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

[cdbearsfan]

Yeah, don't think Fulham have too much to moan about. It was always likely to have to be a midweek game. Better squeezed before the Chelsea game than a 6 pointer against the likes of Burnley or Brighton.

[baddowvillans]

I can understand some concern from Fulham but if teams who have had to postpone matches start to get get difficult about rescheduling, I could well see the League saying that s it FA Cup rules apply

[Mister E]

All clubs have challenges: here's a paragraph from a Grauniad article from today:

Chelsea are set to face Fulham despite having to shut their academy training centre because of a coronavirus outbreak believed to involve as many as 20 cases. Youngsters have been told to stay away while the site undergoes a deep clean after a number of positive tests were returned over the weekend, but first-team facilities remain open.

[aj2k77]

All clubs have challenges: here's a paragraph from a Grauniad article from today:

Chelsea are set to face Fulham despite having to shut their academy training centre because of a coronavirus outbreak believed to involve as many as 20 cases. Youngsters have been told to stay away while the site undergoes a deep clean after a number of positive tests were returned over the weekend, but first-team facilities remain open.

Their challenge is that 20 cases of people that are nowhere near getting on the subs bench nevermind in the team.

:(I think we are all realising now premier league football isn't stopping because of the millions lost . The economic reason.
What's fascinating are the different views of the premier league coaches .
From what Nuno Santo is saying sounds like some clubs basically will look to do a super league in opposition/ threat to the Premier league clubs stopping this season.

"If we stop everything will change. A new football will come, probably with a Super League, probably with other competitions. It’ll be a matter of which clubs will survive. It’s a tough decision to make"

don’t know what is better. What I’m afraid of is, if the decision is to stop, football we know now will not be the same. This is my biggest fear. The schedule will go crazy and it’ll be impossible to finish the league and think about the Euros.

“We cannot move forward and go back to a normal situation. The virus and pandemic is affecting things a lot, the increase of cases is growing in a scary way. This is what my main concern is."

“Things have changed, almost a year ago we were stopping because we didn’t know what was happening. It was something we hadn’t experienced. There were a lot of doubts."

"After the restart everyone made a big effort. There were protocols, meetings, things exchanged, we were sure no matter what we were playing because we only needed 14 players. Now things have changed and we are starting to think about stopping again.

“If you have a crisis the strong will survive, what about the rest? My personal view, when I have an awareness of what’s going around, you will not find the same model we have now.”

Reading between the line Nuno is saying that some clubs won't allow a premier league break and if they did they would vote and take up the option of a European super league.

Let them have a super league. After a few years there will be no appetite for it once the novelty has worn off. No real away days, no local rivalries. It's a fantasy concept that wouldn't work as the mainstay of a clubs football season.

[Mister E]

All clubs have challenges: here's a paragraph from a Grauniad article from today:

Chelsea are set to face Fulham despite having to shut their academy training centre because of a coronavirus outbreak believed to involve as many as 20 cases. Youngsters have been told to stay away while the site undergoes a deep clean after a number of positive tests were returned over the weekend, but first-team facilities remain open.

Their challenge is that 20 cases of people that are nowhere near getting on the subs bench nevermind in the team.

Yes, but it is still something that has impacted their club as a whole, and it will put pressure on the quality of their bubbles and the overall health of the club ... but - yes - not directly relevant to us at this time.

[pelty]

All clubs have challenges: here's a paragraph from a Grauniad article from today:

Chelsea are set to face Fulham despite having to shut their academy training centre because of a coronavirus outbreak believed to involve as many as 20 cases. Youngsters have been told to stay away while the site undergoes a deep clean after a number of positive tests were returned over the weekend, but first-team facilities remain open.

Their challenge is that 20 cases of people that are nowhere near getting on the subs bench nevermind in the team.

:(I think we are all realising now premier league football isn't stopping because of the millions lost . The economic reason.
What's fascinating are the different views of the premier league coaches .
From what Nuno Santo is saying sounds like some clubs basically will look to do a super league in opposition/ threat to the Premier league clubs stopping this season.

"If we stop everything will change. A new football will come, probably with a Super League, probably with other competitions. It’ll be a matter of which clubs will survive. It’s a tough decision to make"

don’t know what is better. What I’m afraid of is, if the decision is to stop, football we know now will not be the same. This is my biggest fear. The schedule will go crazy and it’ll be impossible to finish the league and think about the Euros.

“We cannot move forward and go back to a normal situation. The virus and pandemic is affecting things a lot, the increase of cases is growing in a scary way. This is what my main concern is."

“Things have changed, almost a year ago we were stopping because we didn’t know what was happening. It was something we hadn’t experienced. There were a lot of doubts."

"After the restart everyone made a big effort. There were protocols, meetings, things exchanged, we were sure no matter what we were playing because we only needed 14 players. Now things have changed and we are starting to think about stopping again.

“If you have a crisis the strong will survive, what about the rest? My personal view, when I have an awareness of what’s going around, you will not find the same model we have now.”

Reading between the line Nuno is saying that some clubs won't allow a premier league break and if they did they would vote and take up the option of a European super league.

Let them have a super league. After a few years there will be no appetite for it once the novelty has worn off. No real away days, no local rivalries. It's a fantasy concept that wouldn't work as the mainstay of a clubs football season.

I disagree. The media would back the Super League, the best players would want to play in the Super League, and the top domestic leagues would become the equivalent of the Championship except there would be no hope for promotion. Part of the attraction of the domestic leagues is the promise of promotion and the fear of relegation as well as the push for top European places. What fun would it be to permanently be in the "second tier" with no hope of escape and no hope of making it into Europe? Some might find that attractive, but it would really take the air out of it all for me.

[Dave]

Bruce is talking more sense and being honest.
I'm not sure with Dyche if he understands whats most important

Steve Bruce:
"I see other clubs struggling with it now and of course there's Premier League protocols in place but once you leave the training ground you are in the outside world"
The speed in which it ripped through us is something all football clubs will be looking at because it is difficult to contain and stop.

“We've seen first hand how it affects people - we've had two players who were very, very sick and one or two members of staff, one in particular nearly hospitalised.

“And no one envisaged this new wave was going to be as powerful as it is.

“Financially it's right to play on, but for me - morally it's wrong. I understand people want to play a game of football but we are just as vulnerable as everyone else.”

Back in October he was saying how stupid it was that fans weren't being allowed back in grounds.

The man's a dimwit.

[cdbearsfan]

Yes, it would be absolute shit. A league with promotion and relegation, based on merit, is one thing. The sort proposed, exemptions from relegation, and based entirely on fanbase, would be the death of competitive football.

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Bruce is talking more sense and being honest.
I'm not sure with Dyche if he understands whats most important

Steve Bruce:
"I see other clubs struggling with it now and of course there's Premier League protocols in place but once you leave the training ground you are in the outside world"
The speed in which it ripped through us is something all football clubs will be looking at because it is difficult to contain and stop.

“We've seen first hand how it affects people - we've had two players who were very, very sick and one or two members of staff, one in particular nearly hospitalised.

“And no one envisaged this new wave was going to be as powerful as it is.

“Financially it's right to play on, but for me - morally it's wrong. I understand people want to play a game of football but we are just as vulnerable as everyone else.”

Back in October he was saying how stupid it was that fans weren't being allowed back in grounds.

The man's a dimwit.

Were Newcastle weren't in the bottom 6 then? Or is that too cynical?

[Toronto Villa]

Steve Bruce serves and has always served Steve Bruce's best interests. He is always the victim.

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Steve Bruce serves and has always served Steve Bruce's best interests. He is always the victim.

He also serves kebab shop owners retirement plans.

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Aston Villa play a huge role in the local community. We are building a large complex just over the road from B6 for a start.

The idea of a Super League is a nonsense for me. The cash cow is the CL and by and large the same faces are always involved. FFP was the drawbridge up. There's no appetite for a Super League amongst supporters and given how insanely profitable the PL, why are they chucking that out?

[cdbearsfan]

The system works fine for American football plus it evolved relatively naturally. It would be disastrous here. I would probably stop watching. I'm already losing interest in cricket over their desperation to create soulless franchises.

[ChicagoLion]

I do think the Pandemic is a game changer and will inevitably lead to a different structure for profesional football, I dread to think what they might come up with in the endless persuit of Greed. We saw there last Money Power Grabbing effort.
Will they care about the game? will they fuck its a product or project or franchise or whatever the latest Marketing speak is.
It would not surprise me to see something similar to what happened to  Boxing.
It is about when not if.

[exigo]

Rugby's European competitions suspended. Can't be long before football is the same across borders.

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