Premier League 2023/2024

[TheChosenOne]

Two FA Cup weekends where league games are never played, plus League Cup semis. January's always like this.

There is that ‘winter break’ as well.

 

[Trix]

Grrr.

It's not all bad if it means they have tough away fixtures around CL games.

 

[Timberwolf]

First 2 games are rough - Brentford are really decent at home - but I think the run of 3 games after that does make up for a it somewhat. You don't want to play the promoted teams in the first couple of games when they're really pumped but I think Burnley and Shef United games 4 and 5 is quite decent timing.

Need to pick up some points vs them and Bournemouth to get some confidence in Ange's methods.

 

[14/04/91]

I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist but away first, last & boxing day plus 3 out of first 4 away?? That doesn't seem right at all.

 

[Trix]

Well if the beginning is a hard run of fixtures, and the end is a hard run of fixtures, the middle must be a piece of piss right. Right?

 

[13VanDerBale13]

4/6 being away first is weird. Start of our season could be a struggle …

 

[Dunc2610]

4/6 being away first is weird. Start of our season could be a struggle …

Or we could pull off a blinder and win them all and all this doom and gloom will have been entirely pointless.

 

[jazz15c]

Bearing in mind the style of football/instructions etc. will probably take a while to bed in to the players, and how toxic the stadium was for large swathes of the 2nd half of last season, 3 away games out of 4 to start with may not be a bad thing at all.

 

[Oscar22]

Bearing in mind the style of football/instructions etc. will probably take a while to bed in to the players, and how toxic the stadium was for large swathes of the 2nd half of last season, 3 away games out of 4 to start with may not be a bad thing at all.

Yeah agreed, and Ange won’t have sections of home support booing because we concede or because we aren’t winning at half time, not because we’ve had to stop the game to collect seven black balloons from the centre circle.

I think more away games at the start could actually be quite a blessing.

 

[tommo84]

4/6 being away first is weird. Start of our season could be a struggle …

Yeah it’s quite ridiculous that some of the league will have 4 home games in their first 6, and others only 2. Haven’t checked everyone’s fixtures but us and West Ham can feel somewhat aggrieved at that. Arsenal been given every chance to build early momentum once again.

 

[easley91]

Burnley v City as the very first fixture wasn't done on purpose was it..

 

[hughy]

I remember thinking how favourable our fixture list was last season, and look how that ended.

We play each team home and away. Get over it you bunch of whingers.

 

[Thenewcat]

I love the fact that we play 6 PL games in October and November combined, then 7 in December alone.

 

[rossdapep]

That April is absolutely brutal

If Postecoglou is able to work magic with the team, we will face that run having had no midweek fixtures all season.

We may be a bit fresher than some other teams

 

[E17yid]

First 2 games are rough - Brentford are really decent at home - but I think the run of 3 games after that does make up for a it somewhat. You don't want to play the promoted teams in the first couple of games when they're really pumped but I think Burnley and Shef United games 4 and 5 is quite decent timing.

Need to pick up some points vs them and Bournemouth to get some confidence in Ange's methods.

I worry about those games, though, especially Burnley away. People expect to be beating Sheffield UTD and Bournemouth and if we struggle against Brentford and UTD and then drop points against one of, or both, Bournemouth and Sheffield we could go into the Liverpool and NLD really under pressure. I’m not expecting a 2 point from 8 game scenario but shit, that is a tough start especially with those away games initially.

 

[night-watchman]

Well if the beginning is a hard run of fixtures, and the end is a hard run of fixtures, the middle must be a piece of piss right. Right?

Nope the middle is also brutal.

 

[Thenewcat]

That April is absolutely brutal

On the plus side, City will be over 5 years without scoring at the new stadium

 

[cwy21]

Nope the middle is also brutal.

Turns out the Premier League is tough.

 

[felmani26]

Praise the Lord!

 

[thebenjamin]

Praise the Lord!

Thank fuck. Now I only need Sam Matterface deported and slung in a foreign prison and I'll be happy