2012-13 Championship Fixtures Released

Honestly i'd rather have had someone else but this is the perfect test of the players bottle IMO.

Burnley will be well up for this, Coyle factor, It's a derby game and we'll be a big scalp having just come down.

If our players can pull out a win here it will be a very good sign.

Hipster_Nebula wrote:Honestly i'd rather have had someone else but this is the perfect test of the players bottle IMO.

Burnley will be well up for this, Coyle factor, It's a derby game and we'll be a big scalp having just come down.

If our players can pull out a win here it will be a very good sign.

Agree with this. If the players bottle it our season will be shaped. We must sign The Rock.

Just looking at the fixtures I reckon we will need ninety points to go up automatically.

Over 46 games I predict we will win 22, draw 12 and lose 12. 78 points will be enough for the play offs and another trip to Wembley.

doffcocker wrote:Burnley beat us in the League Cup second round a couple of years ago and it made their season, even though it blatantly meant very little to Coyle.

So I'm dreading this match.

I was at that game. It was like something from eastern Europe. Police escort all the way from the motorway junction to the ground, a cauldron of hate, and then all the dingles waiting outside the pubs to abuse us ss we went past on the coach back. Took this photo as I was sat on the coach after the game.

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Bit of a tough run in, in my opinion.

16 Leicester (A)

20 Middlesbrough (H)

27 Cardiff (A)

May

4 Blackpool (H)

I think all four of these clubs will be there or there abouts at the end of the season.

We also have Wolves at home on the 6th April who will be at the top of the table too.

Chuck in that there is always a suprise club at the top - Southampton and before them Norwich got double promotions - so we need to get the points in the bag before the start of April or else it all might end in tears!

Some people on twitter are certainly getting carried away, predictions of 100 points are being banded about.

Hipster_Nebula wrote:Some people on twitter are certainly getting carried away, predictions of 100 points are being banded about.

Way too presumptuous. I will happily settle for 78.

Hipster_Nebula wrote:Some people on twitter are certainly getting carried away, predictions of 100 points are being banded about.

Unless Coyle brings in a couple of good signings I can only see 10th place at best.

According to some bookies we are second favourites for automatic promotion. Only Leicester are rated better than us.

Leicester were also favourites last season....

Reebok Trotter wrote:According to some bookies we are second favourites for automatic promotion. Only Leicester are rated better than us.

All these bookies who don't realise that Coyle is totally clueless eh. How foolish of them.

It feels like Leicester have been favourites for years. They don't worry me at all.

Last season of the three clubs relegated from the Premier only West Ham got back at the first attempt and even then only via the play offs. They also had the biggest budget in the division - so big budget does not necessarily mean instant promotion like some think.

Birmingham are in a financial mess and lost the divisions best manager in Chris Hughton so I'd be surprised, even with their parachute payment, that they will challenge this coming season.

I’m never convinced about Holloway but fair play to him he got Blackpool into the play offs but I doubt he will do it again.

Blackburn's future depends on what Venky's plan to do - so as long as they keep control and don't invest I can't see Blackburn really challenging at the top.

Wolves however are a different matter - their success depends on how quickly their Norwegian manager susses out Championship football - I'm fairly sure they will be up there at the end of the season.

Leicester have spent a lot and under achieved so far but I think they will be challenging this time around.

Cardiff have got new owners and some money to play with, so I think they will challenge too.

I think Boro under Mowbray will be up there too.

Leeds can never be written off and whether you like him or not Warnock is a smart manager.

Charlton dominated the third division last year but I don’t think they will find it so easy at this level.

As for Bolton we should mount a challenge but I have serious doubts about Coyle’s ability. Yes I know he got Burnley up but he’s been found out as a one trick pony – 4-4-2 attack, with no plan B or a decent defensive plan.

A lot of hopes are being pinned on Holden and Lee but what if they aren’t the same after their lay offs – and even if they are will they be sold in January?

I don’t think we will win automatic promotion and I fear that a season of Coyle’s lack of any form of footballing nous will catch up with us in the last month or so of the run in.

I’d be happy to be proved wrong though but either way we certainly will be no where near 100 points at the end of the season.

That’s all from Mystic Sluffy!

Owen Owen Owen wrote:Loving those first three fixtures - get a result at Burnley and we could be on our way! What a game it's going to be in East Lancs, capacity crowd guaranteed!

Unfortunately I guarantee that it won't be a capacity crowd even if you bring 3,900.

I'd say about 18,000.

Copper Dragon wrote:

Unfortunately I guarantee that it won't be a capacity crowd even if you bring 3,900.

I'd say about 18,000.

Sorry, I just thought Burnley fans would be keen to get one over Coyle.

OneOinCoyle wrote:First nine fixtures against former premiership teams, it's like we haven't been relegated.

Its worse than that as there are only 5 teams in The Championship that have never played in The Premier League!!!

bwfc71 wrote:

OneOinCoyle wrote:First nine fixtures against former premiership teams, it's like we haven't been relegated.

Its worse than that as there are only 5 teams in The Championship that have never played in The Premier League!!!

Is it not six? Brighton, Bristol City, Cardiff, Huddersfield, Millwall and Peterbrough (7 if you include Burnley, who only played half a season).

OneOinCoyle wrote:

bwfc71 wrote:

OneOinCoyle wrote:First nine fixtures against former premiership teams, it's like we haven't been relegated.

Its worse than that as there are only 5 teams in The Championship that have never played in The Premier League!!!

Is it not six? Brighton, Bristol City, Cardiff, Huddersfield, Millwall and Peterbrough (7 if you include Burnley, who only played half a season).

It is 6 - my mistake as Millwall were in Division 1 just before it became the Premiership/Premier League - plus they were in the UEFA cup for the 2004/5 season!

On this Burnley forum they're still distraught about losing Coyley. It's a case of - " To boo or not to boo?" or "To wave your snotty hankie in the air or not?"

Some dude called Fatboy47 still can't get over the fat kit bloke scarpering as well:

"It was followed by a cynical attempt to disable our club by clearing out all the staff he could.. (can anyone really suggest he took SD/SS and the fat kit bloke to Bolton on merit??)"

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Numpty 28723 wrote:On this Burnley forum they're still distraught about losing Coyley. It's a case of - " To boo or not to boo?" or "To wave your snotty hankie in the air or not?"

Some dude called Fatboy47 still can't get over the fat kit bloke scarpering as well:

"It was followed by a cynical attempt to disable our club by clearing out all the staff he could.. (can anyone really suggest he took SD/SS and the fat kit bloke to Bolton on merit??)"

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The fat kit bloke is his brother in law. So guess he wasn't given a job at Burnley on merit either.