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very easily done to be fair to him

I disagree, I don't think its a dick move at all, why should the companies (who are already struggling due to being hit by COVID and now soaring costs due to increase in materials etc) have to foot the bill for another day off in which they had no say in? All our contracts have holidays written as "x numbers of days off (including bank holidays)". If the Government wanted everyone to have this day off paid, then they needed to foot that bill

The timing interests me. I would imagine hes announced it right at the end of the season so that the interest dies down a bit before he actually has to play again. I mean interest in both the distracting media interest that he will no doubt have to deal with for the next few days/weeks as well as the rival fan interest. I'm sure there will still be some chants aimed at him next season, but maybe not as many as if he had to go play away to millwall or something this coming Saturday.

Being local I regularly go to the new years day meet and this year I also did the november meet (used to be the paddy power weekend). Its busy enough for me on those days let alone during gold cup week. While its got better in recent years, you used to have to decide if you are going for a pint, watching the race or going for a wee, you couldn't do more than one between races! I assume its still like that during gold cup week. Its also £7 a pint, so not a cheap day!

While I fully agree we need to use alternative ways of heating our houses, we just aren't in a position currently to do it. We do not have the infrastructure to deal with installing and maintaining these heat pumps and other renewables on a massive national scale. We haven't invested enough in getting a work force trained in being able to install and maintain these. Can you imagine how many more people would need to be trained to be able to not only install renewable energy on all new builds, but to be able to retrofit to all our existing houses? I deal with a couple of very small contracts looking after these and its a right pain in the backside finding decent and reliable contractors who have the right skills. The heat pumps are also quite unreliable and so expensive to repair, so more investment is needed in the technology too. If we pushed it really hard from this point onwards, I'd imagine it would still take us 10 plus years to be capable.

Its even worse when you realise that a 6, is really a 4...

This would suggest he isn't the upgrade we need then? We need someone who is going to make a real difference, not someone who is worse than our current players. Out of interest @KiwiVillain, are you able to let us know who is the top 3 for villa in each of the above stats?

It feels like this signing will be a really hard quiz question in 10 years time. "Who was the 32 year old Swedish Goalkeeper who signed on loan from Roma in January 2022 but didn't make a single appearance?"

DM & CB are urgent now for me

Not a chance. Hes been poor, sanson has looked far better today

If konsa is injured it almost feels as if we need a triple sub at half time. Konsa for hause Ramsey for anyone Watkins or ings for coutinho

I thought he was a villa fan so couldn't?

So far i think we look decent going forward and can see us scoring, however we look poor at the back and can see them getting another couple if we dont tighten up

Surely they will all just negotiate a relegation release clause? I'd be amazed if Trippier hasn't got one too

Thats embarrassing. Can you imagine the stick they would give us if it was the other way round?!

Sad for the Plymouth fans that the last train home is 8:20, it shouldnt be allowed that a game finishes with fans having no hope of getting a train back

Forgot to do a few of the games over christmas. I think realistically my goal is just to try to catch the top 10 now and try to stay there!

On the positive, i felt that was possibly buendia's best game today. Ings looks better on his own without watkins. So moving forward i think it needs to be one or the other. Im still not 100% sure how we managed to lose a game we dominated

Its on avfc support's twitter

I thought the 1st goal was awful. Lescott doesn't have Long marked at any point in that move, even allows him just to drift off his shoulder and doesn't even bother jumping to compete. thank god our current defense/team isn't like that anymore. Out of interest, can anyone remember why there is so much paper/litter round the edge of the pitch?

I think a few people did. They are probably just ahead of us at the moment. Depending on what summer both clubs have, i think they are one of the teams in the mini league above us we need to try to catch.

Seems so stupid that the media knew about this a good twenty minutes before the announcement. Surely the fans should be told as soon as its known

I must admit, i had completely wrote him out of my memory when i did that post! There is however a question over if jack is world class. Hes excellent yes, but world class? Im not sure he is quite there yet. Emi however is right up there in the debate as number 1 (excuse the pun) in the world for his position.

For me, he is probably one of the only world class players we have had in the last twenty to twenty five years. Its a real joy to have someone like him at our club, lets hope in the near future we get a few more of his caliber.

This panicked me so much lol! I'm used to us trying things like that, messing up and conceding from it. It was brilliant, but scary in equal measures!