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Offsides should be handled like cricket DRS, where if it's too close to call it goes down to the linesman's initial call. Trying to call it down to the millimetre is stupid.

I feel like we're playing okay overall but we need to start getting results. Two games in a row we've twice had a lead and not picked up the 3 points. That isn't good enough and we really, really need to start picking up points from games like this

Despite the tactical blunder in the 2nd half, on the bright side, we spent the first half really taking it to Arsenal on their pitch and deserved our lead. We're still settling in. We need to tidy up at the back and Smith needs to continue to learn as well, but we've had far more troubling losses than that over the past few years.

Yep, this is where I am as well. We were well on top and creating good chances before they went down to 10 men. We led twice. Yes, we blew it by not making timely subs and inviting pressure, but we might be starting to settle a bit on the attacking end. Grealish made some excellent runs. Trez makes us so much more dangerous. Hopefully Wesley gets a lot of confidence from the goal. We just need to a good half like that into results.

Shattered. We just switched off ffs. We played some really good football today then just threw it away

I can't immediately think of a worse decision to disallow a goal, anywhere, anytime. Jack didn't so much as look in his direction and got straight up to continue the attack. We've been robbed of a point because Jack lost his feet in the contact. It's flat out cheating. I've never seen anything like it. Would he do that to Liverpool at Anfield? Chelsea at Stamford Bridge? Just a corrupt referee looking for any excuse to penalise us.

We'll be fine in this league. Not a perfect performance by any stretch but Everton are a good side and we were absolutely better than them. Wesley's hold up play with the players around him will make us a pretty potent attacking force, and we'll only get better as they build chemistry.

Trez just got a yellow for being hacked down. No way in the world that's a yellow otherwise.

I think we were well on top from the goal! Really promising half. Grealish looking a bit more like himself and everyone in the midfield looks comfortable on the ball against a pretty good Everton defence.

People on Twitter have been complaining of this sort of issue I was 100% going to buy the away kit but the quality control on these has been so bad I don't think i'll bother.

West Ham's shirt has the entire top half in sky blue this season. I imagine we'll wear it against them.

I was totally unaware of the wonky badge debacle until now. What an awful error and it raises even more questions about our kappa/fanatics manufacturer setup. I guess I'll probably hold off on ordering a shirt then.

I don't mind that at all. Nice to have something different that honours the classic 90s away kit in a modern way.

Wow! All the consternation over the keeping spot last year and we've comprehensively solved it. What a performance!

The Mediterranean fits almost perfectly inside Australia

I'm not surprised we've struggled. Bancroft at the top was a terrible selection. Joe Burns was so obvious.

Away kit is beautiful, i'm just worried about the cut, and given i'm ordering from Australia, I can't really try before I buy. For those that actually have their hands on a kit, what is the cut of the shoulders like? Is it as bad as it was in Mings' announcement photos etc?

I'm really not fussed by the alledged buyback, I know it's probably been discussed to death but if we only get him for 1 season, make a tidy profit on him and stay up, brilliant. It's better than paying the same amount for an inferior player.

That won't keep me warm in the middle of a cold, rainy night in Stoke.

I quite like the away but I'd have to see one in person to buy it and that's unlikely over here. The cut and finish looks horrendous.

Thanks for this! I love this kind of stuff. Further to the below, before Aussie Rules started using synthetic guernseys, they were quite a heavy wool (or acryllic imitating wool) fabric, more like a knitted jumper. That lines up with your history of the term guernsey and is probably part of why the term stuck over here. (When I played Aussie Rules as a kid, the first guernseys I wore were acryllic and they were a bloody oven in the early parts of the season that were still quite warm) Also another tidbit, Aussie Rules guernseys are now predominantly sleeveless because players who played in the Ruck position started removing the sleeves from their guernseys a century or more ago. The Rucks will usually be the tallest players from each team and will contest ball ups, where they're required to jump against the opposing ruckman and tap the ball down to the midfielders. Apparently the long sleeves hampered their range of motion, and then that caught on and spread to all positions.

Guernsey seems to be fairly Australian Rules exclusive. Jersey is used in the context of American sports like basketball or gridiron. As I understand it, Australian Rules tops are called guernseys because thats where they originally got the wool to make them 130 odd years ago, and it's stuck.

The bodyfit sounds like the "authentic" jerseys they sell for lots of US sports. It's what the players wear on the pitch. As others have said, it'll be lighter, higher tech fabric, probably rip easier etc. More expensive but there's a market there for it. A retail version needs to be more durable and doesn't need all the extra vents and other tech. I follow the AFL quite closely over in her in Aus and I have a few "player issue" guernseys, which are tighter but stretcher and better cut than the retail versions. Not sure why people are complaining about an option that wasn't previously available to them. No doubt the retails have been slightly different to what the players wear for 15-20 years.

God I hope the kit they put Konsa in for his reveal is the same shite prototype kit they put Mings in for his, because the cut and finish of the shoulders looks like it was done by an 8 year old. I'll hold off getting one of these until I get a few good reviews about the quality.

Are they though? Because it's the same template Kappa are using for several other teams. Look how many times the same collar and shoulder setup pops up in recent kappa Instagram posts. https://www.instagram.com/kappa_sport/?hl=en Are Fanatics really making a Kappa template kit? What a weird situation we find ourselves in if so.