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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #30 on: June 03, 2023, 10:28:50 AM »
Chelsea at home please. Let's give em a good shoeing before Pochettino  gets things going.

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #31 on: June 03, 2023, 11:07:33 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).

One thing that is not a myth, but a certainty is none of the 'Sky 6' will play each on the last day of the season. The last time it happened was May 2009, when Liverpool played Spurs, why nothing is said about it is beyond me.



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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #32 on: June 03, 2023, 11:11:08 AM »
No links to the Sun.

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #33 on: June 03, 2023, 11:26:03 AM »
No links to the Sun.

Sorry Dave I forgot about the Sun ban, but are you aware of this arrangement, the Sky 6 have with the Premier League, which was mentioned in the article.

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #34 on: June 03, 2023, 11:27:07 AM »

One thing that is not a myth, but a certainty is none of the 'Sky 6' will play each on the last day of the season. The last time it happened was May 2009, when Liverpool played Spurs, why nothing is said about it is beyond me.


Extremely rarely on the first day as well now you mention it. Bit of a disgrace really, absolutely fixing it.

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #35 on: June 03, 2023, 11:33:34 AM »
No links to the Sun.

Sorry Dave I forgot about the Sun ban, but are you aware of this arrangement, the Sky 6 have with the Premier League, which was mentioned in the article.

I can't see how it can happen, as the 'Big' Six' is only a recent development. As an aside, one of the funnier things about the fixtures was in 2002 when the compilers were worried about Blackburn, who'd won the League Cup and were struggling in the league, getting relegated, as the Uefa Cup rounds the next season took place on the week of Championship midweek games. There was much relief when Blackburn stayed up - right up until Ipswich went down and got a fair play place in the Uefa.

Edited after doing a modicum of research - I recommend it.
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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #36 on: June 03, 2023, 01:00:11 PM »
Well it obviously does happen. Look at the opening and final day fixtures for the last ten years, and then work at the odds of Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool and Chelsea never playing each other in those fixtures.

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #37 on: June 03, 2023, 02:18:25 PM »
It will be an way game as per usual!

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #38 on: June 03, 2023, 02:52:41 PM »
The last one I can think of giving a toss about was when Leicester won, because it actually meant something to them

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #39 on: June 03, 2023, 03:25:45 PM »

One thing that is not a myth, but a certainty is none of the 'Sky 6' will play each on the last day of the season. The last time it happened was May 2009, when Liverpool played Spurs, why nothing is said about it is beyond me.


Extremely rarely on the first day as well now you mention it. Bit of a disgrace really, absolutely fixing it.

I don't buy into it tbh, a cursory check shows Spurs were at home to Citeh on the opening day of 2021/22.

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #40 on: June 03, 2023, 03:30:59 PM »

One thing that is not a myth, but a certainty is none of the 'Sky 6' will play each on the last day of the season. The last time it happened was May 2009, when Liverpool played Spurs, why nothing is said about it is beyond me.


Extremely rarely on the first day as well now you mention it. Bit of a disgrace really, absolutely fixing it.

I don't buy into it tbh, a cursory check shows Spurs were at home to Citeh on the opening day of 2021/22.

They finished 7th the season before.

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #41 on: June 03, 2023, 03:40:44 PM »

One thing that is not a myth, but a certainty is none of the 'Sky 6' will play each on the last day of the season. The last time it happened was May 2009, when Liverpool played Spurs, why nothing is said about it is beyond me.


Extremely rarely on the first day as well now you mention it. Bit of a disgrace really, absolutely fixing it.

I don't buy into it tbh, a cursory check shows Spurs were at home to Citeh on the opening day of 2021/22.

They finished 7th the season before.

Yes, but we were talking abut the so-called "Big Scab Six".

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #42 on: June 03, 2023, 03:52:14 PM »
The so-called Sky 6 needs a rethink doesn't it?  Chelsea and Tottenham are no longer there.  Tottenham can't even find someone decent who wants to manage them and Chelsea are punting with Poch.

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #43 on: June 04, 2023, 08:42:21 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).

So we’re aren’t paired with anyone at the moment?

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Re: 2023/24 Fixtures
« Reply #44 on: June 04, 2023, 09:31:55 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).

So we’re aren’t paired with anyone at the moment?

Small Heath. You don't have to be in the same division as your pair.

 


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