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

[LeeB]

Who's going to give you the perfunctory patting down on your way in?

Which route will you take? Will you pass Percy by the garden, Mac by the kitchen and Dave next to your son's bedroom door shouting at you as you pass them?

Another good argument for screening games - You miss that trio:

Percy whose face looks like it will crack if it ever breaks out into a smile, Mac, whatever happened to him? I miss his affront to fashion and then Dave "holier than thou" Woodhall, fresh last Friday nights/Saturday morning drunken ramblings.  How he ever has the nerve to accuse someone of being "morally superior" is beyond me.  Never has such a non-entity of an oxygen thief had such an over inflated opinion of himself.

He's going to ban me for playing the victim you know?  Dave "please let me keep supplying you with drinks General" Woodhall?    who sold out his subscribers the minute Mark Ansell gave him an interview.

Life without H&V - How will I cope?

And there it is. You will be sorely missed by those of us that need to be told how we think.

[Sexual Ealing]

I agree with LeeB.

[mr underhill]

To be honest, I'm only going to renew my ST if we do get relegated. that's how strongly I feel about the PL

[paul_e]

See Chris this is the problem you and brassneck have spent weeks bitching at people that you claim to agree with because you refuse to accept their reasoning. That's both weird and just pisses people off for no real reason, that's why I've been asking you both to focus on why the individual arguments are wrong rather than dismissing it as people making up reasons to get the goal they want.

Personally I've been consistent with - "if they can't play the league out in as close to normal conditions as possible by June 30th then void it and work on the arrangements for 20/21 instead" - my arguments have been covered many times and having you ignore it all and just say "be honest you just don't want us to go down" is a shitty attitude.

[aev]

You'll find I've been 100% consistent that I want the league voided.  I'm just honest enough to admit why and I don't necessarily think it would be the fairest outcome.

But because you think this way, you are unwilling to accept others may hold the same view for different reasons?

No I'm willing to accept some do.  But I don't accept the general difference between the sentiments of our fans and other clubs fans who seem far less virtuous on the matter is co-incidence.  As I've said before, the rage against the callousness of the PL trying to find a way to finish the season seems to be directly proprtional to how much the said finishing of the season stuffs up your club.

I cant comment about other club's forums - friends that support other clubs are generally ambivalent but the sample size is so tiny it isn't really that relevant.

The Bundesliga are supposedly looking at playing out the season with no relegation, what is the purpose of that if it isn't about money? I can't imagine that people would be happy with that either (with our higher fatalities) just because people have finished Netflix and are a bit bored at home.

[Clark W Griswold]

Heaven forbid they are on free - to-air channels and I have to put up with Jonathan Pearce or Clive fucking Tyldesley.

Yeah, i think Pearce is the most annoying commentator of all time. Motson got to be as annoying in his later years but at least he was decent back in the 80's and early 90's.
I generally turn the sound off when that ****** Pearce is on, cannot stand him.

[chrisw1]

Paul - I got involved in the discussion because of the sheer volume of posts about how the PL was only interested in money, wanted to put lives at risk etc, etc.   I was trying to present the counterpoint that there are very good reasons why the PL needs to explore ways of finishing the season because however flawed it may be, it would probably be the fairest of the outcomes (in my opinion and not a point I want to debate further).  It became clear that we have a really high proportion of people with big safety concerns about closed doors friendly's etc.  I looked at a few other clubs forums and there was surprisingly few with such concerns.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to draw a correlation.  That doesn't mean I can't accept some people may hold a view for entirely alturistic reasons, I'm just sceptical about the volume on H&V.

I hope this clears up my point of view on the matter.

UTV.

[Richard E]

WOW! This thread escalated qui , er , gradually over a number of weeks.

[mr underhill]

ennui?

[paul_e]

Paul - I got involved in the discussion because of the sheer volume of posts about how the PL was only interested in money, wanted to put lives at risk etc, etc.   I was trying to present the counterpoint that there are very good reasons why the PL needs to explore ways of finishing the season because however flawed it may be, it would probably be the fairest of the outcomes (in my opinion and not a point I want to debate further).  It became clear that we have a really high proportion of people with big safety concerns about closed doors friendly's etc.  I looked at a few other clubs forums and there was surprisingly few with such concerns.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to draw a correlation.  That doesn't mean I can't accept some people may hold a view for entirely alturistic reasons, I'm just sceptical about the volume on H&V.

I hope this clears up my point of view on the matter.

UTV.

No it doesn't, I don't particularly care what other forums are saying, the question is are there legitimate problems with health and safety of trying to restart games too early? If you agree there are then you're just being arsey to make a point. Arguing about why people are focusing on those very real problems is pointless and is little more than, to use your phrase, virtue signalling on your part, as an attempt at showing how self-aware you are compared to everyone.

[chrisw1]

Paul - I got involved in the discussion because of the sheer volume of posts about how the PL was only interested in money, wanted to put lives at risk etc, etc.   I was trying to present the counterpoint that there are very good reasons why the PL needs to explore ways of finishing the season because however flawed it may be, it would probably be the fairest of the outcomes (in my opinion and not a point I want to debate further).  It became clear that we have a really high proportion of people with big safety concerns about closed doors friendly's etc.  I looked at a few other clubs forums and there was surprisingly few with such concerns.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to draw a correlation.  That doesn't mean I can't accept some people may hold a view for entirely alturistic reasons, I'm just sceptical about the volume on H&V.

I hope this clears up my point of view on the matter.

UTV.

No it doesn't, I don't particularly care what other forums are saying, the question is are there legitimate problems with health and safety of trying to restart games too early? If you agree there are then you're just being arsey to make a point. Arguing about why people are focusing on those very real problems is pointless and is little more than, to use your phrase, virtue signalling on your part, as an attempt at showing how self-aware you are compared to everyone.

Paul

I feel I have been clear and have said all I want to say.  I don't want to discuss this with you anymore.  Please go away.

[KevinGage]

Who's going to give you the perfunctory patting down on your way in?

Which route will you take? Will you pass Percy by the garden, Mac by the kitchen and Dave next to your son's bedroom door shouting at you as you pass them?

Another good argument for screening games - You miss that trio:

Percy whose face looks like it will crack if it ever breaks out into a smile, Mac, whatever happened to him? I miss his affront to fashion and then Dave "holier than thou" Woodhall, fresh last Friday nights/Saturday morning drunken ramblings.  How he ever has the nerve to accuse someone of being "morally superior" is beyond me.  Never has such a non-entity of an oxygen thief had such an over inflated opinion of himself.

He's going to ban me for playing the victim you know?  Dave "please let me keep supplying you with drinks General" Woodhall?    who sold out his subscribers the minute Mark Ansell gave him an interview.

Life without H&V - How will I cope?

Rampant masturbation?

Boning up on contract law.

[Fred Crump]

Heaven forbid they are on free - to-air channels and I have to put up with Jonathan Pearce or Clive fucking Tyldesley.

Yeah, i think Pearce is the most annoying commentator of all time. Motson got to be as annoying in his later years but at least he was decent back in the 80's and early 90's.
I generally turn the sound off when that c*** Pearce is on, cannot stand him.

Pearce was quite good on robot wars. He should have stuck to that.

[Drummond]

Heaven forbid they are on free - to-air channels and I have to put up with Jonathan Pearce or Clive fucking Tyldesley.

Yeah, i think Pearce is the most annoying commentator of all time. Motson got to be as annoying in his later years but at least he was decent back in the 80's and early 90's.
I generally turn the sound off when that c*** Pearce is on, cannot stand him.

Pearce was quite good on robot wars. He should have stuck to that.

Indeed. I never watched it.

[john e]

Well if your going out you might as well go out with a bang