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

[ozzjim]

There is some real shit decision making going on here. If Leeds are off on Boxing day and then OK to play us, but we are depleted and expected to play twice in 3 days its royally taking the piss.

[N'ZMAV]

for years they've been talking about the possibility of a winter break - this would have been the perfect year to bring it in.

For an industry that makes so much money their decision making and forward planning is totally wank

[Des Little]

It’s all about TV money, nothing more. Fans will be the very last to be considered, so any decision will be made at the eleventh hour.

[Villatillidie1982]

Gerrard: "we've got lots of tests before the match and anything can happen."

Brilliant for the supporters that, cheers Premier League. C***s.
[/quotfe]Are they going to call off the match 2 hours before kick off again? More long distance wasted journeys. Funny though, I would feel less sympathy for Chelsea fans than I did for the Burnley fans.

[Mister E]

Gerrard: "we've got lots of tests before the match and anything can happen."
Brilliant for the supporters that, cheers Premier League. C***s.

Are they going to call off the match 2 hours before kick off again? More long distance wasted journeys. Funny though, I would feel less sympathy for Chelsea fans than I did for the Burnley fans.

No, 'cos it's on TV. The Boxing Day will get played!
Same may well be true of the Leeds game, too.

[Lastfootstamper]

for years they've been talking about the possibility of a winter break - this would have been the perfect year to bring it in.

For an industry that makes so much money their decision making and forward planning is totally wank

We have a winter break. Last season's got scrapped, but the first one was the season before that. It takes some spotting as not everyone gets the same weekend off. It's spread over two weekends with the intention of giving everyone at least 13 days off. 23rd of January to the 7th of February this season, although this time that does cover an international break for some countries.

[algy]

5 subs? interesting, they need to make their mind up... on one hand they're saying "we haven't got enough players" - now they saying "we want to use more subs"....

Surely that's incompatible with 13 fit players + a keeper? You can't have one club able to make 5 subs (plus the concussion one?) And the other only able to make 3. Specially when the supposed reason for 5 subs is to deal with exhaustion, clearly implying that 3 subs isn't enough for that.

[Villatillidie1982]

5 subs? interesting, they need to make their mind up... on one hand they're saying "we haven't got enough players" - now they saying "we want to use more subs"....

Surely that's incompatible with 13 fit players + a keeper? You can't have one club able to make 5 subs (plus the concussion one?) And the other only able to make 3. Specially when the supposed reason for 5 subs is to deal with exhaustion, clearly implying that 3 subs isn't enough for that.

Will they bring back the mid-half one minute rest that they had last season? That was ridiculous.

[The Edge]

We could have a winter break if they cut out some of the meaningless international breaks like when England play the San Marino's of this world.

[AGRIPPA]

5 subs? interesting, they need to make their mind up... on one hand they're saying "we haven't got enough players" - now they saying "we want to use more subs"....

Surely that's incompatible with 13 fit players + a keeper? You can't have one club able to make 5 subs (plus the concussion one?) And the other only able to make 3. Specially when the supposed reason for 5 subs is to deal with exhaustion, clearly implying that 3 subs isn't enough for that.

Will they bring back the mid-half one minute rest that they had last season? That was ridiculous.

You mean the ad break??

[Gareth]

The TV deals won’t allow a winter break this year or any year….most of the other leagues stop for a break so the tv companies rely on our games for live football over Christmas.

[Lastfootstamper]

Am I the only one that knows we have a winter break? Check the fixtures, there's no games the last weekend of January, no games for any of the home nations. FA Cup is the first weekend in February, league fires up again midweek from the 8th.

[Bobby Boy]

The Premier League needs to make a decision on the Leeds game pronto as they have already said that Watford should be able to play on the 28th. They haven't said this about Leeds.

There's no way that we can put the same team out for both games on 26th and 28th but if we knew that the Leeds game is off before we play Chelsea then that surely would have some influence on the selection for the Chelsea game.

The Premier League needs to play fair by us here.

[Hookeysmith]

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The Premier League needs to play fair by us here.]

Yeah  don't hold your breath

[AlexAlexCropley]

The premier league didn't even listen to the managers at the Monday meeting according to Conte and Deano.Fait accompli.