FIXTURE LIST OUT TODAY.....*keep it all here please*

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FIXTURE LIST OUT TODAY.....*keep it all here please*

Post by WHL-71-04 »

everton away or so I hear.

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lets just wait till 10am please

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Who cares? We have to play the lot of them twice does it matter who we play first? (apart from travel arrangements if your planning to go of course)

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you'd still rather start off with an "easy" game rather than Everton away imo

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Very, very excited. And this will be the final version of the fixtures list right? We can't expect abrupt changes or anything?

Is it out at 10am rebel? What time is it there now?

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RaM wrote:Very, very excited. And this will be the final version of the fixtures list right? We can't expect abrupt changes or anything?

Is it out at 10am rebel? What time is it there now?
9-15am ram

and im watching balamory :oops: with my daughter

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hadareud wrote:you'd still rather start off with an "easy" game rather than Everton away imo
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.

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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flash gunner wrote:Who cares? We have to play the lot of them twice does it matter who we play first?
Yes, but I always get an idea which weekends could be pure fun :barscarf:
and which might be horrid :evil:

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i changed it flash, as if i didnt then there would have been 10 threads on the same shite before 10am,
and i agree with you, who cares who we play as we will be playing everyone home and away anyway so it doesnt matter really does it

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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.

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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.
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" .

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Post by RaM »

So less than 30 minutes now. It'll be out 7:00pm my time then.

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Post by projoe »

i thought we had:

West Ham (A)
Burnley (H)
Chelsea (H)
Bolton (A)
Liverpool (A)
Man City (H)

lets hope sky were just testing on monday

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Post by projoe »

why do man utd always get an easy opening game.


weve got Everton (A) :shock: :x

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Post by NBM »

Tough start! Everton away, Pompey home, United away, City away, Wigan home, Fulham away!

On the plus side, decent weather still for Fulham away and the (potential) boat trip!

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