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

[aldridgeboy]

If Donald Trump was coming out with suggestions like the organisers of football, can imagine the hysteria ?

[Clark W Griswold]

Mind you, you've got to be some kind of proper ****** to suggest playing games with halves under 45mins.

[The Edge]

if they compromise the current format in anyway teams will be disadvantaged. Some more than others.  If they're hell bent on finishing the league it has to be played in the same way to the point it stopped.  If they can't do that then it has to be null and void. It's that simple.

Well put.My sentiments exactly. We wait until the full green light to resume however long that takes. Then there's two possible scenarios. Finish this season to it's proper conclusion or scrap it. It all depends on how it impinges on next season. That bridge can be crossed when we have real dates to work on.

[aj2k77]

Dean Smith says that if/when football returns then we may be without 2 players who are considered a high risk.

So not only would we lose 6 home games but we could also lose 2 players.
Fuck that.

[nick harper]

Dean Smith says that if/when football returns then we may be without 2 players who are considered a high risk.

So not only would we lose 6 home games but we could also lose 2 players.
Fuck that.

Given its Villa, it’s bound to be Grealish and McGinn !

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Dean Smith says that if/when football returns then we may be without 2 players who are considered a high risk.

So not only would we lose 6 home games but we could also lose 2 players.
Fuck that.

Given its Villa, it’s bound to be Grealish and McGinn !

Pepe Reina is the obvious one. I can't recall who's the current Villa player with asthma.

[cdbearsfan]

Hasn't Pepe Reina already had it and therefore less likely to be an issue?

[Lastfootstamper]

Hasn't Pepe Reina already had it and therefore less likely to be an issue?

He's already returned from whence he came, hasn't he?

[cdbearsfan]

No, he's contracted until 30th June.

[ChicagoLion]

Hasn't Pepe Reina already had it and therefore less likely to be an issue?

He's already returned from whence he came, hasn't he?

Well he was seen running back to his goal, not sure if he made it though.

[David_Nab]

It's a player with Asthma and one whose mother in law is in remission ( doesn't say if thats cancer or covid )  who lives with the player

[olaftab]

Hasn't Pepe Reina already had it and therefore less likely to be an issue?

Depends on how severe it was. We have heard far too often how severely Covid-19 impacts on lungs and other organs.

[john e]

I don’t think they will void the league with no relegations

I think it will come down to finishing the league in the higgledy piggledy way they are talking about

or they will finish it on points per game
If they don’t finish the league we will go down on that basis

legal actions will happen but that would happen anyway no matter what way they do it

might be wrong but that’s what I reckon

[aj2k77]

That would be some cheek to bang on about the integrity of the league and then have some teams play 13 home games and some teams play 15.

To be honest, I've given up caring about this season. Events off the pitch render it meaningless, it's only a game and seeing the money men scrambling around to save their cash cow and the whole wages and furlough rubbish I've found very distasteful.

[PaulWinch again]

Yes football has once again charged straight to the forefront of being utterly tone death and shameless.