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Author Topic: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?  (Read 746875 times)

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #960 on: March 17, 2020, 10:44:10 AM »
As of 8th of March 2019, Leeds were in the top two. We were 9th.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #961 on: March 17, 2020, 11:20:42 AM »
I think you need to slow down and unplug yourself from wildly speculating. You appear to be terrifying yourself and you may end up needlessly terrifying somebody else.

Thanks for the advice.

Doesn't sound like you've took much notice of it.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #962 on: March 17, 2020, 11:29:42 AM »
I just want the season to resume as soon as the Virus can be dealt with first when that is who knows people's safety is paramount.

Really?

I just want this season to go away and never come back again.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #963 on: March 17, 2020, 11:33:19 AM »
I just want the season to resume as soon as the Virus can be dealt with first when that is who knows people's safety is paramount.

Really?

I just want this season to go away and never come back again.

Season, what season?  I don't see no season!

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #964 on: March 17, 2020, 11:50:00 AM »
I appreciate the potential seriousness of the virus.  But this is a football forum so I'm not going to make any apologies for posting on here about the Villa and my hopes for the sporting outcome of this.

It seems most commentators are insistent that the season is played out, however long that takes and whatever knock on disruption it causes.  Even Matt Kendrick etc were advocating this on their Villa podcast (and yest, they are all Villa fans)

For me, it just adds too many complications - players contracts, transfer windows etc. If all countries try this then transfer windows can't align, creating even more complexity.

Whilst admittedly my main concern is Villa, it does seem to make far more sence to take this one on the chin now and void this season to minimise knock on effects potentially for seasons to come.  The fact that is stuffs up Leeds and the Baggies is an entirely co-incidental side effect that I'l just have to learn to live with.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #965 on: March 17, 2020, 11:53:17 AM »
the country is going to ber in lock down for months. Football is the least of anyone's worries. i was selling my house to a guy who is a finance director of an SME - he's pulled out as the company are reviewing operations. Watching people kicking a  ball around for 90 minutes is very insignificant at the moment.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #966 on: March 17, 2020, 11:58:04 AM »
I just want the season to resume as soon as the Virus can be dealt with first when that is who knows people's safety is paramount.

Really?

I just want this season to go away and never come back again.

Indeed.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #967 on: March 17, 2020, 12:11:59 PM »
When it first broke that football might be cancelled and the season wiped, I was glad from a Villa fan point of view. All last week my Wife kept asking me if I was still going to the Chelsea game and I said I was, she was not very happy (as was I to be honest)  and was very relieved when the decision was taken out of my hands. I still want this season to be cancelled and all results expunged and not bothered at all if it upsets Tesco and Dirty Leeds (who's to say they would have come up anyway anymore than we would have gone down?).

I do wonder though, how would we feel if say last season, we got to the play offs and this had happened and last season was cancelled and our 10 game winning run counted for nothing?


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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #968 on: March 17, 2020, 12:14:25 PM »
I honestly think that as the days and weeks go on, how they sort this season's football out is going to seem extremely trivial indeed.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #969 on: March 17, 2020, 12:17:47 PM »
If this plays out as a possible outcome, there won’t be any football until there is a vaccine. All eyes will be on Wuhan in the coming weeks. Very sobering.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51915302

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #970 on: March 17, 2020, 12:23:48 PM »
Just had an email from the club.  Wolves tickets now on sale to ST holders.

Could be the first home game of the season not to sell out.

Hardly surprising given it probably won’t ever be played.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #971 on: March 17, 2020, 12:29:52 PM »
Yeah, zero chance of that going ahead anytime soon.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #972 on: March 17, 2020, 12:41:50 PM »
I honestly think that as the days and weeks go on, how they sort this season's football out is going to seem extremely trivial indeed.

I think most realise that already. It’s utterly meaningless. Just pack it in and hope we’re lucky enough to be in a position to start afresh in the medium term.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #973 on: March 17, 2020, 12:43:15 PM »
Euro 2020 is now Euro 2021.

Offline mr underhill

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #974 on: March 17, 2020, 12:44:12 PM »
just had the Wolves email - WTF?

 


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