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

[frank black]

The precedent has been set. This is going to cause mass fixture pileups and those teams in European competitions may need to play their kids. The PL can’t move the goalposts unless they award 3 points to all the teams that should have played against Covid impacted teams. 🤷

[DrGonzo]

Covid is, arguably, one of the best things that has happened to the Villa for years.  It allowed Smith the time to resurresct a failing defence.  Now it has allowed us to see the talent that is in the offing. 

[OCD]

There's 14 cases in the first team; last night was the first time the kids had played in a month and despite being able to make 5 substitutions they were still dropping like flies with cramp. This is before we even discuss the integrity of the league. It's utter madness that the Spurs and Everton games haven't already been confirmed as being off.

[brontebilly]

Any reports on how serious the covid cases are for the players concerned?

[Ads]

Mourinho is desperate to play out under 18s the fucking snide. What an absolute twat, particularly when his players have broken the rules.

[baddowvillans]

Seems to have gone very quiet on the Spurs game.  Hopefully the club are pushing the FA although you would have thought it was a no brainer, given the cancellations so far.  There is surely no basis for making us play no matter what Mourinio thinks!

[CT]

Mourinho is desperate to play out under 18s the fucking snide. What an absolute twat, particularly when his players have broken the rules.

What is it with Spurs? One whiff of blood and they’re over us like vultures.

Here, we’ll take that Grealish lad off you for £3m and give you Josh as well.

[jwarry]

Mourinho is desperate to play out under 18s the fucking snide. What an absolute twat, particularly when his players have broken the rules.

Maybe he should play his kids in the fixture congestion games he’s moaning about?!?

[ChicagoLion]

You would have thought that they would run a test Monday and therefore be in a position to make a decision Tuesday.

[exigo]

Now the cup results are starting to come through, plenty of options for relieving fixture congestion.
Spurs could have played Fulham on Wednesday if logic had prevailed sooner.
We can now play Newcastle on 4th round day if everyone's back in time.

[Smithy]

I don't see how the league games can be anything other than postponed? There is a precedent now.

I'd much rather play 3 games a week for a few weeks to catch up (knowing we can rotate the first team squad where necessary), than play the kids in the league, which will call into question the integrity of the competition itself.  Imagine Spurs sneak into the Champions league places on goal difference, having beaten our kids 6-0?

[Mister E]

You would have thought that they would run a test Monday and therefore be in a position to make a decision Tuesday.

Either way, playing a game on Wednesday is unreasonable and impractical.

[Villa Lew]

Now if Marine beat Spurs today, we could play the game on 4th Round weekend, problem solved.

[TaxDodger]

They have to call off the Tottenham game at least, right? Surely we'd very justifiably refuse to play it if they try to make us considering they've called off Man City/Fulham/Newcastle games when fewer of their players have covid?

[CT]

They have to call off the Tottenham game at least, right? Surely we'd very justifiably refuse to play it if they try to make us considering they've called off Man City/Fulham/Newcastle games when fewer of their players have covid?

Absolutely. I’m hoping it will just be a matter of course that Spurs gets called off.

IF it doesn’t, we should refuse to play. Any integrity the PL has left would be gone.