 Welcome to toffee TV the corp is fueling toffee TV this summer you can get two corp pizzas and a pack of Four Budweiser for only a five in selectors stores. You can find out more in the description. Please drink a sponsor book But as the fixtures it out. Yeah, they come out last week. He did I wasn't he you went so we didn't do video Well, I know you did I did so we're gonna do yeah, yeah, we're gonna do a bit more of it People always you know when the fixtures come out it's always People get excited about it because it almost feels like the beginning of a new season and then a lot of people are like And I was a little bit like this. Yeah, but did I fix is your play one twice last season proved? that Not having a terrible start Because I'm not saying does it any easy start in the Premier League But not having a very very difficult start can set you up to have a Good-ish season Especially if you've got a new regime at the helm that might need a little bit more time to sort of bed into itself So What what are your thoughts on how the fixtures fell? Yeah, I mean last listen last season we had a very very tough start I mean I was after Stoke we had some the big hitters on the run and it Listen, even if you've got the best team in the Premier League if you open up with bad fix you list That's tough fix you list it can shape your season because you know that no one's ever Ready to go on day one. They're not at 100% and and you see this, you know throughout every club almost Manchester City being you know probably being the exception last season although we haven't got a point there earlier so if you're playing teams who You know around their level or better than then obviously that's an advantage Obviously the caveat of that is wolves. We've got wolves and they're coming up on the back of a great season Playing some really good football. I Don't know whether people are getting carried away with wolves though to be fair because Newcastle Come up with like under a point or something a year before Well, I mean it all comes down to what they do in the next couple of months, isn't it? Well, I never like playing a promoter team especially away because I always think first game of the season when you play a promoter team They've normally got a fifth squad So they've normally got the best 11 whereas if you get this team, let's say two months down the line and you know spent suspensions and An injury start kicking in you're obviously playing a weaker side and there's always obviously all that Hype and and everything that goes into the first day of the season as well. It's a clean sheet They're back in the Premier League. There's a lot of hype around them anyway They look like they could be competing for some good players over the summer with the the money they've got and Mendez Pulling the strings in the background. So I think personally this is good. It is a tough start but You know, we've faced them in the past. I think Matt matters his face Gamer's knowledge away, obviously was a 3-3 and we have face 2-2 sorry, and we have faced a Lot of promoter sides in the last few years. So, you know, it swings and ball it swings and round out Isn't it? So, you know, you take what you get. I like I try to play them away Then I was thinking when you're after my room, everyone just goes I would trunk these three or four nil and It doesn't remember if you are a few years ago And everyone's like this great star four or five nil. We got beat one nil at home and you're like waging and you start going Crystal Palace years and years ago. So I think sometimes you better go on on the road anyway It'll be a tough game. That will be a tough game in September October. It is the way it is He's talking about them having a fit a fully fit squad. We should have done should we buy the same account So it's I think it's a good opportunity. I mean, I know I tried to play Wolves away Man City Tottenham Liverpool United, you know, you look past that August September October November They are that that's a deep, you know, that is a decent start to to the campaign. It's a good it's a good chance for you know, the manager and Marcel Brands to get things in place. I mean, obviously Wolves, Southampton, Bournemouth we play They're all tough games, of course. They're all tough games, but you look at the big it as Arsenal away in September We obviously never never go there. I saw a way then we've got man United Away in October We've got Chelsea away in November and then obviously in December. You've got Liverpool away You've got we've got Tottenham at home. We've got Man City away So we what I would say is most of the top six sides We're playing them away in the first half of the season as well, which is actually a lot better We can face them all second half the season at home. I think which presents a better running for us And but just when you look at this season that the what you know, the games obviously we started with Stoke And then we moved on to you know, Man City away Chelsea away Spades at home United United away. It was a really really difficult start added with the Europa League. I think this This is a it's a it's a more balanced start of the season and gives us Opportunities to pick up points and I think Obviously listen, that's what we need, you know, I find the very unfair on on a lot of clubs when you know when you see those start and it's like Seven or eight of the big sides in the face like ten games. Let's say it's that's not really balanced Is it when you know for any team we had that under Martinis in the second season We played seven of the top eight in our first nine games I think or ten games and and we didn't lose any of them, which is bizarre You know, we lost a lot of games against see if we shouldn't have lost well, I shouldn't have lost against the suppose But yeah, I think the thing when we start a new season you want momentum That's what you want, you know, and it gives us an opportunity to build up momentum You know and the other thing as well with the exception of City and Tottenham in December. We haven't got to Like at the top side on the run wait, you know what I mean? So even if you play away, it's a yeah three like a way of Arsenal. We then come on to Fulham Yeah, you know when we're away United our next game is then brighten their own So you've got the opportunity if those games don't play out the way you hope you've got an immediate Opportunity where you'd look and go will Fulham at home should be three points brightener home should be and you can recover from If it's a loss, but by the time we go to Arsenal We could have won the first five games. I'm not saying that we will but we may be on a good run and the confidence might be high We can go there and express ourselves because no one knows what they're gonna do this season It's the first year after Wenger. Wenger's been there for so long and there he's a good manager But you know, there'll be issues early on with them as well cause Sorry, watching the game. There'll be issues with them as well So that represents a chance and it isn't on the Saturday either Well, yeah, of course, listen, these these are the games in the right order. They're just not they're just obviously not on the days That will represent for us as well. I'm cuz they look like Thursday night That's the thing. You're right. There's a there's a difference now in in You know in a lot of teams and we played Man City this season And you we probably got a point because we played them early on and they hadn't quite better than so sometimes you can get that when You it's just that last season we played so many and we were on such a the run was such We're so over complicated by the Europa League games and and not having a team and the manager not knowing what his best He was bringing so many players in and all these different things. Had he started last season like this I think he'd have been he'd have believed he would have been he'd have been absolutely light I've just gone off in our studio and now I've come back. I'd be absolutely delighted. Yeah, thank you And obviously First of December obviously probably won't be first of December and by the time the fix Sky cameras get all the rest of it Man City and Tottenham that we obviously Could be full Christmas in a way in a home and then two fixes Boxing Day barely and then bright in a way. I mean talk about Something going around the country She's fine. No, I just mean the fact that it's you know boxing day and then bright No, but Bryson on the 29th, you know for fans over the festive period It's just You know, they don't you can't say man. They go. Yeah, it's all random when we know it isn't random Well, they've told us it's not random They did tell us it was they did say that no none of the top six teams faced each other in the first game this season You're asking all playing in Man City, so I Don't really know what's going on less than you did. I hate playing in all my news day after say I do hate playing Would you to prefer to be home on the 29th and then away on New Year's Day? It is what it is isn't it? It is what it is. And as we said, you know back to back home Man City at home Middle of February Liverpool and Chelsea at home in March Arstallamon United at home in April and then the last two games of the season being last home game of the season spares Last game of the season in their new stadium Which they've had the rules broken for also because they're gonna play their face game at Wembley Yeah, the real says that you can't play two home games a two-sector savings. And yeah, that's been Being the lab. Yeah, it's been a lad. I suppose To be fair the rules probably wrong But they've broken But the real probably is wrong because it's a bit stupid But yeah, it's a lot lot more balanced. I mean the last The last six on game six of last season's top seven Yeah So it's I suppose from that point of view, it's it's a rolls of waste, you know, but what I would say is By that time you would like to think we're confident. We've won a lot of home games. We're on a good roll I always to be honest, mate I always fanciest of Goddison always with probably the exception of Liverpool because they just got that at the moment, but We could be on a great little run with these games and then therefore the home games become You start expecting results then because if you're you know, then team won't want to be played Hopefully those teams won't want to be facing us at critical times in this season So, you know, and you're up in Champions League and what have you so No, it is mad the way it does throw I mean obviously self-amptom was our last home game of the season now It's our first home game the season and as you said, you know, you look at the home fixes at the back end There is it is like the face. It is like the first lot of the season just gone home fixes. So Yeah, I'm quite happy with those fixes I think I thought that I thought that, you know, find me way into the season find a feat obviously with with silver and Brands and and how the team shapes up. I think it's it's better that it shapes up in the first month or two what I would say is If you can get yourself a good off to a good start Get up that table. It's a it takes a lot of fall away even when you lose games You don't really go anywhere when you start like you did last year. It seems a You seem to be trying to call your way up for a long time. So we should be looking those first what first 10 games even we should be looking there's a lot of points on There is a lot of points on the table to be taking for us. I think they I mean less than a ways Oh, it's a tough game, but the under all tough That's the thing, but we've got an opportunity to get a good solid start if we do that who knows where it goes and That's why there's a winter break the season after because I just It's so many games. So it's what eight games if you think we've new years day in a month, isn't it so it's like Eight games and I think I'm a fake up thrown in and everything That's why there's a win. That's why there's gonna be a win to break the season after not this season season after 13 days every team's getting off on the February That is literally still gonna continue. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's just in February. Oh, yeah Yeah, it's mad isn't it because they split it. Yeah, they're not having any weeks. There's no They're giving it that up to anybody. No, no, they're giving that up to anybody whatever But no, I think you know like we said, I think it's a decent. It's a good start for us I don't think we can move away from that. It's a good start and Obviously, it's an opportunity. That's what I would say It's an opportunity for silver to really come in and go look we've got a good set of fixes winnable games Let's get everything right when we start and we can put some points on this board and let's you know Let's finish. This was a positive Let's hope that when we do play those teams at home towards the end of the season We are, you know looking to do something looking to yeah Yeah, to finish in a European place or whatever and the league and they mean something positive positive I just don't we just don't we can we try to tighten up against barely. Yeah We want our fans to see it don't mean you don't want to go to space and you know celebrate down there But barely at home will be a nice time to celebrate. Yeah Do you have it? Let us know your thoughts on the fixtures. Are you happy with them? Are you at all worried about the back end? Playing all those games at least all the home Andy least all those big teams are at home. Let us know your thoughts Thanks for watching software TV. We'll see you later