sne Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 It's Spurs, they are not going to win anything. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkLillis Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 (edited) All other outbreaks at Premier League clubs have resulted in postponements. This will be no different Edited January 10, 2021 by MarkLillis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 It's nice that we're well beyond the point where somebody suggests Ravel Morrison now that's he available on a free again 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 I doubt that even the Everton game will go ahead, because if we can't play the Spurs game then presumably we won't be able to prepare properly for Everton either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 20 minutes ago, lexicon said: It's nice that we're well beyond the point where somebody suggests Ravel Morrison now that's he available on a free again Wrong thread - oops 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 2 hours ago, tom_avfc said: What’s classy about just chucking away points? If I were Liverpool, Chelsea, Leicester etc. I’d be kicking up as much of a fuss as Villa about this. Our first team can get results against anyone. Chucking out a load of kids to get beat is just bad for the sporting integrity of the league let alone the potential impact on our season. I assumed that we’d had some assurances that the game on Wednesday would be postponed as part of agreeing to play the kids in the cup to be honest. Your right I had a moral high ground moment! Stuff ‘em if we can’t field a proper team that has trained properly we shouldn’t play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted January 10, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 10, 2021 we have to pay the lip service. "we're doing everything we can to get the fixture played". deep down we all know there is no way this game can go ahead 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 3 hours ago, VillaChris said: I could actually see a case where we call it off and Levy/Mourinho start going to the premier league and demanding 3-0 win to be awarded to them. As I've said though that sort of claim would just be laughed out of court given a) teams as recently as last week have called games off at short notice with even less players ill or testing positive b) Spurs had a match with Fulham called off and they were disappointed but weren't seemingly pressing Fulham like they are us c) we had a game called off in near idential circumstances two months back. I really don't understand how anyone could make us play, not least because we're not really making the decision, it's the health officials laying down 10 day isolation and given how bleak the situation is in U.K again it's not something you can just ignore. It's different to Boro years back when they just didn't bother to turn up at Blackburn as they'd had a flu outbreak. Mourinho is being incredibly even more petty than usual as they easily could've had outbreak given 3 of their players were meeting up on xmas day and then coming in for training so hardly moral guardians in this. Don't really understand any club taking that stance in these times. I didn't when Newcastle called their game off v us as I thought it was right decision and we could easily have plenty of cases a few months down the line and here we are now. Would be hilarious if Spurs lost their whole first team before league cup final and they had to play likes of Harvey White and the 16 year old who scored v Man. City. Pretty sure Mourinho is acting this way as he sees us a threat not just in terms of the game but in league position. He was out last week saying we are his favourite club to watch to start some mind games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 5 minutes ago, Zatman said: Pretty sure Mourinho is acting this way as he sees us a threat not just in terms of the game but in league position. He was out last week saying we are his favourite club to watch to start some mind games I think he would have behaved this way regardless of who they were playing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Mourinho is an absolute word removed and I love it. Owns his role as the late 90s Vince McMahon of football. Doesn't pretend to be nicey nicey like Klopp. He's putting himself in the best position possible to have a massive moan when this is called off, which he should. This game ain't happening without us being happy. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
est1874 Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 (edited) Something I don't understand - if someone could explain it / the logic behind it. Other clubs have had Covid positives and fielded a first team from the remaining available players. Citeh for instance had 4 out with positive tests, but the rest of the team were fine to play a game 1 day later. Whether this was safe or not is another story - probably not, but it happened. Now us. We have 10 players and 4 staff test positive and our entire first team bubble, including some U23 players and all staff, go into isolation. Granted our number of positives is much higher but what's the logic behind a decision that deems 4 positive tests to be equal to 4 people isolating, whereas 14 positive tests equals somewhere in the region of 25-30 people isolating? Edited January 10, 2021 by est1874 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdman Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 39 minutes ago, Tomaszk said: Mourinho is an absolute word removed and I love it. Owns his role as the late 90s Vince McMahon of football. Doesn't pretend to be nicey nicey like Klopp. He's putting himself in the best position possible to have a massive moan when this is called off, which he should. This game ain't happening without us being happy. Yes he will say anything if he thinks it gives him or his team an edge. He knows damn well it won't go ahead! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post omariqy Posted January 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 11, 2021 According to the Athletic the PL are considering replacing our game with Fulham playing Spurs instead. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheStagMan Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 (edited) 8 hours ago, est1874 said: Something I don't understand - if someone could explain it / the logic behind it. Other clubs have had Covid positives and fielded a first team from the remaining available players. Citeh for instance had 4 out with positive tests, but the rest of the team were fine to play a game 1 day later. Whether this was safe or not is another story - probably not, but it happened. Now us. We have 10 players and 4 staff test positive and our entire first team bubble, including some U23 players and all staff, go into isolation. Granted our number of positives is much higher but what's the logic behind a decision that deems 4 positive tests to be equal to 4 people isolating, whereas 14 positive tests equals somewhere in the region of 25-30 people isolating? I suppose it is possible that the 4 people for City had not trained with the rest of the team, and have not have the option to spread the virus? Where as ours had trained together between testing and result Edited January 11, 2021 by TheStagMan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Wainy316 Posted January 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 11, 2021 Surely our game with Newcastle can now be played during FA Cup 4th round weekend? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knutserov13 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 8 hours ago, est1874 said: Something I don't understand - if someone could explain it / the logic behind it. Other clubs have had Covid positives and fielded a first team from the remaining available players. Citeh for instance had 4 out with positive tests, but the rest of the team were fine to play a game 1 day later. Whether this was safe or not is another story - probably not, but it happened. Now us. We have 10 players and 4 staff test positive and our entire first team bubble, including some U23 players and all staff, go into isolation. Granted our number of positives is much higher but what's the logic behind a decision that deems 4 positive tests to be equal to 4 people isolating, whereas 14 positive tests equals somewhere in the region of 25-30 people isolating? Yep, this I cant get my head around? Man City had a game called off yet opened up their trainingground a day later? A few days later they played a PL game, but only the players with Covid not playing? Why werent their whole squad in isolation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 11 minutes ago, Wainy316 said: Surely our game with Newcastle can now be played during FA Cup 4th round weekend? Yep thats a very good solution and one im sure we are looking at Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desensitized43 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Oh man this is such a mess. I kind of wish they'd just turned round to Newcastle at the start of this and told them they have to play their kids or forfeit. We're going to have a crazy amount of games in hand now. I get why we played the kids in the cup as the so-called "big" teams do that all the time. Those competitions are always compromised, from a sporting perspective, it didn't do any harm. The league is a different game though by virtue of the prize money involved. I get why they didn't want to take the difficult decision with Newcastle at the start as they had no idea if that was going to be an isolated or infrequent incident so wanted to give them the best chance of completing all 38 games with a full team. The sheer number of positive test and games under threat/postponed causes a massive problem as the precedent has already been set. You have to think the number of games to be made up is going to cause injuries though. The simple solution is to scrap the Euros altogether and play into the summer again but there's no way uefa are going to permit that. The league has to be finished by a reasonable date and in a manner that's fair to teams and players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaglint Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 12 hours ago, lexicon said: It's nice that we're well beyond the point where somebody suggests Ravel Morrison now that's he available on a free again I still remember the summer I was genuinely excited about the prospect of Morrison and Ross McCormack playing in the same team. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted January 11, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 11, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, omariqy said: According to the Athletic the PL are considering replacing our game with Fulham playing Spurs instead. I actually cant believe they are considering it! I mean it's the seemingly obvious thing to do, and would simply solve a problem, but when have the pl ever acted rationally before? It is indeed serious times! Edited January 11, 2021 by Nigel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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