Baggies at the Turf to get season underway

Tony Mowbray - will bring his West Brom side to Turf Moor to kick off the new season

West Brom were just one game from reaching the Premiership last season, losing to Derby in the Play Off Final at the end of last month, and after they get our season underway we travel to Scunthorpe United, who were promoted, and that is bound to remind us of our last league visit there in 2000 when we ourselves clinched promotion.

The first of the three promoted clubs to visit the Turf will be Blackpool on 15^th September whilst Watford will be the first of the three relegated clubs to visit us, but that won't be until the first day of March 2008.

It's home again on Boxing Day, and we really couldn't have been given a bigger game for the holiday fixture with Sheffield Wednesday our visitors. The last time we met Wednesday on Boxing Day was in 1961. We won 4-0 with goals from John Connelly (2), Jimmy McIlroy and Jimmy Robson. We ended the season in second place in the league and reached the FA Cup Final and I'm sure we would settle for that this time around.

The holiday period continues with a home game against Bristol City before we bring the New Year in on the Fylde Coast and a visit to the half a ground. We can only hope the weather is not too bad with us sat out in the open, albeit with a cracking view of the tower.

We play host to Preston two weeks before Christmas and travel to Deepdale on Easter Saturday, which is on the 22^nd March, but this season that will be the only Easter game with a blank date on Easter Monday.

Six of our home games next season are scheduled for midweek evening games, these being against Ipswich, Norwich, Hull, Leicester, Scunthorpe and Charlton. However, there are only four away games scheduled. Two of those are not too far away at Sheffield Wednesday and Hull but we do have midweek visits to both Watford and QPR.

We are away for the last game this time but the Turf Moor curtain will come down with a visit from Cardiff on 26^th April, and the season itself ends with just about the worst away trip of the year to Crystal Palace on Sunday 4^th May with an early kick off. We ended our season at Selhurst Park in 2003, on that occasion against Franchise.

The full fixture list is as follows:

Date	Opponents	Ven
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Sat 11 Aug	West Bromwich Albion	h
Sat 18 Aug	Scunthorpe United	a
Sat 25 Aug	Queens Park Rangers	h
Sat 01 Sep	Colchester United	a
Sat 15 Sep	Blackpool	h
Tue 18 Sep	Sheffield Wednesday	a
Sat 22 Sep	Bristol City	a
Sat 29 Sep	Crystal Palace	h
Tue 02 Oct	Ipswich Town	h
Sat 06 Oct	Cardiff City	a
Sat 20 Oct	Barnsley	a
Tue 23 Oct	Norwich City	h
Sat 27 Oct	Southampton	h
Sat 03 Nov	Sheffield United	a
Tue 06 Nov	Hull City	h
Sat 10 Nov	Leicester City	a
Sat 24 Nov	Stoke City	h
Tue 27 Nov	Watford	a
Sat 01 Dec	Charlton Athletic	a
Tue 04 Dec	Leicester City	h
Sat 08 Dec	Wolverhampton Wanderers	a
Sat 15 Dec	Preston North End	h
Sat 22 Dec	Ipswich Town	a
Wed 26 Dec	Sheffield Wednesday	h
Sat 29 Dec	Bristol City	h
Tue 01 Jan	Blackpool	a
Sat 12 Jan	Plymouth Argyle	h
Sat 19 Jan	Coventry City	a
Tue 29 Jan	Scunthorpe United	h
Sat 02 Feb	West Bromwich Albion	a
Sat 09 Feb	Colchester United	h
Tue 12 Feb	Queens Park Rangers	a
Sat 16 Feb	Coventry City	h
Sat 23 Feb	Plymouth Argyle	a
Sat 01 Mar	Watford	h
Tue 04 Mar	Hull City	a
Sat 08 Mar	Stoke City	a
Tue 11 Mar	Charlton Athletic	h
Sat 15 Mar	Wolverhampton Wanderers	h
Sat 22 Mar	Preston North End	a
Sat 29 Mar	Barnsley	h
Sat 05 Apr	Norwich City	a
Sat 12 Apr	Sheffield United	h
Sat 19 Apr	Southampton	a
Sat 26 Apr	Cardiff City	h
Sun 04 May	Crystal Palace	a

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