First game 2016/2017 - who do you want, who will we get?

[Louzie0]

I was visiting Aston Hall yesterday and walked around VP while I was there.
What a lovely ground.
Whoever we get first, and second and afterwards, they can't fail to be impressed.
RDM - I hope you're going to get us back where we belong.

[supertom]

Reading, QPR and Fulham away will do me. Will hopefully get to a home game or two if the impending firstborn leaves me with any spare cash....which it won't...

[peter w]

Does H&V still get the fixtures when they're first published?

[dave.woodhall]

Does H&V still get the fixtures when they're first published?

We haven't for some time. They're available so widely that it's not worth the bother of applying.

[SoccerHQ]

It's got us playing Toon first league cup date so probably balls

We aint in first round of League Cup are we!!

I saw somewhere it depends on seeding but we are likely to be as we're shite.

Think bottom two prem teams have to play first round and 18th gets a bye into next round or something like that.

[cdbearsfan]

18th and 19th get a bye, only 20th has to enter in Round One.

The exceptions are when a non-top flight club is involved in Europe and/or England has more than seven teams in Europe. If either of these circumstances had happened then all three relegated clubs would've entered in the First Round.

[Steve R]

first weeks fixtures are:
Blues v Sheff Wed
Blackburn v Bristol City
Brentford v Forest
Derby v Cardiff
Huddersfield v AV
Leeds v QPR
Norwich v Fulham
PNE v Brighton
Reading v Barnsley
Rotherham v Burton
Wigan v Newcastle
Woves v Ipswich

I bet you they aren't.

I think he has all the right teams just not in that order

It says on the list that i have that fixtures not due for release until 22nd June. I don't see why someone would falsify a full season of fixtures.
I would just assume that someone has been a very naughty boy in releasing them

Trust me - these are not the fixtures. The fixtures have not been finalised yet. The provisional ones are issued a couple of days prior to publication to the police, supporter associations and sundry relevant bodies for final recommendations and revisions. The clubs/media get the the final draft the day before and there's a severely strict embargo until they're allowed to be released.

I am not a great student of their fixture lists but I wouldn't have thought Huddersfield and Leeds would have home games the same day.

[Ads]

I reckon we'll be at home first up this time around. We've had Fulham, West Ham, Arsenal, Stoke and Bournemouth the past fives years all away.

Strangely enough that's 10 points from 5 games, significantly better than anything we did subsequently in those seasons.

[LTA]

Hoax fixture list (according to Football League anyway) doing rounds on twitter.

If true, we start at Huddersfield and the first home game is Brentford, followed by Wolves on a Tuesday night.

Small Heath at Villa Park on 10th December and return on 18th March.

[Toronto Villa]

Hoax fixture list (according to Football League anyway) doing rounds on twitter.

If true, we start at Huddersfield and the first home game is Brentford, followed by Wolves on a Tuesday night.

Small Heath at Villa Park on 10th December and return on 18th March.

That's funny. It's been declared hoax by those who would publish the actual list and you go and then go with the "if true" line stating games that won't actually take place on those dates.

[Quiet Lion]

I read that Brighton have sold 23,000 season tickets, which is fantastic support

I doubt that we will sell 15,000 season tickets

Talking to a Brighton season ticket holder they get some decent additional benefits with their season tickets such as free public transport within a certain radius of the ground, interest free for 12 months, discounted drinks before the game and access to bars afterwards, they do bring a friend for a tenner similar to what we do at certain games so I think if you're a Brighton fan it's a great deal so no wonder they're popular.

I go to Brighton games very regularly, and what they do is brilliant.

As an away fan the concourse will have projections of our favourite players all over the walls, and they often get beer in from the away sides area. So we might end up with Banks's (?) or something similar available.

The pies are also first class.

[AV89]

I go to Brighton games very regularly, and what they do is brilliant.

As an away fan the concourse will have projections of our favourite players all over the walls, and they often get beer in from the away sides area. So we might end up with Banks's (?) or something similar available.

The pies are also first class.
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Won't be projecting any of the current lot then?

[Comrade Blitz]

If Villa were home on Boxing Day last year will they automatically be away this year? 

[olaftab]

Want Burton Albion at Villa Park but we will get Newcastle away!

[olaftab]

If Villa were home on Boxing Day last year will they automatically be away this year? 

No for number of reasons that I will explain if you pay me.