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

[cdbearsfan]

Why has the next match not been called off yet?

[Dave P]

Why has the next match not been called off yet?

They’ll be waiting for the next round of results I bet. Even if they come back negative, I can’t see how we can prepare for a game on Wednesday

[Ads]

We're working extensively to try and get the game on. Which seems like a lie.

[SoccerHQ]

One thing I don't get is surely Man. City are going to have even more fixture congestion than Spurs later on in the season. Both in league cup final, Man. City have games v us and Everton still to play and you'd expect them to get further in FA cup and probably europe than Spurs so less midweek games to play with as season goes on.

Yet the Everton-Man. City game was called off with 4-5 hours notice with little resistance and Man. City came back flying from their 8 day break.

People thinking too short term on this, I very much doubt Spurs will be getting to europa and FA cup final ontop of league cup this season so they'll be a decent number of midweek dates in April and May to play with and play us then.

[Risso]

We're working extensively to try and get the game on. Which seems like a lie.

Is that 'working extensively' in the same way I am 'working extensively' to assist with bathing our youngest two this evening?

[Richie]

Does whinging Mourinho realise we’ve actually played a game less than them in the League ? Spurs can shove it up their arses. We’ve already had to forfeit the FA Cup when I think our first eleven would have beat them. Why should we have to do the same in the League when teams with fewer Covid cases than us have had the matches postponed?

[Toronto Villa]

The cup game only impacted us and Liverpool. Playing a youth team in the league impacts every other team to varying degrees. Especially those we are in direct competition with based on our current aspirations including Spurs. So fuck Spurs. We shouldn’t play this game useless we can play a competitive line up. Just like Man City, Fulham and Newcastle for passes so should we.

[Risso]

I'd like to think that us doing the right thing for Newcastle will stand us in good stead.

[baddowvillans]

What is Mourinhos logic that Villa must play with 14 fit under 18s but Spurs can't field a team for a rearranged game with 20 plus fit players?  It's bollocks and there is no way we should field a team when 3 other teams with less players affected didn't have to.  Forfeit and sue the bastards

[Villafirst]

Villa need to stand firm on this. It was a farce against Liverpool. How did we get cajoled into that? We shouldn't be going into a game against Spurs with several players who won't haven't trained for a week. Why should we be disadvantaged? CALL IT OFF NOW!

[Ads]

We're working extensively to try and get the game on. Which seems like a lie.

Is that 'working extensively' in the same way I am 'working extensively' to assist with bathing our youngest two this evening?

Yeah I think its all noise. Unless, and I may be wrong, that if you test positive then you isolate for a week, in which case BMH opens tomorrow?

But yeah, I cant see it happening.

[Toronto Villa]

I would say we played the FA cup game so we didn’t have to cancel and reschedule with our first team. The pile up of games would have been far more detrimental. I cannot imagine we will be so “giving” as it relates to the league game. The consequences are considerably more severe.

[walsall villain]

What is Mourinhos logic that Villa must play with 14 fit under 18s but Spurs can't field a team for a rearranged game with 20 plus fit players?  It's bollocks and there is no way we should field a team when 3 other teams with less players affected didn't have to.  Forfeit and sue the bastards

We surely can’t play any of the lads who featured on Friday as they aren’t registered in our league squad. It will be off.

[Ads]

We can't play with our u23s. Spurs are our CL rivals. If they pipped us by a point or Everton by a point...nah, the league is at stake. Mourinho is a gobshite.

[cdbearsfan]

There are different rules for FA Cup. This should be governed by the same rule that saw Newcastle call our game off. We should not even be giving lip service to the idea that the game could be on when the Newcastle game was, quite rightly, postponed.