astondalston Posted June 16, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 16, 2021 This would be the perfect 50th Birthday present! 44 minutes ago, Awol said: 5 games to get into a rhythm of winning before the annual attempt to beat the ref at Manc. That’s good. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman22 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 I hate having the newly promoted teams early in the season. Watford and Brentford will be bang up for it. Nice to have 2 of the first 3 at home but I've never liked playing Brentford. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turvontour Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Really annoying. Booked to go away on holiday sat 21st to sat 28th. Why play back to back home games? I suppose I might be lucky with one game being moved for tv. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewiek2 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 (edited) I think it's pretty easy to predict the games Sky will pick up on. My guess is- Saturday 12.30 KO - Brentford v Arsenal Saturday 5.30 KO - Watford v Villa Sunday 2pm - Manure v dirty Leeds Sunday 4pm - Spurs v Man City Sunday 7pm - Norwich v Liverpool MNF - Jawdies v Wet Spam P*ss easy this Sky scheduling. Of course the following week will have Arsenal v Chelsea as a Sky game. Edited June 16, 2021 by stewiek2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 I love last day titles deciders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WakefieldVillan Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Pretty happy with that overall tbh - no real run of "difficult" matches and first three games could really set the tone for the season - I think we might be top by the International break in September (3 x 2-1 victories! Easy!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted June 16, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 16, 2021 18 minutes ago, Herman22 said: I hate having the newly promoted teams early in the season. Watford and Brentford will be bang up for it. Nice to have 2 of the first 3 at home but I've never liked playing Brentford. you say that...but the last time a newly promoted side won its first game was huddersfield in 2017 and that was against de boer's palace who were utterly shite. the whole "they've just come up, they're well up for it" is a myth IMO...i'd much rather play them early before they get used to the league. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted June 16, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 16, 2021 9 minutes ago, stewiek2 said: I think it's pretty easy to predict the games Sky will pick up on. My guess is- Saturday 12.30 KO - Brentford v Arsenal Saturday 5.30 KO - Watford v Villa Sunday 2pm - Manure v dirty Leeds Sunday 4pm - Spurs v Man City Sunday 7pm - Norwich v Liverpool MNF - Jawdies v Wet Spam P*ss easy this Sky scheduling. Of course the following week will have Arsenal v Chelsea as a Sky game. i'd hope that when fans come back we've seen the last of the sunday 7pm games? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Would have liked Crystal Palace in one of the early fixtures. With the complete rebuild they are having to go through I'd imagine they are going to struggle big time for at least the first month or 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 We're ALWAYS away first game of the season. IIRC the only time we've been at home first game of the season in the PL over the past decade was last season, and that of course was when there were no fans in stadiums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted June 16, 2021 Administrator Share Posted June 16, 2021 Match forums are updated. Please PM any corrections you spot today. https://www.villatalk.com/forum/690-fixtures/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperTed Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 1 hour ago, sidcow said: Hopefully we will have won the league a while before we play them and be considering Champions league finals and whatnot FTFY 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Those opening fixtures in August really should be 9 points Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberman Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 40 minutes ago, sne said: Would have liked Crystal Palace in one of the early fixtures. With the complete rebuild they are having to go through I'd imagine they are going to struggle big time for at least the first month or 2. Palace will be favourites for drop I think. They'll be easy pickings any time in the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 2 hours ago, MaVilla said: Norwich's first 3 games, Liverpool, Man City, Leicester..........yikes. At least they’ve got Buendia to bail them out 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 41 minutes ago, villalad21 said: Those opening fixtures in August really should be 9 points Or Smith out, right? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonjon Posted June 16, 2021 Visiting Supporter Share Posted June 16, 2021 Absolutely Gutted , was looking forward to a visit to Villa Park for the first time in a few years, But I fly to Corfu the Day before, just hope with fingers crossed that I can find it Live on Sky sports as most of the bars out there have Sky, Should be a good game with Ollie up for beating his old team and Ivan Toney showing what he's about with making the step up, lt should be an interesting game, and I don't think we will roll over, I've got a good feeling with our first match at home against Arsenal, I think they might get a shock. Best of luck to Villa for the forthcoming season (but not against us) you should do very well especially with the addition of Buendia who's a fantastic player, A good bit of business done there. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman22 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 2 hours ago, tomav84 said: i'd hope that when fans come back we've seen the last of the sunday 7pm games? Oh no.... I've enjoyed our Sunday 7pm KOs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted June 16, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 16, 2021 22 minutes ago, jonjon said: Absolutely Gutted , was looking forward to a visit to Villa Park for the first time in a few years, But I fly to Corfu the Day before, just hope with fingers crossed that I can find it Live on Sky sports as most of the bars out there have Sky, Should be a good game with Ollie up for beating his old team and Ivan Toney showing what he's about with making the step up, lt should be an interesting game, and I don't think we will roll over, I've got a good feeling with our first match at home against Arsenal, I think they might get a shock. Best of luck to Villa for the forthcoming season (but not against us) you should do very well especially with the addition of Buendia who's a fantastic player, A good bit of business done there. there's always next season mate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 2 hours ago, tomav84 said: you say that...but the last time a newly promoted side won its first game was huddersfield in 2017 and that was against de boer's palace who were utterly shite. the whole "they've just come up, they're well up for it" is a myth IMO...i'd much rather play them early before they get used to the league. We lost in the 1st home game to Stoke, Newcastle beat us 6-0 as well. We did beat Bournemouth who battered us that day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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