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Here’s last seasons XL away on top of the Pony XL. More a comment on athletic physiques than anything, but I got the 2 retro shirts last month as birthday gifts, Pony XLs, which are very oversized on me. For the current Macron shirts though, the XL is a decent fit. Have the game’s “big men” really shrunk so much in 30 years?

If this chat keeps up...never going back again.

The Puma home shirt from 2010/11 was available to buy sponsorless at release - but can't remember if that was due to the Commsworld deal not being in place at the time it came out or not.

Oran Kearney is director of football at Coleraine now, with Dean Shiels as their main manager. Just had a huge cash injection from an investor and are snapping up some of the top players in NIFL like Joel Cooper and Levi Ives. If he wasn't on track to win the league at a canter with Linfield, I'd have said David Healy would likely have been on the radar. Tiernan Lynch who turned down St Johnstone has moved to Derry City , with Dom Thomas as one of his first signings for the LOI getting back up and running. Damien Duff has been doing good things at Shelbourne too but wouldn't imagine he's have been in contention. Outside of those names, there's not a great amount of good/great managers over here, or certainly none you'd expect to be on for a job in Scotland.

Jair Tavares on loan from Hibs looking likely, for extra width.

Rohan Ferguson saved two pens in the shootout as Larne went through to Conference League playoff, seeing off Balkani. Earned Larne just under 1 million Euro doing so.

Having watched Hale for Larne and Cliftonville over the past few seasons, I'd much rather have taken him than Murray. Forward thinking, pacy and never scores a bad goal. Can also be a bit of a shit-stirrer too.

It's got 1.5million views across X - maybe not SEO-savvy enough for YouTube but it's doing the numbers.

Good investment and decent marketing can do wonders for a club and i't s fanbase if done correctly. I moved to Larne 9 and a bit years ago and would go and see the town's football team regularly, who at the time were playing in the lower half of the NI second tier to around 100-150 fans every game, in a stadium that would be condemned by today's standard. Kenny Bruce of Purple Bricks came in and invested a substantial amount in 2017, and last season they won the NIFL Premiership. The investment has upgraded their ground to one of the best in the league in terms of pitch, facilities and social club, they've introduced an academy that's producing a great calibre of young player, have sold players to English Championship and Premiership teams and have become an attractive proposition for players from over the water. The biggest difference though is that the fan base, particularly the younger fans and families going along has increased massively and that's in huge part due to the focus that Bruce's investment has had on creating a community club. Their match the other week against Linfield was a sell out and their average home attendance for the season so far is 2100. The Belfast teams hate them. So whether it's the Wrexham model of high profile investor off the back of a viral video or someone with pockets deep enough to get the club out of a perceived mire and allow the club to bring the good times back like Larne have, money invested properly in the club will never do any harm.

To get out of the mire we're in and become a proactive, forward-thinking and ambitious club, we need to be prepared for, and accepting of, failures on the path to getting it right. If there was an affordable way of having someone come in with a magic wand and righting the ship immediately, we'd surely be en route to that already.

The response to us signing Theo Bair, on here and on socials has been embarrassing. It's one thing discussing opinions about the signings we should expect the club to be making in here and conversing about the pros and cons, but to be actively slating the lad in a thread that the club has tagged him in is absolute sociopath, incel behaviour. He might be good for us, he might be rotten for us, he might be somewhere in between. What's damn sure is that all the opinions expressed by the usual mouthpieces on here - before Bair has kicked a ball for us - will be doubled down on regardless. Absolute clowns.

If it's Moult, I'm not sure it's meant for us. For the longest time, Louis's Instagram profile pic was him in his Well top, I'm sure even as late as Saturday past. Changed to a family pic now.

Not far off it.

If true, would be a great addition to the back line. Was a standout at Ballymena before signing for Larne the season before last. Big, commanding centre half, decent on the ball and can only imagine his time at Palace has made him even better from when I watched him regularly. Also - looks nothing like his name suggests.

Going by the pre-season social media output this year, compared to the last few years, I'm expecting a claret away kit with white trim. Ally has been quite subtle over the past few years to match banners and font colours in the imagery used in pre-season to the upcoming kits.