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Author Topic: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?  (Read 746772 times)

Offline eamonn

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1455 on: March 29, 2020, 11:01:20 AM »
Yeah, exactly. Talk about drawing the short straw. Playing against a well-drilled team with no home support having been in awful form the last few games we played...

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1456 on: March 29, 2020, 12:28:02 PM »
1 crackpot idea after another.



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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1457 on: March 29, 2020, 12:38:45 PM »
In that scenario, I'd offer fifty million for Billy Sharp - we stay up he signs.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1458 on: March 29, 2020, 12:43:59 PM »
Trump says the churches will be full on April 12th.  Can the football grounds be far behind?

April 12th 2021 maybe?

Hopefully nobody is paying attention to anything that prick is saying

It always amuses me the way the guys surrounding him stare at him when he comes out with the bollocks he does. It like he’s the embarrassing racist granddad. Don’t think he’s going get another term after this.
Pence stares lovingly like a puppy dog.
Sadly he is on course to win bigly.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1459 on: March 29, 2020, 01:25:39 PM »
"Time and tide wait for no man"

Geoffrey Chaucer
According to Boris that tide will turn next week.
Hands up those who believe him.

Where has he said that?

Just over a week ago in one of his stirring speeches he spoke of the tide turning in a fortnight.

Offline Villan82

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1460 on: March 29, 2020, 01:27:25 PM »
I’m guessing that all these ideas are being floated around to reinforce the position that ‘everything was discussed and no consensus was found, season over’

Hopefully.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1461 on: March 29, 2020, 01:30:02 PM »
Alphabetical finishing. Champions League for us, West Ham still get relegated.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1462 on: March 29, 2020, 01:36:07 PM »
"Time and tide wait for no man"

Geoffrey Chaucer
According to Boris that tide will turn next week.
Hands up those who believe him.

Where has he said that?

Just over a week ago in one of his stirring speeches he spoke of the tide turning in a fortnight.

He said 12 weeks, not 2.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1463 on: March 29, 2020, 01:39:44 PM »
Latest suggestion from sources at the FA if the games cannot be squeezed in by July 16, according to The Times, is to play the two games needed so everyone has played 29 games and call that the end of the season, which of course would mean win or down for us.

Patently unfair but how many clubs would vote against that.

I can think of six straight away.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1464 on: March 29, 2020, 01:45:08 PM »
Latest suggestion from sources at the FA if the games cannot be squeezed in by July 16, according to The Times, is to play the two games needed so everyone has played 29 games and call that the end of the season, which of course would mean win or down for us.

Patently unfair but how many clubs would vote against that.

The solution will be, play season out if there’s time or call the whole thing off. Simple as that and none of these give em the title, relegate whoever and promote whoever schemes will be taken forward.

This, just playing a one off game and saying that’s it is the least likely scenario of them all. However it also magnifies what an utterly fucking atrocious job we did out of our last 4 games particularly Bournemouth, Southampton and Leicester. To put in such half arsed efforts against these sides on the runs they were on was criminal.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1465 on: March 29, 2020, 01:51:24 PM »
Alphabetical finishing. Champions League for us, West Ham still get relegated.
VAR will decide we are really known as Villa, and relegate us.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1466 on: March 29, 2020, 02:56:39 PM »
This season is over. Any solution will invoke huge legal obstacles and battles ahead. They really only have two viable options to minimize the legal issues:

1. Void the season totally - any legal claims will likely be tossed out because it will follow precedent elsewhere through world soccer

2. Pick up the season in August, play out remainder of the season then, shorten the next season (or squeeze it in and cancel the cups for 1 year).

There is ZERO chance any games start pre July and that essentially puts us in either option 2 (because time won’t allow 9 games in 6 weeks) or 1.

What a mess. Don’t envy those who have to make this decision

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1467 on: March 29, 2020, 03:08:04 PM »
My feeling is that in part anyway, UEFA will dictate what happens.

There has to be some form of unity across the leagues because otherwise, you could have all sorts of permutations.

I think UEFA will give a deadline on when leagues must be finished (and when new seasons may start).  From there the leagues will be forced to determine how promotions and relegations are decided - If any take place of course.

An option could be that this season's European competitions are carried over to next season in order to help ease the amount of games played.  We could also do this domestically with this season's FA Cup.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1468 on: March 29, 2020, 03:31:14 PM »
Alphabetical finishing. Champions League for us, West Ham still get relegated.
VAR will decide we are really known as Villa, and relegate us.

We would still be above Watford, West Ham and Wolves!

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1469 on: March 29, 2020, 03:35:13 PM »
"Time and tide wait for no man"

Geoffrey Chaucer
According to Boris that tide will turn next week.
Hands up those who believe him.

Where has he said that?

Just over a week ago in one of his stirring speeches he spoke of the tide turning in a fortnight.

He said 12 weeks, not 2.
Correct. But it still has an echo of “all over by Christmas” and that did not go well.

 


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