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

[aj2k77]

The Athletic are confirming our game v Spurs is off and they will play Fulham instead on Wednesday.  Got a feeling Fulham will feel hard done by this.

Fulham should refuse to play the game. No clubs should be making concessions for moaning, wanker, Mourinho and Tottenham.

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

Got a feeling everything will be halted soon anyway.

Whatever Nicola does in Scotland, Boris tends to follow here soon afterwards.

[Meanwood Villa]

Yes I agree this is unfair on Fulham too. They should have called the game off end of last week and rescheduled then.

[aj2k77]

Does anyone know if the training ground has re-opened and the players back in training? Because we've got another game in 5 days time.

[placeforparks]

Good proposal by Matt Law on Twitter:

There's a really easy solution to the scheduling. Tottenham v Fulham Weds, Fulham v Chelsea moves to Sat 5.30pm and keeps a TV slot, Villa v Everton moves to Sunday 12noon (TV slot free). This of course needs clubs and broadcasters to be flexible but no big disadvantage here.

Chelsea travel to Leicester next Tuesday night, but Leicester are already playing at 8pm on Sat night so Chelsea would not be disadvantaged by playing Fulham at 5.30pm on Sat instead.

Also, surely now Villa v Newcastle gets rearranged for the FA Cup fourth round weekend of Jan 23/24 with both clubs out of the Cup.

fulham have confirmed spurs on wednesday and chelsea on saturday at 5.30pm.

see what happens with our everton game now.

edit: villa v everton moved to sunday!

[eamonn]

Will we have three games in hand on most of the division before kick-off against Everton ?

[LukeJames]

Common sense prevails

[Gerrin]

Will we have three games in hand on most of the division before kick-off against Everton ?

Is the Everton game definitely on? When do the players come out of quarantine?

[Villafirst]

Will the squad be completely clear of Covid by Sunday? And how many training sessions will be possible before then if they manage to reopen BMH?

[Astnor]

Fair enough all of this IMO. The Everton match moved to the following Sunday 1200. You would imagine most of the players will ensure they somehow keep them self fit during the "break"- if not severly affected, and they have two days training together before the homematch vs Everton. Fair enough. Lets hope they all come back rested and fit for fight.

[Dave]

Will we have three games in hand on most of the division before kick-off against Everton ?

Is the Everton game definitely on? When do the players come out of quarantine?

Gregg Evans is reporting that it's confirmed as happening Sunday.

[Astnor]

https://www.premierleague.com/news/1970065

[LukeJames]

Shame we couldn't have got our 8pm Sunday slot for Everton.

[oishiiniku]

Glad that they managed to reschedule the game. There was a growing number of pundits saying that we'd set a precedent by playing kids in the cup and should be forced to do the same in the league(!), so I was starting to fear we would be the first team to get properly screwed by Covid. I hope all those at the club who are affected are healthy and that we're able to field a strong side against Everton.

[WassallVillain]

LThe Premier League, in consultation with its clubs, has enhanced its COVID-19 protocols, in addition to reimplementing a twice-weekly testing programme. The protocols, which strengthen key elements of the current guidance, came into immediate effect this week.l

I wonder what this last sentence at the end of the premier league statement means.