24/25 Fixtures

[Paulwantsapint81]

With the fixture list being released in the morning who we want 

1st away match

1st home match
Christmas fixtures

last home match

last match

 

Personally 

1st away match - Man Utd (catch them cold)

1st home match - Spurs (good test)
Christmas fixtures - Bournemouth/ Brighton/ Fulham/ Brentford/ Palace (all relatively local & winnable)

last home match - Newcastle (hopefully nothing to play for)

last away match - Palace (recreate dellhurst)

 

Edited 17 June, 2024 by Paulwantsapint81

[SNSUN]

Tougher fixtures to start with please while we finalise the squad by the end of the window, then easier fixtures at the end of the season when we may need points on the board.

 

Brentford at home is my prediction for first fixture.

[sandwichsaint]

Ipswich will get Man City or Liverpool

Man U will be home

We will get Wolves (or Newcastle)

[CSA96]

We will get Fulham in our first game, PL scriptwriters giving us the team who relegated us back in 2023

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

6 hours ago, Paulwantsapint81 said:

With the fixture list being released in the morning who we want 

1st away match

1st home match 
Christmas fixtures

last home match

last match

 

Personally 

1st away match - Man Utd (catch them cold)

1st home match - Spurs (good test)
Christmas fixtures - Bournemouth/ Brighton/ Fulham/ Brentford/ Palace (all relatively local & winnable)

last home match - Newcastle (hopefully nothing to play for)

last away match - Palace (recreate dellhurst)

 

First home game = West Ham

First away game = Liverpool 

Boxing Day = Spurs away

NYD = Fulham home 

Last game = Brentford away

 

[Saint Fan CaM]

First away - Man City

First home - Brighton

Get the tougher fixtures out of the way early doors

[Give it to Ron]

First Away Newcastle

Last Home Arsenal

[northam soul]

Just now, Give it to Ron said:

First Away Newcastle

Last Home Arsenal

Someone has been reading Twitter 

[east-stand-nic]

We need an east start to get points on the board early. Else we will end up adrift and playing catch up and that never ends well. I would like to see us get teams like Brentford, Forest, Ipswich, Everton perhaps though they are a bit of a bogey team for us. It would be nice if we could have at least 1.5 points per game in the bag after say 5 or 6 games. Then we should have a bit of breathing room on the bottom three nice and early.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

Arsenal away first up. Last up Everton home

[FarehamSaintJames]

First game of the season: Villa away

Forest home game of the season: Forest at home

Boxing Day: away to Palace

New Years Day: away to Fulham

Final game of the season: Arsenal at home

 

 

(The DT disclosure - this is a prediction, not a fact you weasel). 👍🏻

[Yorkshire Saint]

16 minutes ago, east-stand-nic said:

We need an east start to get points on the board early. Else we will end up adrift and playing catch up and that never ends well. I would like to see us get teams like Brentford, Forest, Ipswich, Everton perhaps though they are a bit of a bogey team for us. It would be nice if we could have at least 1.5 points per game in the bag after say 5 or 6 games. Then we should have a bit of breathing room on the bottom three nice and early.

I guess Ipswich is as east as it gets this season 😅😉

[trousers]

[trousers]

37 minutes ago, Give it to Ron said:

First Away Newcastle

Last Home Arsenal

Cheat!

[Give it to Ron]

3 minutes ago, trousers said:

Cheat!

Do you want tomorrow’s lottery numbers 🙂

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

Let's hope we're safe by April then....

[Sheaf Saint]

4 minutes ago, trousers said:

Better hope we've got enough points to stay up by the end of April, cos May looks horrendous 😬

[SaintLondon]

Ryan Fraser popping up with a late winner at St James Park (for Saints) to silence the Newcastle fans would be nice. 

[DT]

Very tough start away at Newcastle. Need to avoid an absolute battering, morale wise. Could happen. Also need to be safe by Arsenal on last day. Win all the games in between...simple. 😉

[LGTL]

We’ll be the last ever visitors to Goodison. 

[revolution saint]

1 minute ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Better hope we've got enough points to stay up by the end of April, cos May looks horrendous 😬

I dunno, can write off the Man City game but Everton and Leicester away are (or should be winnable) and title race could be over by the last game with Arsenal.

[BotleySaint]

Every game is going to be tough, but I like that start.

[trousers]

7 minutes ago, LGTL said:

We’ll be the last ever visitors to Goodison. 

Sick buckets at the ready! 

[Wurzel]

7 hours ago, CSA96 said:

We will get Fulham in our first game, PL scriptwriters giving us the team who relegated us back in 2023

 

I think we managed that ourselves without needing any help from them.

First away - Everton, before they get a chance to sort themselves out

First home - Fulham. Probably the quietest away fans so the new Red Wall can break theselves in gently.

Xmas. - Nice and local, Brentford, Palace Chelsea, Brighton, any of those would be good

Final game - Bournemouth, so we can laugh at their (unlikely) relegation

[Dusic]

Pretty well balanced set of fixtures with no absolute horror runs (on paper).

Statistically the 3rd kindest start so need to be picking up points across those first 6 games.

Of a quick check of likely bottom third teams wouldnt say anyone has a really bad run in except maybe Bournemouth.

[moorw003]

Last ever competitive game at Goodison Park is against us!!!

[John Boy Saint]

1 minute ago, Wurzel said:

 

I think we managed that ourselves without needing any help from them.

First away - Everton, before they get a chance to sort themselves out

First home - Fulham. Probably the quietest away fans so the new Red Wall can break theselves in gently.

Xmas. - Nice and local, Brentford, Palace Chelsea, Brighton, any of those would be good

Final game - Bournemouth, so we can laugh at their (unlikely) relegation

Blimey @Wurzel are you watching this thread on catch up!? 😁

[Teamsaint1]

Looking at those, it seems a little  bit less daunting than I thought it would.  Not that it is going to be easy. And we do need a decent number of decent players incoming. But otherwise......

[beatlesaint]

3 minutes ago, Dusic said:

Pretty well balanced set of fixtures with no absolute horror runs (on paper).

Statistically the 3rd kindest start so need to be picking up points across those first 6 games.

Of a quick check of likely bottom third teams wouldnt say anyone has a really bad run in except maybe Bournemouth.

My thoughts too, couldnt have asked for a much better balanced set of fixtures to be honest, there are no horrendous 6/7 game runs where you think "oh ffs" !! 

[tdmickey3]

4 minutes ago, moorw003 said:

Last ever competitive game at Goodison Park is against us!!!

Wreaths and candle lit vigil next to the dugouts ?

[Wurzel]

8 minutes ago, John Boy Saint said:

Blimey @Wurzel are you watching this thread on catch up!? 😁

It was a lot to type, it took me a while 😂

[Sheaf Saint]

19 minutes ago, LGTL said:

We’ll be the last ever visitors to Goodison. 

Let's hope we can spoil the party then, like we did at Maine Road in 2003.

[warsash saint]

6 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Let's hope we can spoil the party then, like we did at Maine Road in 2003.

delete

Edited 18 June, 2024 by warsash saint

[Whitey Grandad]

Any ideas as to when TV gets involved and moves them all?

[EssEffCee]

2 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Any ideas as to when TV gets involved and moves them all?

I always use this - https://www.premierleague.com/news/4039904

Not perfect but generally accurate enough as a guideline.

[Sheaf Saint]

5 minutes ago, warsash saint said:

& White Hart Lane

Think your memory might be playing tricks on you.

Spurs beat Man U 2-1 in their last game at WHL, and we lost our last game there (also 2-1) a couple of months before that.

[saintant]

Don't mind Newcastle away as first game - we rarely win our openers in the Prem so it's kind of a free hit provided we don't get battered.

[trousers]

Doesn't appear that any of our games are "key"... welcome back to the Premier League...

[Whitey Grandad]

2 minutes ago, trousers said:

Doesn't appear that any of our games are "key"... welcome back to the Premier League...

Suits me

[EssEffCee]

5 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Think your memory might be playing tricks on you.

Spurs beat Man U 2-1 in their last game at WHL, and we lost our last game there (also 2-1) a couple of months before that.

They went unbeaten at home in final season though so we were the last team to win there in penultimate game of 15/16. 

[aintforever]

Happy with that, important that we get a bunch of easy home games early on to get some points on the board.

[Nolan]

14 minutes ago, trousers said:

Doesn't appear that any of our games are "key"... welcome back to the Premier League...

I think the Chelsea fans will be more upset that none of their games are "Key".

[Micky]

1 hour ago, LGTL said:

We’ll be the last ever visitors to Goodison. 

Hopefully another 'Micheal Svennson' Main Road moment and result then. 

Edited 18 June, 2024 by Micky

[S-Clarke]

Decent fixture list really, pretty balanced as others have said. May looks somewhat tough, but I've seen tougher.

[SaintNewForest]

I feel so meh about that fixture list. 

[Weston Super Saint]

5 minutes ago, SaintNewForest said:

I feel so meh about that fixture list. 

Just double checking, we play everyone twice right, same as every year?

[Whitey Grandad]

9 minutes ago, SaintNewForest said:

I feel so meh about that fixture list. 

I prefer last season’s.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Happy to see us playing our two title rivals in the last month. Massive games.

[Kenilworthy]

why are all the games on the second to last day of the season on a Sunday?

[sandwichsaint]

11 hours ago, sandwichsaint said:

Ipswich will get Man City or Liverpool

Man U will be home

We will get Wolves (or Newcastle)

Three out of three ain't bad. No Twitter cheating, just the way it is.