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

[paul_e]

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.

The evidence we have suggests the former because Jack and Ross will have had multiple negative tests since the meal you're talking about and there's nothing to suggest any players or staff did anything in appropriate in the build up to the Man Utd game to account for the 9 infections reported in the testing Monday. Most evidence suggests that the first 3 days after exposure is unlikely to give a positive so 28th-31st of Dec are the most like dates for infection which makes me think the Chelsea game could be where the problem started.


Either way it'll be interesting to keep an eye on reports from Man Utd as we almost certainly had infected players during that game but possibly slightly too early to be transmissible.

[paul_e]

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.

Staggering really seems Purslow is out on PR duty to contain this story thanks good to share that.

It's the biggest outbreak in the Premier League
And something isn't right -10 players?

And I'm sorry many football followers are going to be saying Grealish
is involved somewhere
I just hope he wasn't the protagonist of a belated gathering for new years or something. Because that really does him no excuse what so ever Or in fact that it was any player but he more than most needs to keep sensible. Which he struggled with in past and would be quite the uneccessary problem to him And us and a reflection on something I've had concerns on his off pitch attitude.

Ok so if that the case 10 players it won't be long before its out to who they are and what happened. If there was anything untoward.  Because no other club has had 10 players so whats the issue with simply following the rules with these players

Ultimately I hope they are all ok and well but at this time hearing such news is really off putting about how footballers are being
No surprise as behaviour of many a footballer is despicable but why our club.

Dear oh dear.

As above you're unlike to test positive in the first 3 dayswith days 5-7 the most common to both have symptoms and return a positive test. That rules out anything after the 31st as the root cause.

Aside from that you really need to get over the problem you have with Jack, there's nothing to suggest he's caused this and yet you're posting pure speculation to make him the bad guy, give it a rest.

[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.

The evidence we have suggests the former because Jack and Ross will have had multiple negative tests since the meal you're talking about and there's nothing to suggest any players or staff did anything in appropriate in the build up to the Man Utd game to account for the 9 infections reported in the testing Monday. Most evidence suggests that the first 3 days after exposure is unlikely to give a positive so 28th-31st of Dec are the most like dates for infection which makes me think the Chelsea game could be where the problem started.


Either way it'll be interesting to keep an eye on reports from Man Utd as we almost certainly had infected players during that game but possibly slightly too early to be transmissible.

The point I was trying to make that it's almost certainly not because they're a bit tired playing football.

[LeeB]

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.

The evidence we have suggests the former because Jack and Ross will have had multiple negative tests since the meal you're talking about and there's nothing to suggest any players or staff did anything in appropriate in the build up to the Man Utd game to account for the 9 infections reported in the testing Monday. Most evidence suggests that the first 3 days after exposure is unlikely to give a positive so 28th-31st of Dec are the most like dates for infection which makes me think the Chelsea game could be where the problem started.


Either way it'll be interesting to keep an eye on reports from Man Utd as we almost certainly had infected players during that game but possibly slightly too early to be transmissible.

I'd say the first instance always, given that your running around inhaling and exhaling heavily in the company of 21 others doing the same, and then grabbing, jostling and intermittently hugging and cavorting with them throughout 90 minutes.

[kippaxvilla2]

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.

As someone else said you don’t half talk some nonsense at times. 

[kippaxvilla2]

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.

The rules for the FA Cup specifically reference having to field a team from under 23’s if it’s possible to do so.  I’m not sure the PL rules are the same.  I assume the Shrewsbury game was cancelled because they wouldn’t be able to field even that side.

[kippaxvilla2]

Also the high number of positive tests.  Probably not surprising due to a) the new variant and b) the fact that they tested on Monday and didn’t find out the first results until after training again on the Tuesday by which time they had all had two training session together.

[Proposition Joe]

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.

The rules for the FA Cup specifically reference having to field a team from under 23’s if it’s possible to do so.  I’m not sure the PL rules are the same.  I assume the Shrewsbury game was cancelled because they wouldn’t be able to field even that side.

Also, we don't want rearranged Cup games further clogging up our fixtures. Just write the Cup off, or at best, see how far the kids can go in it.

[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.

The rules for the FA Cup specifically reference having to field a team from under 23’s if it’s possible to do so.  I’m not sure the PL rules are the same.  I assume the Shrewsbury game was cancelled because they wouldn’t be able to field even that side.

Oh yes, I understand that.
The lack of consistency between major tournaments is unhelpful.
Playing the game this evening seems somewhat superfluous in the circumstances.

[charleeco7]

Maybe we also thought it wouldn’t be in our interests to postpone the game. We already have two games to catch up on and will possibly have another two games of the Spurs and Everton games get postponed.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Jose already asking the Premier League to step in to sort out postponed fixtures: surely a nod to next Wednesday

[Bobby Boy]

Mourinho essentially saying that Premier League should force Villa to play next Wednesday as it would be "impossible" for Spurs to have another postponement.

Villa have 9 players with Covid who cannot play next Wednesday. If this game is forced to happen and we play the kids then the integrity of the league is over.

Can't happen surely?

[SheffieldVillain]

Mourinho essentially saying that Premier League should force Villa to play next Wednesday as it would be "impossible" for Spurs to have another postponement.

Villa have 9 players with Covid who cannot play next Wednesday. If this game is forced to happen and we play the kids then the integrity of the league is over.

Can't happen surely?

Since they've already allowed other clubs in similar situations to postpone, if they even attempt that one we should sue the wankers straightaway. Let's see how they get on trying to bully people with the financial clout of Wes and Nassef.

[Ads]

Only way Spurs would beat us os if we played the kids.

[Ian.]

Mourinho essentially saying that Premier League should force Villa to play next Wednesday as it would be "impossible" for Spurs to have another postponement.

Villa have 9 players with Covid who cannot play next Wednesday. If this game is forced to happen and we play the kids then the integrity of the league is over.

Can't happen surely?

I’d certainly hope not, Man City and Newcastle have managed to cancel their games.