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Author Topic: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?  (Read 746868 times)

Offline Lastfootstamper

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1545 on: April 01, 2020, 01:53:47 PM »
Are other sports also having to stump up bazillions in compo to Sky?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1546 on: April 01, 2020, 01:56:28 PM »
This crisis is revealling how morally corrupt football had become. I read today that non-playing staff are taking a pay cut at Spurs, whilst their millionaire players continue to earn as normal. Also, cases of the coronavirus are soaring in Liverpool, brining into question why on March 11 3,000 fans from Madrid (in the middle of a coronavirus outbreak) were allowed to come to Liverpool, drink and socialise in pubs and then attend football match. Hopefully this crisis will drain the coffers of football and allow some normality in the game to return.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/coronavirus-data-shows-sudden-rise-18012228

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1547 on: April 01, 2020, 02:03:49 PM »
Listening to John Murray this morning and the behind closed door option is still being talked about.

They need to knock this shit on the head. Football is NOT an essential industry.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1548 on: April 01, 2020, 02:07:09 PM »
these fucknuts are going to ensure the game dies if they persist in finding excuses not to respond to the circumstances surrounding them.

Many grounds are being given over to help with treatment, players before lockdown were going out and helping in community so I'd say Football is playing a small part although of course stories like Spurs yesterday don't help with that perception.

Think Football is just saying in 3-4 months if things are slowly getting back to normality give us the chance to get back to our normality and plans have to be drawn up for that (of course these can be quickly scrapped if it's simply not safe to do so).

One thing I won't miss this summer though is in the last decade the ridiculous hyping up of transfer windows and long sagas (seemed to start the year Barry was on verge of joining Liverpool for two months). I'd like to think that particular part of football industry will have a reality check and some yellow ties will be burnt.
« Last Edit: April 01, 2020, 02:08:50 PM by SoccerHQ »

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1549 on: April 01, 2020, 02:09:14 PM »
I don't know what's been asked or offered, but looking around a lot of clubs seem to be doing much more than us.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1550 on: April 01, 2020, 03:08:47 PM »
With things like the Edinburgh Festivals going west the idea of Football being anywhere near resumption is more than fanciful.

I said before, we'll be lucky to see the new season KO in normality never mind anything else. An autumn re-start is the most likely with a suspension of the League Cup for a season to allow for the delay.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1551 on: April 01, 2020, 03:42:43 PM »
I don't know what's been asked or offered, but looking around a lot of clubs seem to be doing much more than us.
(Apologies if this topic has already been hammered into submission) Any club statement yet on whether the non-playing staff will have their wages honoured in full or will they be relying on the government 80% scheme?  (In contrast to our players - who I don't think will miss a Mercedes or two while they're 'suffering' the constraints of the lockdown.)

If all of us are part of the 'family' of Villa, then proper financial consideration and regard for those (in the background, but essential) members of the family who depend on the club for their wages and livelihoods should be a priority.  If not, why not?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1552 on: April 01, 2020, 04:02:29 PM »
What's the point of behind closed doors games? It's a form of entertainment isn't it?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1553 on: April 01, 2020, 05:10:17 PM »
I don't know what's been asked or offered, but looking around a lot of clubs seem to be doing much more than us.
(Apologies if this topic has already been hammered into submission) Any club statement yet on whether the non-playing staff will have their wages honoured in full or will they be relying on the government 80% scheme?  (In contrast to our players - who I don't think will miss a Mercedes or two while they're 'suffering' the constraints of the lockdown.)

If all of us are part of the 'family' of Villa, then proper financial consideration and regard for those (in the background, but essential) members of the family who depend on the club for their wages and livelihoods should be a priority.  If not, why not?

My brother works on the turnstiles and he hasn't been told anything at all. He wants to know before deciding whether or not to claim Universal Credit, but his manager won't give him an answer.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1554 on: April 01, 2020, 05:12:26 PM »
What's the point of behind closed doors games? It's a form of entertainment isn't it?

Well, it used to be, until about 2010.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1555 on: April 01, 2020, 05:40:23 PM »
How many people will think twice about going to football matches until the threat of this virus is gone? Which won't be for another 12 months.

Everyone is taking a financial hit, so why shouldn't football?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1556 on: April 01, 2020, 06:57:21 PM »
This crisis is revealling how morally corrupt football had become. I read today that non-playing staff are taking a pay cut at Spurs, whilst their millionaire players continue to earn as normal. Also, cases of the coronavirus are soaring in Liverpool, brining into question why on March 11 3,000 fans from Madrid (in the middle of a coronavirus outbreak) were allowed to come to Liverpool, drink and socialise in pubs and then attend football match. Hopefully this crisis will drain the coffers of football and allow some normality in the game to return.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/coronavirus-data-shows-sudden-rise-18012228

Should this not prompt all fans, including fans of AVFC, to seriously reconsider their relationship with their team? I have waited, and waited and waited for self driven initiative to come from the players themselves.....instead I get rank hypocrisy and a car crash.

My loyalty is the the AVFC community first, the club second and the players, now and sadly, a distant third.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1557 on: April 01, 2020, 07:00:38 PM »
With things like the Edinburgh Festivals going west the idea of Football being anywhere near resumption is more than fanciful.

I said before, we'll be lucky to see the new season KO in normality never mind anything else. An autumn re-start is the most likely with a suspension of the League Cup for a season to allow for the delay.
It's not even that though, cos the teams will need some time to train & prepare for the new/resumed season - at the moment a week or two would do, but leave it to August and it'll be more like a month.

 You can't allow professional football to start of you're not allowing park football to take place, and with that in mind I think August would be fanciful. If it turns out to be a seasonal virus, I can't season either this season or next being viable

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1558 on: April 01, 2020, 07:01:24 PM »
With each passing day I am less bothered about the football.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1559 on: April 01, 2020, 07:03:05 PM »
I miss it and the normality that came with it. It's hard to be engaged with anything particularly current about it, given the absence of games or the summer window tediousness.

 


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