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

[VinnieChase84]

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11992440/coronavirus-efl-league-one-league-two-clubs-could-fold-without-government-bailout-mp

TBH if the gov starts bailing out clubs it won't stop with L1/L2 there will be Championship clubs as well

If football gave a shit about the pyramid then simply the premier league should ‘offer’ to support. Do not relegate anyone this season, use the premier league parachute money to filter down the leagues.

[pauliewalnuts]

Leeds should be staying in the Championship because they are ******, always have been, and always will be.

[Rory]

Leeds should be staying in the Championship because they are c***s, always have been, and always will be.

Should be written into the rules of the game.

[cdbearsfan]

The trouble with writing anything into the rules as that Leeds would immediately break them. The dirty, evil, bastards.

[OzVilla]

I know I'm not alone in saying this, but why the fuck do West Brom and Leeds deserve to be promoted? Last season, the three of us had a fully fair chance to be promoted; by the rules of the competition, we were, and the other two weren't. Why should a place in the league that we rightfully won be taken away when - again, by the laws of the competition - we haven't been relegated, and the others haven't been promoted.

Leeds and West Brom are predicted top two in the Championship most years, primarily because they're too shit to get into/stay in the Premier League.

Fuck 'em.

Totally agree, we played 49 league and play off games to earn promotion last season.  Why should we lose that after only playing 28 this season (15 of which were away) when others gain promotion for playing only 36.  Leeds and the Bitters act as though they are home and dry and they absolutely aren't.

However, I've zero faith in the authorities to strike a balance here if we can't restart. 

[ChicagoLion]

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11992440/coronavirus-efl-league-one-league-two-clubs-could-fold-without-government-bailout-mp

TBH if the gov starts bailing out clubs it won't stop with L1/L2 there will be Championship clubs as well

There is  new insolvency legislation coming in June and I think many clubs even leagues will be taking advantage of the New Moratorium.

[Mister E]

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11992440/coronavirus-efl-league-one-league-two-clubs-could-fold-without-government-bailout-mp

TBH if the gov starts bailing out clubs it won't stop with L1/L2 there will be Championship clubs as well

Simlar article here
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52680375

[The Edge]

I would imagine every Premier League team will play the youth team in the future for the League Cup (if they don’t decide to just not enter) if you can get punished by relegation for reaching the final.

That's an excellent point.

[Drummond]

I would imagine every Premier League team will play the youth team in the future for the League Cup (if they don’t decide to just not enter) if you can get punished by relegation for reaching the final.

That's an excellent point.

The FA Cup will go too.

Doesn't need much for either to go and this could tip it. That shambles of a match against Liverpool in the quarters showed what it would be like.

[Ads]

I know I'm not alone in saying this, but why the fuck do West Brom and Leeds deserve to be promoted? Last season, the three of us had a fully fair chance to be promoted; by the rules of the competition, we were, and the other two weren't. Why should a place in the league that we rightfully won be taken away when - again, by the laws of the competition - we haven't been relegated, and the others haven't been promoted.

Leeds and West Brom are predicted top two in the Championship most years, primarily because they're too shit to get into/stay in the Premier League.

Fuck 'em.

Deserve is a loaded term. The answer is of course neither of them ever deserve anything but a severe hammering.

My plan is based on the idea that it leasons the likelihood of relegation either automatically by a contrived mechanism to determine the league or via playing out the season in the bizarre circumstances that will be imposed.

[aev]

Leeds are crapping themselves I guess that they PPG doesn't get voted into the Championship.

Without it, promotion may only happen if the league is completed (Norwich argument raised last week)?

[Rory]

Deserve is a loaded term. The answer is of course neither of them ever deserve anything but a severe hammering.

My plan is based on the idea that it leasons the likelihood of relegation either automatically by a contrived mechanism to determine the league or via playing out the season in the bizarre circumstances that will be imposed.
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Wasn't having a go at your post, Ads. More this sense (particularly from fans of the clubs looking to be promoted) that the cowardly, snivelling clubs in the bottom five or six are selfishly trying to prevent their rightful replacement by Leeds and West Brom.

They're acting as if it's a foregone conclusion and to quote Keegan, I would love it, LOVE IT if the season resumed and they both lost all of their remaining games and missed out.

[Ads]

I didn't think you were.

The perception of the bottom six being cowardly over the neutral venues was thrown into doubt when 13 or 14 clubs the other week said have another think.

Leeds might benefit from the break as intensity cost them last season, but there's no doubt at the back of their minds they can hear the bars of that Joy Division song, gnawing away at their cock sure belief, that promotion is a foregone conclusion for them.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

3rd placed Fulham still have to play each of the top 2 teams. Even if they just won one of those games it could get very nervy for the top 2 (I’d rather not say their names) who both seem to think they should be handed promotion on a plate.

[Ad@m]

I would imagine every Premier League team will play the youth team in the future for the League Cup (if they don’t decide to just not enter) if you can get punished by relegation for reaching the final.

That's an excellent point.

If we go down on some variation of PPG, it won't be because we made the League Cup final, it'll be because we lost more games over the season to date than any team other than Norwich.

It really isn't anyone elses fault.