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

[FrankyH]

Ah footballs disappearing over the roof of the old Witton Lane Stand and watching it roll towards the road sometimes to be never seen again and others appearing to be thrown onto the pitch minutes after the new ball was in play.

Ken McNaught and Alan Evans must have wellied  4 or 5 ball out of Filbert Street ground the game we played there on the way to winning the league.

[curiousorange]

Government says sporting events can resume from 1st June, behind closed doors.

[cdbearsfan]

The government are massive twats.

[curiousorange]

The government are massive twats.

In other news, the Pope found shitting in woods.

[Lastfootstamper]

I'm not saying it is fair. I've heard loads of people saying that 22 team Prem next season is a solution. I'm just wondering how those that do see it working further down the leagues.

Championship and League 1 will expand accordingly for a season or two before numbers are adjusted back to 20, 24 and 24.

If it's top two promoted in each division, it's only the PL that will see an increase. Championship and League 1 will stay at 24, League 2 would drop to 22. Unless they promote from the conference, but then you're looking at some pretty harsh numbers of relegations out of the league itself to sort it back out again afterwards.

[Lastfootstamper]

Government says sporting events can resume from 1st June, behind closed doors.

I've just watched the avtv two minutes of highlights from this day last year, and found myself thinking, 'BCD, what a load of pointless shite that'll be'.

[eric woolban woolban]

Just void all the leagues and start again with a new season whenever that can be.
Carry forward the points from this void season into next. Play any outstanding games first.
Restart the cups as they were.

[andyh]

Government says sporting events can resume from 1st June, behind closed doors.

Hmmm, that’s one way to say it.

The other would be that the governments reports says that top level sport cannot take place, even behind closed doors, before June 1st at the earliest.

[aev]

So when is the earliest that proper training can resume?

Would it be June 1st?

[Jon Crofts]

When are we expecting to hear about the fuckery from the Premier League meeting today? Is there a presser organised or will it be a Sky Sports understands kind of day?

[Mister E]

The Athletic reporting Leagues One and Two will be finished this week, with a weighted home/away points per game applied to the remaining fixtures to decide final standings. God knows what the calculation might be but as our home form is better and we have more home games left...

Seen someone say for us:
6 home games left (71% of points) = 12.78 (rounded to 13 points), 4 away games (29% of points) =3.48 (rounded down to 3 points). Total = 16 points from remaining 10 games.
Currently 25 points + 16 points = 41

That right?

I've just wasted an hour of my life to work out the weighted final table.
At face value we're dead meat, along with Norwich and either Watford or Wet Spam depending on the final goal difference.
However, because the margins are so slight - we are on 34.98, WHU on 35.56 and Watford on 35.74 (with Bournemouth on 36.54) - it only needs one or two rogue results (Watford 3-0 Liverpool, for example) for this analysis to be rendered useless.
And, as has been argued long and hard on here for a while (particularly eruditely by Old Man VF, IIRC), team form isprone to change in the last quarter of the season.

A further consideration is that if we do go into the final 10 games, all teams will effectively be re-starting from scratch, and the question therefore arises: whose form will continue on the same trajectory that it left off at shutdown?

[aev]

The Times

“ Premier League to ask government to reconsider neutral grounds directive at request of more than half the clubs.”

[olaftab]

When are we expecting to hear about the fuckery from the Premier League meeting today? Is there a presser organised or will it be a Sky Sports understands kind of day?

I believe there is only one item on agenda where an agreement is required today and this is about contract extensions past 30 June.

[aev]

And from The Independent

“ FA tell Premier League it must be decided by "sporting merit" - either by games or mathematical formula, changing power bloc at bottom six”.

I am not sure about this. What mathematical formula do you use - obviously different forumlae will give different results? How would this be reached fairly?

I cant imagine that the season will have relegation if it cant be completed. The FA have done it for other leagues lower down. I would think the lawsuits would be very swift.

[David_Nab]

And from The Independent

“ FA tell Premier League it must be decided by "sporting merit" - either by games or mathematical formula, changing power bloc at bottom six”.

As I suspected they do this so the 6 becomes a 3

End of day looks like we have to play so let's hope we get our shit together and we play teams who can't be assed