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Author Topic: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?  (Read 969609 times)

Offline dave.woodhall

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3345 on: May 04, 2020, 03:48:18 PM »
This is good: https://www.football365.com/news/back-septemvber-coronavirus-anonymous-footballer

Good read. Would love to know who that is
Do you think it’s real? It seems a bit cliched and predictable in a let’s line up every single argument from a non quoted source.
 

It's the same source. I'm not sure that John Nicholson would risk his reputation on publishing a 2000 word piece that he'd just made up. It doesn't work like that.

I wonder if it's a composite of several player interviews.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3346 on: May 04, 2020, 03:55:37 PM »
This is good: https://www.football365.com/news/back-septemvber-coronavirus-anonymous-footballer

Good read. Would love to know who that is
Do you think it’s real? It seems a bit cliched and predictable in a let’s line up every single argument from a non quoted source.
 

It's the same source. I'm not sure that John Nicholson would risk his reputation on publishing a 2000 word piece that he'd just made up. It doesn't work like that.

It does read like the sort of conversation you have in your head though!

What you do in your head, you do in your head.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3347 on: May 04, 2020, 04:07:41 PM »
I do love these occasional Suede snippets, Eamonn.

Offline Des Little

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3348 on: May 04, 2020, 04:14:36 PM »
Which of us would go to VP in September - reduced capacity or otherwise - for a game if there wasn’t a vaccine in place? I’ll start, not me.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3349 on: May 04, 2020, 04:34:31 PM »
This is good: https://www.football365.com/news/back-septemvber-coronavirus-anonymous-footballer

Good read. Would love to know who that is

Whoever it is, I hope they've got a good accountant:

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“I don’t know, but it won’t be much, not relatively. If you had 1000 staff on 25 grand per year, that’s only two and half million per year.

Errrr

Offline Simon Page

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3350 on: May 04, 2020, 04:37:31 PM »

Whoever it is, I hope they've got a good accountant:

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“I don’t know, but it won’t be much, not relatively. If you had 1000 staff on 25 grand per year, that’s only two and half million per year.

Errrr

I thought that, but it's clearly a typo. Football clubs don't have 1,000 staff on 25K.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3351 on: May 04, 2020, 04:44:27 PM »

Whoever it is, I hope they've got a good accountant:

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“I don’t know, but it won’t be much, not relatively. If you had 1000 staff on 25 grand per year, that’s only two and half million per year.

Errrr

I thought that, but it's clearly a typo. Football clubs don't have 1,000 staff on 25K.


There's a Hancock/Patel joke in there somewhere.

Offline VinnieChase84

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3352 on: May 04, 2020, 05:05:15 PM »
Which of us would go to VP in September - reduced capacity or otherwise - for a game if there wasn’t a vaccine in place? I’ll start, not me.

I would

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3353 on: May 04, 2020, 05:31:43 PM »
Which of us would go to VP in September - reduced capacity or otherwise - for a game if there wasn’t a vaccine in place? I’ll start, not me.

I would
I"ll buy a ST as and when but i doubt il be setting foot into VP till the New Year.

Offline john2710

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3354 on: May 04, 2020, 05:37:02 PM »
Which of us would go to VP in September - reduced capacity or otherwise - for a game if there wasn’t a vaccine in place? I’ll start, not me.
I would love to go, as I really miss it.
But I won't be going again until it's safe to do so & that's at least a year away.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3355 on: May 04, 2020, 05:41:13 PM »
Which of us would go to VP in September - reduced capacity or otherwise - for a game if there wasn’t a vaccine in place? I’ll start, not me.

I would
I’d be there

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3356 on: May 04, 2020, 06:50:37 PM »
This is good: https://www.football365.com/news/back-septemvber-coronavirus-anonymous-footballer

Good read. Would love to know who that is
Do you think it’s real? It seems a bit cliched and predictable in a let’s line up every single argument from a non quoted source.
 

It's the same source. I'm not sure that John Nicholson would risk his reputation on publishing a 2000 word piece that he'd just made up. It doesn't work like that.

I wonder if it's a composite of several player interviews.
Could be.
You could take every one of those points from quite a number of posts on here including the healthy dollop of cynicism.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3357 on: May 04, 2020, 07:08:49 PM »
Which of us would go to VP in September - reduced capacity or otherwise - for a game if there wasn’t a vaccine in place? I’ll start, not me.

I would
I’d be there
Depends how accurate the latest antibody test is!

Offline chrisw1

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3358 on: May 04, 2020, 07:11:39 PM »
Which of us would go to VP in September - reduced capacity or otherwise - for a game if there wasn’t a vaccine in place? I’ll start, not me.

I would
I’d be there
I think I would, but it will depend on what the situation is like at the time.  If it's still rife, then maybe not, if it's just handfuls of cases then yes probably.

Re player X - I stil think it sounds like Deeny.

Offline Aldridge Villa

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3359 on: May 04, 2020, 07:24:37 PM »
Yes indeed, back to VP without proven vaccine.I do hope though the upwards curve has improved by then to negate the need for such soul searching decision making.

 


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