archie andrews Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Blackburn away I reckon and villa tues night in November I reckon..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Rotherham at home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivorguy Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Burton away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archie andrews Posted June 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 reading 1st home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It’sSmiittthhh Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 11 minutes ago, archie andrews said: Blackburn away I reckon and villa tues night in November I reckon..... I take it you've had a look at the "leaked" fixture list that's making the rounds on Twitter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Ian M Posted June 5, 2016 Admin Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Finish up with Wednesday at home? I fancy Wolves at home on Boxing Day and maybe a trip to Brentford as our opening game of 2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Maybe Wigan away on New Years Eve? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archie andrews Posted June 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 2 minutes ago, StuuRed said: I take it you've had a look at the "leaked" fixture list that's making the rounds on Twitter? not guilty your honour but was it a good guess? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It’sSmiittthhh Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 2 minutes ago, archie andrews said: not guilty your honour but was it a good guess? Bang on the money Sir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View from the Dolman Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 That document has Huddersfield Town at home to Wigan twice on the Huddersfield Town page... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheshire_red Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 When is the balloon festival and does it clash with the opening fixture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Playing on New Year's Eve too eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Londoner Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 According to the leak Blackburn (A) Reading (H) Norwich (H) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenkibby. Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Can see it being Derby away then Burton home on the Tuesday Cardiff home on the sat then two away games Brighton.Wolves. After that Leeds home Forest away,Wigan home then for sure Villa away. I'm not quite sure how the games will pan out from there on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Up The City! Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 My understanding is there is one man and one computer which does the fixtures so highly unlikely a leak would happen. Clubs do not get told of the fixtures until an hour before General release I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Londoner Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sephjnr Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 26 minutes ago, Londoner said: Lancashire to London in 48 hours leaves almost no prep time, I call BS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenkibby. Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 28 minutes ago, Londoner said: Can you make the print bigger? Even with my best glasses all I can see is B Rovers away first game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanatopia Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Derby here or there and Kodjia will score a brace to keep them nice and quiet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wanderingred Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 3 hours ago, Londoner said: every year since I can remember, a fixture list has been ""leaked". Not once has it been anywhere near accurate. If thats our real fixture list, I'll buy a gas season ticket! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malago Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 Which club and where?, combined there are 46 possibilities so guess away if you wish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted June 6, 2016 Admin Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 30 minutes ago, cynic said: Surprising how many people are taken in by it every season. At best, its the FL trialling the fixtures. At worst, its some random geek with a bit of time on his hands. Format etc of it is pretty poo - looks like some child has typed it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 Confirmed its bulls.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledAjax Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 12 hours ago, Just Red said: My understanding is there is one man and one computer which does the fixtures so highly unlikely a leak would happen. Clubs do not get told of the fixtures until an hour before General release I believe. He doesn't have a computer. He has an ENORMOUS pit of balls. Each club is represented by 50 balls of a colour unique to the club. The balls are emptied into a large pit and in dives "The Ball-picker" as he is known. The Ball-picker then grabs two random balls and shouts out the colours. These are recorded in a similar manner to the way they do the cup draws. This continues until the fixture list is complete. The entire process takes up to 6 days, but the longest ever was 10 days in the draw for the 2002/03 season - The Ball-picker that year was colourblind...but no-one knew at the start. It wasn't picked up on until late into the process when people realised that he was calling out all of the balls for Leicester, Portsmouth, Ipswich, Gillingham and Millwall as a generic "blue". It was a nightmare. Each club is required to send £100 worth of food and drink to keep The Ball-picker in good health throughout the process. There's no-way this list is genuine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted June 6, 2016 Admin Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 14 hours ago, Just Red said: My understanding is there is one man and one computer which does the fixtures so highly unlikely a leak would happen. Clubs do not get told of the fixtures until an hour before General release I believe. "I don't think people realise what goes into it," says the Football League fixtures officer, Paul Snellgrove. "They think names go into a hat and it's almost like a draw. Because it's so difficult to explain it's hard to keep people's attention." A laborious process that begins four years ahead of each season, when Fifa and Uefa set out their international schedules, goes through a raft of complex stages before the final fixture list is signed off. Presumably those trusted with deciding when supporters must travel the length of the country on a cold midweek night, or with a blasting hangover on New Year's Day, then go and shelter in a dark room for a long, long time. Glenn Thompson of the IT company Atos Origin is the man responsible for inputting all the data into the famed "fixtures computer", but before he does so the Football League, Premier League, Football Association and the Football Supporters' Federation undergo a series of discussions alongside the clubs, starting when a draft schedule is first proposed in November of the previous year. Most fans understand that each club is paired with another and their fixtures will usually correspond. For example, when Manchester United play a home match, Manchester City play away. The same rules apply for Everton and Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham and other neighbouring teams. It is easier to pair clubs if they are in the same division, with Swansea City and Cardiff City reunited in that respect next season, and the fixture organisers work closely with police forces across England and Wales to ensure matchdays do not stretch resources too thin. There are fixture compilation rules, such as that over a course of five matches a club must have no more than three home or away games. If a team plays at home on Boxing Day it must travel on New Year's Day and vice versa. Organisers try to schedule midweek matches in "good weather periods" and attempt to give clubs a home match either before of after an FA Cup tie, so as to avoid three successive away games and tricky financial situations for lower-league sides. However, things can easily become complicated and changing one fixture has a series of knock-on effects to other games on the calendar. Policing, transport and requests from clubs make scheduling an incredibly detailed and tedious task. For example, Greater Manchester police has to consider eight clubs on their patch each weekend. Four must play home and four away, yet there is also the fact that Bury request that they play home games when Manchester United are not in action so as to boost their attendance. GMP also has to avoid potentially fiery fixtures when events such as the Conservative Party conference and Gay Pride weekend are in town. The Premier League and Football League also try to avoid big games on the opening day of the season and on occasions such as Boxing Day and New Year's Day. The draft schedule is tweaked and sent out to all clubs in March, with a form asking them to respond with any specific requests. "It's very rare that we get a blank form back," admits Snellgrove, but not all can be accommodated - Birmingham City asked if they could have a home game next season on 19 April to celebrate Trevor Francis's birthday but the League could sadly not oblige, although the schedule does take into consideration the Nottingham Goose Fair and the Shrewsbury Flower Show. "Glenn does a lot of prep work manually and will feed it into the computer," says Snellgrove. "Each club gets a space on a grid which dictates their home and away sequence. He splits the season into sections, mini-leagues, the season is basically a set of 10 mini-leagues and they will reverse out at some stage. Each club within that mini league gets either a positive or negative polarity and that will dictate their order of home and away games. "There are clash dates, which is where in order to re-mix the home and away clubs, to make sure everyone plays each other, Glenn has to make them clash. Sometimes they'll both be away which is fine, sometimes they'll both be at home and we recognise this can be a problem so we make early contact with the clubs. Nine times out of 10 the police will move one to a Sunday or a Friday night, now and again they'll do them on the same day." The process will be completed over the weekend when Thompson, Snellgrove and others involved put the finishing touches to the schedule. Soon, though, it will be time to start on next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledAjax Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 @phantom Come on. No one is going to believe that it's this complex. I already explained that it's a bloke diving around in a massive pit of balls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 QPR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Up The City! Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 A goose fair??? Hahahaha. The clash with the balloon fiesta annoys me but understandable due to the size of the event but a bloody goose fair? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledAjax Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 23 minutes ago, Just Red said: A goose fair??? Hahahaha. The clash with the balloon fiesta annoys me but understandable due to the size of the event but a bloody goose fair? Have you ever tried to feed, herd or otherwise interact with geese? They are bloody vicious little things. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest that the local police force are needed en masse, riot gear donned and water cannons ready. That goose fair is in all probability a tinder box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Coach Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 Gillingham or M'boro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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