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Author Topic: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?  (Read 746861 times)

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4995 on: June 21, 2020, 12:05:20 AM »
Every minute spent outside the top flight diminishes our fine institution.

The second division was made so more clubs could aspire to be like us, not to fucking play against us.

This.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4996 on: June 21, 2020, 11:39:19 AM »
In a bid to find the lightest straw to clutch, I've started contemplating the fact that three of our away games are in the colder north, and the last game in mid July will be played at a ground where the roof keeps most of the pitch in shade. Good for our stamina, right?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4997 on: June 21, 2020, 11:49:03 AM »
In a bid to find the lightest straw to clutch, I've started contemplating the fact that three of our away games are in the colder north, and the last game in mid July will be played at a ground where the roof keeps most of the pitch in shade. Good for our stamina, right?

Wow! Excellent clutching!!

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4998 on: June 24, 2020, 11:27:40 PM »
One of our biggest threats resulting from relegation will be the loss of key players and the need to restructure once again. Bouncing back after one season would probably be difficult - as we found last time but at least we have engaged and wealthy owners this time

isn't loss of key players a problem for all teams that get relegated? we'll need to replace the big guns but it's a young side with potential. last time we were a basket case and that was truly a rebuild which resulted in us wanking a load of cash and almost going bust.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4999 on: June 27, 2020, 05:58:30 PM »
I have now got the answer to the question posed by this thread: It will fuck it up totally.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5000 on: June 27, 2020, 06:01:21 PM »
I have now got the answer to the question posed by this thread: It will fuck it up totally.

Yup. Play these three games in front of a full Villa Park and we probably get 2 or 3 more points from them at least.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5001 on: June 27, 2020, 06:11:17 PM »
Maybe, but our form pre-Covid suggests it’s far from a guarantee. I think my answer would be, not at all. We were rubbish before the break and we’ve been rubbish since. The only difference is that had there been no break we might have sacked Dean by now and be in a better place.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5002 on: July 03, 2020, 10:34:22 PM »
They had horse racing in Leicester since the lockdown began, apparently. I'd imagine it will be fine.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5003 on: July 07, 2020, 12:43:01 AM »
At first like many on here I thought that not having our home support there to raise the roof at Villa Park or on our travels would be a massive disadvantage in our relegation battles. Now I’m thinking the exact opposite.The team don’t appear to have given up on Dean Smith yet or each other for that matter, whilst our fans can be the world’s best we know we can also be the worst too. No player in these final five games is going to be slaughtered for any mistake they might make ( regardless of how early into the game said error occurs ) or have us moaning and groaning just because any said player is not our favourite ( Neil Taylor springs to mind for some reason ) negativity has never helped anyone play better . It also means our trips to Goodson and possibly more importantly West Ham on the final day we are effectively playing at neutral venues.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5004 on: July 12, 2020, 09:13:15 AM »
Hmmm, really not sure I’m following your argument that they’ve performed better without us being on their backs. We appear to be worse off than before lockdown.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5005 on: July 12, 2020, 09:39:24 AM »
Given where we are now/what we've been subjected to this past month, I'm starting to wish they'd have just stopped the season and worked out final placings based on PPG. At least it would have kept our stress levels to a minimum!
Football returning was supposed to help us all relax a little more, give us something to look forward to. All it's done is increase our anxiety levels! Ah well, it'll all be over soon I guess.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5006 on: July 12, 2020, 02:54:33 PM »
Then we would probably have had the stress of a long, drawn out, court case like Hearts/Thistle!

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5007 on: July 12, 2020, 03:00:18 PM »
Then we would probably have had the stress of a long, drawn out, court case like Hearts/Thistle!

At least we'd have stood a chance of winning that.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5008 on: July 12, 2020, 03:01:15 PM »
So long as none of our defenders were involved in our defence.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5009 on: July 13, 2020, 02:58:36 AM »
So long as none of our defenders were involved in our defence.

It's a cracker!

 


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