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

[Dave P]

EFL. Promotion and relegation to remain if season is curtailed.
Final table will be decided by an unweighted ppg system.

Bad news that is for us

[Footy-Vill]

To those that know/did, what did that 'pause' thing on Sky Sports involve? Was there a set time limit on it or anything like that? Will it be back up to full price as soon as a ball is in danger of being kicked?

Do not worry Lastfootstamper.

Sky:
"While we expect that many of the recently postponed sports events will eventually go ahead, if you wish to pause your sports subscription in the meantime you will not be charged a fee to do so or be held to any notice period."

I hope this alieveate any concerns and gives less worry at this time.
All the best and up the villa.

That was about cancelling or pausing. Nothing to do with it restarting.

I was only trying to help.
My thought process would be that once the football gets underway the full subscription is back though I get will it be a case that have to re activates oneself for that I don't know so sorry about that one there.

Hopefully be some communication as and when .
Best of luck with that
I never suspended the sky personally as have an existing deal so was only being a good Samaritan , some one on the Matty Targett thread accused me of being negative which was really upsetting especially in crass comments about Samaritan helplines.

I'm only here for good measures and own thoughts.
Hope your sky thing is resolved.
Up the villa.

[cdbearsfan]

EFL. Promotion and relegation to remain if season is curtailed.
Final table will be decided by an unweighted ppg system.

So a team that are always top in March and then bottle it could get promoted based on their position in March? What a load of old shite.

[aev]

Looking at it in a "positive" way, perhaps it just puts the case forward for 3 to be promoted from the Championship.

I'd still be astounded if a decision was made with almost a quarter of a season to play to relegate teams from the richest league in the world on a vote.

[curiousorange]

Looking at it in a "positive" way, perhaps it just puts the case forward for 3 to be promoted from the Championship.

I'd still be astounded if a decision was made with almost a quarter of a season to play to relegate teams from the richest league in the world on a vote.

I don't think I've seen anything which gives us much hope they'll be sensible about it. We go down, and spent half a year fighting it in court. We'll be back in the Premier League before we get compensation for being relegated from it.

[David_Nab]

It looks to me like a screw job on L1/L2 who have no way of actually playing the season out.In other countries the lower leagues they have removed relegation as teams can't play this looks like its just to make sure the PL relegate

Also they keep play offs so if your near bottom you go down on unweighted PPG but if your in Play off place they will fund those games so you can be promoted , seems very off.

L2 still probably won't relegate as the statements says that relegation is based on national league playing next season , currently with no fans that season it's going to restart

[aev]

Tranmere in a similar position to us. 3 points behind with a game in hand, with almost a quarter of the season to go.

Relegating teams who haven't had the opportunity to play the season in its entirety is shite.

Clubs could go bust because of this.

[curiousorange]

The only reason they're bothered about relegation is because the title's already settled. If there was any jeopardy at the top, the competition to stay up wouldn't be anywhere near as pressing.

[cdbearsfan]

Looking at it in a "positive" way, perhaps it just puts the case forward for 3 to be promoted from the Championship.

I'd still be astounded if a decision was made with almost a quarter of a season to play to relegate teams from the richest league in the world on a vote.

They already have in France, Scotland, Belgium and elsewhere. I haven't seen a single top flight which has just voided relegation this year, it just seems wishful thinking to assume that England would be the one exception.

[VinnieChase84]

If the prem plays to conclusion while the championship doesn’t then no way will anyone be relegated. League clubs won’t accept PPG for teams to come up if they’ve not played the season out in full

[aev]

Looking at it in a "positive" way, perhaps it just puts the case forward for 3 to be promoted from the Championship.

I'd still be astounded if a decision was made with almost a quarter of a season to play to relegate teams from the richest league in the world on a vote.

They already have in France, Scotland, Belgium and elsewhere. I haven't seen a single top flight which has just voided relegation this year, it just seems wishful thinking to assume that England would be the one exception.

I think the Dutch league did.

[cdbearsfan]

Ah, fair enough. That's one thing in our favour. Not that it'll likely matter too much as they seem desperate to get Liverpool their title even if people literally have to die for it to happen.

[aev]

I think we have played 2 less home games than half of the league.

[chrisw1]

Well it looks like we could be stuffed if it's voided.  At the least it would be very uncertain.

So I'm all for the restart.  Come on you Lions.

[Sexual Ealing]

Well it looks like we could be stuffed if it's voided.  At the least it would be very uncertain.

So I'm all for the restart.  Come on you Lions.

Assuming that they can prevent a further spread of the virus, that's where I am. Any other scenario under consideration fucks us.