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

[Risso]

No circuit breaker confirmed. PL to continue as normal.

Wankers. So we’ve all just got to carrying making plans on a wing and a prayer?

[Chris Smith]

No circuit breaker confirmed. PL to continue as normal.

Wankers. So we’ve all just got to carrying making plans on a wing and a prayer?

Yep, wankers. As ever they’re more bothered by TV revenue than match going fans.

[aev]

Presumably we can't play Chelsea as none of those that have tested positive would be back in time?

[Demitri_C]

Unbelievable

Money talks

[AlexAlexCropley]

This might be superceded by Government later.Or not.

[spangley1812]

Presumably we can't play Chelsea as none of those that have tested positive would be back in time?

The ones that tested positive before the Norwich game "might" be available

[sickbeggar]

Chelsea have some FIFA jolly to play for 2 weeks in Feb so i'd imagine they don't want them getting a huge backlog in games. I'd expect our game with them to go ahead.

[Deano's Mullet]

Hardly fair is it. Man City could probably field 3 first team squads against a side with a bare minimum of 13 players. And its two fingers to match going fans in terms of money and postponements.

[Drummond]

Lets hope that the remainder of the season is played behind closed doors and we can watch the games at home on the television and it will save me time and money travelling to the games, and I will get a refund on my season ticket.

My wife recently had the COVid - she was poorly but thankfully had the jabs so it was like a bad flu, despite living in the same house I did not get the COVid - very strange, maybe I am immune to the virus?

And then what happens next winter, the next greek letter variant comes we all stay home, stop our lives again?

This isnt ending if we carry on this like we need to learn to live with it or we might as well stop living.  Just do all the saftey protocols they are suggesting masks in busy places, isolating if infecting etc. Thats all we can do.

Glad to hear your wifes ok.

Yep, learn to live with it. Unless you're one of the unlucky/vulnerable ones, and then you could perhaps be really ill and/or die from it.

Then like any at risk person would do is take extra precautions. From the start all the focus should of been on the frail and the ones who medically needed protection - rather than isolate and scare everyone else into blind panic.  If we lived our lives on "what ifs" and computer calculations we would never leave our houses again.


I would like to know how many of the players / staff who tested positive (the reason games called off) were actually ill.

Because maybe if we dis not test so much the actual cases causing significant health issues would, i assume be much lower that the doomsayers are predicting

Yep, fuck the vulnerable, let them look after themselves and fuck em watching the match. Which is why we keep getting into the same old shit situation. Idiots that won't vaccinate, won't wear masks, won't wash their hands, won't socially distance, won't think of other people.

The players may not be ill yet, they may have mild symptoms, but they may pass it on to someone else, someone less able to cope. We've had a number of players collapse on the pitch of late, they potentially could be at much higher risk.

And yes, let's not test anyone and pretend it doesn't really exist.

The late cancellation was shit. I really feel for those who were going, and like you mentioned in your other post, plenty of kids will have been upset. I'm sure they'll bounce back though.

[Drummond]

Unbelievable

Money talks

Yep. Again.

[Pat Mustard]

No circuit breaker confirmed. PL to continue as normal.

Where has this come from - can't see it being reported anywhere?  Suspect the decision might end up being taken out of their hands in the next couple of days anyway.

[Villan82]

Lets hope that the remainder of the season is played behind closed doors and we can watch the games at home on the television and it will save me time and money travelling to the games, and I will get a refund on my season ticket.

My wife recently had the COVid - she was poorly but thankfully had the jabs so it was like a bad flu, despite living in the same house I did not get the COVid - very strange, maybe I am immune to the virus?

And then what happens next winter, the next greek letter variant comes we all stay home, stop our lives again?

This isnt ending if we carry on this like we need to learn to live with it or we might as well stop living.  Just do all the saftey protocols they are suggesting masks in busy places, isolating if infecting etc. Thats all we can do.

Glad to hear your wifes ok.

Yep, learn to live with it. Unless you're one of the unlucky/vulnerable ones, and then you could perhaps be really ill and/or die from it.

Then like any at risk person would do is take extra precautions. From the start all the focus should of been on the frail and the ones who medically needed protection - rather than isolate and scare everyone else into blind panic.  If we lived our lives on "what ifs" and computer calculations we would never leave our houses again.


I would like to know how many of the players / staff who tested positive (the reason games called off) were actually ill.

Because maybe if we dis not test so much the actual cases causing significant health issues would, i assume be much lower that the doomsayers are predicting

Yep, fuck the vulnerable, let them look after themselves and fuck em watching the match. Which is why we keep getting into the same old shit situation. Idiots that won't vaccinate, won't wear masks, won't wash their hands, won't socially distance, won't think of other people.

The players may not be ill yet, they may have mild symptoms, but they may pass it on to someone else, someone less able to cope. We've had a number of players collapse on the pitch of late, they potentially could be at much higher risk.

And yes, let's not test anyone and pretend it doesn't really exist.

The late cancellation was shit. I really feel for those who were going, and like you mentioned in your other post, plenty of kids will have been upset. I'm sure they'll bounce back though.

What do you expect under a Tory government that has not shown leadership. Freedom Day and party political rhetoric more important to them than consistent public safety messaging that could have encouraged mask wearing etc.

[Smirker]

No circuit breaker confirmed. PL to continue as normal.

Where has this come from - can't see it being reported anywhere?  Suspect the decision might end up being taken out of their hands in the next couple of days anyway.

Talksport I heard it on.

BBC - https://twitter.com/BBCSport/status/1472952753848786951

[spangley1812]

No circuit breaker confirmed. PL to continue as normal.

Where has this come from - can't see it being reported anywhere?  Suspect the decision might end up being taken out of their hands in the next couple of days anyway.

From BBC Sport Website

Premier League clubs have chosen to fulfil festive fixtures despite ongoing disruption caused by Covid-19 cases.

The league's 20 clubs met on Monday to discuss how they could deal with the challenges faced after six fixtures were postponed because of Covid-19 numbers over the weekend.

The postponement of a round of games over Christmas was a possibility.

No vote took place and so two rounds of fixtures are in place across five days from 26 December.

It had been expected that gameweek 20, starting on 28 December, would be postponed in order to ease the pressure on Premier League squads.

Instead, clubs have been advised if they have 13 fit players, plus a goalkeeper, they should fulfil their games.

There are however talks between clubs and authorities to scrap FA Cup replays in rounds three and four, and to reduce EFL Cup semi-final ties to one-leg matches.

Last week, Premier League players returned 42 positive Covid-19 tests in a seven-day period, the highest number since the start of the pandemic. Updated figures for the most recent seven-day period are expected later on Monday.

In Sunday's Premier League fixtures, Chelsea named just six substitutes for their draw at Wolves and Liverpool drew at Tottenham without a number of first-team names.

Five of Saturday's six fixtures were called off. Chelsea tried to get Sunday's fixture at Wolves postponed and boss Thomas Tuchel said his players were put at "huge risk... not just because of Covid but also physically".

It is understood Liverpool were among a group of clubs who pushed for the postponement of gameweek 20.

After Sunday's draw at Spurs, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said playing on 26 and 28 December was not feasible.

"It's impossible, we don't have the players," Klopp said. "We have to think we will get an extra case or two. We cannot just push it all through. The 26th and 28th, that's not possible. We would prefer to play but we need help with the fixtures."

The seven Premier League teams still in the Carabao Cup face ties on 21 and 22 December and will play three Premier League fixtures between then and 2 January.

[Drummond]

I agree with the principle of postponing to prevent further infection. I don't agree with Klopp's assertion that we should postpone because he's losing his best players.