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Offline Chris Smith

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #15 on: June 02, 2023, 10:02:10 AM »
A home game against a team that won’t mean it being shifted for TV, Fulham will do.

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #16 on: June 02, 2023, 10:15:25 AM »
A home game against a team that won’t mean it being shifted for TV, Fulham will do.

Good shout, we're going to have a lot of fixtures moved over the season

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #17 on: June 02, 2023, 10:42:06 AM »
A home game against a team that won’t mean it being shifted for TV, Fulham will do.

Good shout, we're going to have a lot of fixtures moved over the season

Bono was right all along.

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #18 on: June 02, 2023, 10:43:08 AM »
Home, Saturday, 3pm please.

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #19 on: June 02, 2023, 11:00:58 AM »
Doesn't the fixture computer lock-in certain patterns year on year i.e we seem to be stuck with the away game at a promoted side early on quite a bit? Hopefully it's mot a lazy rehash this year.

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #20 on: June 02, 2023, 11:13:41 AM »
Doesn't the fixture computer lock-in certain patterns year on year i.e we seem to be stuck with the away game at a promoted side early on quite a bit? Hopefully it's mot a lazy rehash this year.

I believe this is true.

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #21 on: June 02, 2023, 11:55:29 AM »
Coventry away……oh.

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #22 on: June 02, 2023, 11:58:07 AM »
Bournemouth at home please, they shouldnt change manager over summer, probably won’t go mad in transfer market so would be a nice steady start and by 5pm on the Saturday only be 37 points from first target :-)

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #23 on: June 02, 2023, 12:03:34 PM »

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #24 on: June 02, 2023, 09:16:54 PM »
Doesn't the fixture computer lock-in certain patterns year on year i.e we seem to be stuck with the away game at a promoted side early on quite a bit? Hopefully it's mot a lazy rehash this year.

I believe this is true.

It isn't. There are more myths about the fixtures than just about anything in football. The only thing that's for certain is that some clubs are paired so that wherever possible they don't play at home on the same day and one or two other minor rules (for example clubs newly promoted to League One have a low-key first game).

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #25 on: June 02, 2023, 09:46:55 PM »
Doesn't the fixture computer lock-in certain patterns year on year i.e we seem to be stuck with the away game at a promoted side early on quite a bit? Hopefully it's mot a lazy rehash this year.

I believe this is true.

It isn't. There are more myths about the fixtures than just about anything in football. The only thing that's for certain is that some clubs are paired so that wherever possible they don't play at home on the same day and one or two other minor rules (for example clubs newly promoted to League One have a low-key first game).

I thought I remembered reading something about newly promoted clubs taking the slot of a relegated club in the algorithm, but it’s not in the article I thought it was, so god knows.

https://theathletic.com/3358976/2022/06/12/premier-league-fixtures-computer/?source=user_shared_article

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #26 on: June 03, 2023, 07:50:38 AM »
Say the same every year, but can we avoid the newly promoted sides early on please?

Wouldn't mind Manure early on.

Offline Goldenballs

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #27 on: June 03, 2023, 07:57:35 AM »
Would like Bournemouth at home, predict Burnley away.

Offline jwarry

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #28 on: June 03, 2023, 10:00:46 AM »
A nice easy home match where we get to funeral some bunch of hopeless chumps, to set the season off on the right note.

I definitely don't want Bournemouth away, after last season (a match which I think carried more heft than we thought in terms of where we'd go), and not even after the promotion season game which we won, but because it reminds me of that season (and that Rudy Gestede played for us).

Luton at home, please. I reckon they're going to have a sub 15 point season, so let's have the first three off them nice and early.

Tottenham?

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #29 on: June 03, 2023, 10:04:23 AM »
Doesn't the fixture computer lock-in certain patterns year on year i.e we seem to be stuck with the away game at a promoted side early on quite a bit? Hopefully it's mot a lazy rehash this year.

I believe this is true.

It isn't. There are more myths about the fixtures than just about anything in football. The only thing that's for certain is that some clubs are paired so that wherever possible they don't play at home on the same day and one or two other minor rules (for example clubs newly promoted to League One have a low-key first game).

I thought I remembered reading something about newly promoted clubs taking the slot of a relegated club in the algorithm, but it’s not in the article I thought it was, so god knows.

https://theathletic.com/3358976/2022/06/12/premier-league-fixtures-computer/?source=user_shared_article

That can't happen because of the pairings and also because the fixtures are being worked on well before the season ends.

 


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