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

[frank black]

Hard to see how the Euros can happen. They'll only be us who will be anywhere close to having done a lot of vaccinations in the competition. Bin them off.

With the money etc involved all the top players will be vaccinated by then. I reckon it’ll be on.

[aj2k77]

Sky have a headline " Liverpool to gain Villa revenge?"". Quite a disgusting tagline, it's a virus that has killed scores all across the world. They ducked out to chase money the other side of the planet.

Can anyone tell me why Man City and Newcastle postponed games whilst we are playing one with no first team squaders? Man City, inparticular, had 2 players out .

[Footy-Vill]

If as stated a number of our players have tested positive is there a chance that it could affect their performance in coming weeks even if their symptoms are not severe ?

I'd say that rather than it being chance, I'd say it's a probability.

Deano Smith ,who i most love and most championed, I now question his "i've never had to take a player off for exhaustion.” comment
Its rather unmannerly and not suited at all to these unprecedented times of covid-19.

Smith someone who learns well so he'll live and learn to not make such comments about fatigue in future one would think
Because his own players could be in a struggle not just due to the long working hours he puts upon them but a symptoms of covid.

[SoccerHQ]

If the first team squad have to isolate for 10 days I would have thought that kills the Everton game as well. That will be next Friday so no time to prepare at all. Suggestions are that it’s a more serious outbreak than any other in the premier league so far.

I read some took the tests on Monday so was assuming maybe they were told to start self isolating then and then the bigger squad outbreak happened later in the week when more tests were conducted so I'd assume some can start training again thursday next week.

Newcastle were back playing a premier league game 8 days after our match v them was cancelled so I wouldn't quite call it off at this stage compared to Spurs which is a certainty to be off in my mind now.

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[Mister E]

Sky have a headline " Liverpool to gain Villa revenge?"". Quite a disgusting tagline, it's a virus that has killed scores all across the world. They ducked out to chase money the other side of the planet.

Can anyone tell me why Man City and Newcastle postponed games whilst we are playing one with no first team squaders? Man City, inparticular, had 2 players out .

Don't forget Tottingham vs Fulham was also postponed for CV-19.

[Gareth]

If as stated a number of our players have tested positive is there a chance that it could affect their performance in coming weeks even if their symptoms are not severe ?

I'd say that rather than it being chance, I'd say it's a probability.

Deano Smith ,who i most love and most championed, I now question his "i've never had to take a player off for exhaustion.” comment
Its rather unmannerly and not suited at all to these unprecedented times of covid-19.

Smith someone who learns well so he'll live and learn to not make such comments about fatigue in future one would think
Because his own players could be in a struggle not just due to the long working hours he puts upon them but a symptoms of covid.

That’s a very odd angle to take on the situation - the exhaustion comment was spot on with a squad that had no positive COVID tests....today we have some but not because they have played 3 games in a week & are exhausted.

[Drummond]

Quite

[Legion]

Completely.

[eamonn]

Alright, his angles are unique and don't always come off but he brings interesting thoughts forward.

[Footy-Vill]

If as stated a number of our players have tested positive is there a chance that it could affect their performance in coming weeks even if their symptoms are not severe ?

I'd say that rather than it being chance, I'd say it's a probability.

Deano Smith ,who i most love and most championed, I now question his "i've never had to take a player off for exhaustion.” comment
Its rather unmannerly and not suited at all to these unprecedented times of covid-19.

Smith someone who learns well so he'll live and learn to not make such comments about fatigue in future one would think
Because his own players could be in a struggle not just due to the long working hours he puts upon them but a symptoms of covid.

That’s a very odd angle to take on the situation - the exhaustion comment was spot on with a squad that had no positive COVID tests....today we have some but not because they have played 3 games in a week & are exhausted.

Its odd to you but to me I've considered that exhausting a player would have a detrimental impact on immune system

[Ads]

What does exhaustion have to do with the ability of a spike protein within SARS-CoV-2 to attach itself to ACE2 cell membranes with the upper respiratory or possibly lower respiratory tract?

The outbreak has been described as severe in scale, not symptoms.

[Footy-Vill]

What does exhaustion have to do with the ability of a spike protein within SARS-CoV-2 to attach itself to ACE2 cell membranes with the upper respiratory or possibly lower respiratory tract?

The outbreak has been described as severe in scale, not symptoms.

As I said a weakened immune system.
There are players with asthma
Although its temporary weakening of immune system i would consider there to be potential risk for a player to have implications to covid-19 and impact when being over worked more than someone at rest both can catch the disease but an exhausted person could become more unwell than a person who is not.
That's all.

[Risso]

I wonder which is more likely to lead to developing Covid. Doing your job of playing football, or going to, completely for the sake of argument, a restauarant in London for a jolly up on a mate's birthday.

[adrenachrome]

C.E. Purslow has stated in an interview that 10 of the first team squad tested positive.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-coronavirus-covid-19-19587652

[oishiiniku]

14 positive test - of which 10 are players - is pretty significant. I'm not sure how many cases Fulham had, but this is well above other Premier League clubs so far. To go from 0 to 10 in a few days is alarming.

EDIT: Apparently Newcastle had 19 cases in total, hadn't realised it was so many.