WitG: Kits as we're sh*t Down Under

We've lost a friendly everyone, let's not P-A-N-I-C! Instead, let's look at shirts...

ANDY: New season. New division. But some things stay the same, including an absolute head loss over a defeat. In a pre-season friendly, 10,000 miles away.

Of course we’ll have a look at that game, but we’ll remember it’s basically a fitness exercise. The big news of the week is kits and Kit Man Tim (a very run of the mill 90s DJ) will run his sartorial eye over those.

Thanks to all who heeded the call to get in touch and we’ve got a great fan of the week who did just that. There’s also more grist to mill on transfer rumours and the weirdest tweet we’ve ever seen.

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Striker-light Down Blunder and it’s Syd Vicious

ANDY: We’ll keep this one short as it's hard to learn much from a pre-season. Other than, we hated this game and we wished it never happened. Here are 5 things we learned...

• Just about Sam's it up: No Sam Smith, and it shows how light we are up front. In the first half we played a 33-year-old outcast and a 19-year-old midfielder up top. Then Jack Marriott and the much-maligned Jay Rodriguez and we actually got worse as the match went on, which is some achievement. Without Smith, and Ryan Hardie injured, we lack a real presence and people running in behind the defence. We need to sort this out. But this does lead me to my next point...