What's your own squad number?

[Antepli Ejderha]

Actually, can I switch from 27 to 16? Is Velvet Android still around to swap (Isn't he Various Artists)?

Can I have the 27 shirt then?

[Bored Of Education]

Actually, can I switch from 27 to 16? Is Velvet Android still around to swap (Isn't he Various Artists)?

You were the one that said players couldn't trade their shirts. Hold on, Ramsey's not 16 anymore, why 16?

Can I have the 27 shirt then?

Ha ha!

[ursus arctos]

Half of us are going to end up on loan in the Eredivisie . . .

[Ray de Galles]

If VA gets back to me on 16 and doesn't want it himself, sure. Or I could auction it off, there was a lot of interest.

We need to sort VA a number first too, obvs.

[Patrick Thistle]

I just want to have my initials on a training top. Happy to be Cone Man

[Ray de Galles]

You were the one that said players couldn't trade their shirts. Hold on, Ramsey's not 16 anymore, why 16?

Because of 2016 (which means more to me than 1927 now, not least because I was alive and there) but I've always liked it due to Roy Keane and, more recently, Joe Ledley.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Clearly this squad needs listing for posterity, numbers issued on a FCFS basis with any stated alternate used in the event of a clash :

1 Pebble The Fish
2 Crusoe
3 Pietro Paolo Virdis
4 Gawpus
5 Nmr Fox
6 TheNonFlyingFrenchman
7* Serge Gainsbourg
8 The Ballad of Lightbowne Lil
9 Vicarious Thrillseeker
10 Big Dave's Gusset
11 Hot Orange
12
13 Gavc 23
14 Toby Gymshorts
15 Bored of Education
16 Velvet Android
17 Three Times A Reddy
18 JWDD 27
19 Carlos Costly
20 Smallcaps
21
22 Shackleford
23 Gerontophile
24 Denis Hurley
25 Cesar Rodriguez
26
27 Harry Truscott

31 Kevchenko
32 Diggedy Derek

34 Hugh Fatbastard

41 Andrew 7610

72 Antelpi Ejderha
73 Moocowe

96 Rogin The Armchair Fan

* how do I do the fancy-schmancy European 7?

Still some prime numbers left (no, not actual prime numbers but good ones. Though I am sure some of them are prime numbers too).

I'll get designing the kit.

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So this is where we are at. Sad to see that a number of those numbers are for posters no longer around.

[Ray de Galles]

We can reassign them then.

[Alex Anderson]

As 13's gone, I'll take 94 (the only year a [future] Rangers player has won the World Cup golden slipper) and paint the Ivan Zamorano "+" between the digits to achieve necessary levels of Der Bomber-ness.

[Bored Of Education]

So this is where we are at. Sad to see that a number of those numbers are for posters no longer around.

Typical selling club.

[Bored Of Education]

Because of 2016 (which means more to me than 1927 now, not least because I was alive and there) but I've always liked it due to Roy Keane and, more recently, Joe Ledley.

Good point, well made. I will make a mental note of that if I ever nick your bank card.

[Sits]

I was an extremely ordinary utility player, most regularly put on the right or left wing. I was at least quite quick. Ideally I'd be 7 or 11 but wouldn't get a 1-11. 77 has gone so I'll go for 71.

[blameless]

I'll have no.36, not for any playing reasons (I'm a RB/CB), but because that was my "member number" in the days of OLDtf.

[jdsx]

OK - can I have 71 then? That's the last year both my club teams did well. Just for the hell of it, here's the Leeds team from 1971:
1. Harvey
2. Reaney
3. Madeley
4. Bremner
5. Charlton
6. Hunter
7. Lorimer
8. Clarke
9. Jordan
10. Giles
11. E Gray
A bit tough on Sprake and Mick Jones to have Harvey and Jordan, but there you go. Of course, most of those players played every single league match (that's 42), as well as all the League Cup and FA Cup matches too, plus a few European ties. Them were the days...
Edit: bugger - sorry I was sure I'd read all the way through the thread but somehow missed Sits's post... Perhaps it took me 90 minutes to compose mine.... I'll have to settle for 70 then....

[Various Artist]

Actually, can I switch from 27 to 16? Is Velvet Android still around to swap (Isn't he Various Artists)?

Artist, singular. But still VA, yes.

I understand where you're coming from on the 2016 thing Ray, but if I give up my 16 I'd have to go back and change myself in each FIFA game I've been a created player in. So I'd really like to hang onto it if it's all the same by you.

[Ray de Galles]

Gosh, that's quite a hard no, isn't it?

I even pondered taking the much maligned and neglected 12 shirt for a while but if I really can't have 16 I guess I'll stick to 27.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Gosh, that's quite a hard no, isn't it?

I even pondered taking the much maligned and neglected 12 shirt for a while but if I really can't have 16 I guess I'll stick to 27.

I'm terribly sorry but I'm not letting you have that back Harry. I've already had my name printed on the back with the number. I'll find proof if you want.

[Various Artist]

Oops, looks like we've left Harry out in the cold now. Literally. He'll be playing 'skins' from here on.

That was indeed me being firm in any incredibly British, inexplicably guilty-feeling way, like the firm need to apologise to someone who's just trodden on one's toes.

Changing would also upset my 4-centric OCD, more pertinently perhaps:

Can I bag 16? Don't think anyone else has nabbed it and it would be my first choice anyway — 4 is my favourite but I'm not a defender, so 4² is ideal and works for midfield I feel.

I really don't want to have to go to 4³ as 64 is getting a bit stupidly high for a shirt number, for my tastes.

[scratchmonkey]

I'll take 64 then as it's 8^2 and I've always worn 8, as is fitting for the too-short, overly-combative central midfielder.

The high point of shirt numbers for me was when our rec league indoor team all decided that we should have numbers and through an incredible series of mis-communications, three of us wound up putting 8 on our shirts. The looks we got from the refs.

[Ray de Galles]

I'm terribly sorry but I'm not letting you have that back Harry. I've already had my name printed on the back with the number. I'll find proof if you want.

You can fuck off. I still have the 27 shirt on the list and it's not as if that's some random, delible document without any legal or formal provenance.

[ursus arctos]

This thread is one of the best arguments for 1 to 11 with no names that I've ever seen.

[Bored Of Education]

This thread is one of the best arguments for 1 to 11 with no names that I've ever seen.

If one were needed.

[Antepli Ejderha]

You can fuck off. I still have the 27 shirt on the list and it's not as if that's some random, delible document without any legal or formal provenance.

So is that a definite no or negotiable? Winky thing.

[Various Artist]

Kudos to RdG meanwhile for the use of the word "delible", which I've never seen pulled off before.

[1974ddr]

OK - can I have 71 then? That's the last year both my club teams did well. Just for the hell of it, here's the Leeds team from 1971:
1. Harvey
2. Reaney
3. Madeley
4. Bremner
5. Charlton
6. Hunter
7. Lorimer
8. Clarke
9. Jordan
10. Giles
11. E Gray
A bit tough on Sprake and Mick Jones to have Harvey and Jordan, but there you go. Of course, most of those players played every single league match (that's 42), as well as all the League Cup and FA Cup matches too, plus a few European ties. Them were the days...

Quite hard on Terry Cooper too, I'd have thought?

Leeds 1970-71: League apps /goals
Norman Hunter 42/1, Allan Clarke 41/19, Paul Madeley 41/5, Terence Cooper 41/1, John Charlton 40/6, Mick Jones 39/6, Peter Lorimer 38/12, Gareth Sprake 35/0, John Giles 34/13, Michael Bates 31/0, William Bremner 25/3, Paul Reaney 19/0, Edwin Gray 19/1, Rod Belfitt 10/3, David Harvey 7/0, Nigel Davey 7/0, Terence Yorath 3/0, Terence Hibbitt 3/0, Chris Galvin 1/0.
Leeds 1971-72:
Paul Madeley 42/2, Peter Lorimer 42/23, Norman Hunter 42/0, John Charlton 41/5, William Bremner 41/5, John Giles 38/6, Allan Clarke 35/11, Gareth Sprake 35/0, Terence Cooper 34/1, Paul Reaney 33/0, Edwin Gray 26/6, Michael Jones 24/11, Joseph Jordan 12/0, Rod Belfitt 11/1, Michael Bates 9/0, David Harvey 7/0, Terence Yorath 7/1, Chris Galvin 3/0, James Mann 1/0, Keith Edwards 1/0