FIXTURE LIST OUT TODAY.....*keep it all here please*
FIXTURE LIST OUT TODAY.....*keep it all here please*
everton away or so I hear.
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This started out as a prediction thread ie Ive heard we have Everton away as the first game... but has been changed. I was replying to that.hadareud wrote:you'd still rather start off with an "easy" game rather than Everton away imo
As for the games bring any of them on there are reasons for and against playing any team at any stage of the season
I went when played Wimbledon away at the start of the 88-89 season (the first game after they won the cup so you would think they would be flying) and battered them 5-1.
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There is a lot made of the fixture list and when certain teams meet etc. Personally I think it does have an influence, all be it small, on what happens over the course of a season. Take last year for example. Hull City, fresh from the elation of promotion, came to us and won. Would that have happened if the game had been 6 weeks later? We'll never know. Similarly we were tied with Manure and Chelski in consecutive games towards the end of the season. By the time we played Chelsea, after two CL semi games against Manure, we were fucked. Would we have got thumped 4-1 had that game been at home to Newcastle? Again, we'll never know.
Ultimately we have to play them all twice and there are some that argue to say that things even themselves out. I don't believe that. How can you even out going out of the FA cup because you lost the game to Everton which was sandwiched in the middle of Manure away, Chelski at home and the Mousers away?
The fixture list is indeed very important. You want to be playing your 3 tougher games nearer the beginning before others have got into their stride. Towards the end of the season you want to be the team with the easier run-in, not playing the rest of the top four in consectutive games.
Ultimately we have to play them all twice and there are some that argue to say that things even themselves out. I don't believe that. How can you even out going out of the FA cup because you lost the game to Everton which was sandwiched in the middle of Manure away, Chelski at home and the Mousers away?
The fixture list is indeed very important. You want to be playing your 3 tougher games nearer the beginning before others have got into their stride. Towards the end of the season you want to be the team with the easier run-in, not playing the rest of the top four in consectutive games.
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Agree, United for example are often quite slow starters and every year about 3 or 4 weeks in im always saying "I wish we had them this weekend, we'll be right up for it" .SPUDMASHER wrote:There is a lot made of the fixture list and when certain teams meet etc. Personally I think it does have an influence, all be it small, on what happens over the course of a season. Take last year for example. Hull City, fresh from the elation of promotion, came to us and won. Would that have happened if the game had been 6 weeks later? We'll never know. Similarly we were tied with Manure and Chelski in consecutive games towards the end of the season. By the time we played Chelsea, after two CL semi games against Manure, we were fucked. Would we have got thumped 4-1 had that game been at home to Newcastle? Again, we'll never know.
Ultimately we have to play them all twice and there are some that argue to say that things even themselves out. I don't believe that. How can you even out going out of the FA cup because you lost the game to Everton which was sandwiched in the middle of Manure away, Chelski at home and the Mousers away?
The fixture list is indeed very important. You want to be playing your 3 tougher games nearer the beginning before others have got into their stride. Towards the end of the season you want to be the team with the easier run-in, not playing the rest of the top four in consectutive games.