red and white stripes has got be top, surely, mate. It's...
00:12:19
Zak
Yeah. Depends. Is this personal preference or is this actually how good the kits are?
00:12:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think really, mate, it depends on how much you want to upset people on social media.
00:12:25
Zak
don't know. LAUGHTER
00:12:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I think that is entirely the point of the game.
00:12:31
Zak
I see, right.
00:12:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
that was That was fun. I really
Kit Design Preferences and Sponsor Discussion
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Global Sports Podcast Network
enjoyed it. We're going to take a break and have a message from our partners at Bionique.
00:13:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we are back. Okay, so that was fun. Slightly chaotic. Look, we might have touched upon some of them, Zach, but have you got any kits that jump out in your memory as, like, favourite kits?
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Zak
so
00:13:34
Zak
When I younger, and I know that Like way back when. Obviously, I have real affinity to the 2013, 2014 away, which is the the black one. just have a lot of lovely memories of like being out and about and a lot my friends wearing in it and that kind of stuff. And it's where like back, you know, second season of the Premier League, things are going really, really well.
00:13:56
Zak
it was just, it was just nice times. But if I'm going way back when, uh, the 2001, 2002 awaken, uh, is it's one of my favorites. It's the, the one that inspired, I think it's the one that inspires the, art of football jumper. It's like my favorite jumper that do live and die in lot of the time.
00:14:16
Zak
So that's probably up there. I would say the away kit from 2021, 2022. I just like the yellow and yellow and blue away kits we do.
00:14:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
I love the yellow and blue away kits.
00:14:30
Zak
I've always really, really enjoyed them.
00:14:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Some like real vivid memories of me from like 2002, 2003, where it was the third kit, but it was because the away kit was also white and red.
00:14:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was basically the away kit. So yeah.
00:14:48
Zak
But yeah, that that year in general, like when we first got Hummel back, I think I owned pretty much like all three of the all of all of the main kits from that year. So home, away and third. Obviously, I've got my signed shirt behind me. It's a rough season.
00:15:04
Zak
But again, the away kit, as we pointed out, one of my favourites. Third kit from the championship season.
00:15:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Third kit that year was good as well, right? the
00:15:11
Zak
Yeah, it sort of so the the the green. so yeah, there's been a lot. didn't like when we were sponsored by LD Sports. I think they kind of ruined the kits because I don't even know what LD Sports are.
00:15:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think the same can be said for Rollbit, to be honest. Not quite as egregious as LD Sports, but the colours clash.
00:15:26
Zak
Yeah, like, but it's a bit
00:15:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's just a bit gross.
00:15:30
Zak
it's it's just a bit... It's just a bit grim, but like... And if...
00:15:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
well Whilst we've been recording, it has been announced by the club officially that P&O Cruises will be our front of shirt sponsor for the new kit.
00:15:42
Zak
Nice. That's good. I'm glad that'd be a nice sort of, it's just nice to not have a awful gambling sponsor. If I think, you know, that's an of opinion that, you know, I'm not telling anyone how they live their lives, but I think just most of them just don't have nice, like,
00:16:00
Zak
logos Like even even this Midnight one, right? That's the training kit sponsor is very much just like, that just looks like a rip off of Fortnite. Like it's all very, don't know. um Yeah, Yeah, think I think it's because of how aggressive the roll bit kit was, right?
00:16:15
Zak
It's kind of made me a little bit sad. And then sort of the years of Flybe and obviously when friends provided, I know there's a lot of kits under that and they don't hugely change during those times.
00:16:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, mate. Friends Providence. The old Friends Providence St. Mary's Stadium. Again, just... Yeah. well i love I love the kits. I love some of the red and white stripes.
00:16:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm not a huge fan, maybe controversially, of the the white kits with the red stripe, to be honest.
00:16:42
Zak
Yeah, I'm i'm not. ah ah Again, it's it's it's because you want the stripes, right, in in some way or another, not just a singular stripe. I was thinking about that with the 2020 kits, right, with the LD Sports ones, where I just was a bit like, meh.
00:16:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:57
Zak
And I think of most of the people I knew at that point bought the away because of the fact that it wasn't sort of aggressively. But it's almost like they do it one year and then they jump back to to proper proper stripes, right, because they did it in the championship.
00:17:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
so So that every other year they can have a, like, Stripes are Back campaign and...
00:17:13
Zak
Yeah, exactly.
00:17:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
We saw mixed success last year, right?
00:17:14
Zak
And then...
00:17:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because the highlighter kits, I think that it's safe to say that the yellow was not very well received.
00:17:24
Zak
thy
00:17:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
But think the pink one went down quite well. I see a lot of it out and about.
00:17:28
Zak
that but it There's a lot of people that hate it and a lot of people likes it. is a very Marmite-y kit, right? And I think it is quite out there and quite bold and if you don't want to be... you know But it's bold in a different way to like the wavy one, right?
00:17:43
Zak
And I think that...
00:17:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:17:44
Zak
it It also reeks a little bit of lazy design in the sense of it does just look like their entire campaign, other than the red and white stripes, was just a pick a pack of highlighters.
00:17:55
Zak
And that goes for the goalkeeper kits as well, right? They've just gone through. And like one of the nicest kits probably was the goalkeeper the fourth goalkeeper kit whatever it is, the one that Ramsdale wore a lot of, the purple one.
00:18:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
The tan. Oh, the purple was nice. That didn't go on sale. I really liked the tan kit.
00:18:06
Zak
No, that's my point, which is weird.
00:18:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:09
Zak
And then, obviously, obviously, ah but I quite liked the the pink one, but again, i think it that's like me me who i quite liking sort of aggressively egregious sort of kits that are very, very out there.
00:18:22
Zak
But I can understand that I was like, hmm. They still had a lot of all of the kits left over at the end of the season. That's what i'm saying.
00:18:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:18:27
Zak
Although you might see the popularity and, you know, you might see it quite a lot out and about. it it it did kind of...
00:18:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Maybe it's just because it really catches the eye.
00:18:35
Zak
Yeah, it's it's more that like you think there's loads because if you see three, that's the only you can see. like
00:18:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah but it's one of my It's one of my favorite kits from last year.
00:18:43
Zak
And again, like
00:18:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
I like i really like the pink kit.
00:18:47
Zak
yeah I agree. I liked it. I didn't buy a home kit last year. I got that one from my wife. So we seemed to get a kit for my birthday. I also had the Tan goalkeeper kit.
00:18:59
Zak
But if i if I'm honest, the one that i wear, I've worn the most recently, It's probably the championship season ones, which I really, really liked the third kit that we discussed. And I even liked my home kit.
00:19:09
Zak
It took me a while.
00:19:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
I love the home kit.
00:19:10
Zak
i remember, one yeah, but but when we first started, I remember we we discussed it, obviously long before the podcast, I remember us discussing that home kit and you were very, very dubious.
00:19:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's one of my favourites.
00:19:18
Zak
You're like, i just think it's hideous. But that's usually your opinion. A kit comes out, your your immediate opinion is, I think it's hideous.
00:19:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:25
Zak
And then you're like, well, it's grown on me. even Even this year's, like, you really like this year's, obviously without Rollbit, but because of the Rollbit, you're like, nah, nah, nah, just think, I think I can't do it, it looks awful, looks awful.
00:19:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:36
Zak
I'm like, it's really what it's trying to say. Like, it's not really, it's just, yeah, so it's just, it's just, again, like, having, if, I guess what's even worse with the Rollbit is the, it's the, it's the yellow circle.
00:19:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. but What more can you do?
00:19:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, hate it.
00:19:48
Zak
They just got rid of that. I think it would make our lives a lot easier, but obviously they need to make it like a coin because you're,
00:19:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. You're alright. Hmm.
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00:19:54
Zak
don't know, gambling gold coins or whatever.
00:19:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's fine, mate. That's it. P&O Cruises this year, though. That'd be nice. And look, some actual tie-in to Southampton is nice as well, right?
00:19:58
Zak
yeah
00:20:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like...
00:20:03
Zak
Yes. An actual tie-in to, you know, not since the days of Draper Tools. and Maybe Veho. Like, they were quite a local... They were like a local sort of electronics company, right?
00:20:14
Zak
I never knew who App were.
00:20:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
I wish I could tell you.
00:20:17
Zak
I never knew who App were. Obviously, Flybe are now a dead company.
00:20:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:20
Zak
i live I live next to the airport. But... but you know, that that used to have fly flyby planes that no longer does. So yeah, like what do you think of the leaks so far for this year?
00:20:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, look, we will get into that.
00:20:32
Zak
you...
00:20:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
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00:20:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, yeah, it's a good question, mate. you You're quite dubious as to how accurate these leaks are, right?
00:21:05
Zak
I think I was dubious about the one that had a picture of Jack Stevens that looks very sort of photoshopped on. Some of the other ones, the the black and red ones, i I think might be accurate simply because of how well the Art of Football jumper went down with everybody.
00:21:22
Zak
And like sort that throwback to that era.
00:21:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:21:24
Zak
Because again, like yeah that will be my first buy if if that third kit's real. I really, obviously, I like i love a way kit that is yellow and blue. And if it's yellow and blue stripes, even better.
00:21:35
Zak
I don't know how I feel about collared, but it's more because my wife hates shirts in general and collared shirts and stuff. So it's more that she just won't come near me or hug me if I'm wearing it, which it's more of a personal issue than anything else.
00:21:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
So... So look, I don't know whether the people who have leaked this and potentially created it have taken this thought into account or if it makes it more likely or less likely, it's true. But city Man City are also a Puma-based kit.
00:22:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
And their kit this year has a collar.
00:22:06
Zak
Interesting. That makes it, is it makes it slightly more, but I also, also kind of hate that when designers try and make all of their kits look very similar across multiple different teams, that's always weird to me, but it's just, it's just that the, the photos, like the original, the first photo isn't too bad.
00:22:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, you know.
00:22:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:23
Zak
The other two photos look like they've been taken on like a Nokia 3210. And I'm aware that that phone doesn't have a camera and that's what the joke is.
00:22:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:22:31
Zak
Yeah.
00:22:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. ul ah If the leaks are to be believed, then I quite like it. i quite you know It's stripes but different. It's yellow and blue and it's it's quite old school looking.
00:22:45
Zak
yeah
00:22:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's a black third kit. There's nothing particularly crazy or adventurous about them, but they're nice.
00:22:52
Zak
It's the away kit will look like the old like Sanderson third kits from like the 90s, right?
00:22:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
They're alright.
00:22:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:58
Zak
And like the away kits like that is throwing it back. It's going to be Southampton based. It's going to look Southampton. will look tidy and professional. And I'm really looking forward to if the the black and red kit is real as well.
00:23:11
Zak
Probably means I'm going to end up getting more than one kit this year.
00:23:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
We haven't seen any goalkeeper kits yet, so look look we'll find out later today, right? That's got to be what this secret message is.
00:23:19
Zak
yeah Or at this point, but to be honest, by this point, there might be some people listening to this where the kit's already out and they're like, what do you mean? but The pink and blue away kit, what are you chatting about?
00:23:30
Zak
But. but
00:23:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
like the most egregious colour scheme I'm there for. It's like pink with like a neon blue satchel.
00:23:37
Zak
Oh no, I thought that the most egregious egregious color scheme is always lime green and purple, like a deep purple. That is always something I see where if you're trying to catch someone's eye, it's like, make it look like the Incredible Hulk.
00:23:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Perfect. Well, look, that is just about all we've got time for. Look, hopefully it is a kit launch today and we yeah we can all look forward to that. You know, just another way for the club to get us excited to spend more money with the club.
00:24:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Who doesn't love it? Let us know on the socials. what What are you looking for in the kit? What are you hopeful for in the kit? Or if kit's already out, what do you think of it? Let us know.
00:24:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
We are on all the social media platforms. We are on X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, a Blue Sky, TikTok. I think that's all of them.
00:24:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think I've got it.
00:24:26
Zak
to All them, wherever they are, maybe.
00:24:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
All of them, yeah. Did you like the Blind Rank format? Let us know if you like it. We will do more because I think it's really funny. Until... Then we will be back tomorrow with some form of content for you. Until then, have a wonderful day. We'll see you next time.