2023/24 Premier League Fixtures This Week. Who Do You Want?

[wassy04]

Surprised at the doom and gloom on here. We've got to play every team home and away anyway and often early in the season the 'big' teams don't get going straight away - Man City didn't make the best start and look at Man U's first two results last season. Also Chelsea will still be getting used to Pochettino and vice versa.

Let's have a bit of confidence chaps!

It's just the anticipation of the complaining about away form and performances and results that will definitely happen. Whereas had our fixtures been a little kinder maybe we could've had a decent start and got ahead of all that. It's easy for people to be rational now, however that will go out the window when we're 18th after getting comfortably beaten by City.

Anything more than 6 points from the opening 18 would be a massive achievement, however I fear for the majority that will be the expectation/hope. Playing from behind is so much more difficult which we will be because of the 4 away games to start with.

[Sausage Roll]

That's assuming we lose all those three opening away matches, which we might not.

[wassy04]

That's assuming we lose all those three opening away matches, which we might not.

We might not but we more than likely will. Maybe we scrape a point or even a win in one. The odds are very much not in our favour and out increased pressure on teh home games/the easier games coming up.

At least after that horror start, it's pretty balanced. No runs of playing lots of top 6 sides back to back so we regularly have opportunities to get points.

We saw in March this year what happens when you get on a run of bad fixtures. How many games did we go without winning? Yet in reality there was only one game where the result was disappointing (West Ham away). The others were to be expected although the performances were not good!

[Sausage Roll]

But we might not. 

I'm keeping positive. Nothing has happened in the transfer window yet. Who knows what the squad will look like come kickoff date.

[Redgirl]

We went without winning because key players were injured. Hopefully we will start with a fully fit team. We don’t know what the team will even look like yet. If Awonyi starts the season as well as he finished last season we will have one of the premierships top goal scorers in our team. Don’t write the team or SC off just yet.
I’m glad we’ve got Blunts first home game, fans will certainly be up for it, I would imagine MGW will be more than fired up, the WFCG will be rocking, can’t wait !

[Floridared]

I suspect that the big man may not have the patience he had last season. If we're bottom of the league after 5 or 6 games Cooper will be under massive pressure again. Thank god the transfer window closure is only 3 games in this season. If longer that would add even more pressure on Cooper if we have a bad start.

That's assuming Cooper will be there at the start of the season. I do have my doubts.

[Salvatore Matrecano]

I suspect that the big man may not have the patience he had last season. If we're bottom of the league after 5 or 6 games Cooper will be under massive pressure again. Thank god the transfer window closure is only 3 games in this season. If longer that would add even more pressure on Cooper if we have a bad start.

That's assuming Cooper will be there at the start of the season. I do have my doubts.

Well if Cooper isn’t there then whoever is the new guy will be under at least double the pressure.

[Paplane]

Why the pessimism chaps? We have to play these teams at some point! Last season we were all looking forward to these games, what's changed?

What's changed is that on two occasions last season Cooper was clinging to his job by his finger nails. If we get, say, 1 or 2 points from the first 7 games, regardless of who we've played, the big man is going to sack Cooper, I'm certain of it. EM will be wanting mid table comfort as a bare minimum this season and if we get to October and were bottom its curtains.

[Paplane]

On a positive note, at least this difficult run of fixtures will focus the player's minds. They'll know they'll have to be bang on from the get-go.

[Reds73]

On a positive note, at least this difficult run of fixtures will focus the player's minds. They'll know they'll have to be bang on from the get-go.

I would rather play the big teams before they hit their straps.