please log in to view this image This has been circulating as a possible first day fixture list. May be spam......
Seen that too but would suggest it is made up... the Bristol teams are both home so not they would allow that....
Capital One First Round draw: Carlisle United v Chesterfield Nottingham Forest v Walsall Fleetwood Town v Hartlepool United Scunthorpe United v Barnsley Bolton Wanderers v Burton Albion Accrington Stanley v Hull City Rochdale v Coventry City Oldham Athletic v Middlesbrough Huddersfield Town v Notts County Blackburn Rovers v Shrewsbury Town Morecambe v Sheffield United Doncaster Rovers v Leeds United Wigan Athletic v Bury Northampton Town v Blackpool Sheffield Wednesday v Mansfield Town Rotherham United v Cambridge United Crewe Alexandra v Preston North End York City v Bradford City Port Vale v Burnley Peterborough United v Crawley Town Yeovil Town v Queens Park Rangers Plymouth Argyle v Gillingham Swindon Town v Exeter City Bristol Rovers v Birmingham City Ipswich Town v Stevenage Luton Town v Bristol City Charlton Athletic v Dagenham & Redbridge Wolverhampton Wanderers v Newport County Brentford v Oxford United Portsmouth v Derby County Southend United v Brighton & Hove Albion Milton Keynes Dons v Leyton Orient Cardiff City v AFC Wimbledon Millwall v Barnet Wycombe Wanderers v Fulham Colchester United v Reading Ties to be played week commencing August 10 Makes a change not to have to be playing
...and I remember posters saying they were happy to stay in the championship..... Just hope we stay up!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33145437 I wonder who will be the first one to post the fixtures tom ??
Dunno - but I guess we will have to post them on the Hull, QPR or Burnley board to get them in the right league
Look forward to our usual 2nd round defeat to a League One/Two side... I'd quite like somebody such as Liverpool first -we might catch them on an off day with lots of new signings as per 99..
I know There's a few of us (including the supermods ) who keep badgering Mick to change it. We'll keep on at him.
I wonder how long it'll take for Sky to announce the first lot of fixtures they'll be showing - PL always get announced before FL.
I read an article a few years ago about how the fixtures are compiled where they have to take into account things like the one mentioned above by Kev, police requests, any other events taking place (Man U would be away if there was a test match at Old Trafford) and other things I can't remember. We would've had to put that request in before promotion had been secured.
European games might mean a few changes of course with 3 teams being in the Europa league which might be a help to us...
If we have, we'll have a fired-up otter for that match. I have a feeling that whenever we play Chelsea first, it'll be on TV with the angle of former managers of the Madrid clubs, even though they weren't there at the same time.
