Aston Villa vs Burnley pre match thread POSTPONED

[Chris Harte]

On the back of the gushing tweet about Rat Boys return, it's another poor piece of PR from the club

Why is it poor PR from the club? What were they supposed to do? This will have inconvenienced a lot of people, from Burnley fans making the trip south through to the catering manager would will have 20,000 uneaten balti pies, etc. But the fixture was untenable without sufficient players. But then the test results were only known today.

[Chris Harte]

I wasn't offered a few days wages to get the jabs. I did it out of a sense of social responsibility. As I trust everyone reading this also did.

No, not me. I had the booster because I didn't want Covid.

[Martyn Smith]

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.

They need to now postpone all games after tomorrow until such a time as the inevitable circuit breaker lockdown finishes. Including the FA Cup. If it means the season has to be extended then so be it. The Qatar World Cup is going to nix the regular season structure next season anyway.

[Steve67]

Oh well, it happens and it was probably the most sensible thing to do. The positive is we are one game closer to the transfer window.

[Brazilian Villain]

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.

I preferred the bit where he sympathised with the fans the gist of which was 'not just those from Burnley and Birmingham but fans who travel from all around the World to watch football in this wonderful Theatre".

I'd imagine that caused a few expletives to be uttered by those viewing in Small Heath.

[Gareth]

Trying to pull a positive out of this PL caused shit show….as it’s likely our next couple of games are off too those on four bookings will be past the reset date before we play again?

I’d have good money that PL ‘protocols’ would have forbidden Villa or Burnley to post on website / social media that a request had gone in to cancel game before the 12 noon meeting

[Lastfootstamper]

It's 19 games played for the cut off, halfway point, so the postponements won't change that.

[ChicagoLion]

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.

I preferred the bit where he sympathised with the fans the gist of which was 'not just those from Burnley and Birmingham but fans who travel from all around the World to watch football in this wonderful Theatre".

I'd imagine that caused a few expletives to be uttered by those viewing in Small Heath.

Pearce seems to like us.

[Leicester_Villian]

One thing I would like to see be published by the premier league is a list by club how many players are unvaccinated

This in my view could help determine if a game should be called off …. For instance if the majority are not vaccinated then under 23s should make up a team

I have no idea what our situation is but since we were hit last season as well it makes me wonder

[RamboandBruno]

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.

Yep its a red herring in terms of the game being called off. I got the virus back in late August 8 weeks after my 2nd jab. Obviously getting vaccinated is really important and i do think whether they like it or not, these role models not getting vaccinated in fairly big numbers is irresponsible. But its conflating two issues blaming the covid rates amongst footballers to vaccination rates.
I was proper rough for a week when i had it and still cant smell nearly 3 months later, but God knows where i would of ended up without the jabs.

[hipkiss92]

Depends if they recover. Lot of young fit people take weeks to get over it

Presumably they're asymptomatic, otherwise the club will have known how many were positive before now? Sounds like yesterday's Lateral Flow Tests were clear as well, which is why it had to wait until today for the PCR tests

[pauliewalnuts]

I think unvaccinated players in the PL should be made to play in traditional Dutch wooden clogs until they get doubled vaxed and boostered.

That'd soon change their minds.

[LeeB]

I think unvaccinated players in the PL should be made to play in traditional Dutch wooden clogs until they get doubled vaxed and boostered.

That'd soon change their minds.

And wet, woollen knickerbockers.

[robleflaneur]

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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.

I preferred the bit where he sympathised with the fans the gist of which was 'not just those from Burnley and Birmingham but fans who travel from all around the World to watch football in this wonderful Theatre".

I'd imagine that caused a few expletives to be uttered by those viewing in Small Heath.

Pearce seems to like us.

Believe he was a student at Birmingham Uni and watched Villa in our league winning 1981 season.

[ChicagoLion]

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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.

I preferred the bit where he sympathised with the fans the gist of which was 'not just those from Burnley and Birmingham but fans who travel from all around the World to watch football in this wonderful Theatre".

I'd imagine that caused a few expletives to be uttered by those viewing in Small Heath.

Pearce seems to like us.

Believe he was a student at Birmingham Uni and watched Villa in our league winning 1981 season.

that would do it, I hear he has turned up at the Barton’s occasionally