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Author Topic: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?  (Read 747410 times)

Offline Risso

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5700 on: February 16, 2021, 12:55:36 PM »
Well, tomorrow is the first anniversary of our last match at VP with fans present. If you’d told me then we’d still be in the thick of one year later think I’d have cried. Now if I was to be told we’ll be back en masse in the autumn think I’d bite your hand off ! Fingers crossed.

And what a shit night it was as well. Pissing it down, dismal performance on the pitch, and sat in traffic for ages after trying to escape the shit hole that is Leicester city centre.

Offline Aldridge Villa

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5701 on: February 16, 2021, 01:40:20 PM »
Risso, nope not one of our better nights. 16/2/20 was however our last home match with fans, Engels last minute slip v Spurs....

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5702 on: February 16, 2021, 02:19:08 PM »
The last game I attended in person was the cup final, similar to a lot of folks I imagine. This is the longest I've gone without attending a match in 30 years. Will be a lot longer for others of an older vintage I am sure.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5703 on: February 16, 2021, 02:20:32 PM »
Risso, nope not one of our better nights. 16/2/20 was however our last home match with fans, Engels last minute slip v Spurs....

Was that the last time he played for us?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5704 on: February 16, 2021, 02:56:57 PM »
Risso, nope not one of our better nights. 16/2/20 was however our last home match with fans, Engels last minute slip v Spurs....

Was that the last time he played for us?

He played in the cup final, as it was his header which the City keeper tipped onto the post in the last minute.

Can't remember if he played away at Leicester, or post-lockdown 1?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5705 on: February 16, 2021, 11:00:45 PM »
Until a player tells him he is exhausted Smiffy ain't gonna do that.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5706 on: February 17, 2021, 11:47:58 AM »
They have a team of performance analysts and a tonne of data to show who's fatigued and to what levels. That the same players keep being picked probably says more about the depth of the squad than anything and you imagine we will be trying to do something about this in the summer.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5707 on: February 17, 2021, 12:41:41 PM »
Until a player tells him he is exhausted Smiffy ain't gonna do that.
or keels over

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5708 on: February 17, 2021, 01:30:16 PM »
Risso, nope not one of our better nights. 16/2/20 was however our last home match with fans, Engels last minute slip v Spurs....

Was that the last time he played for us?

He played in the cup final, as it was his header which the City keeper tipped onto the post in the last minute.

Can't remember if he played away at Leicester, or post-lockdown 1?

Hasn't played a minute since that Leicester game.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5709 on: February 18, 2021, 01:29:32 AM »
To be fair, he was mostly injured after the lockdown.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5710 on: February 20, 2021, 08:57:03 AM »
Yes, I imagine he would have played in the League Cup, at least, if he had been fit and may well have started the Liverpool FA Cup game if not got the Coronavirus outbreak.

Offline Villan82

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5711 on: February 21, 2021, 02:31:17 PM »
Have we heard much about our Coronavirus outbreak? I think we have looked tired since we came back and suspect one or two of the players are just not right at all.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5712 on: February 22, 2021, 04:03:22 PM »
looks like we could have 10,000 fans for the final home match at villa park, but nothing before 17 may.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5713 on: February 22, 2021, 04:23:45 PM »
Yes Sunday May 23 my birthday and I could be at Villa Park ;D

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #5714 on: February 22, 2021, 06:08:50 PM »
The last game I attended in person was the cup final, similar to a lot of folks I imagine. This is the longest I've gone without attending a match in 30 years. Will be a lot longer for others of an older vintage I am sure.

I'd say it will be an absence of just under 12 months for them as well.

 


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