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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3900 on: May 10, 2020, 07:54:17 PM »
To make room for the extra games, you could drop the League Cup, it may the end it.

I'd rather get rid of league games than eliminate one of our two vaguely plausible chances of winning silverware.

So would I, just thinking what they may do if they had that choice.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3901 on: May 10, 2020, 08:06:14 PM »
So Boris has said nothing that will help football admins make a decision other than we can possibly do more stuff in July.
Because,  as usual he doesn’t want to own anything.
Spin, bluster and obfuscation, and put the decision making onus on everyone else.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3902 on: May 10, 2020, 08:26:21 PM »
If everyone still has to social distance at work then how can you play football?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3903 on: May 10, 2020, 08:27:54 PM »
If everyone still has to social distance at work then how can you play football?

Shots in from either end of the office?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3904 on: May 10, 2020, 08:33:38 PM »
If everyone still has to social distance at work then how can you play football?

Shots in from either end of the office?
Thinking back we used to do that actually

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3905 on: May 10, 2020, 08:34:43 PM »
Reason for my question (or series of questions) is, playing devil's advocate, why is it fair to prevent teams going up using PPG but not fair to relegate teams?

Why is PPG fair at all?  Leeds imploded last season, Liverpool have lost four on the trot.  Football is completely unpredictable, hence Watford 3 Liverpool 0.  Why is PPG considered any more accurate than any other model put forward.  Do not use it at all.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3906 on: May 10, 2020, 08:35:43 PM »
PPG isn’t fair, of course it isn’t.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3907 on: May 10, 2020, 08:38:31 PM »
So Boris has said nothing that will help football admins make a decision other than we can possibly do more stuff in July.
Because,  as usual he doesn’t want to own anything.
Spin, bluster and obfuscation, and put the decision making onus on everyone else.

Tell you what he will own, outright, the second spike.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3908 on: May 10, 2020, 08:45:27 PM »
So Boris has said nothing that will help football admins make a decision other than we can possibly do more stuff in July.
Because,  as usual he doesn’t want to own anything.
Spin, bluster and obfuscation, and put the decision making onus on everyone else.

Tell you what he will own, outright, the second spike.

Which, potentially, could be encouraged by the return of football, just because they value money above life.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3909 on: May 10, 2020, 08:46:52 PM »
It's turning into something so surreal even David Lynch could not come up with.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3910 on: May 10, 2020, 08:47:44 PM »
It's turning into something so surreal even David Lynch could not come up with.

I reckon Monty Python would give it a good go though Legion.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3911 on: May 10, 2020, 08:49:20 PM »
Premier league tonight desperately  working out how all teams can live together so the game is played within their household

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3912 on: May 10, 2020, 08:49:22 PM »
Said similar much earlier on in this thread. It is beyond bizarre now.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3913 on: May 10, 2020, 08:58:08 PM »
As an older observer of this pantomime I am reminded of Bluebottle addressing Eccles when Johnson speaks to the nation.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #3914 on: May 10, 2020, 08:59:14 PM »
Reason for my question (or series of questions) is, playing devil's advocate, why is it fair to prevent teams going up using PPG but not fair to relegate teams?

Why is PPG fair at all?  Leeds imploded last season, Liverpool have lost four on the trot.  Football is completely unpredictable, hence Watford 3 Liverpool 0.  Why is PPG considered any more accurate than any other model put forward.  Do not use it at all.

Last season at the point where games were stopped weren't we something like 10th?

 


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