ARTICLE: Treble winners and Sky at Burnley on opening night

[Guppyspotter]

At least Jack Grealish won't be available, no chance of him sobering up by then.

[Hipper]

First two games are against teams that have played us in our new guise. That's a disadvantage for us I would say.

[ClaretTony]

Out of interest, do we know when the Carabao and FA Cup dates are yet?
Thanks in advance!

All of them on our key dates page

https://www.uptheclarets.com/friendlies-and-key-dates

[arise_sir_charge]

Bit of a kick in the teeth for those with young kids who had to miss so many home matches last season due to them being moved to Friday nights only to have the same happen again opening weekend.

I purposely delayed our holiday until after the first 2 match day weekends so that my lad could see the first match at home. Now he will miss the first 2.

It’s a Friday night in the middle of the school holidays against the best team in the world. Let the lad go.

[Conroysleftfoot]

When do we play Leeds ?

I was wondering that.

[arise_sir_charge]

Well I assume that having 3 and possibly 4 home games during the school holidays is quite a negative if you've shelled out for a family ticket and could now miss several games due to holidays.
I'm retired so will now plan my holidays around the fixtures, (so far as is possible with TV switches), but a lot of people could now miss two or three games rather than the odd one.

I’ll have that as a negative, I missed lots last year around holidays, but the post seemed to infer a different reason.

[GetIntoEm]

a late night during the holidays wont do any lasting damage. will be fine

[TomSmith xe/xem/xyr]

We have to play Man City sometime and we may be a bit of an unknown quantity depending on new signings.

[Buxtonclaret]

Don't know what all this 'first game' fuss is about.
Good game to win.
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[2 Bee Holed]

a late night during the holidays wont do any lasting damage. will be fine

Indeed, I assume by his username the lad will be in bed by 10.30.

I want to complain!

[Conroy92]

I think it's largely pointless predicting games we will pick up points from, as we're all doing so based on our historical experience of this league (mainly the Dyche era of course).

We have a team who play in a completely different way to any of the teams that we have previously deployed in this division, and have no real idea how Kompany's tactical game will play out against these sides. City are a freak of nature, so I will (personally) discount that game from my mind, I always do. I wouldn't put it past us to beat any of the other teams at home in the right circumstances because we create a lot of chances, are comfortable retaining possession and the manager is someone who will demand that we attack regardless of the opposition. What has gone before is almost useless to analyse with because of how different we are.

I know what your saying Jedi but realistically I'm not going off my experience from the Dyche era, im going off my experience in football in my lifetime, I know the league can throw the odd curveball but id be surprised if at least 5 of those teams from the first 9 games don't feature in the top 8 come the end of the season. Only time will tell.

[Colburn_Claret]

I f#%^#%g hate Friday night football.
I suppose we'll have to get used to it, that the majority of our TV dates will be Friday or Monday nights.

The fixtures don't look balanced, a lot of difficult early home fixtures, is balanced, because it means somewhere we'll have an easier run, but it brings the danger of having to play catch up.
If we can get off to an average start, it will set us up for a really good finish.

Let's bring Hell to the Turf.

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[Spiral]

The fixtures are totally 'random' (¬_¬)

[Burnley1989]

Heard a rumour that if you went Luton away last season you cant apply this season?

Not that Im bitter about the one game I missed out on last season

[Spiral]

COMEONELADS CITY WON'T KNOW WHAT'S COMING!!! They'll be over-confident coming off the treble, we'll be hungry to prove ourselves — especially playing at home, teams will take time to work us out, Benny will cause them all sorts of problems, Kompany is a football genius — the next Pep — I can honestly totally see the score line being kept below 3-0. So I'll goooooooowiiiiiiiith....2-0 City. That'll fukin show 'em.

[Jamesy]

When do we play Leeds ?

With a bit of luck not until the next decade.

[fatboy47]

When do we play Leeds ?

Around the same time we play Blackburn Rovers.

[bfcjg]

City at home and the first few games still more exciting then
Sat 6th Aug – Luton Town H
Sat 13th Aug – Watford A
Tue 16th Aug – Hull City H
Sat 20th Aug – Blackpool H
Sat 27th Aug – Wigan Athletic A
Tues 30th Aug – Millwall H

[houseboy]

Sat here on a roof in Tenerife and just opened BBC app in a moment of sheer idleness. My first thought was ‘oh FFS you couldn’t write it’. But applying a little positivity to that opening game I started to think it’s not bad. First off as has been said it gets a City game out the way. Second we don’t tend to get hammered by them at home...that pleasure is usually reserved for the Etihad. Third is the fact that it could be the best time cos City do have a bit of a habit of getting out of the traps a bit sluggish. I’m not being over hopeful but it would be great to be 3 points ahead of them at one point in the season. And we don’t know yet who we are going to sign, and maybe Vinny has a plan.
Anyway it’s back to staring at the incredible mountains behind us and relaxing. Maybe Burnley have a mountain of their own next season but let’s assume it can be done, after all there’s Luton, Sheffield Utd and Everton plus a few others, not everyone is City.

[ŽižkovClaret]

Villa game will definitely be on Sunday 27th Zizkov as they have their Europa Conference League Play Off ties on Thursday 24th and Thursday 31st August.

Aye, see a lunchtime game could work, but then again im in town weekend before for city, then edinburgh the weekend between, so it may not be a unreasonable one to miss and let our kid go v villa

[arise_sir_charge]

I f#%^#%g hate Friday night football.
I suppose we'll have to get used to it, that the majority of our TV dates will be Friday or Monday nights.

The fixtures don't look balanced, a lot of difficult early home fixtures, is balanced, because it means somewhere we'll have an easier run, but it brings the danger of having to play catch up.
If we can get off to an average start, it will set us up for a really good finish.

Let's bring Hell to the Turf.

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Funny isn’t it because I enjoy the Friday nights and the Saturday tea times.

I don’t like lunch time games.

[turfytopper]

I’ll be honest, I don’t understand by 3 of the first 4 being at home is a negative.

especially if we win all 4!

[whentheballmoves]

All of them on our key dates page

https://www.uptheclarets.com/friendlies-and-key-dates

Cheers, Tony!

[MrTopTier]

Looking forward to it already.

Live on sky, full house and singing “you can stick your treble up arse”

Can’t wait.

[dougcollins]

Sheff Utd away should be sat 20th April, not sat 30th April?

[aclaretinstevenage]

Yesterday on Tony's warning thread I posted - with no knowledge just a little cynicism - that we would get 4 of the "big six" in our first 6 games, ( the post got removed I guess for breaching the warning) . I was wrong we got 4 of the "big six" in our first seven games!!

Sometimes I wish I was a betting man!

[Woodleyclaret]

If Lutons ground isn't ready we could switch the fixture
Play at home first

[dsr]

If I remember rightly from when we swapped fixtures with Liverpool a few years back, it could only be done because Burnley agreed to it. I think we had the right to just postpone it.

[Steve-Harpers-perm]

Bit of a kick in the teeth for those with young kids who had to miss so many home matches last season due to them being moved to Friday nights only to have the same happen again opening weekend.

I purposely delayed our holiday until after the first 2 match day weekends so that my lad could see the first match at home. Now he will miss the first 2.

Probably a blessing sparing any poor child having to sit through another drubbing off City!

[bigdavethemaddog]

When do we play Leeds ?

pre-season tournament between Leeds, Burnley, PNE and Blackburn to be announced next week

[TheFamilyCat]

Yesterday on Tony's warning thread I posted - with no knowledge just a little cynicism - that we would get 4 of the "big six" in our first 6 games, ( the post got removed I guess for breaching the warning) . I was wrong we got 4 of the "big six" in our first seven games!!

Sometimes I wish I was a betting man!

Why? You would have lost.

[aclaretinstevenage]

Why? You would have lost.

That's why I'm not a betting man!!

[Gp8419]

We get one of the Man City games out of the way first - positive.
We also get a Spurs game out of the way early - positive.

Spurs are definitely not a get out of the way team,we have got to be fancying spurs at home these days they was very beatable last season .

[Claretmutt]

How come some on here think playing Man City
first match of season is a good time to play them.
Please explain.

[Sozturf7]

How come some on here think playing Man City
first match of season is a good time to play them.
Please explain.

Perhaps it's just hope. Hope City still on the beach, hope their still slightly pi--ed. Better than no hope as is usual with this fixture.

[Vegas Claret]

How come some on here think playing Man City
first match of season is a good time to play them.
Please explain.

playing the European Champions at home in a league game, take that any day of the week.

[leelad]

At the end of the day, we have to play all the other teams in the division twice, home and away. And we can't judge how this season is going to pan out based off our last spell in the Prem - different manager, style of football, etc... However, I think the 1st four games are good markers to start off with and we will know a lot more about our squad by the end of this quartet of games and if we can make that step up to the Prem. What are the odds of having our first four games at home if Luton's ground is not ready on time? Need to be aiming for at least 6 - 8 points from that first group of games I think.

[Vintage Claret]

********. I’m on holiday.

Me too, not sure whether to be happy or glad..

[Vintage Claret]

Edit: happy or sad

[wilks_bfc]

Convo just had with Mrs W

MrsW: Friday 11th August, we going out for Wedding Anniversary?
Me: Yeah, we can go for a meal somewhere
MrsW: who’s using your season ticket then?
Me:

I hadn’t clocked the dates when looking at the fixtures

[ClaretTony]

How come some on here think playing Man City
first match of season is a good time to play them.
Please explain.

There isn't a good time to play them I don't think but they tend to be like a juggernaut in the final few months of the season so playing them twice by the end of January is better than playing them late in the season.

[Jakubclaret]

Sat here on a roof in Tenerife and just opened BBC app in a moment of sheer idleness. My first thought was ‘oh FFS you couldn’t write it’. But applying a little positivity to that opening game I started to think it’s not bad. First off as has been said it gets a City game out the way. Second we don’t tend to get hammered by them at home...that pleasure is usually reserved for the Etihad. Third is the fact that it could be the best time cos City do have a bit of a habit of getting out of the traps a bit sluggish. I’m not being over hopeful but it would be great to be 3 points ahead of them at one point in the season. And we don’t know yet who we are going to sign, and maybe Vinny has a plan.
Anyway it’s back to staring at the incredible mountains behind us and relaxing. Maybe Burnley have a mountain of their own next season but let’s assume it can be done, after all there’s Luton, Sheffield Utd and Everton plus a few others, not everyone is City.

Precisely, this is the sh1t we signed up for the moment we got promoted, after city it’ll be move on to the next 1, but there will be games which will yield points amongst the mid to lower cluster.

[Rick_Muller]

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[houseboy]

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Very interesting stat.

[ClaretTony]

Yeah City on the 31st JANUARY caught me out too and I thought it was New Years eve. Due to lack of games in Jan it tricks the eyes.

I must have gone and checked back a dozen times to make sure I had got it right. The one that threw me was the first game, I just assumed Sat 12th and didn’t check initially.

[dougcollins]

Sheff U away still saying 30 April Tony, I'm sure that should be 20th.

[Claretitus]

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“ WE ALWAYS BEAT THE CHAMPIONS, WE ALWAYS BEAT THE CHAMPIONS “

[Elizabeth]

Best time to play City