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Author Topic: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?  (Read 746795 times)

Online Rory

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4680 on: May 29, 2020, 03:08:03 PM »
Six games rumoured to be moving to neutral venues:
Manchester City v Liverpool
Manchester City v Newcastle
Manchester United v Sheffield United
Newcastle v Liverpool
Everton v Liverpool
The game in which Liverpool could secure the title



If Liverpool don't hit the ground running from the restart the game in which they secure the title will be an ongoing saga. However they do only need two wins.

Given their lead, you can forgive some of the complacency, but after all the talk of 'when' and 'where' they'll lift the trophy, and how weird it'll be without fans, I will sincerely be hoping they lose every match and contrive to make a bollocks of it in glorious fashion.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4681 on: May 29, 2020, 03:11:10 PM »
Yeah five subs allowed out of seven, and you would only be able to make substitutions on three occasions.

So, for instance, you could bring on two at once, then two at once, then one. If you bring on one, then another, then another, you wouldn't be able to make any more subs.
That's actually a good idea.

Yes, ten stops for substitutions would have been unbearably tedious.
Imagine watching Watford make the most of that?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4682 on: May 29, 2020, 04:29:13 PM »
Six games rumoured to be moving to neutral venues:
Manchester City v Liverpool
Manchester City v Newcastle
Manchester United v Sheffield United
Newcastle v Liverpool
Everton v Liverpool
The game in which Liverpool could secure the title



If Liverpool don't hit the ground running from the restart the game in which they secure the title will be an ongoing saga. However they do only need two wins.

Given their lead, you can forgive some of the complacency, but after all the talk of 'when' and 'where' they'll lift the trophy, and how weird it'll be without fans, I will sincerely be hoping they lose every match and contrive to make a bollocks of it in glorious fashion.

Agreed, that would be wonderful.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4683 on: May 29, 2020, 04:37:37 PM »
I'm presuming the FA cup final will be played behind closed doors


They will have to change the words of the cup final hymn to "Abide With Nobody".

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4684 on: May 29, 2020, 04:50:45 PM »
Any games at Villa Park I  think I will keep away. Standing on the hill leading up to Aston Hall is irresponsible.

However standing outside neutral venues and away games sound like a good day out and a sing song.

Neutral grounds if we are moved from VP...."You're supposed, you're supposed, you're supposed to be at home! "

Away games...."Shit support/ Empty seats M'Lud!"

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4685 on: May 29, 2020, 05:00:18 PM »
I'm presuming the FA cup final will be played behind closed doors

They could play it overseas in a country which is officially coronavirus free and just happens to have one of the biggest football stadiums in the world,

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4686 on: May 29, 2020, 05:58:17 PM »
I'm presuming the FA cup final will be played behind closed doors

They could play it overseas in a country which is officially coronavirus free and just happens to have one of the biggest football stadiums in the world,

don’t give them ideas mate

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4687 on: May 29, 2020, 06:35:11 PM »
Yeah five subs allowed out of seven, and you would only be able to make substitutions on three occasions.

So, for instance, you could bring on two at once, then two at once, then one. If you bring on one, then another, then another, you wouldn't be able to make any more subs.
That's actually a good idea.

Yes, ten stops for substitutions would have been unbearably tedious.
Imagine watching Watford make the most of that?

Watford games wouldn’t finish until the next morning.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4688 on: May 29, 2020, 07:05:37 PM »
I am hoping that not being coached will allow our players to recapture the form they had before we coached the talent away! Not being coached badly and taking a rest from a terrible run if form might just save us from what looked like certain relegation.

If we do stay up we need to bin the manager and Suso and try something else.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4689 on: May 29, 2020, 07:21:37 PM »
No, we do not.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4690 on: May 29, 2020, 07:29:37 PM »
o yes we do

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4691 on: May 29, 2020, 07:56:27 PM »
When we stay up, we'll have satisfied the owners' original plan of, I believe, kicking off the 20/21 season as a PL club with Smith having got us there. I'd hope they'll look at the situation then in a similar light to if we'd got promoted this season rather than last.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4692 on: May 29, 2020, 09:33:48 PM »
Yeah five subs allowed out of seven, and you would only be able to make substitutions on three occasions.

So, for instance, you could bring on two at once, then two at once, then one. If you bring on one, then another, then another, you wouldn't be able to make any more subs.
That's actually a good idea.

For some time now I've been advocating (to my brother and  the man in the pub) the five subs option from the same amount of maximum stoppages as now - three. Having more unused subs than actual ones used in a match day squad of 18 (11 in internationals I think?) always struck me as a bit silly.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4693 on: May 29, 2020, 10:31:39 PM »
Villa 2/1
Sheff U 11/8
Draw 12/5

Relegation Odds -

Norwich 1/10
Villa 2/5
Bournemouth 5/6
West Ham 7/4
Watford 9/4
Brighton 11/4

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4694 on: May 30, 2020, 12:13:48 AM »
Villa 2/1
Sheff U 11/8
Draw 12/5

Relegation Odds -

Norwich 1/10
Villa 2/5
Bournemouth 5/6
West Ham 7/4
Watford 9/4
Brighton 11/4

Any chance that you have backed us to go down Damo? 😉

 


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