The season starts at 1pm!!

The day the fixtures come out is always the "start" of the season for me. Hope it's a away fixture with 2000+ mariners there to show the players and the rest of the league, this is our time!

Hoping for either a home game or an away game within about 3hrs of Grimsby for a monster following.

Start of the season for me is always the first Champions League qualifer. It's only a matter of time before we'll be in one  

Can't wait It would be ace if it was Lincoln at home.

Tough to decide what a good or bad first game would be. Things feel so positive right now that any game has its positive aspects. A tough looking away game against one of the other fancied teams gives us a chance to make a statement. Also, given that we've kept the vast majority of last season's team perhaps we are more likely to hit the ground running that sides who have had to rebuild. In that case getting a few tough looking games very early on may be advantageous.

Braintree away according to the usual "leaked" first day fixtures that always come out, which usually prove to be a load of old bo###cks.

I really want an away day....  please please please... Cheltenham away....

and then I promise I will be good....  

Quoted from gary_elton

I really want an away day....  please please please... Cheltenham away....

and then I promise I will be good....  

We don't do Cheltenham away on the first day of the season Gaz, although it was probably the only decent 45 minutes of football that season.

where did you get your " unofficial leak " from Les ???

Quoted from Les Brechin

We don't do Cheltenham away on the first day of the season Gaz, although it was probably the only decent 45 minutes of football that season.

Bizarre game, the first 45 minutes we were fantastic. Then the whole season went belly up at half time and the rest, as they say, is history.

Quoted from mariner91

Bizarre game, the first 45 minutes we were fantastic. Then the whole season went belly up at half time and the rest, as they say, is history.

We couldn't cope with a 55-year old sub in the 2nd half!

Premier/Football league have theirs sorted by 10am, and that was prob 2 weeks ago

Why on earth do we have to wait so long!!!!

Rumours weren't balderdash last season were they?

Tranmere away - some bookies favourites. Go give them a tonking and get the ball rolling.

Isn't it our turn to be at home first game? Someone said it was sequential, or is that bollox?

Quoted from ginnywings

Isn't it our turn to be at home first game? Someone said it was sequential, or is that bollox?

I think it has worked out sequential for the past five season but there isn't a rule or policy which dictates this, it just appears to be the way it's fallen.

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

I think it has worked put sequential for the past five season but there isn't a rule or policy which dictates this, it just appears to be the way it's fallen.

Ah! right, thanks.

Don't know if I can cope with all this pre season excitement even a rumour of another player signing into what as got to be the strongest team we have had for years. We have seen to many false dawns that failed so I am not that naive to  think we just have to turn up ....but this seems the most positive (even before a ball is kicked) I have ever seen the club and fans alike for a long,long time.
        
                 Can't wait for 1pm and plan mine and Harry's journeys with the magnificent black and white army.
                                                                                  UTM.

The fixtures are clearly ready so I don't know why they've not just released them at 9am or something. Forcing us all to hang on until 1pm is utterly pointless.

Quoted from Chrisblor

The fixtures are clearly ready so I don't know why they've not just released them at 9am or something. Forcing us all to hang on until 1pm is utterly pointless.

I think the biro stopped working at one point and they have to wait for the tipex to dry before they can correct the mistakes too.

I don't think the Conference have even accepted ball point technology and were probably chasing a goose around for a while to get some feathers for quills.

When your playing in a league that type up its fixtures and 'rumours' about fixtures are posted all over the Internet, you know it's probably time you got out.

Quoted from Les Brechin

Braintree away according to the usual "leaked" first day fixtures that always come out, which usually prove to be a load of old bo###cks.

Hope you have not booked train tickets yet?  

It was actually top tex from the pound shop. Tip ex is a luxury only proper run organisations use - said mr a blatterr (spokesperson)

Here's an interesting article on how football fixtures are made:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2009/06/secrets_of_the_fixture_compute.html

Tranmere away NAILED ON.

There are a few new grounds for me to visit this season but i bet at least one falls on the 4 Saturdays I am away during the season. The last two in Nov and 1st In Dec is bound to see us at Bromley or Guisley!!!

Fingers crossed

I think Wrexham home.

Lincoln home would be a good bound to be a sellout

We've been given tough opening day fixtures in the past - Crawley away (went on to win the league), Fleetwood home (same) and Bristol R away (promoted).

If they mirror the fixtures from last season, i.e. away to a side relegated from the FL, then I'd guess Tranmere. Could obviously be Cheltenham too.

And then there's the TV factor. One of the games on the opening weekend will be on BT Sport so may as well make it a new team from the FL against a Conference big boy like Grimsby.

as long as they leave us alone and let us kick off on a saturday afternoon...
I dont want a bloody friday night rigmarole....

Had a dream we got Macclesfield away but still keeping with my guess of Guiseley at home

Kiddy away, somewhat underwhelming

Quoted from gary_elton

I dont want a bloody friday night rigmarole....

It's nice with some crayfish puttanesca

Were you expecting Man Utd or something?

Quoted from Kymariner12

Kiddy away, somewhat underwhelming

https://twitter.com/NonLeaguePaper/status/616939484677079040

We are away to tranmere on the last day. Potential big game

Good test for the first game.

Tranmere away last day!!

Quoted from Kymariner12

We are away to tranmere on the last day. Potential big game

Imagine if we clinched the league at their place. That would put some demons to rest.

Link to full fixture list?

Quoted from IrishMariner

Link to full fixture list?

http://www.thenationalleague.o.....h=December#Matchzone

Guisley away Boxing day

Lincoln away is on the August bank holiday weekend. Bet the police will have fun with that one.

Followed by 2 home games against Barrow and Bromley. Interesting.

Halifax away on a saturday as well! Makes a change!

Quoted from IrishMariner

Link to full fixture list?

You need to scroll down a bit - http://www.footballconference.co.uk/clubs.php?club_id=1002

Quoted from Hagrid

Halifax away on a saturday as well! Makes a change!

Still time for BT to change things.  

Quoted from mariner91

Imagine if we clinched the league at their place. That would put some demons to rest.

as they miss out on the play-offs aswell !

Our run-in looks tough

Relatively easy start with a tough run in. Good Bank Holiday fixtures too. Will be nice to not be hanging out my hoop at BP holding back vomit on New Year's day too.

Quoted from Codswede

Our run-in looks tough

Tough for our opposition too playing us.  

Quoted from pizzzza

http://www.thenationalleague.o.....h=December#Matchzone

Guisley away Boxing day

There ground is 2 minutes away from my house and it is the only date I definitely not do really P***ed of about that

Quoted from horsforthmariner

There ground is 2 minutes away from my house and it is the only date I definitely not do really P***ed of about that

will miss my closest game (Borehamwood) as well, in Rome that weekend

Quoted from codcheeky

will miss my closest game (Borehamwood) as well, in Rome that weekend

It's so annoying!

Sat 08 August     Kidderminster Harriers     A
Tue 11 August     Barrow     H
Sat 15 August     Bromley     H
Tue 18 August     Altrincham     A
Sat 22 August     Torquay United     H
Sat 29 August     Lincoln City     A
Mon 31 August     Macclesfield Town     H
Sat 05 September     Boreham Wood     A
Sat 12 September     Aldershot Town     H
Tue 15 September     Chester FC     A
Sat 19 September     Tranmere Rovers     H
Tue 22 September     Wrexham     A
Sat 26 September     Southport     A
Sat 03 October     Forest Green Rovers     H
Tue 06 October     Gateshead     H
Sat 10 October     Braintree Town     A
Tue 13 October     FC Halifax Town     H
Sat 17 October     Torquay United     A
Sat 31 October     Cheltenham Town     H
Tue 10 November     Barrow     A
Sat 14 November     Welling United     H
Sat 21 November     Eastleigh     A
Sat 28 November     Kidderminster Harriers     H
Sat 05 December     Bromley     A
Sat 19 December     Dover Athletic     H
Sat 26 December     Guiseley     A
Mon 28 December     Lincoln City     H
Sat 02 January     Guiseley     H
Sat 09 January     Welling United     A
Sat 23 January     Altrincham     H
Sat 30 January     Gateshead     A
Sat 06 February     Woking     H
Sat 13 February     Boreham Wood     H
Sat 20 February     FC Halifax Town     A
Sat 27 February     Southport     H
Tue 01 March     Aldershot Town     A
Sat 05 March     Forest Green Rovers     A
Sat 12 March     Braintree Town     H
Sat 19 March     Woking     A
Sat 26 March     Wrexham     H
Mon 28 March     Macclesfield Town     A
Sat 02 April     Cheltenham Town     A
Sat 09 April     Eastleigh     H
Sat 16 April     Dover Athletic     A
Sat 23 April     Chester FC     H
Sat 30 April     Tranmere Rovers     A

No reason why we can't win 9/10 of our first games and really show this league we mean business. I say 9 to give the players that very slight small breathing space for 1 slip up

Quoted from lukeo

No reason why we can't win 9/10 of our first games and really show this league we mean business. I say 9 to give the players that very slight small breathing space for 1 slip up

With a tough run in, we should certainly be looking to take 24 points from the first 10 games if we want to be champions