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

[aev]

Spurs are borrowing 175m from the Bank of England.

“ The club fear that they may lose more than £200m of revenue in the period from the start of lockdown to June 2021, including broadcast rebates, and they have sought help from the government’s Covid Corporate Financing Facility, which has provided them with the unsecured loan. It is repayable in full next April at a rate of 0.5%, which is low in commercial terms, although Spurs could redraw it for another year.‘

[Legion]

AVFC provisional fixtures up until July 2nd:

17th June: Sheffield United 6pm (H) (Sky)
21st June: Chelsea 4:30pm (H) (Sky)
24th June: Newcastle 6pm (A) (BT)
28th June: Wolves 12pm (H) (BT)

[timeoutbigbar]

AVFC provisional fixtures up until July 2nd:

17th June: Sheffield United 6pm (H) (Sky)
21st June: Chelsea 4:30pm (H) (Sky)
24th June: Newcastle 6pm (A) (BT)
28th June: Wolves 12pm (H) (BT)

From nothing for months to 4 games in 11 days?  Thank god we've got strength in depth.

[Ad@m]

AVFC provisional fixtures up until July 2nd:

17th June: Sheffield United 6pm (H) (Sky)
21st June: Chelsea 4:30pm (H) (Sky)
24th June: Newcastle 6pm (A) (BT)
28th June: Wolves 12pm (H) (BT)

From nothing for months to 4 games in 11 days?  Thank god we've got strength in depth.

We've got to get through 10 games in six weeks. It's going to be intense!

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Watching the Benfica game which has artificial crowd noise. Never thought I’d say this but it works well! Plenty of Benfica chants throughout the game and we’ve also had boos and whistles for the ref when he booked a home player and also for an away player following a bad challenge!

Far better than absolute silence.

[Legion]

No.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

No.

You're watching it too then?

[dave.woodhall]

No.

You're watching it too then?

Until his TV blew up.

[Legion]

Laptop.

[cdbearsfan]

I'd only be in favour of piping in canned laughter when players do something really shit.

[Richard E]

We’d better start stockpiling canned laughter...

[cdbearsfan]

Maybe play the Benny Hill theme whenever one of our wingers has the ball? We might actually be able to make watching Villa fun.

[olaftab]

AVFC provisional fixtures up until July 2nd:

17th June: Sheffield United 6pm (H) (Sky)
21st June: Chelsea 4:30pm (H) (Sky)
24th June: Newcastle 6pm (A) (BT)
28th June: Wolves 12pm (H) (BT)

We should be match fit by end of June.

[OzVilla]

I know its impossible to predict given the nature of the restart but I've real hope we'll be able to pick up points away from home. Our away form has been appalling so far but here's my cup half full scenarios.

Newcastle (they're shit too but might be coasting to seasons end knowing they're all leaving anyway) - Liverpool (may have just won the league the previous game) - Everton (really not much to play for) - West Ham (they may be safe by then and well on the beach). 

 

[Rory]

No.

There's something I find very sinister about this talk of pumping in crowd noise. Something about simulating genuine human emotion and interaction for the sake of the plausibility of the broadcast product that doesn't sit right with me.

Sends a message that the supporters don't really matter, they're just part of the entertainment that can be switched on and off. It's a bit The Running Man.