Aston Villa vs Burnley pre match thread POSTPONED

[john2710]

The club will have notified the PL at the earliest opportunity. In all honesty it was bordering on criminal that the game was taking place with 40k people & cases at the level they are.

Games will restart on 8th January & I don't think fans will be there or if they are it will be a reduced capacity.

[SoccerHQ]

Premier League informed of #AVFC new positive cases 10am; then follows verification of total player availability - including Covid, injury, illness - between club & PL medical depts. PL board convened 12pm; decision 40 mins later. Not ideal for fans but that is the agreed process (Sam Wallace)

Is the premier league board still full of old men who don't get up early (given Ellis was on it for years).

Two hours between us informing the prem there was issue with today and then them only starting to form a decision which took another 40 minutes?

Decision reached by half 11 wouldn't have stopped everyone leaving the house but at least the Burnley fans wouldn't have been that far down the M6 rather than about to park up in Witton when they were told to turn back.

[astonvilla82]

Offer players 50 thousand pounds to get the jabs, you soon seeing them queuing up

[N'ZMAV]

Offer players 50 thousand pounds to get the jabs, you soon seeing them queuing up

a weeks wages - that's probably not going to encourage them.

[SoccerHQ]

Offer players 50 thousand pounds to get the jabs, you soon seeing them queuing up

a weeks wages - that's probably not going to encourage them.

Think telling anyone not jabbed at all to spend night before home game in hotel away from family is worth considering (jabbed players can spend it at home). That would be one incentive perhaps as I assume some of the ones who tested positive from Friday-Saturday were probably innocently playing with their kids and picked it up from them.

Certainly would be expecting whoever is in the squad who have been double vaxxed to be getting their boosters this week, would have no issue if that's deemed queue jumping.

[Chris Harte]

Offer players 50 thousand pounds to get the jabs, you soon seeing them queuing up

If they have entrenched beliefs it won't make a jot of difference.

Meanwhile, I wonder how many of those who were en route to the game before it was postponed will now be in the pub?

[charleeco7]

Offer players 50 thousand pounds to get the jabs, you soon seeing them queuing up

a weeks wages - that's probably not going to encourage them.

Think telling anyone not jabbed at all to spend night before home game in hotel away from family is worth considering (jabbed players can spend it at home). That would be one incentive perhaps as I assume some of the ones who tested positive from Friday-Saturday were probably innocently playing with their kids and picked it up from them.

Certainly would be expecting whoever is in the squad who have been double vaxxed to be getting their boosters this week, would have no issue if that's deemed queue jumping.

How do we know it’s no players who are already vaccinated that have got the virus? You do all realise  you can still get it whether vaccinated or not? I was double jabbed and had been since April but still managed to get it in July.

[UK Redsox]

Just arrived in Aston. 3.5 Hours to see game off. FFS

Fell so sorry for you Richard, I was over halfway here when I found out and I live much closer than you. Safe journey back.Abdolute shit show from our so-called 'well run' club. They send out countless communications about illegal domestic Covid passports, yet not one single email or text notifying of the postponement.

Anyone up for a class action to claim compensation on travelling expenses?

1322 email, yet I reckon 1247 alert to phone from Villa app, no text yet, apart from the 10.01 don’t travel if symptoms…

Yep, text at 10am to say not to attend with symptoms, but no text to say that the game was off.

I’d just picked up a sarnie in Perry Bar and was walking back to my car when I had a message off a mate to say it was off.

[Smithy]

Anyone who tested positive yesterday (for this morning’s results) was likely exposed at LEAST 48 hours earlier, more likely no later than Tuesday - you simply don’t become contagious that quickly. I’d imagine if we’ve got a few more players gone down today, there will be more test positive before it gets better (unless we’ve been doing distanced no contact training all week?)

[kippaxvilla2]

Stop moaning all you bits of kids.  I remember parking up at Old Trafford just as a game was called off once.  I didn’t phone 0898 12 11 48 attempting to vent my spleen.

[colin69]

Blaming the Villa for what they could or couldn't have done, even if they were allowed to do it, distracts from the real culprits. The Premier League should have scrapped this week's fixtures.

Yes I think that’s correct.

I was going today but deep down I wasn’t feeling it at all.
With the way this variant is spreading (mild or not) I think all of this weekends games should have been called off.
Unfortunately it’s not looking great for large crowds at the moment.

[Lsvilla]

Anyone who tested positive yesterday (for this morning’s results) was likely exposed at LEAST 48 hours earlier, more likely no later than Tuesday - you simply don’t become contagious that quickly. I’d imagine if we’ve got a few more players gone down today, there will be more test positive before it gets better (unless we’ve been doing distanced no contact training all week?)

Didn’t look like they were from the training pics released by the club yesterday.

[Risso]

Scandalous from the Premier League. As soon as the Burnley Watford game was cancelled at short notice, they should have realised it was possible/likely that the same would happen to all games. If players were awaiting PCR results from Friday this was always a strong likelihood. Fucking twats, people have wasted all sorts of money this close to Christmas.

[purpletrousers]

Anyone who tested positive yesterday (for this morning’s results) was likely exposed at LEAST 48 hours earlier, more likely no later than Tuesday - you simply don’t become contagious that quickly. I’d imagine if we’ve got a few more players gone down today, there will be more test positive before it gets better (unless we’ve been doing distanced no contact training all week?)

Didn’t look like they were from the training pics released by the club yesterday.

And therein lies the challenge, to prepare a team well whilst the risk of doing so is that you won’t be able to put one out.

The wonders of hindsight but now makes massive sense:

 Match of the Day commentator Jonathan Pearce, speaking on Football Focus

In my opinion, the league missed out on an opportunity. If they had called every game off from Wednesday night onwards, it would have given a 10-day isolation period before the Boxing Day matches.

[Ads]

Chelsea is surely gone now too? If we don't have enough players now then we won't on the 26th either.