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Author Topic: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?  (Read 747401 times)

Offline passport1

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #585 on: March 13, 2020, 03:30:35 PM »
Great opportunity to bin him

Great opportunity to give him time to work on the issues and get some players back from injury.

And we would still be seeing the same shite performances at the end of it.Hes had all the opportunities I want to see.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #586 on: March 13, 2020, 03:34:35 PM »
Great opportunity to bin him

Great opportunity to give him time to work on the issues and get some players back from injury.

And we would still be seeing the same shite performances at the end of it.Hes had all the opportunities I want to see.

Or not. Let's see what happens. I think he'll be around a good while yet (if for no other reason than we won't be playing!)

Offline Villan82

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #587 on: March 13, 2020, 03:36:50 PM »
Frustrating to think that had we demonstrated a capacity to draw 3 games that we lost from these: Bournemouth x2, Arsenal away, Liverpool at home, Spurs at home it would be all academic to us what happens to the three clubs in the bottom three right now.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #588 on: March 13, 2020, 03:50:29 PM »
This should be left to the pools panel.

Just don't leave it to the VAR panel.

Offline Big Ming

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #589 on: March 13, 2020, 03:51:30 PM »
Frustrating to think that had we demonstrated a capacity to draw 3 games that we lost from these: Bournemouth x2, Arsenal away, Liverpool at home, Spurs at home it would be all academic to us what happens to the three clubs in the bottom three right now.
Not forgetting the refereeing debacle at Crystal Palace.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #590 on: March 13, 2020, 04:06:24 PM »
With our 1 game less, we are in a good legal position regarding relegation if things get scrapped.

Our saving grace. Looking at the table, there's no way the PL could relegate us.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #591 on: March 13, 2020, 04:13:49 PM »
No matter how unutterably shit one may have thought we are or would continue to be, there's no way anybody could be deemed relegated with a full quarter of their season left to play. And certainly not when a win of a game in their hand would put them out of the relegation places.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #592 on: March 13, 2020, 04:20:18 PM »
National League games going ahead, but Solihull's game tonight has been postponed.

Coronavirus: National League fixtures this weekend to go ahead as planned

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #593 on: March 13, 2020, 04:33:00 PM »
These avaricious fuckers have been shamed by others into taking action today trailing behind every other major football league. Money is the only reason - if the PL is cancelled billions will have to be paid back to broadcasters sponsors etc. Who knows hopefully, long term, this might result in a sea change in the obscene amount of money sloshing around the PL to the detriment of the integrity of the game and the destabilization of every club outside looking in.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #594 on: March 13, 2020, 04:34:21 PM »
This should be left to the pools panel.

Three days before Christmas in 1963, a freezing fog enveloped Britain. Eighteen football matches were called off, with a further eight abandoned mid-game. The fixture card looked utterly decimated at the time, but although nobody knew it, there wouldn't be this much football again for more than two months. By Boxing Day, the entire country had been covered in snow. Only 17 games were played on 29 December. Come New Year's Day, not a single match was played. Five third-round FA Cup ties went ahead on 5 January, but with the country in the middle of a Big Freeze, battling -20°C temperatures and 15-foot snowdrifts, the round didn't get completed until 11 March.

The lack of matches wreaked havoc with the football pools, so Vernons, Zetters and Littlewoods acted quickly. A predictions system was put in place, and on 26 January the Pools Panel sat for the first time. The panel consisted of six men: former England players Tom Finney, Tommy Lawton and Ted Drake, former Scotland full-back George Young, former World Cup referee Arthur Ellis, and John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara. Brabazon was a former Tory MP and aviation pioneer who, in 1909, strapped a wastepaper basket containing a piglet to the wing of a plane to prove that pigs could fly. Their deliberations were made behind closed doors at the Connaught Rooms in London, then announced live on BBC television. Of the 38 matches, the only predictions to raise eyebrows were Leeds to beat Stoke and Peterborough to win at Derby.

The weather slowly broke. There were 11 games on 16 February, then 24 on 23 February – the most since the fog came down on 22 December, and the first day the new Pools Panel wasn't required. On 16 March the first full league card since mid-December was played.




Great post although with a name like John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, it was superfluous information that he was a Tory MP.

Offline mr underhill

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #595 on: March 13, 2020, 04:39:40 PM »
the fact that he was an MP of any political persuasion would be irrelevant. But the whole post was - we are dealing with a medical emergency, not snow and ice.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #596 on: March 13, 2020, 04:50:49 PM »
The season will be annulled and we stay up. 

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #597 on: March 13, 2020, 05:04:40 PM »
the fact that he was an MP of any political persuasion would be irrelevant. But the whole post was - we are dealing with a medical emergency, not snow and ice.

Some idle amusing distraction is of some benefit in the current envvironment.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #598 on: March 13, 2020, 05:05:08 PM »
Did Purslow not get the memo that the PL meeting was via conference call?
Seems strange he was the only one who attended in person.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #599 on: March 13, 2020, 05:11:44 PM »
Did Purslow not get the memo that the PL meeting was via conference call?
Seems strange he was the only one who attended in person.

Maybe he's got it and wanted to make sure they all got it too.... So they'd have to cancel everything  ;D

 


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