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Author Topic: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?  (Read 746924 times)

Online Richard E

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1935 on: April 10, 2020, 08:34:48 AM »
It would become a completely different competition and would be incomparable with what went before.


Would we be less crap in that case?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1936 on: April 10, 2020, 08:43:26 AM »
I really find it pretty distasteful that football is continuing to scramble for ideas to finish the season, whilst the world is in a crisis.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1937 on: April 10, 2020, 08:45:34 AM »
I thought April Fools was last week. From the Guardian:

The National League has advised clubs in its three divisions to vote in favour of ending the regular season without playing games that were scheduled up until 25 April and, if an agreement is reached, member clubs will be expected to decide each team’s final position through further polls, provoking bewilderment among some club officials. The league contacted its clubs after a board meeting on Thursday.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1938 on: April 10, 2020, 09:07:49 AM »
sounds suitably Labour Party.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1939 on: April 10, 2020, 09:24:13 AM »
Report in the Telegraph today about how Brentford could soon have two grounds and no football to play in either of them.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1940 on: April 10, 2020, 09:29:56 AM »
Not sure if this has been asked before, but it Points Averages were used to determine finishing positions in the event of league abandonment, would ours improve if you averaged the home and away points separately, then multiplied them by the respective home and away games left?

It would mean us at least having the benefit of our better home form and more home games left.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1941 on: April 10, 2020, 09:30:59 AM »
I really find it pretty distasteful that football is continuing to scramble for ideas to finish the season, whilst the world is in a crisis.

I’m sticking with my view that they are preparing the ground for their legal position of ‘we considered every eventuality, however absurd and ruled them all out as impractical, season over’

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1942 on: April 10, 2020, 09:40:09 AM »
Not sure if this has been asked before, but it Points Averages were used to determine finishing positions in the event of league abandonment, would ours improve if you averaged the home and away points separately, then multiplied them by the respective home and away games left?

It would mean us at least having the benefit of our better home form and more home games left.

Think we would still be in the bottom 3.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1943 on: April 10, 2020, 09:44:36 AM »
Report in the Telegraph today about how Brentford could soon have two grounds and no football to play in either of them.


Further down the pyramid these days, but I think York City are about there already.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1944 on: April 10, 2020, 09:46:35 AM »
I think you have to play it (at some stage) or void it.

Problem is playing it at some stage isn’t really finishing the “season”. Momentum, injuries, lack of crowds, physical and mental fatigue will all be changed to such an extent that all you are really doing is playing 2 different competitions.

Did Tottenham de register Kane- he could end up coming back and get Tottenham into the greedy league, would this be fair as wasn’t he out for the season?

Too many clubs will be affected by arbitrary decisions.

And of course, none of this is even has considered the grimness of the situation we are all living under.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1945 on: April 10, 2020, 10:07:01 AM »
Not sure if this has been asked before, but it Points Averages were used to determine finishing positions in the event of league abandonment, would ours improve if you averaged the home and away points separately, then multiplied them by the respective home and away games left?

It would mean us at least having the benefit of our better home form and more home games left.

Think we would still be in the bottom 3.
Yep by my calculation
=16 Bournemouth + Watford with 35.74
18th West Ham with 35.55
19th Villa with 34.98
20th Norwich with 27.95

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1946 on: April 10, 2020, 10:29:50 AM »
Posted in another thread - but worth a repeat:
This playing behind closed doors bollox - I take it everyone is aware how much footballers spit?
22 players infected after 10 mins, (if anyone is carrying the virus)

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1947 on: April 10, 2020, 10:33:45 AM »
They have to have medical staff at every game, since Muamba collapsed on the pitch. Anyone think the best use for medical staff at the moment is keeping an eye on football?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1948 on: April 10, 2020, 11:15:11 AM »
They have to have medical staff at every game, since Muamba collapsed on the pitch. Anyone think the best use for medical staff at the moment is keeping an eye on football?

They're not talking about "at the moment", they're talking about some point in the future when the virus is under control.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1949 on: April 10, 2020, 11:16:09 AM »
Not sure if this has been asked before, but it Points Averages were used to determine finishing positions in the event of league abandonment, would ours improve if you averaged the home and away points separately, then multiplied them by the respective home and away games left?

It would mean us at least having the benefit of our better home form and more home games left.

Think we would still be in the bottom 3.
Yep by my calculation
=16 Bournemouth + Watford with 35.74
18th West Ham with 35.55
19th Villa with 34.98
20th Norwich with 27.95

Cheers both. Drat and double drat.

 


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