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

[Ads]

I can't agree with that. Its your fault if after 38 games you're in the bottom 3.

[saunders_heroes]

Let us play our game in hand, then if we still go down via PPG then fair enough. 

[Risso]

Points Per Game is bollocks.  Taking it to extremes, if this had all happened after the first weekend of the season, are you going to relegate the two teams playing on the first Monday because they have zero points because they haven't played yet?

[dave.woodhall]

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.

If we go down it will be the fault of whoever puts their own avarice ahead of sporting integrity.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Over the course of the season Villa have only been in the bottom 3 on 9 occasions (after pl games 4,6,7,18,19,20,22,23 and game 28)
We obviously have played a game less than our immediate rivals due to playing in the league cup final. If we'd won that home fixture vs Sheff Utd we would be sitting in 16th position.
So to use some ppg sh-t to justify a relegation is ridiculous because the teams who occupied the bottom 3 in the 19 weeks we didn't have also been poor, that is why there are 6 teams fighting relegation.
To get relegated on the basis of playing a game less, because we took the league cup seriously to make the final would be ridiculous and going forwards it would certainly change my view about how seriously we should take cup competitions, particularly the league cup.
This faux football that the pl is trying to get going at the moment is ridiculous also and no better than a playstation game.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

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

Indeed. Should they be promoted and you hear them claiming they're "back where they belong", remind them they've spent more years in the Championship than they have in the top league. The Championship is their home.

[Dick Edwards]

I believe poor Charlton Athletic slipped into the relegation places for the first time this season on the day before the lockdown was announced. How unfair would that be to relegate them without another ball being kicked this season?

[usav]

I believe poor Charlton Athletic slipped into the relegation places for the first time this season on the day before the lockdown was announced. How unfair would that be to relegate them without another ball being kicked this season?

It would be as fair or unfair as anyone else that has a realistic chance of survival, if the games were played out.

[ChicagoLion]

It’s our fault we are where we are and of course thanks to Kevin Fiend, it certainly will not be our fault if they decide to relegate us ( the important word is decide).
But it does look like they are hell bent on completing the season by some method.

[Chico Hamilton III]

If Man City had a game in hand over Liverpool and could go ahead of them if they won it, would it be fair to hand the title to Liverpool if the season was cancelled? That's the situation we're in, but at the other end of the table.

[Ad@m]

To be clear, I'm not saying relegating anyone based on PPG is fair. I'm saying that claiming we're only at risk of being relegated this way is because we took the League Cup seriously is bollocks.

We're where we are in the table because we haven't been good enough for 28 games. It's no one else's fault.

[Risso]

To be clear, I'm not saying relegating anyone based on PPG is fair. I'm saying that claiming we're only at risk of being relegated this way is because we took the League Cup seriously is bollocks.

We're where we are in the table because we haven't been good enough for 28 games. It's no one else's fault.

Which would at least be semi-defendable if everybody else had played 28 games.

[Risso]

Spoke to the club earlier today, they're sending out an email possibly today/over the weekend/by Tuesday at the latest concerning what's happening for season ticket holders.  The person I spoke to said that it's difficult because the Premier League haven't officially ended the season or said what they were going to do. 

I did point out that the government has ruled out any games at all before June, and after that it will be games behind closed doors, so it's not that difficult actually to say that the season as defined as being before the end of May 2020 is over for the paying spectator.

[Sexual Ealing]

I guess they could be holding out in case there's a (very unlikely) finish the season when it's safe for fans to be there outcome.

[Ad@m]

To be clear, I'm not saying relegating anyone based on PPG is fair. I'm saying that claiming we're only at risk of being relegated this way is because we took the League Cup seriously is bollocks.

We're where we are in the table because we haven't been good enough for 28 games. It's no one else's fault.

Which would at least be semi-defendable if everybody else had played 28 games.

What difference does that make? We've had 28 matches to not be in the bottom three. In 17 of those we've lost, which is more times than anyone else bar Norwich, despite the fact we've played fewer games.

Had we got one more point in any of those 28 matches PPG wouldn't be an issue.