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[Football] Villa v Newcastle in doubt on Friday due to Covid? ***Update: postponed***





Stat Brother

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and they still beat palace 0-2.
 


blue-shifted

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Avoiding covid sweeping through your squad could be the difference between rlelgation and survival for a team this year.

Im sure all of ours are on a 3 line whip not to take any chances

Best wishes to all concerned at Newcastle

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crodonilson

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Bruce rightly concerned as an obese man over 50. Player and staff safety must come first.
 


Swansman

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I wonder how many players from a squad need to be tested positive to get a game postponed?

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/nov/29/newcastle-scrap-training-session-amid-fears-of-coronavirus-outbreak

Personally I think it's probably food poisoning they picked up from the caterers at Selhurst Park.

They have 25 registered senior team players and 50 registered U21 players. As long as 14 of these 75 players are available, the game will go through.
 




Driver8

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Villa v Newcastle in doubt on Friday due to Covid?

Personally I think it's probably food poisoning they picked up from the caterers at Selhurst Park.

Perhaps Zaha shat in their dressing room.
 








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Seems not

But that should be the case.

These rules have been agreed on.

A very slippery slope to allow this to be cancelled. Managers will use this precedent to get games cancelled when they've got a few injuries. Newcastle can put out a team, so should have to put out a team
 


crodonilson

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But that should be the case.

These rules have been agreed on.

A very slippery slope to allow this to be cancelled. Managers will use this precedent to get games cancelled when they've got a few injuries. Newcastle can put out a team, so should have to put out a team

Conversely though doesn't it affect the integrity of the league if they put out a youth/reserve team against Villa? Teams been fined in the past for fielding weakened teams that affects the integrity of the fixture.
 


Bozza

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But that should be the case.

These rules have been agreed on.

A very slippery slope to allow this to be cancelled. Managers will use this precedent to get games cancelled when they've got a few injuries. Newcastle can put out a team, so should have to put out a team

Depends on what significant means - we might not find out...

"Newcastle United's game at Premier League rivals Aston Villa on Friday has been postponed following a "significant increase" in Covid-19 cases at the Magpies' training ground."
 






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Depends on what significant means - we might not find out...

"Newcastle United's game at Premier League rivals Aston Villa on Friday has been postponed following a "significant increase" in Covid-19 cases at the Magpies' training ground."

As long as they can get a team out, no need to bring an indefinable word like significant into it.

It's a but like Middlesboro not turning up for a match when they had an injury crisis, some time in the 90s. If the can't fulfil the fixture (which they could, they want to do it at a time when they have fewer injuries) they should lose the points.

Harsh in a pandemic, but every club has got to put precautions in place to prevent it spreading through the squad.
 






blue-shifted

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The problem as I see it is that now this precedent has been set you've got to draw a line as to how many is "significant".

Clubs will very much be looking to take advantage of this one way or another
 






Neville's Breakfast

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But that should be the case.

These rules have been agreed on.

A very slippery slope to allow this to be cancelled. Managers will use this precedent to get games cancelled when they've got a few injuries. Newcastle can put out a team, so should have to put out a team

You are saying that clubs will pretend their injured players have Covid ?
 




Easy 10

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As long as they can get a team out, no need to bring an indefinable word like significant into it.

It's a but like Middlesboro not turning up for a match when they had an injury crisis, some time in the 90s. If the can't fulfil the fixture (which they could, they want to do it at a time when they have fewer injuries) they should lose the points.

Harsh in a pandemic, but every club has got to put precautions in place to prevent it spreading through the squad.

Fundamentally though, if too many of your 25 are out due to covid and you're having to field half a team or more made up of kids, then it DOES damage the integrity of the fixture and ultimately the League table. Liverpool got away with it last season in that League Cup tie at Villa while the 1st team were off playing in the Club World Cup, but that was only a League Cup tie, so the ramifications were nothing like as serious or potentially far reaching as this.

Villa have already dodged one relegation bullet thanks to technology f-ing things up. If they snaffled an easy 3 points against Newcastles kids, and it makes a significant difference to their season, then that would most certainly be looked back on as a game that could and should have been re-arranged.

They've done the right thing.
 


blue-shifted

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Fundamentally though, if too many of your 25 are out due to covid and you're having to field half a team or more made up of kids, then it DOES damage the integrity of the fixture and ultimately the League table. Liverpool got away with it last season in that League Cup tie at Villa while the 1st team were off playing in the Club World Cup, but that was only a League Cup tie, so the ramifications were nothing like as serious or potentially far reaching as this.

Villa have already dodged one relegation bullet thanks to technology f-ing things up. If they snaffled an easy 3 points against Newcastles kids, and it makes a significant difference to their season, then that would most certainly be looked back on as a game that could and should have been re-arranged.

They've done the right thing.

You could say that about any injury crisis though. If a sickness bug, for example goes through the squad, they would be expected to play the fixture. It's just seen as tough **** that you can't play your best players and have to rely on your squad.
 



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