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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4275 on: May 18, 2020, 03:11:45 PM »
Scotland have ended their season

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11781/11990125/celtic-crowned-scottish-premiership-champions-and-hearts-relegated-as-spfl-end-season
Thats a terrible precedent for us. 

The big difference between us and Hearts is that our owners have deep pockets.  Hearts are skint.  Protracted litigation with us and two other clubs wouldn't be the outcome the league wants.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4277 on: May 18, 2020, 04:59:52 PM »
The big factor is the game in hand that we hold. Perhaps a one-off game against Sheffield United could be arranged? Then apply the PPG rule. 3 points would see us safe?
« Last Edit: May 18, 2020, 07:25:47 PM by Villafirst »

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4278 on: May 18, 2020, 05:07:14 PM »
Scotland have ended their season

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11781/11990125/celtic-crowned-scottish-premiership-champions-and-hearts-relegated-as-spfl-end-season
Thats a terrible precedent for us. 

League 2 in England not relegating anyone is a better and more relevant precedent for us.

Sadly I don’t see that due to the Bury situation. If we do not get to restart we will be relegated.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4279 on: May 18, 2020, 05:16:15 PM »
Scotland have ended their season

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11781/11990125/celtic-crowned-scottish-premiership-champions-and-hearts-relegated-as-spfl-end-season
Thats a terrible precedent for us. 

League 2 in England not relegating anyone is a better and more relevant precedent for us.

Sadly I don’t see that due to the Bury situation. If we do not get to restart we will be relegated.

Not if the Championship doesn't start either

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4280 on: May 18, 2020, 05:17:46 PM »
Scotland have ended their season

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11781/11990125/celtic-crowned-scottish-premiership-champions-and-hearts-relegated-as-spfl-end-season
Thats a terrible precedent for us. 

League 2 in England not relegating anyone is a better and more relevant precedent for us.

Sadly I don’t see that due to the Bury situation. If we do not get to restart we will be relegated.

What about our game in hand? It would be a tad unfair to be relegated for playing at Wembley??

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4281 on: May 18, 2020, 05:27:25 PM »
Scotland have ended their season

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11781/11990125/celtic-crowned-scottish-premiership-champions-and-hearts-relegated-as-spfl-end-season
Thats a terrible precedent for us. 

League 2 in England not relegating anyone is a better and more relevant precedent for us.

Sadly I don’t see that due to the Bury situation. If we do not get to restart we will be relegated.

What about our game in hand? It would be a tad unfair to be relegated for playing at Wembley??

If project restart doesn’t happen they will have to draw the line somewhere and we will be gone.


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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4282 on: May 18, 2020, 05:48:51 PM »
Scotland have ended their season

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11781/11990125/celtic-crowned-scottish-premiership-champions-and-hearts-relegated-as-spfl-end-season
Thats a terrible precedent for us. 

League 2 in England not relegating anyone is a better and more relevant precedent for us.

Sadly I don’t see that due to the Bury situation. If we do not get to restart we will be relegated.

What about our game in hand? It would be a tad unfair to be relegated for playing at Wembley??

If project restart doesn’t happen they will have to draw the line somewhere and we will be gone.


Then the fun will start in court! We can afford the best Lawyers in town...

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4283 on: May 18, 2020, 05:56:30 PM »
I also think they will go with PPG.

For me it's hard to justify relegating teams who hadn't earned relegation over a full season and replace them with teams who havent earned propotion over a full season.  But I think that's what they'll try to do. 

Losing our once in a generation player because of that would be so tough to take.  But I guess Leeds fans will be saying the same thing about Kalvin Phillips.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4284 on: May 18, 2020, 05:58:05 PM »
I am so disappointed in football. It's a joke.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4285 on: May 18, 2020, 06:01:35 PM »
I don’t think they will relegate us on PPG if the season doesn’t restart.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4286 on: May 18, 2020, 06:25:14 PM »
I don’t think they will relegate us on PPG if the season doesn’t restart.

I absolutely expect it, why wouldn’t you. The other divisions will go down that route.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4287 on: May 18, 2020, 06:41:23 PM »
It's hard to know what the Prem will decide given all the different approaches adopted thus far. However, looks like playing is our only guarantee of getting out of it. I am still sceptical how we will manage to get through 10 games without any problems but let's see. Need to hit the ground running to boost that PPG!

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4288 on: May 18, 2020, 06:51:46 PM »
I don’t think they will relegate us on PPG if the season doesn’t restart.

I absolutely expect it, why wouldn’t you. The other divisions will go down that route.

For all sorts of reasons, but litigation from 3 clubs would be the main one.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4289 on: May 18, 2020, 07:01:37 PM »
I don’t think they will relegate us on PPG if the season doesn’t restart.

I absolutely expect it, why wouldn’t you. The other divisions will go down that route.

For all sorts of reasons, but litigation from 3 clubs would be the main one.
No guarantee that Litigation will be successful, I think the PL would win based on the information available.


 


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