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Author Topic: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?  (Read 746937 times)

Offline Risso

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4530 on: May 26, 2020, 05:24:43 PM »
Like most workplaces, the commercial department might not be exactly firing on all cylinders. Give them a chance and I'm sure they'll get some info out this week. Their Twitter account has asked season ticket holders to check their email addresses are up to date as info is  coming.

That doesn't wash in my opinion.  It's been clear for many weeks now that if the season was to be played out at all, it wasn't going to be before the end of May, and in no circumstances was it going to be in front of supporters in the stadium.  They've then said that a communication would go out on Tuesday or before, and failed to do that.  A classic case of over-promising and under-delivering.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4531 on: May 26, 2020, 05:30:10 PM »
Has any club released any info regarding 19/20 and 20/21 season tickets?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4532 on: May 26, 2020, 05:37:49 PM »
I've been thinking about how the impasse relating to both this season and next could be resolved. Any by-product of keeping Villa up is purely coincidental.

This based on me having to come up with tournament formats for junior football and reading about the strange way some leagues have set up in recent years and especially in Brazil.

Firstly, no relegation from the EPL for 2019/20 but promote three clubs from the Championship.

For 2020/21 the format is changed for one season only and is split into two phases.

In the first phase every club plays every other one once so each club plays 22 games with half being home and half away. The fixtures will be drawn before the season starts.

At that point the league will split into two groups: the top 11 and the bottom 12 for phase 2.

In phase 2 the top 11 will play the other 10 once for the championship and the European places. The bottom 12 will play the other 11 once to determine the relegation places. The bottom 6 in the relegation group at the end of phase 2 will go down.

The fixtures in phase 2 will be determined by whether a club has already played another at home in phase 1 and the if they have the second game will be away.

This would give clubs 32 or 33 games but a potential later start to the season would mean the time available would be squeezed but this would give scope to finishing before the rescheduled Euros next summer. Of course there would be gnashing of teeth about lost revenue and possibly only playing  some clubs once but those would be the competition rules which  would have to be agreed to before the start of the season.

Of course I could be talking absolute rubbish.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4533 on: May 26, 2020, 05:38:32 PM »
Has any club released any info regarding 19/20 and 20/21 season tickets?

Everton I believe, maybe others.

I realise it’s a difficult time for clubs, but we aren’t going to see the remaining games so we should be refunded ASAP.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4534 on: May 26, 2020, 05:59:50 PM »
When this does kick off it’ll be interesting to see whether there’s a change in performance levels from some players. Is what sets apart some of the top players their ability to cope with the pressure of a crowd? Conversely do some players become less inhibited without a crowd? Etc.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4535 on: May 26, 2020, 07:05:21 PM »
When this does kick off it’ll be interesting to see whether there’s a change in performance levels from some players. Is what sets apart some of the top players their ability to cope with the pressure of a crowd? Conversely do some players become less inhibited without a crowd? Etc.
Sure, but there are also factors such as fitness, mental health, the motivaton to play under weird circumstances, the position of the club they play for in the league and what's at stake; etc.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4536 on: May 26, 2020, 09:00:47 PM »
Of course. It’s interesting to see if that changes any existing dynamics.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4537 on: May 26, 2020, 09:10:17 PM »
One thing is for certain, there are going to be some freak results under these new conditions. Let’s hope that we take full advantage of any such opportunities.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4538 on: May 26, 2020, 09:46:56 PM »
Of course. It’s interesting to see if that changes any existing dynamics.

The pessimistic Villa fan in me thinks that whatever can go wrong in any set of circumstances, probably will where Villa are concerned.  We got stick for fans booing the players when they were getting battered, now games will be behind closed doors I've no doubt at all that we'll adapt the worst to it. 

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4539 on: May 26, 2020, 10:09:54 PM »
One thing is for certain, there are going to be some freak results under these new conditions. Let’s hope that we take full advantage of any such opportunities.

The Villa way, we'll either lose every game without scoring a goal and get relegated, or win every game beating every other side out of sight.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4540 on: May 27, 2020, 05:09:07 AM »
Smith tells us his teams always finish strongly.
Trouble is, we are starting all over again.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4541 on: May 27, 2020, 07:58:26 AM »
23 yr-old Morecambe defender died yesterday. No cause of death given to the media as yet.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4542 on: May 27, 2020, 08:11:15 AM »
Smith tells us his teams always finish strongly.
Trouble is, we are starting all over again.

Got to be honest as well that prior to everything that has happened we didn’t exactly look like we were building up to a strong finish.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4543 on: May 27, 2020, 11:03:21 AM »
One thing is for certain, there are going to be some freak results under these new conditions. Let’s hope that we take full advantage of any such opportunities.

You can be sure of one thing. If there's any opportunity or advantage to be had then Villa will be nowhere near it.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4544 on: May 27, 2020, 11:50:56 AM »
Just had the email for refunds

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Season Ticket Reimbursement Statement

Aston Villa can confirm supporters will be reimbursed for our six remaining home matches in anticipation of the current Covid-19 pandemic forcing the 2019/20 season to finish behind closed doors.

Supporters who have been impacted will either be provided with a refund, an e-voucher which can be used against future purchases or make a donation to the Aston Villa Foundation.

Season Ticket holders will receive a refund or an e-voucher for the six matches while supporters who purchased individual match tickets will also receive a refund.

Email communications will be sent out to supporters, including Claret and Club members, detailing further information and a set of accompanying FAQs. Supporters are kindly asked to ensure that the email address on their account is up-to-date and accessible. This can be checked by logging in to the online account.

Hospitality guests who are members or have purchased individual match packages will also be refunded or provided with an e-voucher. Hospitality staff will be contacting the latter with further details while communications will also be sent out to members.

Please be aware that there are very limited staff available to answer calls to the ticket office so supporters are advised to wait for the email communications and FAQs before contacting the club with any queries.

Thank you for your support.

 


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