Rovers fixtures 23/24

[Sweaty Gussets]

Rovers to begin against the Baggies! | rovers.co.uk

[smiller14]

Tough game to start, can't see them starting as sluggish this season. 

Seeing the fixtures gets me excited!

[Tricky]

tough run in 

 

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Southampton (H), Bristol City (A), Leeds United (A) and Sheffield Wednesday (H) are all crammed into April, as is an encounter against beaten play-off finalists Coventry City, which will be Rovers' final home fixture of the season on Saturday 27th April.

 

good to be playing likes of those again

Edited June 22, 2023 by Tricky

[alex l]

The fixture release has really brought home how many derby games have been lost compared to last season - 6. Unless we're towards the top of the league, our tv fixtures should be much reduced this season 

[Sweaty Gussets]

7 minutes ago, smiller14 said:

Seeing the fixtures gets me excited!

Edited June 22, 2023 by Sweaty Gussets

[Mike E]

Christmas fixtures are much kinder to us fans this year at least.

[Mattyblue]

Doesn’t matter how long you’ve been a fan, still always feels like Christmas morning!

[Sweaty Gussets]

2 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Christmas fixtures are much kinder to us fans this year at least.

Hudds on Boxing Day always reminds me of the 80's. Just need Bradford to get promoted a couple of times. 

[superniko]

19 minutes ago, alex l said:

The fixture release has really brought home how many derby games have been lost compared to last season - 6. Unless we're towards the top of the league, our tv fixtures should be much reduced this season 

Yeah losing Burnley, Blackpool and Wigan and getting Southampton and Plymouth in return is going to make those away days a bit tougher (can still see Sky changing times on those)

Whats our usual allocation for Hudds? Can’t remember if it’s half that stand or all of it last time I went was a Christmas fixture too a few years back

Edited June 22, 2023 by superniko

[Mattyblue]

First shock of the season… not on Sky 😲

 

 

[Hasta]

Well the opening game isn't on the Friday or Sunday at least.

Let's just hope it doesn't end up at 8pm on Saturday or something ridiculous.

[philipl]

This time last year we weren't looking at Luton and Coventry home and going. "Oh two promotion 6 pointers to round off the season."

West Brom will bring a good crowd so a great game to kick off with.

From one read through of the list there are no particular "hard" or "easy" runs.

[superniko]

18 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

First shock of the season… not on Sky 😲

 

 

With Leeds and Wednesday back in the league and Leicester now too, we won’t be the media darlings for Sky thankfully. Should be back to between 5-10 televised and not the 20+ or whatever it was last season. 

[Mattyblue]

Depends where we are in the league, the top 2 pretty much running away with it meant they kept looking elsewhere for live games - and guess who were always in that top 6!

Need to do a Coventry, stay under the radar and sneak in right at the end.

[alex l]

3 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Depends where we are in the league, the top 2 pretty much running away with it meant they kept looking elsewhere for live games - and guess who were always in that top 6!

Need to do a Coventry, stay under the radar and sneak in right at the end.

I'd rather we run away with a top 2 finish instead, given the choice!

[tomphil]

I'm getting the word 'SKY' for the first fixture.....

Although they've got Leeds to obsess about again i suppose so it'll all revolve around them.

Crap looking at the fixture list and only seeing that annoying little club Preston as the only local game.

[Mattyblue]

No they’ve already chose them. Three relegated clubs plus Sunderland v Ipswich.

[Mattyblue]

3 minutes ago, alex l said:

I'd rather we run away with a top 2 finish instead, given the choice!

Wouldn’t we all!

[matt83]

I think Plymouth away early doors is the one I’m most looking forward to. Defo cuts the wheat from the chaff from Lancs based away travellers for a beastly journey. 

Operation sow the seeds under way this evening. I’m going to the football on Saturday 2nd sept. Few weeks later did I mention it’s an away game…. Did I mention it’s in Plymouth… Did I mention I’m staying over. Oh by the way a full weekend job.  

[DeeCee]

1 hour ago, matt83 said:

I think Plymouth away early doors is the one I’m most looking forward to. Defo cuts the wheat from the chaff from Lancs based away travellers for a beastly journey. 

Operation sow the seeds under way this evening. I’m going to the football on Saturday 2nd sept. Few weeks later did I mention it’s an away game…. Did I mention it’s in Plymouth… Did I mention I’m staying over. Oh by the way a full weekend job.  

Me too, only an hour away 😁

[Ossydave]

Was hoping for Plymouth and Southampton whilst the weather was still decent so happy about Plymouth, not so much Southampton!  Although thinking about it, that could become some sort of jolly boys Xmas do 🥳

[rigger]

3 hours ago, superniko said:

Yeah losing Burnley, Blackpool and Wigan and getting Southampton and Plymouth in return is going to make those away days a bit tougher (can still see Sky changing times on those)

Whats our usual allocation for Hudds? Can’t remember if it’s half that stand or all of it last time I went was a Christmas fixture too a few years back

Part of the stand. 

[roversfan99]

4 games on TV! Hope thats just without the Prem.

Happy with a 3pm Saturday home game at last.

[Mattyblue]

I would think so, schedule filling whilst the PL hasn’t re-started. The EFL is still the same TV deal next season.

[JohnD]

3 hours ago, matt83 said:

I think Plymouth away early doors is the one I’m most looking forward to. Defo cuts the wheat from the chaff from Lancs based away travellers for a beastly journey. 

Operation sow the seeds under way this evening. I’m going to the football on Saturday 2nd sept. Few weeks later did I mention it’s an away game…. Did I mention it’s in Plymouth… Did I mention I’m staying over. Oh by the way a full weekend job.  

I went to a midweek night match at Plymouth. We used a hire car and two drivers. Left the Halfway House at Samlesbury around 1:30pm and arrived in Plymouth over an hour before ko, M5 didn't go all the way then either.

Had a couple of pints in a village pub then hammered it back. All at work in the morning too 🤣