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

[mr-villa]

Why the hell should any Championship club be able to come up into the PL having only had to play 37 games to get there??

[aj2k77]

Surely if a PPG system is to be used then it would have to have been created before the season began, when every team was on 0 points. A system cant be invented now, it would be open too to much scrutiny.

Yes, you can't tell someone that despite having 10 games left you've changed the rules and sorry but you're relegated. It sounds as ridiculous as it is.

[eamonn]

Would we stay up using the Duckworth Lewis Method?

Assume the perpendicular

[Holte132]

Surely if a PPG system is to be used then it would have to have been created before the season began, when every team was on 0 points. A system cant be invented now, it would be open too to much scrutiny.

Yes, you can't tell someone that despite having 10 games left you've changed the rules and sorry but you're relegated. It sounds as ridiculous as it is.

Last season we won 10 in a row. I know that wouldn't have happened this season anyway, but it just shows how it's impossible to predict what might happen.

[Brazilian Villain]

Once they publish a formula bottom teams will be affected differently. It will favour some and negatively impact on others so effectively splitting the bloc.

In this era of social distancing relegation should be based on who has to travel the furthest to play their away games.

[phantom limb]

Why the hell should any Championship club be able to come up into the PL having only had to play 37 games to get there??

Especially when one of them is Leeds

[andyh]

Is it becoming more and more complicated, but clearer?

https://www.skysports.com/share/11986600

[olaftab]

Curtailing the season has now entered the PL meetings and as Masters said:
"Clubs discussed curtailing the season for the first time but all 20 Premier League clubs also remain committed to finishing the 2019/20 season.

"It was the first time we discussed curtailment - it's still our aim to finish the season obviously but it's important to discuss all the options with our clubs," Masters said.

"What I can say is that all of the talk was about finishing the season. No conclusions were reached on any other models. Those are future conversations we may need to have."

[Marlon From Bearwood]

It seems that the major reason for the neutral ground idea is to prevent fans congregating outside their home grounds.

Other than Liverpool when they win the league, can anyone really envisage this happening?

[phantom limb]

It seems that the major reason for the neutral ground idea is to prevent fans congregating outside their home grounds.

Other than Liverpool when they win the league, can anyone really envisage this happening?

I could see it. There hasn’t been any football for two months and some people are going stir crazy.

[ChicagoLion]

It seems that the major reason for the neutral ground idea is to prevent fans congregating outside their home grounds.

Other than Liverpool when they win the league, can anyone really envisage this happening?

Yes,I can imagine people standing on the Slope of Aston Park.

[andyh]

It seems that the major reason for the neutral ground idea is to prevent fans congregating outside their home grounds.

Other than Liverpool when they win the league, can anyone really envisage this happening?

I pointed this out before.

And in reply to your question, you know you know the answer.
And, in light of today’s announcement, remember Villa Park is right next door to Aston Park. There are now no restrictions on going to the park......see where I’m going with this?

[Legion]

To the park?

[David_Nab]

It seems that the major reason for the neutral ground idea is to prevent fans congregating outside their home grounds.

Other than Liverpool when they win the league, can anyone really envisage this happening?

Which is bullshit to they honestly think that Liverpool fans won't rock up at any ground they could win the league at ?

Neutral venues are against now because as I have mentioned before clubs have sponsorship tied into their home grounds.So basically we have said neutral grounds are not fair due to loss of home advantage and we get criticised but now the big clubs are against it due to losing cash and it being reconsidered 

[Mister E]

Our only hope of staying up is if we can get the games played. If not then we are utterly screwed.
Getting relegated on PPG/maths is going to be a right kicker. Especially by one point! Kevin Friend............ 😡

We did say at the time "What if that one point costs us at the end of the season" 

That is the incident that would stuff us if PPG were to be adopted.
Calculating the home and away PPG we are currently screwed, but because the margins are so slight - we would be 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, this is complicated by the fact that a team's form is prone to change in the last quarter of the season. And, there's always one team which unexpectedly tanks in the final 10 games.