first game in championship

Wembley is the week after it starts it starts on aug 3

I will hacve to disagree on that. the table proves no one can hold any kind of form. you string 4-5 wins together and you can go top.

Palace only won 2 for 10 and made play-offs while Watford lost 6 from the last 10 and the rest up there didn’t fair too well.

Remember ? alot of the usual suspects are still there 2005/2006 season:-

Pos Name P W D L F A GD PTS
1 Sunderland 46 29 7 10 76 41 35 94
2 Wigan Athletic 46 25 12 9 79 35 44 87
3 Ipswich Town 46 24 13 9 85 56 29 85
4 Derby County 46 22 10 14 71 60 11 76
5 Preston 46 21 12 13 67 58 9 75
6 West Ham Utd 46 21 10 15 66 56 10 73
7 Reading 46 19 13 14 51 44 7 70
8 Sheffield Utd 46 18 13 15 57 56 1 67
9 Wolves 46 15 21 10 72 59 13 66
10 Millwall 46 18 12 16 51 45 6 66
11 QPR 46 17 11 18 54 58 -4 62
12 Stoke City 46 17 10 19 36 38 -2 61
13 Burnley 46 15 15 16 38 39 -1 60
14 Leeds United 46 14 18 14 49 52 -3 60
15 Leicester City 46 12 21 13 49 46 3 57
16 Cardiff City 46 13 15 18 48 51 -3 54
17 Plymouth 46 14 11 21 52 64 -12 53
18 Watford 46 12 16 18 52 59 -7 52
19 Coventry City 46 13 13 20 61 73 -12 52
20 Brighton 46 13 12 21 40 65 -25 51
21 Crewe 46 12 14 20 66 86 -20 50
22 Gillingham 46 12 14 20 45 66 -21 50
23 Nottm Forest 46 9 17 20 42 66 -24 44
24 Rotherham 46 5 14 27 35 69 -34 29

on paper probably harder that year. The striking difference and change needed from that year is , we were the 2nd top goal scorers and conceded the least amount of goals.

‘Also at the moment we don’t have a strike partnership that can net 50+ goals between them!!

think kone, maloney and mcmanaman as a front 3 should do well in this league, if we keep them all. maloney and macca could easily get 10 each and kone 20. thats 40.

Bolton might not be a bad first game, Coyle has a point to prove and beating them 5-0 in the opener wouldnt do him any harm in winning friends

Blackpool or Bournemouth away make a weekend of it