Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray has said that you cannot do anything about the fixtures.
City start and finish away and are away on Boxing Day, New Year's Eve and Easter Monday and the City boss told the Coventry Telegraph about the fixtures: "You can’t do anything about the fixtures.
“You just have to deal with them as and when they come along. It’s not just me, the players don’t all live in close proximity because generally they don’t get paid enough to sell their house and uproot their whole family when they move clubs so quite a few commute a bit.”
When asked about who is expected to do well in the new season, Mowbray said: "You don’t know who is going to be strong next season because teams are still being formulated.
“I don’t know if Bolton are going to keep a big budget and keep going and bounce straight back. Charlton are the same really, what are they going to do? Are they going to keep most of their players and stay strong or sell whatever they can?
“I think Sheffield United and Millwall will be strong again but it’s a case of wait and see. We don’t know how strong Swindon will be in the first game because we don’t know who they will recruit. We know how they are going to play because the coach has stayed the same.
“Some clubs started very poorly last year and finished really strong. Barnsley were second bottom at Christmas and got promoted.
“I’m always the same with fixtures, we have to play everybody. There was a perception that Wigan would be a strong team last year and ultimately they were but we managed to beat them, because they were still finding their feet and putting their squad together.
“It will be the same this year and some teams will start strongly and vice-versa, tail off like we did or get better."
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