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Author Topic: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?  (Read 746641 times)

Offline colin69

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #975 on: March 17, 2020, 12:46:23 PM »
just had the Wolves email - WTF?

Just had it too. As if anyone’s actually going to buy extra tickets.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #976 on: March 17, 2020, 01:01:30 PM »
There’s not a cat in hell’s chance another game will be played this season.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #977 on: March 17, 2020, 01:32:24 PM »
Covid-19 is a disaster for me personally, I'm self-employed and this will hit me hard.Numerous calls all morning to sort finances out and then I get the email from Villa asking if I want to buy extra Wolves Tickets. I actually burst into laughter

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #978 on: March 17, 2020, 01:41:37 PM »
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.
This.
I was surprised to hear a R5L dicussion last night and people saying the season has to be completed - almost at any cost.
I think that - frankly - is naive.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #979 on: March 17, 2020, 01:57:53 PM »
Yes, it is of paramount importance that the season finishes at all costs. Maybe Tina Turner can oversee the remaining games in the Thunderdome.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #980 on: March 17, 2020, 02:08:18 PM »
just grabbed 2 x Lower Holte v Wolves

good views, made up

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #981 on: March 17, 2020, 02:10:24 PM »
Be careful, I'm self-isolating in the Trinity Road Stand.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #982 on: March 17, 2020, 02:33:43 PM »
There’s not a cat in hell’s chance another game will be played this season.

You mean they won’t finish the season? I can see the season being completed at a later date.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #983 on: March 17, 2020, 02:36:08 PM »
I have this horrible, nagging concern that in a couple of months few people will give a monkeys about when football when start up again and under what circumstances.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #984 on: March 17, 2020, 02:40:59 PM »
Euro 2020 is now Euro 2021.
Big question is will Harry Kane be fit by then?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #985 on: March 17, 2020, 02:45:19 PM »
There’s not a cat in hell’s chance another game will be played this season.

You mean they won’t finish the season? I can see the season being completed at a later date.

This time next year?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #986 on: March 17, 2020, 02:48:11 PM »
There’s not a cat in hell’s chance another game will be played this season.

You mean they won’t finish the season? I can see the season being completed at a later date.


There will have to be a cut off point whereby the season is cancelled as completion will be practically impossible.  My guess would be mid to end of April.

 

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #987 on: March 17, 2020, 02:56:15 PM »
There’s not a cat in hell’s chance another game will be played this season.

You mean they won’t finish the season? I can see the season being completed at a later date.


There will have to be a cut off point whereby the season is cancelled as completion will be practically impossible.  My guess would be mid to end of April.

 

I think they will be loath to effectively cancel it so early - I appreciate the problem of contracts fitness and everything else but I just think it leaves so many potential problems leaving something unfinished. I appreciate it doesn’t matter that much with respect to everything else is happening but it is thread relevant.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #988 on: March 17, 2020, 03:07:03 PM »
Health and Safety will be the driver for everything we do from now on.  When things start to become relatively normal resuming Sporting events will be looked at but they'll be way down the pecking order.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #989 on: March 17, 2020, 03:11:52 PM »
Health and Safety will be the driver for everything we do from now on.  When things start to become relatively normal resuming Sporting events will be looked at but they'll be way down the pecking order.

Not to mention once they say 'all clear' players will need about a month training to get match fit again. No way they're going to stay training day in day out at BMH for the next countless months with nothing at the end of the week to make it worthwhile

 


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