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Offline Chico Hamilton III

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4800 on: June 04, 2020, 12:19:43 PM »
Interesting, and something I hadn't thought of because I never buy one, but I was told today that Villa will be producing a programme (matchday magazine) for the Sheffield United game and the other remaining "home" games.

God knows how many they intend to print. Possible collectors' items of the future?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4801 on: June 04, 2020, 12:20:32 PM »
You always want to start a new season with a win. It would be a big boost to start this new 'mini season' with a win. It was a shame that after such a good performance in the cup final we were so abject against Leicester.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4802 on: June 04, 2020, 12:24:37 PM »
Have we beaten Sheff Utd. with Wilder in charge?

Yes.  Snodgrass last minute 1-0 away.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4803 on: June 04, 2020, 12:34:02 PM »
People are being dismissive of Sheffield United. Nobody would be saying we "need" to beat Arsenal or Tottenham if they were first game, but Sheffield United are better than either of them this season. A draw would be a solid (re)start.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4804 on: June 04, 2020, 12:37:53 PM »
We don't "need" to beat Sheffield United. Even if we lose we will be two points off seventeenth with nine games remaining, plenty of points to play for.

I'd take a draw in that game right now, would be a solid start and something to build on.
Beating SheffU would not only give evryone at the club a massive confidnece injection, it would also move us out of the bottom 3 when all games-played are equal.
So whilst it's not a "need", technically, it's a "need" motivationally.

No, it isn't. We could lose nine-nil and still stay up. It isn't a "need" in any way.

You're right in that we could have 5 Watford v Liverpool games, but realistically we won't will we.

Given the number of points we need to stay up, Sheffield United is as close to a must win as it gets without actually being one.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4805 on: June 04, 2020, 12:39:55 PM »
Especially as when the first two games are played everyone will have played an equal number so if the season needs to be abandoned for any reason...

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4807 on: June 04, 2020, 01:17:04 PM »
Been keeping an eye on Werder Bremen, partly because they’re in a similar situation to us - 2nd from bottom when the season restarted.

I watched their first game back - they lost 4-1 at home and looked truly dreadful, relegation certainties. They then took 7 points from the next 3 games.

So, a win against Blades would be huge but a defeat wouldn’t spell certain relegation either.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4808 on: June 04, 2020, 02:40:07 PM »
Have we beaten Sheff Utd. with Wilder in charge?

Yes.  Snodgrass last minute 1-0 away.

And if we are honest, we robbed them in that game.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4809 on: June 04, 2020, 03:08:33 PM »
Have we beaten Sheff Utd. with Wilder in charge?

Yes.  Snodgrass last minute 1-0 away.

And if we are honest, we robbed them in that game.

I’m fine with that. Anyone got a problem with us robbing our next 11 opponents?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4810 on: June 04, 2020, 03:28:06 PM »

And if we are honest, we robbed them in that game.
I would honestly say we fully deserved to win that game and a draw would have flattered them.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4811 on: June 04, 2020, 03:30:24 PM »

And if we are honest, we robbed them in that game.
I would honestly say we fully deserved to win that game and a draw would have flattered them.

I agree, we were in full on boring Bruce mode and they didn’t have a clue on how to break us down, we grew into the game and looked the more likely winners in the last 15 minutes. Proper terrace mental after the goal as well.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4812 on: June 04, 2020, 03:44:21 PM »
People are being dismissive of Sheffield United. Nobody would be saying we "need" to beat Arsenal or Tottenham if they were first game, but Sheffield United are better than either of them this season. A draw would be a solid (re)start.
Nobody? - a bit absolute, that; isn't it?
With a new start, we'd all be looking for something out of our first home game ...
... I wouldn't want to lose; is all.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4813 on: June 04, 2020, 04:03:22 PM »
People are being dismissive of Sheffield United. Nobody would be saying we "need" to beat Arsenal or Tottenham if they were first game, but Sheffield United are better than either of them this season. A draw would be a solid (re)start.
Nobody? - a bit absolute, that; isn't it?
With a new start, we'd all be looking for something out of our first home game ...
... I wouldn't want to lose; is all.

"Wouldn't want to lose" is fine. "Need to win" is over the top imo.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4814 on: June 04, 2020, 04:06:22 PM »

And if we are honest, we robbed them in that game.
I would honestly say we fully deserved to win that game and a draw would have flattered them.

I agree, we were in full on boring Bruce mode and they didn’t have a clue on how to break us down, we grew into the game and looked the more likely winners in the last 15 minutes. Proper terrace mental after the goal as well.

That's how I saw it, thought it was one of our better Bruceball efforts.

 


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