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A little premature I know, but this shows we have the advantage as the groundwork has been done in the first half of the season.

We have 9 Home and 8 Away fixtures with one big away game against Arsenal.

Stretford have 8 Home and 9 Away fixtures with four big away games against Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham and us.

Our Run In;

H - Tottenham
A - Everton
H - Fulham
A - Aston Villa
H - Blackburn
H - Bolton
A - Swansea
H - Chelsea
A - Stoke
H - Sunderland
A - Arsenal
H - West Brom
A - Norwich
A - Wolverhampton
H - Man Utd
A - Newcastle
H - QPR

Stretfords Run in;

A - Arsenal
H - Stoke
A - Chelsea
H - Liverpool
A - Norwich
A - Tottenham
H - West Brom
A - Wolverhampton
H - Fulham
A - Blackburn
H - QPR
A - Wigan
H - Aston Villa
H - Everton
A - Man City
H - Swansea
A - Sunderland

Spurs next Sunday is all I am interested in.

Dont forget the current Premier League champions Spurs - their run-in, which if I am not mistaken, will lead to them having the opportunity to parade the trophy Away at City, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea.

Douglas Higginbottom wrote:Spurs next Sunday is all I am interested in.

Correct Doug. If we can beat these arrogant b'stards on sunday we can stick a dagger in them.

Douglas Higginbottom wrote:Spurs next Sunday is all I am interested in.

Fair point, I realise that to win a league you have to overcome one challenge at a time, but I decided to look at the bigger picture to show that our recent little stutter has had little impact on our season as a whole as we are still top, 3 points and 9 goals clear with many of the hardest challenges behind us.

We're away twice before the scum at home and then again after. Giving them 2 home games and a 3 mile trip to Manchester. I'm adding this to the fixture fixing portfolio.

Anyway, dream world scenario, we beat the rags at home to win the league (celebrate by singing the championé song to them for 3 hours while they are kept back) then they drop the trophy off in front of that moaning lying twat Hughes after we have given them a 6-0 twatting. Good times.

Edit: I can't fucking wait to get champions printed on the back of mine and my sons shirts.

AND WHEN WE WIN THE LEAUE THIS YEAR WE'LL SING THSI SONG TO YOU

OHHH NIALL QUINNS DISCO PANTS ARE THE BEEEESSTTTTTTTT.

sandman wrote:

Douglas Higginbottom wrote:Spurs next Sunday is all I am interested in.

Fair point, I realise that to win a league you have to overcome one challenge at a time, but I decided to look at the bigger picture to show that our recent little stutter has had little impact on our season as a whole as we are still top, 3 points and 9 goals clear with many of the hardest challenges behind us.

Appreciate that but it never ever seems to work out the way you might think when projecting ahead.If this if that etc etc,one strange result,which is always around the corner,just makes a mockery of forward thinking. It will seriously hurt the Spurs if we beat them so lets just do that.

Goaters 103 wrote:Dont forget the current Premier League champions Spurs

A - Man City
H - Wigan
A - Liverpool
H - Newcastle
A - Arsenal
H - Man Utd
A - Everton
H - Stoke
A - Chelsea
H - Swansea
A - Sunderland
H - Norwich
A - Bolton
A - QPR
H - Blackburn
A - Aston Villa
H - Fulham

7 Home, 9 Away
Big Aways Include: City, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea.

sandman wrote:
A - Man City
H - Wigan
A - Liverpool
H - Newcastle
A - Arsenal
H - Man Utd
A - Everton
H - Stoke
A - Chelsea
H - Swansea
A - Sunderland
H - Norwich
A - Bolton
A - QPR
H - Blackburn
A - Aston Villa
H - Fulham

7 Home, 9 Away
Big Aways Include: City, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea.

They will be very lucky to be 4th by time they get to Swansea I think. Tuff run of games that.

Only worried about Everton away, Arsenal away and Newcastle away

We need to win the title in the next 6 weeks or so. Spurs aren't the problem apart from Sunday, Utd are. They may be on an 8 game winning streak by the time they come to our place, so we need to establish our advantage now. If we can win v Spurs & Everton, we may look back on those results as the games which won us the title. We have a nice little run of games after those, where we won't drop many points & could build a gap. The rags will probably drop some points during this period, then come on strong for a month.

Ted Hughes wrote:We need to win the title in the next 6 weeks or so. Spurs aren't the problem apart from Sunday, Utd are. They may be on an 8 game winning streak by the time they come to our place, so we need to establish our advantage now. If we can win v Spurs & Everton, we may look back on those results as the games which won us the title. We have a nice little run of games after those, where we won't drop many points & could build a gap. The rags will probably drop some points during this period, then come on strong for a month.

Their next six games are their big test, I think. They have got six very tough games and they could crumble in any of them.

They will of course be given some help at various stages though.

United were beaten by blackburn, we scraped a win against wigan, arsenal lost to swansea, liverpool drew with stoke at home and spurs drew with wolves at home.

FFS there are no easy games, especially at the business end of the season. We all play each other home and away and the best team wins the league. Cliche or not, but its one game at a time for me.

at this stage we are looking vulnerable at the back the failure to date to sign a good central defender is a huge problem. if we get through the spurs game without defeat it will be very good.

Douglas Higginbottom wrote:Spurs next Sunday is all I am interested in.

I hope the players use this as their mantra because as soon as you start looking ahead, you lose focus on the immediate task and balls it up. One game at a time is the only way forward

Wonderwall wrote:United were beaten by blackburn, we scraped a win against wigan, arsenal lost to swansea, liverpool drew with stoke at home and spurs drew with wolves at home.

FFS there are no easy games, especially at the business end of the season. We all play each other home and away and the best team wins the league. Cliche or not, but its one game at a time for me.

Amen to that ... mind it is fun looking at the fixtures and predicting the outcome. Never happens that way thou does it. We could easily drop points at home to Spurs, Chelsea and 'them' but then go on to win all our remaining away matches ... funny thing is football

Wonderwall wrote:United were beaten by blackburn, we scraped a win against wigan, arsenal lost to swansea, liverpool drew with stoke at home and spurs drew with wolves at home.

FFS there are no easy games, especially at the business end of the season. We all play each other home and away and the best team wins the league. Cliche or not, but its one game at a time for me.

Couldn't agree more, there's so much that could happen over the coming months. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Chinners wrote:We could easily drop points at home to Spurs, Chelsea and 'them' but then go on to win all our remaining away matches ... funny thing is football

In which case we'd finish on 92 points and most probably win the league.

Exactly, who knows where the points will come from .... as long as we get them mind.

Chinners wrote:Exactly, who knows where the points will come from .... as long as we get them mind.

Totally agree, with 51 points left for grabs over 17 games we can lose 4 and still get 90 points.

My post above was to try and put some confidence back into the forum as the thread started by piccs highlights, we have gone through a stuttering period yet are still in a fantastic position. We are top of the league despite already having had the harder set of games than either of the other potential title contenders.

Plain sailing from now on.