How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I don't think anybody would complain.

[walsall villain]

I don't think anybody would complain.

Obviously not on this forum

[Brassneck]

If it was played out behind closed doors I wonder if the relegated clubs would also have a case in that the structure of the league had changed and therefore not a consistent playing field?

I don't see how they would as they would have taken part in a democratic vote as prescribed by the PL rules.

It would be for them to argue that the season should be played out but relegation should be scrapped.  We'd certainly have the bottom 6 voting for this.  In all probability, we'd probably have the next 6th placed teams voting that way and probably Liverpool as well.  Nobody cares who, if anyone gets relegate.  Liverpool just want to win the league, many other teams want to play out if poss just to ease the financial impact.  If scrapping relegation means that the season can be played out, most would vote that way.

[aev]

I can’t even remember who was near the top but you would think that an 8 week break would suit some teams rather more than others - Wolves would be an obvious beneficiary as they started their season earlier and also played loads of uefa games - perhaps a team like Sheff Utd would be at a disadvantage as their momentum has been interrupted.

For us, de registering Wesley and bringing in the Spanish guy was on the basis that Wesley wouldn’t be fit for the rest of the season, this has obviously changed and you’d think should be able to be challenged.

[brian green]

I am pretty sure Ivor was with Rhyl at the end of his career PWS.  He was a great hero of mine as a lad.  He could throw the old leather ball half way across the pitch.  I may be wrong but I seem to remember him being interviewed on the radio prior to the Wembley visit.

[Exeter 77]

Rhyl aren't mentioned on Ivor Powell's Wikipedia entry Brian - doesn't mean he wasn't there though. And he isn't mentioned on the Rhyl entry. I did however learn that Frank Barson managed Rhyl in the 1930s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Powell?wprov=sfla1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyl_F.C.?wprov=sfla1

[eric woolban woolban]

They just need to end any speculation and void the season.
To steal a Paul Lambert phrase, 'we go again ' when  this disease has been fully controlled.
Whether that's six, twelve or eighteen months, so be it.

[Steve67]

I take that guardian article as the first step towards voiding the season. Individually the problems aren't insurmountable but collectively they create a mess where the actions to suit some clubs harm others and vice versa so I don't see a version of this which gets the support needed to ensure it goes ahead, I included voiding in that but that has to be the fall back position if nothing else is agreed.

I suspect there is absolutely nothing in the EFL/Sky contract to bail them out as no-one could have seen this coming.  I bet the lawyers are working overtime to find a solution.  I'm thinking they will want Boris to tell them to cancel it all so they can shrug their shoulders at the clubs involved and claim it's not their doing.  Can't say I blame them.

[Three Spires Villa]

With "socially disruptive measures" carrying on until the end of the year (according to Chris Witty) I wonder what that means for football in general.

It’s fucked.

If social disruptive measures are here until a vaccine is in place, which could be and will be along time, the season has to be void

[Pete3206]

This season is gone and there's currently no guarantee, that they'll even be an August restart.

The football and media suits may be waking up to the increasing likelihood that the game as we know it, might be dead.

[David_Nab]

Bundesliga Proposals ..

https://www.dw.com/en/bundesliga-behind-closed-doors-leaked-documents-show-how-it-will-work/a-53212350

Two of the task force's recommendations in particular will likely provide ample material for discussion. "No automatic reporting of a positive [coronavirus] case to the press, since disease verification as well as clear documentation of suspected transmission routes take priority," the report states. This doesn‘t sound like a transparent approach to a pandemic situation.

In view of the close-knit medical control network among professional teams, the experts also consider the "abandonment of group quarantine" to be justified. In other words, the entire squad need not neccessarily be automatically quarantined if a player is infected. In this context, the task force simply recommends "ensuring a sufficiently large squad in the season's run in at an early stage".

Sounds pretty nuts

[Lastfootstamper]

Are they implying that the whole squad is kept together and away from wider society until all the games are completed, and players are only left out if their symptoms incapacitate them sufficiently to prevent them from being physically able to play, as if they had any other run-of-the-mill illness or injury?

[Gareth]

Someone on Facebook came up with the best suggestion (for us) so far, Void the game week Villa, Sheffield United, Arsenal and City didn't play because of Carabao cup final. Then all teams will have played 28 games.

If you do that, Villa move up to 17th to bring all teams down to same amount of games played, this would move us out of the relegation zone and Wet Spam would go down instead.

That’s the daftest answer I’ve seen. You can’t scrub other teams results even if it would suit us. Imagine the reaction on here if the boot was on the other foot so to speak.

It’s no dafter than voiding as is now & relegating a team for showing the League Cup respect

[DrGonzo]

David Moyes asking the emminently sensible question... why should we waste covid testing on footballers when NHS staff and vulnerable people are waiting for them?

[CT]

David Moyes asking the emminently sensible question... why should we waste covid testing on footballers when NHS staff and vulnerable people are waiting for them?

Another thing that Gary Neville mentioned yesterday. If we had to test every player, member of staff etc, before every game, the PL would need to make 28,000 tests to complete the season.

This is at a time when people who really do need these tests, still aren't getting them.