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by **Redman in wales** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:18 am

the usually hectic xmas/new year period is also good for us:

Dec 22 Portsmouth (home)
Dec 26 Derby County (away)
Dec 29 Manchester City (away)
Jan 1 Wigan Athletic (home)

by **Ace Ventura** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:19 am

As a few others have said.....no excuses with that fixture list.
The big 3 away is in the run in so by then if we are not in with a shout we will only have ourselves to blame.
Villa away is winnable provided we put a full strength team out. No early rotation Rafa...the players will of had a nice break as no major championships through the summer,
Thats 2 excuses gone, or 3 if you count rotation.

1, tough early fixtures - NO
2, World cup, players tired - NO
3, Rotation - HOPEFULY NO

Really we have a chance like united did last season to get a good start in and build confidence and momentum.

Already itching for the Villa game now.

by **lio** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:21 am

Details out now, folks ...

sky sports

by **europian-kings** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:22 am

why are we always away first though...this season we got villa away, last season we had sheff united away, before that we had middlesborugh away, before that we had tottenham away. time before that we had chelsea at home though...think we lost 2-1. :angry:

by **GRAHAM01** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:23 am

that`s a good start for us and gives us a chance to get a couple of games in before we meat chelski and show them what they are up against

looking good bring on the seasons start

by **europian-kings** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:28 am

chelsea dont have an easy end to the season

Saturday, 19 April 2008
Barclays Premier League
Everton v Chelsea, 15:00

Saturday, 26 April 2008
Barclays Premier League
Chelsea v Man Utd, 15:00

Saturday, 03 May 2008
Barclays Premier League
Newcastle v Chelsea, 15:00

Sunday, 11 May 2008
Barclays Premier League
Chelsea v Bolton, 15:00

i can see them losing 1 or 2 of them

by **Ian Rush's Right foot** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:32 am

Ian Rush's Right foot wrote:I've been told we've got villa at home...................

which should be nice

my source was almost right

list loks nice

by **Ade** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:44 am

Ciggy wrote:March and April look a bit dodgy

Get ready for some rotation then Ciggy.

TBH, I'll take that fixture list - and i'm taking it jumping up and down. That is a gift compared to last year's, so no excuses next year. And if the Mancs ever have a wobble, it tends to be late autumn early winter – when we play them at home. Nice!

The one black spot is Chelsea so early, as we're such slow starters. But the flipside is that even if we lost that one, it's early enough to put it behind us and move on.

by **destro** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:49 am

Saturday, 11 August 2007

Aston Villa v Liverpool, 15:00

Wednesday, 15 August 2007

Liverpool v West Ham, 19:45

Saturday, 18 August 2007

Liverpool v Chelsea, 15:00

Saturday, 25 August 2007

Sunderland v Liverpool, 15:00

Saturday, 01 September 2007

Liverpool v Derby, 15:00

Saturday, 15 September 2007

Portsmouth v Liverpool, 15:00

Saturday, 22 September 2007

Liverpool v Birmingham, 15:00

Saturday, 29 September 2007

Wigan v Liverpool, 15:00

Saturday, 06 October 2007

Liverpool v Tottenham, 15:00

Saturday, 20 October 2007

Everton v Liverpool, 15:00

Saturday, 27 October 2007

Liverpool v Arsenal, 15:00

Saturday, 03 November 2007

Blackburn v Liverpool, 15:00

Saturday, 10 November 2007

Liverpool v Fulham, 15:00

Saturday, 24 November 2007

Newcastle v Liverpool, 15:00

Saturday, 01 December 2007

Liverpool v Bolton, 15:00

Saturday, 08 December 2007

Reading v Liverpool, 15:00

Saturday, 15 December 2007

Liverpool v Man Utd, 15:00

Saturday, 22 December 2007

Liverpool v Portsmouth, 15:00

Wednesday, 26 December 2007

Derby v Liverpool, 15:00

Saturday, 29 December 2007

Man City v Liverpool, 15:00

Tuesday, 01 January 2008

Liverpool v Wigan, 15:00

Saturday, 12 January 2008

Middlesbro' v Liverpool, 15:00

Saturday, 19 January 2008

Liverpool v Aston Villa, 15:00

Tuesday, 29 January 2008

West Ham v Liverpool, 19:45

Saturday, 02 February 2008

Liverpool v Sunderland, 15:00

Saturday, 09 February 2008

Chelsea v Liverpool, 15:00

Saturday, 23 February 2008

Liverpool v Middlesbro', 15:00

Saturday, 01 March 2008

Bolton v Liverpool, 15:00

Saturday, 08 March 2008

Liverpool v Newcastle, 15:00

Saturday, 15 March 2008

Liverpool v Reading, 15:00

Saturday, 22 March 2008

Man Utd v Liverpool, 15:00

Saturday, 29 March 2008

Liverpool v Everton, 15:00

Saturday, 05 April 2008

Arsenal v Liverpool, 15:00

Saturday, 12 April 2008

Liverpool v Blackburn, 15:00

Saturday, 19 April 2008

Fulham v Liverpool, 15:00

Saturday, 26 April 2008

Birmingham v Liverpool, 15:00

Saturday, 03 May 2008

Liverpool v Man City, 15:00

Sunday, 11 May 2008

Tottenham v Liverpool, 15:00

Until Sky get their grubby hands on the dates and times

by **redtrader74** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:00 am

What is important is the games that coincide with the African Nations cup, that is where Chelsea and Arsenal could fall down.

by **Forever_Red** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:01 am

Villa away - easily our worst performance last season so its time to make up for it at the start of this one

Totally agree with those who've said no excuses this year, the treble big games period is the only part that looks a bit dodgy but the fixtures have been a lot worse to us than that in the past so I'm happy with them this time time round

by **bigmick** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:20 am

I didn't actually see the Villa Away performance, but if it was worse than Middlesboro Away then feck me it must have been dire.

As for the fixture list, we'll know if we are genuine title contenders after one game. Obviously, we can't be certain we'll win at villa and defeat wouldn't put us out of it, but whether or not we TRY and win it will tell you everything. If we go there with a fecked about with line-up and don't go absolutely all out for the three points, then that will put our marker down for the season, and we won't win the title. We absolutely must approach this game with a win or bust attitude in my opinion (and once again I stress before anybody goes off on one that obviously that doesn't necessarily mean we WILL win it). WE MUST GO ALL OUT TO WIN THE GAME IS WHAT I MEAN.

No messing with the team, no resting players for the long campaign ahead, no baffling formational or positional nonsense, no "lets get through the first half then wait and see"s, no hanging about until five minutes from time to bring on a second striker if we need a goal, no taking a striker off if it's 1-1 and settling for a point, no crosses flying accross their area with not a red shirt in sight in the box, no central midfield pairings playing in each others pockets and not getting over the half way line.

Lets start as we mean to go on, lets go all out for the win. Oh, and seeing as I reckon they will, lets just for a laugh play our strongest team and see what happens.

by **redtrader74** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:23 am

Mick, Villa away was one of the worst games i have ever seen, nobody tried, really both sides looked as though they had agreed to draw. On top of that it was a damn cold day, froze my nuts off.

by **stmichael** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:30 am

second time we've played villa on the first day in recent seasons. i remember us winning 1-0 down there in 2002-2003 thanks to a riise goal. michael owen missed a penalty aswell. infact that was the season when we won nine and drew three of our first twelve league games and still ended up fifth. ah memories.

playing chelsea early doors at home is good as far as i'm concerned. i'd rather play them before they've had a chance to build up any momentum.

by **66-1112520797** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:36 am

bigmick wrote:I didn't actually see the Villa Away performance, but if it was worse than Middlesboro Away then feck me it must have been dire.

As for the fixture list, we'll know if we are genuine title contenders after one game. Obviously, we can't be certain we'll win at villa and defeat wouldn't put us out of it, but whether or not we TRY and win it will tell you everything. If we go there with a fecked about with line-up and don't go absolutely all out for the three points, then that will put our marker down for the season, and we won't win the title. We absolutely must approach this game with a win or bust attitude in my opinion (and once again I stress before anybody goes off on one that obviously that doesn't necessarily mean we WILL win it). WE MUST GO ALL OUT TO WIN THE GAME IS WHAT I MEAN.

No messing with the team, no resting players for the long campaign ahead, no baffling formational or positional nonsense, no "lets get through the first half then wait and see"s, no hanging about until five minutes from time to bring on a second striker if we need a goal, no taking a striker off if it's 1-1 and settling for a point, no crosses flying accross their area with not a red shirt in sight in the box, no central midfield pairings playing in each others pockets and not getting over the half way line.

Lets start as we mean to go on, lets go all out for the win. Oh, and seeing as I reckon they will, lets just for a laugh play our strongest team and see what happens.

Well after reading that, you've made it clear that Rafa has a lot of his own problems to sort out, ( I agree with what you've just said BTW)

But the big question is ..... has he learnt from prevoius experiance. Infact would he even think he's wrong, in doing what seems odd to us mere mortals. Its like zonal marking everyone sneered at that, he stuck to his guns proved many wrong, will he do the same again ?

One last point, "going for the win" as a manager IMO, its not really Rafa's style. We never go out and look as though we're going to give the opposition a damn good hiding. There are to many stratergies, plans, thinking in Rafa's mind to make us an intently attackling team. I think he's a cautious manager at the best of times, he thinks far too much about the oppostion IMO especially the likes of Villa and City and teams like that respectively, where I think they should be thinking about our set up and how there going to play us.
Certainly at Anfield they do ..... and stick 10 men behind the ball and then we usually huff and puff or rely on Gerrard to break them down.

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