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Mandy Burns is a superb player and similar to a few of girls in the current side she has played at a very high level throughout her footballing career. Her distribution of the ball is second to none and she is also a great finisher to boot. They are too good for the league they are currently in, however, last nights cup final opponents Rangers ran them close in the first half. We are an ageing side though and it will be interesting to see how they cope when these experienced older players decide to hang up their boots.

1860 Munich new away top. This in C&A will be fine for a pinstriped away.

There appears to be a few of our back room staff jumping ship of late, however, hopefully we can source replacements asap.

The word you are looking for weeyin is armageddon.

My Uncle used to collect cigarette cards when he was a kid through to adulthood (Early 1930s onwards, he sold them all in the mid 90s) Since then I have always had an interest in football cards from a bygone era.

If you can post a link to your blog post that would be great.

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Looks like the mystery has been solved. Just curious why are you so interested in this particular player?

Hard to tell, however, it could possibly be Johnny Aitkenhead who sign from Hibs around that time (the only issue is that the kit doesn’t match (we changed to white collars in season1949-50 and I think that was the season when he signed up).

Before my time I’m afraid, however, the kit he is wearing is from season 1948-49. You could maybe google images of the team from that era to help identify the player.

Queen of the South's Gavin Reilly has just signed a three year deal with Hearts. He is a player with bags of potential and the type of player that we should be targeting. If he fulfils his potential Hearts will make a good return on their investment.

Motherwell’s new mascot Chainsaw.

As long as it’s not a crew neck. This is where you tell me that it’s a crew neck, right? So according to sources on here this is the latest status on the new home top. 1. The claret diagonal sash design will be returning. (tick) 2. The sponsors logo will be discretely positioned beneath the club badge. (tick) 3. The shirt will not have a flappy or polo neck collar. (tick)

There is one currently for sale at classicfootballshirts.co.uk for £99.99!!!!

If the new top has a ‘flappy’ or ‘polo neck’ style collar I will be pleased, in my opinion the traditional sash design just looks better with it.

Somerset Park Ayr around 1974. Great memories, however, I seemed to remember that we were on the end of a few defeats on what must have been one of the tightest/smallest grounds in Scotland. The fans were so close to the park that you used to be able to reach over the wall and almost touch the net. Great to see the claret sash kit on display and Joe Wark having a shot at goal!

Edit: Al B has explained it, so you can ignore my non relevant rant below! I am not sure who ‘they’ refers to, however, all major kit suppliers have a basic team wear selection that you can buy off the shelf in basic standard colours. I have done a a few Motherwell team wear experiments in the fantasy kit section and if you choose wisely you can produce some nice designs in a colour not disimilar to ours (however they were only done to show what you could potentially achieve through an online design process. I say similar as the basic team wear colours offered will rarely match a clubs official shade (rarely ours). To get them matched exactly you would need to go down a more bespoke colour dye route which can be expensive. Any team wear designs that I play around with only exist on my computer and are sadly not available to buy.

The superb Historical Kits website has a brief history of football kit design on their website. It is a great read for anyone interested in the subject. This article mentions the use of a temporary sash on a white top to distinguish between sides in the mid to late 1850s.

I can see her point as the bride will sometimes wear a sash with her name or message on it. However, the sash design reminds me more of beauty pageants and jockey tops. Football shirts, especially the tight fitting ones in my opinion just look wrong on people who are even slightly overweight. They are primarily designed for sportsmen and rarely suit your average joe. Thankfully I am a slender 52 year old, however, these days I only wear loose fitting retro shirts. A side of me hopes that if we do embrace the sash/diagonal band design that we go the whole hog and use the original 70s MFC script that we had at the time, however, I doubt whether they will be brave enough to go that far.

I disagree Coolhandluc I’m 52, however, I still love my kits. I don’t buy them now, although I still wear the odd retro top to the games. Real Betis Balompie had a nice Macron top for their 2014/15 second kit and it’s another template that would suit a diagonal band.

I agree, I would prefer to see a winged or polo neck collar, however, we are at the mercy of Macron templates and I only hope that we choose the best one.

Going by all the ‘in the know’ chat on here, I reckon we are potentially getting the new Macron Millwall top with a sash. I have added a small sponsors logo beneath the badge as well. It’s not my ideal collar, however, it’s not as bad as it could be.

A few sponsors have done this in recent years, most notably Tennents on the Old Firm jersey’s from around 2012. This would be good news as there is nothing worse than a horrible sponsors logo ruining a nice top. Also, as has been pointed out on this thread there was a slightly cheap looking finish to the club badge which was stitched on to last seasons kit and I really hope this will be improved for this seasons top.

Not so good to hear that people are leaving rather than coming in, however, I am sure the club will fill the position pretty quickly.

To settle my curiosity I had to do a quick paint job on the Newcastle third top, however, NO, JUST NO! I only hope we get a decent sponsor and the neckline is at least a v-neck. Sponsors logo dependent I would also prefer it without the claret sash being broken. I now have the fear about a potential return to the sash! In saying that, the Wonga logo would ruin any shirt!