OutByEaster? Posted January 12, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 12, 2021 1 minute ago, birdman said: I follow villa official on Insta but missed this, have you got a link? Have a look at Douglas Luiz's insta, Wes's too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 shitting crikey. We're going to have a horror march or april Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enda Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 14 minutes ago, It's Your Round said: It’s all just becoming a big mess now. If Sunday is off then we’re heading towards a humongous fixture pile up. Something has got to give. i think a fixture pile-up is the least of our worries. Could well have the league postponed, or some of the lads suffer with long COVID, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 12, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 12, 2021 1 minute ago, Rodders said: shitting crikey. We're going to have a horror march or april We don't currently have a single midweek game in either month. We'll be okay depending on when Spurs get to play their fixture. It might well be that we end up needing to play on Saturday, then Monday, then Saturday because Monday is the only day Spurs can do. For us, this is easy, we're not in any cup competitions. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM3000 Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 A bit complicated but they should try and play that FA Cup game Everton/Sheff Wed in midweek and let us play Everton on FA Cup weekend. Once we play Man City we don't have a game at the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Time to spend £300m on another squad. The only way to cope with these fixtures it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 30 minutes ago, Enda said: i think a fixture pile-up is the least of our worries. Could well have the league postponed, or some of the lads suffer with long COVID, etc. Yeah that’s the major concern, let’s hope they all pull through safe and well with their health intact. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 People saying we'll be OK I hope you are right. I worry if even one or two of our players take longer to recover we will really struggle with the amount of games left to play. What's to say somewhere down the line one or two of our future opponents get an outbreak in their camps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 18 minutes ago, Zhan_Zhuang said: What's to say somewhere down the line one or two of our future opponents get an outbreak in their camps? That’s almost guaranteed unless they give footballers the vaccine soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 12, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 12, 2021 In terms of us, we could fit another six games into March/April by playing in the midweeks. We're not the problem - it'll be if we have cancellation from the teams that are in Europe and still in the FA Cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WallisFrizz Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Apparently we didn’t officially request the Spurs game be postponed until Saturday which is why Fulham are spitting feathers because it led to their late notice about their rearrangement. It is probably why we are putting in an early request re the Everton game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kieranavfc Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Doucoure just booked and now out of next game 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark359 Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 1 hour ago, OutByEaster? said: In terms of us, we could fit another six games into March/April by playing in the midweeks. We're not the problem - it'll be if we have cancellation from the teams that are in Europe and still in the FA Cup. Hopefully they can have some more flexibility in terms of when we play each team. If we can move games with teams in other competitions to weekends and then the others in the week it may work out 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 12, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 12, 2021 4 minutes ago, mark359 said: Hopefully they can have some more flexibility in terms of when we play each team. If we can move games with teams in other competitions to weekends and then the others in the week it may work out We can, but for Spurs or Man City, unless they drop out of a cup, they're already all out of midweek gaps. If City reach the FA Cup semi final, then we'll be at the mercy of when they can fit in our second league game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Was the Newcastle training ground shut for 10 days? I guess point we're making is we can't assess how everyone is as a group until we get them all back into the building and do tests and training. Dangerous to just go into a game with little training. Was wanting the game on but guess it will be Man. City away and then surely Newcastle the following Saturday. We'll just be playing every 3 days for the next month although things then ease up from late Feb through March so will just have to catch up then. We can certainly play Everton on a european night and let's not forget Everton-Spurs could very easily be 5th round weekend so we can play whichever gets knocked out when the quarter finals get played although normally there's a full round of prem fixtures on that weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommo_b Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Can’t they just arrange to push the Euros back a few weeks so domestic competitions can finish their seasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 3 hours ago, Rodders said: shitting crikey. We're going to have a horror march or april There's five midweeks free in March. Only problem I guess is Spurs will be playing every midweek of that if they keep winning in europa and FA cup. Shouldn't be a problem to play Everton in that period though. Hopefully everyone is o.k and we can resume serious training early next week and then we can at least get the Man. City and Newcastle games done so we're "only" two games behind most teams. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Tommo_b said: Can’t they just arrange to push the Euros back a few weeks so domestic competitions can finish their seasons. Good chance they will have to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 2 hours ago, kieranavfc said: Doucoure just booked and now out of next game Yeah, let’s just play the game they look like they’ll be as depleted as us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chindie Posted January 13, 2021 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted January 13, 2021 The Euros are an horrifically bad idea in the current climate. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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