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

[Three Spires Villa]

League now going to make the League Cup Quarter Finals one off games.  Also going to completely scrap FA Cup replays.  Also considering binning off the break scheduled for end of January.

Aren't LC quarter-finals one-off games anyway?

Guess it’s the semi finals

[Demitri_C]

Chelsea games gonna be called off but the leeds game should happen shouldnt it?

I mean 3 games called off is going to be hell for all pl teams. Injuries are going to be catastrophic

[Lucky Eddie]

We used to regularly lose three games every winter and cope with squads of 16.

And that was when footballers were men rather than athletes and football pitches were dangerous.

There's no good reason not to have started a three week break two days ago.

[Richard E]

Chelsea games gonna be called off but the leeds game should happen shouldnt it?

I mean 3 games called off is going to be hell for all pl teams. Injuries are going to be catastrophic

I really hope the Leeds game happens, because they’re absolutely pony at the moment.

[john e]

The delay came from the premier league, not the club.

Yep , apparently the club asked them to pp this morning (after test results). The PL took their time.

But they knew it was in the balance

So why were we getting emails yesterday morning telling us how Gerald was going to shape up
Everything they said and did was that the game was going ahead even on that very morning
when all the time they knew that was a good chance of them being called off because of the PCR tests

I don’t care what anyone says The club wasn’t Totally innocent in this and could have handled it better
I’m annoyed for the travelling fans on both sides as even people on here predicted what was going to happen but they don’t give a shit do they

Not me as it happens I wasn’t going and was letting my tickets go to waste so I’m actually better off With it being called off But that’s not the point

[Risso]

Buendia tweeted in the morning "Game on!"

It's 95% the Premier League's fault, but then it's not like the club explicitly said "as things stand we've got enough players to play, but everybody is taking PCR tests daily, so if the results come through on Saturday morning there's no guarantee we'll still have enough players."

Whole things is an absoute clusterfuck.

[Nunkin1965]

If there isn't a firm decision from the Premier League then I'm not sure what else the club could have done.
Each and every game at the moment hangs in the balance for each and every club.

[Ads]

If they can call the Boxing Day fixture early I'd appreciate it, so I can enjoy a few more sherbets than I normal do Christmas Day.

[Risso]

If they can call the Boxing Day fixture early I'd appreciate it, so I can enjoy a few more sherbets than I normal do Christmas Day.

They need to call them off on Monday. Nowhere is easy to get to thanks to rubbish public transport, even with relatively close matches, and ours is on at a shit enough time as it is.

[amfy]

Buendia tweeted in the morning "Game on!"

It's 95% the Premier League's fault, but then it's not like the club explicitly said "as things stand we've got enough players to play, but everybody is taking PCR tests daily, so if the results come through on Saturday morning there's no guarantee we'll still have enough players."

Whole things is an absoute clusterfuck.

Didn’t Gerard say pretty much exactly that in his press conference, & isn’t that absolutely obvious anyway. They are testing daily, on any given day there can be a number of additional positive tests. The timings and processing will be set by the PL who should have called this game off when it was one of only 2 still on - it was pretty obvious where we were headed.
…& I certainly did set out from the north with half a mind that the game could be called off before we got there, because it had already happened to another game in the week.

[john e]

If there isn't a firm decision from the Premier League then I'm not sure what else the club could have done.
Each and every game at the moment hangs in the balance for each and every club.

Not sending out emails and social media posts bigging up the game the same morning it was hanging in the balance would have been a start

[Percy McCarthy]

Buendia tweeted in the morning "Game on!"

It's 95% the Premier League's fault, but then it's not like the club explicitly said "as things stand we've got enough players to play, but everybody is taking PCR tests daily, so if the results come through on Saturday morning there's no guarantee we'll still have enough players."

Whole things is an absoute clusterfuck.

Didn’t Gerard say pretty much exactly that in his press conference, & isn’t that absolutely obvious anyway. They are testing daily, on any given day there can be a number of additional positive tests. The timings and processing will be set by the PL who should have called this game off when it was one of only 2 still on - it was pretty obvious where we were headed.
…& I certainly did set out from the north with half a mind that the game could be called off before we got there, because it had already happened to another game in the week.

Not everyone was lucky enough to have The Twang as a consolation. How was it?

[Nunkin1965]

If there isn't a firm decision from the Premier League then I'm not sure what else the club could have done.
Each and every game at the moment hangs in the balance for each and every club.

Not sending out emails and social media posts bigging up the game the same morning it was hanging in the balance would have been a start

True.
Maybe the club should have gone the other way and advised us that we're all risking our health by turning up.
I didn't see any other football league club take this approach though.

[amfy]

Buendia tweeted in the morning "Game on!"

It's 95% the Premier League's fault, but then it's not like the club explicitly said "as things stand we've got enough players to play, but everybody is taking PCR tests daily, so if the results come through on Saturday morning there's no guarantee we'll still have enough players."

Whole things is an absoute clusterfuck.

Didn’t Gerard say pretty much exactly that in his press conference, & isn’t that absolutely obvious anyway. They are testing daily, on any given day there can be a number of additional positive tests. The timings and processing will be set by the PL who should have called this game off when it was one of only 2 still on - it was pretty obvious where we were headed.
…& I certainly did set out from the north with half a mind that the game could be called off before we got there, because it had already happened to another game in the week.

Not everyone was lucky enough to have The Twang as a consolation. How was it?

Excellent. How come you didn’t go? Didn’t you have tickets for it?

We actually wouldn’t have travelled if it weren’t for the fact that I had a £120 hotel booking because of that gig which I couldn’t cancel after the 15th.

I also spent all day wondering whether the twang might be called off too I was glad it wasn’t but we did travel thinking that if we were unlucky, neither thing would be on & we’d end up maybe just making the most of an over night in Brum.

The twang was definitely a major consolation, & made the trip well worthwhile  (along with meeting up with C & The Coopers for a few jars) but that doesn’t change my point. We travelled knowing BOTH things we were travelling for were in the balance because of the escalation in concerns over the past week.

[Risso]

Buendia tweeted in the morning "Game on!"

It's 95% the Premier League's fault, but then it's not like the club explicitly said "as things stand we've got enough players to play, but everybody is taking PCR tests daily, so if the results come through on Saturday morning there's no guarantee we'll still have enough players."

Whole things is an absoute clusterfuck.

Didn’t Gerard say pretty much exactly that in his press conference, & isn’t that absolutely obvious anyway. They are testing daily, on any given day there can be a number of additional positive tests. The timings and processing will be set by the PL who should have called this game off when it was one of only 2 still on - it was pretty obvious where we were headed.
…& I certainly did set out from the north with half a mind that the game could be called off before we got there, because it had already happened to another game in the week.

No I don't think it was that obvious at all. All Gerrard said in respect of Covid and the Premier League was that he was worried about the extra games players were having to play because other players were unavailable. Nothing about us possibly missing games because of tests at all.