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Sat Aug 13 Norwich City H
Sat Aug 20 Swansea City A
Wed Aug 24 Carling Cup 2
Sat Aug 27 Queens Park Rangers H
Sat Sep 10 Manchester City A
Sat Sep 17 Everton A
Wed Sep 21 Carling Cup 3
Sat Sep 24 Tottenham Hotspur H
Sat Oct 1 Aston Villa A
Sat Oct 15 Bolton Wanderers H
Sat Oct 22 Newcastle United A
Wed Oct 26 Carling Cup 4
Sat Oct 29 Fulham H
Sat Nov 5 Wolverhampton Wanderers A
Sat Nov 19 Blackburn Rovers H
Sat Nov 26 Sunderland A
Wed Nov 30 Carling Cup 5
Sat Dec 3 Arsenal H
Sat Dec 10 West Bromwich Albion A
Sat Dec 17 Chelsea H
Tue Dec 20 Liverpool H
Mon Dec 26 Manchester United A
Sat Dec 31 Stoke City A
Mon Jan 2 Sunderland H
Sat Jan 7 F.A. Cup 3
Wed Jan 11 Carling Cup Semi-Final (1)
Sat Jan 14 Manchester City H
Sat Jan 21 Queens Park Rangers A
Wed Jan 25 Carling Cup Semi-Final (2)
Sat Jan 28 F.A. Cup 4
Tue Jan 31 Tottenham Hotspur A
Sat Feb 4 Everton H
Sat Feb 11 Bolton Wanderers A
Sat Feb 18 F.A. Cup 5
Sat Feb 25 Aston Villa H
Sun Feb 26 Carling Cup Final
Sat Mar 3 Swansea City H
Sat Mar 10 Norwich City A
Sat Mar 17 West Bromwich Albion H (F.A. Cup 6)
Sat Mar 24 Liverpool A
Sat Mar 31 Stoke City H
Sat Apr 7 Chelsea A
Mon Apr 9 Manchester United H
Sat Apr 14 Arsenal A (F.A. Cup Semi-Final)
Sat Apr 21 Fulham A
Sat Apr 28 Newcastle United H
Sat May 5 Blackburn Rovers A (F.A. Cup Final)
Sun May 13 Wolverhampton Wanderers HFA Cup Winners 2013, sounds good that
Sat Aug 13 Norwich City H
Sat Aug 20 Swansea City A
Wed Aug 24 Carling Cup 2
Sat Aug 27 Queens Park Rangers H
Sat Sep 10 Manchester City A
Sat Sep 17 Everton A
Wed Sep 21 Carling Cup 3
Sat Sep 24 Tottenham Hotspur H
Sat Oct 1 Aston Villa A
Sat Oct 15 Bolton Wanderers H
Sat Oct 22 Newcastle United A
Wed Oct 26 Carling Cup 4
Sat Oct 29 Fulham H
Sat Nov 5 Wolverhampton Wanderers A
Sat Nov 19 Blackburn Rovers H
Sat Nov 26 Sunderland A
Wed Nov 30 Carling Cup 5
Sat Dec 3 Arsenal H
Sat Dec 10 West Bromwich Albion A
Sat Dec 17 Chelsea H
Tue Dec 20 Liverpool H
Mon Dec 26 Manchester United A
Sat Dec 31 Stoke City A
Mon Jan 2 Sunderland H
Sat Jan 7 F.A. Cup 3
Wed Jan 11 Carling Cup Semi-Final (1)
Sat Jan 14 Manchester City H
Sat Jan 21 Queens Park Rangers A
Wed Jan 25 Carling Cup Semi-Final (2)
Sat Jan 28 F.A. Cup 4
Tue Jan 31 Tottenham Hotspur A
Sat Feb 4 Everton H
Sat Feb 11 Bolton Wanderers A
Sat Feb 18 F.A. Cup 5
Sat Feb 25 Aston Villa H
Sun Feb 26 Carling Cup Final
Sat Mar 3 Swansea City H
Sat Mar 10 Norwich City A
Sat Mar 17 West Bromwich Albion H (F.A. Cup 6)
Sat Mar 24 Liverpool A
Sat Mar 31 Stoke City H
Sat Apr 7 Chelsea A
Mon Apr 9 Manchester United H
Sat Apr 14 Arsenal A (F.A. Cup Semi-Final)
Sat Apr 21 Fulham A
Sat Apr 28 Newcastle United H
Sat May 5 Blackburn Rovers A (F.A. Cup Final)
Sun May 13 Wolverhampton Wanderers HEasy start to the season……..
I honestly believe that is the premiership trying to relegate us. Who has ever played all 3 promoted teams first 3 games. You never see a team like Chelsea or United get those clubs first 3. The 3 teams still on an upper and the premiership know there is a chance they could beat us. And then they give us those games in September hoping we haven’t picked anything up off the first 3 games so by October they expect us i reckon to be rock bottom. And then a see saw mid season and then finish us off with Liverpool, Chelsea, United and Arsenal in the space of 2 weeks. And then give us 3 relegation dog fights to make it interesting.
I really do believe its a conspiracy. It is disgraceful.
Well let’s fcuk em over. Come on Bobby get the lads ready for the new boys and let’s show them what it takes to be a Premiership team, Squeeze 9 points and wipe the smile off Mr.Brooking and e.t.c’s faces
Has there ever been a season since Latics made it to the top flight where the fixture computer hasn’t given us an absolute killer run of the big 4-6 sides???
This season we get it twice!!!!
Has there ever been a season since Latics made it to the top flight where the fixture computer hasn’t given us an absolute killer run of the big 4-6 sides???This season we get it twice!!!!
Exactly. Would it be so bad to actually have a computer randomising the fixtures. They use us as bait to let the big teams pick up points on the trot. Well try to anyway. I can just see Trevor Brooking sitting at a desk figuring out ways he can do it, Clicking his pen in anticipation. They can’t be random fixtures because every season there always seems to be a few weekends of the top 4 playing each other and the survival sunday things etc. They pick a point in the season when they want the big guns to play each other and that. Why the hell has the premier league just handed over everything and all the decisions to sky. It stinks, they made a great league and then tore it down.
I have to agree Yosser. We play those promoted teams with full uninjured squads and with full optimism of their fans.
Our run at christmas when fixtures come thick and fast is appalling considering the teams who get through this period best, are the ones with bigger squads to rotate a’ la the big clubs.
However i do believe if unlike last year if we can hit the ground running with a more settled team than last year we can get off to a good start and set the tone for the season.
It is very unusual to get al promoted teams for your first 3 games though. Just wonder what Martinez and Whelan think. Might be good for publicity and gate receipts early on.
Man Utd on boxing day isn’t the worst to have.
End to season could have been worse though. Good for last game to be at home.
even though they are promoted and on a high, so are we and the 3 teams that are coming up are not as good as blackpool.
also 2 home games in first 3 and end on a home game.
not too bad imo
I dont get it is it not all done on a computer randomly?
A great chance to get 9 points out of 9 in the first three games, a relatively easy run in and still people are moaning. :doh:
I give up, I really do. Talk about paranoid!! :shifty:
Come on Griff, its just an observation. Got to admit its strange how those fixtures have come out.
I myself think we can go and win all three, however, i thought we would beat Blackpool first game last season.
Suppose all in all, we have to play them at some point. If we had nothing to moan about , life would be boring :D
A great chance to get 9 points out of 9 in the first three games, a relatively easy run in and still people are moaning. :doh:I give up, I really do. Talk about paranoid!! :shifty:
I said that Griff. I said we can get 9 points because after all they are championship sides really yet. However the premiership see us as a side that they can beat and get the league interesting right from the off at our expense. I didn’t say that we as a club could not beat them im saying that the Premier League don’t want us to beat them so we play all 3 at a time that suits them all perfectly. Big clubs and fan bases and all that, all another excuse to try and squeeze us out. More than ever i want us to prove them wrong. It get’s more intense every season for one reason or another.
Suppose the point im trying to make is kind of, If those sides who came up were given 3 teams from the top 4 for their start then their confidence would be shot and the season effectively over before it starts. Same principle in my eyes. But all geared at us…….again
I honestly saw them first fixtures and thought straight away top after three games!
Now it may not transpire that way but thats the best start to a season we’ll ever get, opportunity to get points on the board, confidence up and not having to look over our shoulders like we seemed to do all last season.
We always get killer runs at some stage, as does every other team in the league. We’ll be reet. :dance:
I think the fixture list as been kind, and to say all the teams will have no injuries at the start of the season :lol: lets just get off to a good start and enjoy :dance: thank god the first 3 games arent man u, liverpool, chelsea no one would get a season ticket :lol:
I honestly saw them first fixtures and thought straight away top after three games!
Now it may not transpire that way but thats the best start to a season we’ll ever get, opportunity to get points on the board, confidence up and not having to look over our shoulders like we seemed to do all last season.
We always get killer runs at some stage, as does every other team in the league. We’ll be reet. :dance:
To be fair we were hardly looking over our shoulders last year, mostly it was looking over the should of the teams in front of us.
Good fixtures for me, Martinez hopefully has learnt from last season against Blackpool first game ! We should be top at the end of August :)
Come on Griff, its just an observation. Got to admit its strange how those fixtures have come out.
It’s not strange at all. Believe me, I know – I used to compile fixtures.You have an algorithm/model/formula, call it what you like, in which the fixture matrix is set up as AvB, CvD, etc home and away for all the weeks in the season.
Each team is then assigned a letter within that model. Teams can be ‘paired’ so that, for example, Liverpool and Everton are never at home at the same time.
Also, pairing might be applied to ensure that as few London teams are at home at the same time as possible, to satisfy policing requirements.
Some clubs that share stadiums with other teams/sports may also be allocated to a ‘letter’ which provides for that.
The more of the above types of restrictions or considerations that there are, the less ‘letters’ are available for the rest of the clubs that have no such restrictions. As a consequence, it is quite a difficult balancing act that the authorities have to perform and it is perfectly reaonable to expect that some teams will have the same/similar position in the algorithm year on year.
So, it may look like a conspiracy but it most definitely is not.
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