Fixtures: We Have The Gamemonth Skeleton

So I finally looked at the Premier League fixtures today. It's not too bad, though it makes it quite stark just how few gameweeks I'll have to tinker.

We have ten months:

(The weeks with just the one date will obviously have a spread of dates once the televised fixtures are assigned to Friday/Sunday/Monday slots, etc.)

GAMEMONTH ONE: AUGUST

GW1: 5 AUG - 7 AUG

GW2: 13 AUG

GW3: 20 AUG

GW4: 27 AUG

GW5: 30 AUG - 31 AUG

GAMEMONTH TWO: SEPTEMBER

GW6: SEPT 3

GW7: SEPT 10

GW8: SEPT 17

GAMEMONTH THREE: OCTOBER

GW9: OCT 1 (Saturday - so a Friday game would move this to the month of SEPTEMBER)

GW10: OCT 8

GW11: OCT 15

GW12: OCT 18 - OCT 19

GW13: OCT 22

GW14: OCT 29

GAMEMONTH FOUR: NOVEMBER

GW15: NOV 5

GW16: NOV 12

GAMEMONTH FIVE: DECEMBER

GW17: DEC 26

GW18: DEC 31

GAMEMONTH SIX: JANUARY

GW19: JAN 2 ( - is a Monday)

GW20: JAN 14

GW21: JAN 21

GAMEMONTH SEVEN: FEBRUARY

GW22: FEB 4

GW23: FEB 11

GW24: FEB 18

GW25: FEB 25

GAMEMONTH EIGHT: MARCH

GW26: MAR 4

GW27: MAR 11

GW28: MAR 18

GAMEMONTH NINE: APRIL

GW29: APR 1 (Saturday, so a Friday game would move this one to MARCH)

GW30: APR 8

GW31: APR 15

GW32: APR 22

GW33: APR 25

GW34: APR 29

GAMEWEEK TEN: MAY

GW35: MAY 6

GW36: MAY 13

GW37: MAY 20

GW38: MAY 28

Initial Thoughts

The first half of the season doesn't look too bad for me. I'm not so keen on the second half however. It's going to be a struggle to negotiate chips and blank gameweeks when you see it on paper like this.

I think I'll most definitely be Bench Boosting in GW1 - I mean Gamemonth One. It'll simplify things straight off the bat. Especially when I'm going to have to pick a playing squad that'll last me to at least GW6.

Looking at the specific fixtures teams have I think I'll most definitely have to have Salah. I was hoping that maybe I could avoid having him to save cash, but that doesn't look an option at first glance. The City fixtures look decent too. As with Salah I was hoping it would be possible to avoid the rush and clamour for Haaland as well, but it's not looking good.

Son has very decent fixtures on top of this, so given I have to have 15 playing players in my squad I think my first eleven will suffer heavily in comparison to what other people have. Still though, it's hard to really judge until the game updates and we get to play around with what's available.

Whichever week I choose to make changes in Gamemonth September I'm guessing I'll be using the first wildcard. This is assuming there aren't any major changes to chips, etc when the game does update of course. Perhaps there'll be some surprises.