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

[sid1964]

it will be interesting to see which players have been following their "training programme" or which have just been sitting on the settee watching box sets and eating pizza and drinking booze!

Tough game against Sheffield Utd to start with.

I think if we play our 10 remaining games we may get 12 points - don't know if that will be enough?

[curiousorange]

Grealish said recently El Ghazi was brilliant on the training ground. That would come in mighty handy if it translated into actual games.

[AV82EC]

There痴 no point making any predictions as we have no idea of form, fitness etc of the players, how motivated any team is and how they値l perform in a sterile arena.

Have they said yet which neutral grounds we値l be using?

[Lastfootstamper]

We won't have played for three months - we haven't got any form.

We might not have, but you can bet every other team will have spent the time honing their skills. Every team we have to play is already at Pep-Barca levels, and all the ones we don't but we're relying on results from are already on the beach. Fact. Sorry, FACT.

[chrisw1]

I know there's other priorities and in the scheme of things and that, but I find it odd that life long Villa fans with 1000's of posts on a Villa forum can say they have no interest in the forthcoming games.

I'd have preferred a void but only the basis we avoid relegation.  Now it looks like a restart is inevitable I'm massively interested to see how we do. I'm hoping the return of McGinn will be huge, Smith will have kept the players motivated, we will have decided to actually try to defend corners, that Grealish will drag us through kicking and screaming, Sheffield will be less prepared than us and the off period will have broken their stride, that Chelsea will be undercooked and under motivated...

I'm just looking forward to watching the Villa.

As for people gathering to watch games or visiting their frail granny in protest because some bellend drove his family from one isolated house to another - isn't it time that people started to take some responsibility for themselves rather than constantly blaming others?

[PaulWinch again]

Well of course, but will those people take responsibility? I doubt it and their actions have consequences for others.

As for the having no interest. It痴 more the nature of it I find hollow, at least at the moment. Maybe I値l feel differently when it all starts and obviously I want Villa to win. It痴 just without the fans I expect the emotional weight to be taken out of it, and I think it値l be kind of sterile. Hope I知 wrong.

[Ads]

I'm excited. Then I remember I cannot go. But still excited, guess I'll just get to feel whats its like to be a Man United fan for 6 weeks.

[mr underhill]

I'd rather be locked up in a rat infested cell with Piers Morgan than be a Manchester United fan for a nano second.

[LeeB]

I'm excited. Then I remember I cannot go. But still excited, guess I'll just get to feel whats its like to be a Man United fan for 6 weeks.

Be sure to chat shit to your colleagues with top bants about their clubs which they actually follow and invest time and money into, whilst also showing a depth of knowledge about the game that suggests you've parroted what you read in the Metro on the bus that morning.

[Chris Smith]

Going to football is for me an escape from the everyday. Watching it on the box in a sterile atmosphere is gong to be of the new normal. So, while I値l obviously aim to watch our games wherever possible I suspect the artificiality of it will mean it will mean much less.

You can also probably lay money on us finally beating Man U in the league at Villa Park when no bugger will be there to see it.

[luke95]

Looks like 4 games on BBC and 25 games free to air on Sky.

Has the FA Cup been written off for this season?  Those 4 could be cup ties .

[PaulWinch again]

No they have 4 Premier League games.

[PaulWinch again]

Hopefully in spite of my reservations about it we take to it like a duck to water and blaze through 6/7 wins.

[chrisw1]

Hopefully in spite of my reservations about it we take to it like a duck to water and blaze through 6/7 wins.

That would be so great.  Get the pressure off really quickly, enjoy the end of the season.  Sign Jack and John up to 10 year contracts, buy Gareth Bale...

[leylandalbion]

Looks like 4 games on BBC and 25 games free to air on Sky.

Has the FA Cup been written off for this season?  Those 4 could be cup ties .

FA cup games now provisionally scheiduled for 27-28 june, semis mid july and final 1st august.  We've still got Chelsea, Newcastle, and both United's to play who are involved