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december will be hard but at least we wont suffer from burnout because we are buying half of the players in europe and thats even before the window opens.

Just think people are looking far too much into fixtures, we all have to play each other twice, if we had a tough start it would mean we have easier fixtures on paper somewhere else in the season and vice versa. I personally don't look at our fixtures past February anyway as our season will probably end there anyway if Rodgers adopts the same cup policy as last year with fielding weak teams and taking the p*ss out of the competitions and fans who pay regardless, just my take on things tho.

id rather not be facing utd so early with all the incomings and outgoings that are on the cards but hopefully they'll have similar issues... by december we should be settled. not so much worried for the run in fixtures since we generally tend to finish pretty strongly.

Saw that, you shouldn't be proud of predicting Stoke. I hate Stoke, although it will be a good early test for our new defence.

Haha, they will be a bit less defensive under Hughes. Likely a bit more open, which'll help us out. Plus, we'll likely have a couple of untried players in there like Aspas, and potentially Mkhitaryan, which will make it more difficult for them to know what they're going to do. I think its a good opening fixture for us.

perfect time to play stoke, whilst hughes is still trying to teach those rugby players how to play football.

If united don't get a win against Swansea on opening day, then Moyes could be under alot of pressure very quicklywith that run of games!

59 days to wait

I think getting at least 10pts in the 1st 5 games is totally possible. First 5 games will be a good test of where we are in terms of progress IMO.

im not too interested in the fixtures really. this season I expect a lot more from our home games. I'd like to go undefeated at home with no more than 5 draws and just be more consistent away from home. we need to push for 4th with no more excuses from the club and fans.

There was not a single team in the Premier League last season that went undefeated. Not saying it is impossible, just unrealistic.

http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/match...ew=HOME_VS_AWAY

What I would say, is our home and away records both need to improve, but as shown by our run of games, they were increasingly doing so, and for that reason I think it'll continue in the same vein.

I don't want to predict too much specifically, but if we could take all but a few shy of maximum points of the bottom 8 teams, and improve our record against those between us and the teams below us by 6-12 pts, and improve on those above us (not too difficult given our poor record last year), then that'll be us in good shape to improve on 7th.