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

[andyh]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/05/06/premier-league-ban-team-celebrations-shirt-swapping-spitting/

No fans and no team celebrations ..brilliant viewing this will be

Project restart was always a load of bollocks.
Now it’s just ridiculous fucking bollocks.

[john e]

It feels like ongoing negotiations. I would have thought the compromise would be to finish the season, to 'lift the spirits of the nation' but remove the threat of relegation. You then shift the issue to what you're going to do about promotion to next year's competition.

Also a question of whether you start next season in neutral venues and how that would work. The quicker they can finalise the current questions, the more time they have to figure out how next season will work.

in my opinion there is zero chance they will play out the rest of the season with no relegation

[VinnieChase84]

Why all these restrictions during the match!? That implies it’s not actually safe to be around other people!!
All of them are meant to have been tested for Covid and this going ahead under safe parameters.

If you can’t hug your teammate this screams out it’s totally not safe

[BoVillan esq]

Why all these restrictions during the match!? That implies it’s not actually safe to be around other people!!
All of them are meant to have been tested for Covid and this going ahead under safe parameters.

If you can’t hug your teammate this screams out it’s totally not safe

There is no way it can be be safe and I would repeat the point I made yesterday, what happens if as a result of playing in a game, a player contracts the virus as a direct result of playing, as such, although he may recover may be to invalided to play football ever again, people are saying that have got over the virus that they just can't get straight again, breathless, weak, lifeless as a result of having Covid, point is will clubs be held accountable for ending a players career, even life and will the government be held accountable for being blatantly reckless with peoples lives and health. That said, lets remember this is a government or party that introduced Austerity.   

[ChicagoLion]

Agree Bo, and as the players won’t be insured the liability implications are massive.
The players are not going to put themselves at risk and why should they.

[phantom limb]

Let’s say they do push ahead with all this and some players/staff catch the virus, and it results in others catching it, hospitalisations and even some deaths. Who would take responsibility?

[nick harper]

Need to watch what happens in Germany over the next 2/3 weeks if they do get their games off the ground, although I am puzzled that 10 players in all seem to have tested positive and they’re just ploughing on.

[David_Nab]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/premier-league-proposals-project-restart-21986815

However, one club told Mirror Sport they fear they will get as little as two or three days of full contact training before the games resume because the Premier League don't want to risk the chances of infection - and that would be asking for trouble.

Players would be thrust back into full action on the back of a long lay-off, staggered training which is a long way from the normal demands of a pre-season and very limited contact sessions - before being asked to play in arguably the most physically demanding league in the world.

The guidelines also state that no soft tissue massages will be allowed and one club medic insisted that some players rely heavily on massages both before and after sessions as their daily routine.

So

1) No proper training before starting to make sure no one test positive so they can get games played

2) No massages etc FFS this are athletes this is ridiculous

[andyh]

If it’s all so fucking dangerous, why are they fucking planning to do it?

[Villafirst]

They'll be suggesting getting their Subbuteo sets out soon and flicking players whilst wearing gloves and masks. The whole thing is becoming a farce. Voiding the season is the only sensible option. Much angst caused in scouse land!!

[VinnieChase84]

Allegedly some detail of the lockdown lift. IF TRUE then premier league has zero chance of re starting surely!?

[john2710]

If it’s all so fucking dangerous, why are they fucking planning to do it?

Money......

[Des Little]

Every single day brings new levels of idiocy. It really is getting farcical now.

[OzVilla]

The more i'm seeing and hearing about this the more i'm convinced that this whole scenario is utterly obscene and literally playing Russian roulette with both players and support staff.  People will congregate to watch games in pub lock ins and house parties, we all know football and football fans, i'm 100% certain it will happen. Similar to Cheltenham and the Liverpool Champions League game that will lead to avoidable infections and most probably more deaths.

I'm also coming to terms with the fact that it will probably happen and that $$ and the Govt wanting some decent PR to take peoples attention away from the death toll will ultimately win the day. 

 

[old man villa fan]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/premier-league-proposals-project-restart-21986815

However, one club told Mirror Sport they fear they will get as little as two or three days of full contact training before the games resume because the Premier League don't want to risk the chances of infection - and that would be asking for trouble.

Players would be thrust back into full action on the back of a long lay-off, staggered training which is a long way from the normal demands of a pre-season and very limited contact sessions - before being asked to play in arguably the most physically demanding league in the world.

The guidelines also state that no soft tissue massages will be allowed and one club medic insisted that some players rely heavily on massages both before and after sessions as their daily routine.

So

1) No proper training before starting to make sure no one test positive so they can get games played

2) No massages etc FFS this are athletes this is ridiculous

Does The Mirror make this up (the answer is probably yes) as it sounds more Sunday League than Premier League.  Currently clubs decide how they train players and much of that is personalised but now they are going to be told how they must do it.  This is getting more ridiculous by the day.  If they are saying it is not going to be safe training and preparing players properly, how can they agree to restart playing matches.

Next on the agenda (i) how do players get to the ground in a safe manner (ii) where do they get changed.