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Author Topic: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?  (Read 746522 times)

Offline phantom limb

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #615 on: March 13, 2020, 08:44:41 PM »
Has anything like this happened previously, is there any kind of precedent set for cancelling fixtures?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #616 on: March 13, 2020, 08:46:38 PM »
Has anything like this happened previously, is there any kind of precedent set for cancelling fixtures?
Only for the Second World War but the 1939/40 season was only 3 games in when it was stopped.

Offline colin69

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #617 on: March 13, 2020, 08:49:11 PM »
It won’t start again in April, absolutely no chance. But somehow the season must be finished at some point.

Apparently, not necessarily, extenuating circumstances allows for the FA to stop or cancel a season early providing there are a significant enough/amount of games left to bring into question who would go down, finish top etc, that has to be this season.

Fair enough, I wasn’t aware of that.


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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #618 on: March 13, 2020, 08:51:59 PM »
Has anything like this happened previously, is there any kind of precedent set for cancelling fixtures?
Only for the Second World War but the 1939/40 season was only 3 games in when it was stopped.

Thanks, it’s hard to predict what they will do then! Void the season? Whatever happens someone will be annoyed I think.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #619 on: March 13, 2020, 08:55:48 PM »
That game in hand might be our saving grace.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #620 on: March 13, 2020, 08:57:47 PM »
There's no fair way to do this ,the only way is to pretend this season hasn't happened and we go again in august as a fresh with last seasons teams getting CL places etc


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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #621 on: March 13, 2020, 08:58:09 PM »
That game in hand might be our saving grace.
Ours and Deans.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #622 on: March 13, 2020, 09:00:41 PM »
Has anything like this happened previously, is there any kind of precedent set for cancelling fixtures?
Only for the Second World War but the 1939/40 season was only 3 games in when it was stopped.

Thanks, it’s hard to predict what they will do then! Void the season? Whatever happens someone will be annoyed I think.

Liverpool will be annoyed but won't dare to say so, as for the rest of the Premiership about 4 or 5 at the top will feel thwarted, most rest won't give a damn and probably about 5 or 6 at the bottom will breath one huge sigh of relief.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #623 on: March 13, 2020, 09:05:55 PM »
Or they could say, the seasons over, current positions are the final ones.
Liverpool win the League and we go down

Offline BoVillan esq

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #624 on: March 13, 2020, 09:06:38 PM »
Part of the "herd immunity" theory Johnson's advisors seem to be attempting requires mass gatherings to level out the cases into big bulges rather than sharp spikes so the return of football with spectators in attendance may not be too long coming back.

Lets face it, that is huge theory and only theory, nobody at this stage know how this virus is going to react in any environment, example, the Chinese now know and confirmed in the last few days this virus can mutate, unlike say, measles, so on that basis the more hosts this virus has the more chance these little beggars can change, toughen up and go again, reinfect, that blows the herd theory right out the window

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #625 on: March 13, 2020, 09:09:59 PM »
A fair approach to games in hand would probably be to pro rata points which would still see us relegated.

Offline BoVillan esq

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #626 on: March 13, 2020, 09:10:48 PM »
Or they could say, the seasons over, current positions are the final ones.
Liverpool win the League and we go down

They could but could you imagine the legal claims, Aston Villa could legitimately claim by way of litigation we are just going through the process of sacking our manager, as such we are going to install a manager whom we have total confidence in would  keep us in the Premiership, therefore you have denied us that potential and caused massive financial loss. Huge.

Much fairer and much more common sense to call time on the season and go again.   

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #627 on: March 13, 2020, 09:16:12 PM »
I agree absolutely BoVillan esq.  I do not believe the herd immunity theory.  As I said in a post early this morning Kreufeld-Jacobs disease had its origins in Scrapie, a brain disease of sheep.  It mutated into a human disease but the human race in that case got lucky and the mutant strain was far less virulent than subsequent animal originated diseases.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #628 on: March 13, 2020, 09:16:33 PM »
Surely that just opens up exactly the same issues with teams at the top of the championship?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #629 on: March 13, 2020, 09:16:39 PM »
Or they could say, the seasons over, current positions are the final ones.
Liverpool win the League and we go down
As has been stated previously there's not a chance of this. Any club being relegated would quite rightly argue that with 11 games to go anything could have happened. Clubs lawyers would have a field day and could bankrupt the PL & FA. As for Liverpool being denied the title? Oh well.

 


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