' Top 6 fixtures January 2013 '

Cardiff City -
12th Ipswich home
19th Blackpool away next game leeds away 2nd feb (14 days off)

Hull City -
12th Sheff wed home
15th Leyton orient away fa cup
19th Peterborough away
26th Derby or fa cup game, (NO BREAK)

Crystal Palace
12th Burnley away
15th Stoke away
19th Bolton home
26th Huddersfield away or fa cup game (NO BREAK)

Middlesborough
12th Watford home
19th Leicester away
26th fa cup game (NO BREAK)

Leicester City
12th Bristol away
19th Midllesborough home
26th fa cup game
31st Wolves home (NO BREAK)

Watford
12th Middlesborough away
19th Huddersfield home
26th Notts forrest away (NO BREAK)

Given our first team players are in the middle of a weekend off which gives them a two week break really , is it a good thing that they will have another two week break without a game at the end of the month or will it make them match rusty .
All of our top 6 opponents are either playing eachother in hard games or have tough weekday away games in the fa cup .
Hull have pretty easy fixtures on paper , palace have 3 long journeys north , borough have two top 6 teams to play , leicester have tough games so do watford .
I can see this being a good month for city with us staying 7 points clear going into feb but with a game in hand !

It will catch up with our competitors in April when the games start to stack up.

It's good for our guys to have a break because yes it will catch up on the other teams come April, but it's also good to keep a run of good games going and winning them to maintain momentum like we had over christmas. Pro's and Con's to both sides but I think us having the extra time off will benefit us and help us more overall

I think its too much time off at a critical time in the season .
If i was malkey id be looking to take the team away for a few days somewhere like other teams do for warm weather training and building team spirit on that fa cup weekend .

boring January --cant see that this wonderful rest will do anything for the players who are young fit athletes --they will still have to train hard in shit weather----------

boring January --cant see that this wonderful rest will do anything for the players who are young fit athletes --they will still have to train hard in shit weather----------

I just think I'd rather the break than the chance of injuries or cards in highly volatile cup games.

I think momentum is more important than a week off when they are only playing saturdays not midweek aswell .

Having a break isn't always good!

Last season the squad clearly burned out post Christmas

Now people are concerned that we'll get rusty due to having a well earned break. They just won four games in ten days

The mind boggles

Wrong! If Crystal Palace lose replay and hull lose replay they get a lovely break on 26th as the teams they play are through to 4th round of cup. None of the top 5 will be in league actin on 26th