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

[Dave P]

Newcastle at home now Saturday 23rd January at 8pm.  Clashes with the Masked Singer.  When will they think of the fans for once!

Cheers for update and info
Really the clash should be that of the masked players

Haha very good!

[placeforparks]

Newcastle at home now Saturday 23rd January at 8pm.  Clashes with the Masked Singer.  When will they think of the fans for once!

the odd kick-off time is because they don't want the match to clash with any televised fa cup games.

our match will be shown on sky sports btw.

[not3bad]

Hope we haven't lost too much match fitness when we do eventually get a game.

[eamonn]

Newcastle at home now Saturday 23rd January at 8pm.  Clashes with the Masked Singer.  When will they think of the fans for once!

Barkley might be fit by then!

Maybe he is the masked singer.

[eamonn]

Sorry if going over old ground but how come Saints v Shrews was postponed in the Cup and we wuznt ?

[eamonn]

Bardell on Twitter is saying we have 5 games in 12 days. Can't be right, can it ? Might be worth getting Mourinho on loan for a few days just so he can get our games spaced-out better.

[kippaxvilla2]

Sorry if going over old ground but how come Saints v Shrews was postponed in the Cup and we wuznt ?

I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave moments ago in the ‘Other Games’ thread.

[TelfordVilla]

Wednesday, saturday, wednesday, saturday, tuesday. Just like in the championship

[Ads]

A mid-season break will probably have helped us significantly. We are a high energy side, Barkley and Trez ought to have recovered from injury. 20 days off. Bonus?

[fbriai]

Bardell on Twitter is saying we have 5 games in 12 days. Can't be right, can it ? Might be worth getting Mourinho on loan for a few days just so he can get our games spaced-out better.

It's actually 13 days, but it was nothing to do with matches being postponed as the calendar would have been like that anyway had we not lost to Liverpool in the cup. We have:

20/01 - Man C (a)
23/01 - Newcastle (h)
27/01 - Burnley (a)
30/01 - Southampton (a)
02/02 - West Ham (h)

From then on, not being in European competition and being out of the cups, there is ample opportunity to reschedule the two postponed matches:

06/02 - Arsenal (h)
13/02 - Brighton (a)
20/02 - Leicester (h)
27/02 - Leeds (a)
06/03 - Wolves (h)
13/03 - Newcastle (a)
20/03 - Sheff Utd (a)
03/04 - Fulham (h)
10/04 - Liverpool (a)
17/04 - Man City (h)
24/04 - WBA (h)
01/05 - Everton (a)
08/05 - Man Utd (h)
11/05 - Crystal Palace (a)
15/05 - Spurs (a)
23/05 - Chelsea (h)

[eamonn]

Cool, thanks fornthe detail. I would count match-days as a day making it 5 games in 14, which as some have suggested, is akin to a busy/typical Ch'ship period of games.

Sounds defeatist but if any of our top guns were only feeling 50/50 for Citeh, I'd hold them back for Newcastle. 3 points from 6 in those games would be ok.

[Risso]

Bardell on Twitter is saying we have 5 games in 12 days. Can't be right, can it ? Might be worth getting Mourinho on loan for a few days just so he can get our games spaced-out better.

It's actually 13 days, but it was nothing to do with matches being postponed as the calendar would have been like that anyway had we not lost to Liverpool in the cup. We have:

20/01 - Man C (a)
23/01 - Newcastle (h)
27/01 - Burnley (a)
30/01 - Southampton (a)
02/02 - West Ham (h)

That's really just the schedule of a team that's qualified for Europe, nothing too much to worry about.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

A mid-season break will probably have helped us significantly. We are a high energy side, Barkley and Trez ought to have recovered from injury. 20 days off. Bonus?

Potentially, however the fact that we’re still some way off the halfway point of the season (23 games to go, in just over 4 months) might come back to bite us, fitness wise, towards the end of the season.

[OCD]

Those sides normally have strength in depth though.

[Clampy]

Newcastle at home now Saturday 23rd January at 8pm.  Clashes with the Masked Singer.  When will they think of the fans for once!

Barkley might be fit by then!

Is he one of the singers do you think?