Fixtures 2021-22

Discussion in 'The Hornets' Nest - Watford Chat' started by Hornet77, Jun 16, 2021.

  1. Hornet77

    Hornet77 Academy Graduate

    Not the worst start. Hopefully we won't need points from the last two games of the season.

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  2. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    Nice couple of early away trips so hopefully fans will be allowed to travel.

    Nightmare month as usual and a tricky ending although as @Filbert will know Leicester don't do endings well.

    Will Sarr miss the January games due to the African nations cup?
     
  3. Malteser2

    Malteser2 Reservist

    I’d say that’s not bad at all. A start that could help us hit the ground running. The tricky fixtures come when most of those clubs will be involved in European matches. The run in isn’t too bad.

    I suppose it was written in the stars that our first match would be against the side that ultimately sent us down. (And who we did manage to beat at home last time we played them).

    I wonder if Ashley Young will be at the Vic after all for the start of the season!
     
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  4. SkylaRose

    SkylaRose Administrator Staff Member

    When do we play VAR home and away? ;)
     
  5. Burnsy

    Burnsy First Team

    If we are out of the bottom 3 on December 6th, then we'll be doing okay. And if we go in to the last two games 7 points clear of 18th, then perfect.

    Hopefully we don't get trigger happy at the first sign of danger....that's what cost us last time.
     
  6. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    It's funny that the Euro 2020 VAR is getting praise all over the place.

    I imagine it's the general knuckledraggery of the English football fan that likes to blame a computer for bad refereeing decisions and their team losing.
     
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  7. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Well, not a bad first 10 games. We will know by 30th Oct whether will have a chance of staying up.
     
  8. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    That's not too bad actually - the 5 games from November to early December are a bit of a nightmare, but aside from that in general the toughest fixtures are spaced out pretty well to hopefully avoid us dropping in to too much of a rut.

    Some decent chances to get points on the board early as well, albeit we've not started a season well in quite a while.
     
  9. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    Not necessarily - Leicester under Rodgers have repeatedly collapsed completely by the end of the season, and maybe Chelsea could have another CL Final to focus their attention on?
     
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  10. Burnsy

    Burnsy First Team

    Norwich start with Liverpool, City and Leicester.

    So at least we are unlikely to be bottom after 3 games.
     
  11. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Villa first up. What about the lones?

    Will Young be back from his by then? Do we have to get Hoggy back to send him back to them?
     
  12. MIlton Dammers

    MIlton Dammers Reservist

    Southampton game aside, Oct & Nov look horrible. Followed by Man C at the start of Dec. Could do with picking up a decent number of point before then, because I doubt we'll get many from that spell.
     
  13. Burnsy

    Burnsy First Team

    I hope the winner of Pop Idol isn’t our new star striker?
     
  14. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    That is hard because it’s usually early on that promoted teams play their best.

    A few teams can steadily improve through the season. That’s not often been us.
     
  15. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    They might be left low on confidence when we have our away game with them as well.
     
  16. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    Norwich lost 4-1 to Liverpool on their opening day last time in the PL, albeit that was at Anfield and this time around they're at home first.
     
  17. thats cruel
     
  18. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

    I predict a guard of honour from the already relegated home team for the newly crowned domestic and European treble winners :cool:
     
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  19. onion8837

    onion8837 Reservist

    That's Krul
     
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  20. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Let’s face it Villa are in for a hiding that will make their summer holidays in Rhyl and Weston Super Mare seem a distant memory.
     
  21. StuBoy

    StuBoy Forum Cad and Bounder

    If we start badly, not even getting Nigel Pearson in again around the New Year will save us....
     
  22. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Won the first four in 18/19 didn’t we?
     
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  23. SerbianHornet

    SerbianHornet First Year Pro

    Pretty good fixtures at the start of the campaign hopefully we'll be far from bottom 3 before Liverpool game, as the matches get tougher from there.
     
  24. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    True, how crap we've been at the start of the last two seasons makes that seem an awful long time ago.
     
  25. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    Better than Norwich's start

    Liverpool H
    City A
    Leicester H
    Arsenal A

    Comfortably predict 0 points from that
     
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  26. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

    Handy we're away on 21st and 28th August as I'll be on holiday.
     
  27. The Voice of Reason

    The Voice of Reason First Team Captain

    People speak of being in the group of death when playing in tournaments, but I think we are going to be in THE TWO MONTHS OF DEATH from the beginning of October up to and including the 1st week of December. I think points will probably be in VERY short supply for us during that period :eek:

    Leeds A; Liverpool H; Everton A; Southampton H (main chance of pts me thinks); Arsenal A; Man Utd H; Leicester A; Chelsea H, and topped off with Man City H.
     
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  28. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    Suppose you have to play them all at some point..

    Hopefully some might have Europe on their minds.
     
  29. BeersThen

    BeersThen Reservist

    New manager in by the Southampton game.
     
  30. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    Stop bein so negatif
     
  31. Leighton Buzzer

    Leighton Buzzer Reservist

    Watford at home is a must win game for Norwich.
     
  32. ForzaWatford

    ForzaWatford Squad Player

    I've heard most clubs not expecting to be full capacity until at least Jan with no away fans until then either...
     
  33. Happy bunny

    Happy bunny Cheered up a bit

    But they beat Man City early on, which we haven't quite managed lately.
     
  34. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    But we beat Liverpool that season, which also did us a fat lot of good.
     
  35. GarbeliaHornet

    GarbeliaHornet Academy Graduate

    Oct-Nov looks horrible, but it seems to be a fairly concentrated couple of blocks of hard fixtures. Good start, Dec-Jan looks good and then the harder games spread out towards the end of the season. Would like to be safe before game 40 though.
     

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