How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?

[chrisw1]

It seems to me the government are very keen to get football going again and so I can’t imagine they will be doing anything to stop this happening. A few weeks ago they were having a go at the players over salaries, now they are coaxing them into a return.

The 5 tests to ease lockdown are subjective, and I reckon next week they will announce something with regards to elite sport.

The claim about integrity is silly really.The integrity of the league to finish by removing home advantage, removing crowds, potentially allowing more subs (that benefits the stronger squads), momentum lost, it is really a mini season that will have more in common with the next season than this one.

The PL have had plenty of opportunities to pour cold water on this but the noises coming out of each meeting in the media all seems to be of cautious optimism.

Madness.

There is a very definite picture building here, today the news seeping through is that the Tories want the lockdown finished by late May, just after the last bank holiday, apparently the PM is under massive pressure by the big beasts of the Tories, the so called donors to the party to get this lockdown finished at any cost, this is now the defining moment, this is the time when life takes a backwards step to money, this is what separates us from most other countries, those at the top will have there way the rest of us are just cannon fodder, expect to see the daily death rate figure fiddled.

Of course this will then fall in line with the start of football in June, how convenient, have to say the Tories came to power on the vote of the Midland and Northern working class who for some reason rejected Labour, Boris is playing with fire here, if he gets this wrong regardless of his massive majority he will be gone.

Just listen to yourself.  Why doe this have to be about the Tories?  Kier Starmer has been pushing for an exit stategy for 2 weeks now.  The problem with politics is that peole who are so massively invested in it and intrenched in their position will seek any opportunity to spout their rubbish, to create a phantom to fit their own agenda.  Just leave it out of football threads please comrade.

[dave.woodhall]

It seems to me the government are very keen to get football going again and so I can’t imagine they will be doing anything to stop this happening. A few weeks ago they were having a go at the players over salaries, now they are coaxing them into a return.

The 5 tests to ease lockdown are subjective, and I reckon next week they will announce something with regards to elite sport.

The claim about integrity is silly really.The integrity of the league to finish by removing home advantage, removing crowds, potentially allowing more subs (that benefits the stronger squads), momentum lost, it is really a mini season that will have more in common with the next season than this one.

The PL have had plenty of opportunities to pour cold water on this but the noises coming out of each meeting in the media all seems to be of cautious optimism.

Madness.

There is a very definite picture building here, today the news seeping through is that the Tories want the lockdown finished by late May, just after the last bank holiday, apparently the PM is under massive pressure by the big beasts of the Tories, the so called donors to the party to get this lockdown finished at any cost, this is now the defining moment, this is the time when life takes a backwards step to money, this is what separates us from most other countries, those at the top will have there way the rest of us are just cannon fodder, expect to see the daily death rate figure fiddled.

Of course this will then fall in line with the start of football in June, how convenient, have to say the Tories came to power on the vote of the Midland and Northern working class who for some reason rejected Labour, Boris is playing with fire here, if he gets this wrong regardless of his massive majority he will be gone.

Just listen to yourself.  Why doe this have to be about the Tories?  Kier Starmer has been pushing for an exit stategy for 2 weeks now.  The problem with politics is that peole who are so massively invested in it and intrenched in their position will seek any opportunity to spout their rubbish, to create a phantom to fit their own agenda.  Just leave it out of football threads please comrade.

You absolutely cannot leave politics out of any aspect of the current situation. As has been said previous, getting the Premier League back is part of the bread & circuses approach that has worked so far for Boris Johnson in everything.

[chrisw1]

Yet Boris is being far more cautious about ending the lockdown than many on all sides would like.  He's also coming under pressure from Starmer to do so.  But this doesn't feed into the leftish narrative.  But yeah, if the PL comes back it will all be down to Boris and his agenda to fuck over the masses.

[ROBBO]

Well it kept the Roman peasants happy for decades.

[dave.woodhall]

Yet Boris is being far more cautious about ending the lockdown than many on all sides would like.  He's also coming under pressure from Starmer to do so.  But this doesn't feed into the leftish narrative.  But yeah, if the PL comes back it will all be down to Boris and his agenda to fuck over the masses.

Said nobody, ever.

[chrisw1]

Yet Boris is being far more cautious about ending the lockdown than many on all sides would like.  He's also coming under pressure from Starmer to do so.  But this doesn't feed into the leftish narrative.  But yeah, if the PL comes back it will all be down to Boris and his agenda to fuck over the masses.

Said nobody, ever.

It's essentially what comrade Bo is inferring above.

[dave.woodhall]

Yet Boris is being far more cautious about ending the lockdown than many on all sides would like.  He's also coming under pressure from Starmer to do so.  But this doesn't feed into the leftish narrative.  But yeah, if the PL comes back it will all be down to Boris and his agenda to fuck over the masses.

Said nobody, ever.

It's essentially what comrade Bo is inferring above.

Obviously the view from the top of Mt Moral is different from what the rest of us can see.

[chrisw1]

Yet Boris is being far more cautious about ending the lockdown than many on all sides would like.  He's also coming under pressure from Starmer to do so.  But this doesn't feed into the leftish narrative.  But yeah, if the PL comes back it will all be down to Boris and his agenda to fuck over the masses.

Said nobody, ever.

It's essentially what comrade Bo is inferring above.

Obviously the view from the top of Mt Moral is different from what the rest of us can see.

Do you actually read posts before you jump in as arbiter?  His inference is there for all to see.

[paul_e]

Yet Boris is being far more cautious about ending the lockdown than many on all sides would like.  He's also coming under pressure from Starmer to do so.  But this doesn't feed into the leftish narrative.  But yeah, if the PL comes back it will all be down to Boris and his agenda to fuck over the masses.

The bold bit just isn't true, Starmer is pressing for him to make public the mechanism by which the lockdown can be ended and the longer term plans that will be in place to ensure we limit the risk of a 2nd wave. Again though, this is just a chance for you to slag off the opinions of anyone who disagrees with you by acting like you understand their views better than they do.

[chrisw1]

Yet Boris is being far more cautious about ending the lockdown than many on all sides would like.  He's also coming under pressure from Starmer to do so.  But this doesn't feed into the leftish narrative.  But yeah, if the PL comes back it will all be down to Boris and his agenda to fuck over the masses.

The bold bit just isn't true, Starmer is pressing for him to make public the mechanism by which the lockdown can be ended and the longer term plans that will be in place to ensure we limit the risk of a 2nd wave. Again though, this is just a chance for you to slag off the opinions of anyone who disagrees with you by acting like you understand their views better than they do.

No it's not Paul.  Are you trying to understand my views better than I do?

[garyellis]

It seems to me the government are very keen to get football going again and so I can’t imagine they will be doing anything to stop this happening. A few weeks ago they were having a go at the players over salaries, now they are coaxing them into a return.

The 5 tests to ease lockdown are subjective, and I reckon next week they will announce something with regards to elite sport.

The claim about integrity is silly really.The integrity of the league to finish by removing home advantage, removing crowds, potentially allowing more subs (that benefits the stronger squads), momentum lost, it is really a mini season that will have more in common with the next season than this one.

The PL have had plenty of opportunities to pour cold water on this but the noises coming out of each meeting in the media all seems to be of cautious optimism.

Madness.

There is a very definite picture building here, today the news seeping through is that the Tories want the lockdown finished by late May, just after the last bank holiday, apparently the PM is under massive pressure by the big beasts of the Tories, the so called donors to the party to get this lockdown finished at any cost, this is now the defining moment, this is the time when life takes a backwards step to money, this is what separates us from most other countries, those at the top will have there way the rest of us are just cannon fodder, expect to see the daily death rate figure fiddled.

Of course this will then fall in line with the start of football in June, how convenient, have to say the Tories came to power on the vote of the Midland and Northern working class who for some reason rejected Labour, Boris is playing with fire here, if he gets this wrong regardless of his massive majority he will be gone.

Just listen to yourself.  Why doe this have to be about the Tories?  Kier Starmer has been pushing for an exit stategy for 2 weeks now.  The problem with politics is that peole who are so massively invested in it and intrenched in their position will seek any opportunity to spout their rubbish, to create a phantom to fit their own agenda.  Just leave it out of football threads please comrade.

An exit strategy does not equate to abandoning the current restrictions in place quicker than Boris would want to.
It's the how not the when.

[dave.woodhall]

Yet Boris is being far more cautious about ending the lockdown than many on all sides would like.  He's also coming under pressure from Starmer to do so.  But this doesn't feed into the leftish narrative.  But yeah, if the PL comes back it will all be down to Boris and his agenda to fuck over the masses.

The bold bit just isn't true, Starmer is pressing for him to make public the mechanism by which the lockdown can be ended and the longer term plans that will be in place to ensure we limit the risk of a 2nd wave. Again though, this is just a chance for you to slag off the opinions of anyone who disagrees with you by acting like you understand their views better than they do.

No it's not Paul.  Are you trying to understand my views better than I do?

Your last two posts seem to have a bit of double standards about them.

[paul_e]

Yet Boris is being far more cautious about ending the lockdown than many on all sides would like.  He's also coming under pressure from Starmer to do so.  But this doesn't feed into the leftish narrative.  But yeah, if the PL comes back it will all be down to Boris and his agenda to fuck over the masses.

The bold bit just isn't true, Starmer is pressing for him to make public the mechanism by which the lockdown can be ended and the longer term plans that will be in place to ensure we limit the risk of a 2nd wave. Again though, this is just a chance for you to slag off the opinions of anyone who disagrees with you by acting like you understand their views better than they do.

No it's not Paul.  Are you trying to understand my views better than I do?

You going to provide any evidence to back yourself up or just sulk again like usual?

[chrisw1]

Yet Boris is being far more cautious about ending the lockdown than many on all sides would like.  He's also coming under pressure from Starmer to do so.  But this doesn't feed into the leftish narrative.  But yeah, if the PL comes back it will all be down to Boris and his agenda to fuck over the masses.

The bold bit just isn't true, Starmer is pressing for him to make public the mechanism by which the lockdown can be ended and the longer term plans that will be in place to ensure we limit the risk of a 2nd wave. Again though, this is just a chance for you to slag off the opinions of anyone who disagrees with you by acting like you understand their views better than they do.

No it's not Paul.  Are you trying to understand my views better than I do?

You going to provide any evidence to back yourself up or just sulk again like usual?

Evidence of what?  That Bo brought up the Tories pushing for an end to lockdown and those at the top will have there way the rest of us are just cannon fodder in a discussion about the PL deciding whether to finish the season or not?  Or that Stamer is trying to build a narrative that the Government were slow to lockdown, slow with PPE, slow to test and is laying the groundwork for him to be able to say they were slow to ease the lockdown if it suits his case to do so at a later date?

The evidence of ther former is on the page before and the latter just seems like pretty a transparent strategy that I don't feel the need to provide evidence for.

I'm not a particulaly political person but it just irritates me when people bring it up in the way Bo did.  I have not intention in getting in a debate with you about it, if I wanted to waste my life that way I'd spend more time in off topic letting you educate me about how much you know about everything.

[walsall villain]

Yet Boris is being far more cautious about ending the lockdown than many on all sides would like.  He's also coming under pressure from Starmer to do so.  But this doesn't feed into the leftish narrative.  But yeah, if the PL comes back it will all be down to Boris and his agenda to fuck over the masses.

Starmer wants to know what measures are planned post lockdown so that these can be discussed cross party. Don’t think he is putting pressure on the government to end the lockdown, where has that come from?