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Author Topic: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?  (Read 746698 times)

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #630 on: March 13, 2020, 09:21:54 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.

And as for us, we have a game in hand.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #631 on: March 13, 2020, 09:23:19 PM »
A fair approach to games in hand would probably be to pro rata points which would still see us relegated.

How is that fair?

You might just leave the table as it stands because nothing would change.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #632 on: March 13, 2020, 09:33:30 PM »
whatever they do it won’t be fair on someone
could be us that loses out just as easy as anyone else

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #633 on: March 13, 2020, 09:35:27 PM »
Keep the Premier teams as they are, and give the parachute payments to the Championship clubs.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #634 on: March 13, 2020, 09:41:24 PM »
Surely that just opens up exactly the same issues with teams at the top of the championship?

Here's my solution:

PL members vote on whether LFC should be awarded trophy (overwhelming yes vote)
No teams relegated from PL
2 teams promoted from Championship
Other promotions and relegations in the EFL 2 up, 2 down
No play offs as there will not be enough time
Placings 3rd to 6th in Championship to receive the parachute payments that would have gone to this years 3 teams who would have been relegated
Next season, both the PL & Championship would have 22 teams
Teams in European competition given a bye in FA Cup round 3
Next season, 5 teams would be relegated from PL
This would mean that both divisions would revert to 20 & 24 teams respectively.

The only losers would be the play off candidates but realistically, they would have to be scrapped because of the time factor.  Championship teams would be compensated by way of parachute payments.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #635 on: March 13, 2020, 09:45:14 PM »
The PL will fight tooth & nail to get the season finished. Even if it means playing 10 games in 30 days during June. There's so much money / sponsorship that will be lost, they won't give up easily.

If the virus peak is at the end of May / early June, as the Govt expects, I can't see how they can expect players to start playing again in the middle of that. By April we'll be at the start of a 8-10 week lockdown & things won't start to get back to normal until July. The virus might return again in the Autumn & cause further disruption next season.

The only logical solution is to declare this season void & start next season early. They won't want next season disrupted too.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #636 on: March 13, 2020, 09:48:38 PM »
With 6 of our last 10 games at home and our home record far better than our away record, I think we'd have a good argument that we could have turned it around and won three or four games.  Perhaps not with Dean Smith in charge, but that's another issue.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #637 on: March 13, 2020, 09:53:14 PM »
The PL will fight tooth & nail to get the season finished. Even if it means playing 10 games in 30 days during June. There's so much money / sponsorship that will be lost, they won't give up easily.

If the virus peak is at the end of May / early June, as the Govt expects, I can't see how they can expect players to start playing again in the middle of that. By April we'll be at the start of a 8-10 week lockdown & things won't start to get back to normal until July. The virus might return again in the Autumn & cause further disruption next season.

The only logical solution is to declare this season void & start next season early. They won't want next season disrupted too.

I think we have to finish this season, no matter how long it takes to do that.  If it eats into next season, cancel that one and honour all of the present contracts with the cups or league sponsors currently in place.  One interesting point, if current player contracts finish on July 1st and we have to play beyond that pint, which is likely, are those contracts void? 

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #638 on: March 13, 2020, 09:56:35 PM »
Or they could say, the seasons over, current positions are the final ones.
Liverpool win the League and we go down

But we've got a game in hand.....

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #639 on: March 13, 2020, 09:57:09 PM »
there is no chance the season will be completed. we are expecting the peak of the virus to hit in 6-8 weeks.  there is no way all teams will be virus free in 4 weeks to even consider playing the rest of the season behind closed doors.

even if the season could restart in 4 weeks, which will never happen, playing 10 rounds of games before contracts end, window opens etc. there just isn’t enough time.  Players will
also have had the best part of 4 weeks off with limited training, to expect them to just pick up where they left of is a nonsense.

some tough decisions ahead as to what they will do but it’s fairly safe to assume no one will be relegated.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #640 on: March 13, 2020, 10:00:21 PM »
We invented this fucking league. Our rules.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #641 on: March 13, 2020, 10:10:00 PM »
Surely that just opens up exactly the same issues with teams at the top of the championship?

Here's my solution:

PL members vote on whether LFC should be awarded trophy (overwhelming yes vote)
No teams relegated from PL
2 teams promoted from Championship
Other promotions and relegations in the EFL 2 up, 2 down
No play offs as there will not be enough time
Placings 3rd to 6th in Championship to receive the parachute payments that would have gone to this years 3 teams who would have been relegated
Next season, both the PL & Championship would have 22 teams
Teams in European competition given a bye in FA Cup round 3
Next season, 5 teams would be relegated from PL
This would mean that both divisions would revert to 20 & 24 teams respectively.

The only losers would be the play off candidates but realistically, they would have to be scrapped because of the time factor.  Championship teams would be compensated by way of parachute payments.

All going well until the first proposal.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #642 on: March 13, 2020, 10:14:04 PM »
Tough decisions
Nobody is going to be happy, so many complications, contracts , sponsorship's etc.
Players contracts , service providers, paying staff with no income, TV presenters with nothing to present the list is endless
replicate this in every sphere of life.
I hope there are good force Majeure contracts in place along with a good dollop of common sense.
Glad I just retired and do not have to be part of all the doomsday scenario planning that I am sure is going on in all corporate, which in turn will lead to more panic and  negative responses.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #643 on: March 13, 2020, 10:18:55 PM »
I’m no fan of a Liverpool but nobody can say hand on heart they don’t deserve to win the league surely?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #644 on: March 13, 2020, 10:27:43 PM »
A fair approach to games in hand would probably be to pro rata points which would still see us relegated.

How is that fair?

You might just leave the table as it stands because nothing would change.

It would be the only sensible way to deal with the game in hand. Let’s face it we’re going to lose to Chelsea whenever we play them so that would be a generous approach from our perspective.

 


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