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@PendleFox_ @geedeeaitch Why then play our key players (Rogers & Tielemens) from start as well as our only right-back. Rogers has started nearly every game. It makes little sense if the main thought was to rest players we ate most reliant on for Thursday.

@cds4324 @geedeeaitch Well Emery is smart enough to understand that won’t happen. It’s a small risk but exhausting your players is a big risk.

There is some silly naivety going around. As if Aston Villa care about relegating Spurs when they are safely in the Champions League and have a Europa League semi final approaching. Any team would rest their best players #AVLTOT

@PendleFox_ @geedeeaitch It could happen. As a Villa fan I really wanted a win tonight. We play Liverpool and City in our last 2 games. Bournemouth or Brentford or Brighton could still pip us. We missed out on goal difference last year which could also happen again.

@geedeeaitch Yes you are. Bournemouth are not making up a 6 point deficit with 3 to play, nor are Brentford making up a 7 point one.

@J_Tanswell I had to miss most of game but almost sounds like we weren’t bothered? Why? That was a massive game. We desperately need CL.

The usual animated touchline - Emery kicking every ball, subs warming up - have seen them all turn into statues. Subs not moving, hands on hips, Emery with hands in pockets. #AVFC

@J_Tanswell I think we can’t afford to rest anyone. We need CL first & foremost and a win today would virtually guarantee it. Then a bit of pressure is off for Thurs but we’ll still be highly motivated as desperate for a trophy. Not to mention everyone bar Spurs fans will be wanting Villa.

This sandwiches a huge Europa League second leg, but it's a credit that a league game in early May will not determine #AVFC's season & Emery can make changes if he wishes. But a win here would push Villa on the precipice of CL, higher up the table & set up Thursday’s massive game

@J_Tanswell @SportSJA Congrats - well done Jacob for this and your Villa coverage.

Honoured to have received the award for story/scoop of the year from @SportSJA. Surprised but very grateful! #SJA2025 Thank you

@toadmeister @CMorrisonEsq How come they are not being challenged on this? What are their defences to these claims (if any)?

Two years on from the Daily Sceptic's 'junk station' scoop, the Met Office is still leaning on dodgy, heat-skewed readings from badly placed sites – and, if anything, it's getting worse, says our Environment Editor. dailysceptic.org/2026/04/27/tim…

@J_Tanswell Buendia and Torres are both struggling out there and giving ball away.

#AVFC have won 12 games this season by a one goal margin. Especially away from home, Emery is happy to keep things tight and wait for the game to develop in the second half. You'd like to think, and have planned, to step things up second half. No changes.

@johntownley11 Rogers can look awful when he gives ball away so cheaply in those areas. And why aren’t we shooting more - it’s a skiddy top! Need more efforts from around edge of box or just outside. We’re overpassing at times.

HT: It's level at the break after Neco Williams restored parity for Forest following Murillo's own goal. Ollie Watkins was denied by Matz Sels shortly after Villa's opener, while Morgan Rogers struck the bar just before the hosts equalised. Nottingham Forest 1-1 #AVFC

@J_Tanswell Hope you made it back ok, Jacob.

Going to try and get to Zurich by tonight. Thanks all

All flights cancelled out of Bologna to UK… obviously need to be home ASAP. Any ideas!

@J_Tanswell I can’t remember them hitting the post but you’d expect a top-class keeper to make the Martinez save and the Rowe goal as mentioned before was partly “set up” by Bailey. Had one of the much more tired players (eg McGinn) stayed on they may well have stopped the Rowe goal.

@cds4324 Perhaps. Then Bologna hit the post, Martinez saved fantastically and Rowe cut inside again and scored.

FT: Bologna 1-3 #AVFC A huge third goal. Big win for Villa away from home. Very much second best and were not comfortable at any point, yet found a way to score three goals. Quite astonishing and funny. Villa and Emery won't mind - it's the result that matters and it's a big one

@danbardell Agree. He seemed to have renewed pace and acceleration tonight. Could be a massive asset in that form over the remaining games. (Bailey meanwhile…just play kids/anyone over him now surely.)

Superb result. Mature second half. Dynamite from Watkins. #AVFC

@natsiobhan_ Yes, he was superb tonight. Lead the line brilliantly aside from his goals.

watkins motm without a doubt

@the_parrots @AVFCOfficial He was excellent. Looked strong and like the old pace/acceleration was back. A livewire and deserved his goals. He made the corner for his second goal.

@AVFCOfficial Much more like himself tonight 💪🏻

HIM.

@PounderJane1 @CDP1882 Both were pretty bad to be fair.

@CDP1882 We all blame the government snd the one before. We are a laughing stock.

Too many people risk unnecessarily talking down the armed forces in their attacks on the government. HMS Dragon is in port fixing a fault, but that's not the sailors' fault, who made miracles rushing the ship out to sea. The blame for poor preparedness lies with ministers.

@JohnRConstable @CarolineLucas @BBCr4today @Nigel_Farage @CharlesTannock WWWWWHHHAAATT!!! How about when @CharlesHMoore had to call out the imbalance of the panel before the first question was even asked? He was the only pro-Brexit person on the panel. All their coverage was biased and pro-EU.

@CarolineLucas @BBCr4today In the pre-Brexit years, the BBC never once managed to get a pro-EU representative on its popular Question Time programme yet @Nigel_Farage et al were staples of the show. So, the BBC has a bad history here. @CharlesTannock

Did @BBCr4today really just do a whole package about drilling in the N Sea without once even mentioning #climate change? And not having anyone challenging the one-sided claims of former BP boss? So irresponsible #bbcr4today

@JulesBywaterLee @JMcG90287475 @toadmeister @metoffice That sounds inconsistent with reports I’ve read where many stations are in the “junk” rating (there is a scale and many are towards the bottom). Surely no excuse for so many readings now in built-up areas (even airfields!) where readings will be skewed towards higher temps.

@cds4324 @JMcG90287475 @toadmeister @metoffice weather stations do not produce junk data- stations are tested, data is clear so called perfect weather stations are impossible in the UK because we are mid latitude - what stations produce is a record

Chris Morrison uncovers yet another Met Office scandal: a Scottish weather station still providing "temperature data" a full six decades after it closed. When will the Met Office admit it is making it up as it goes along? dailysceptic.org/2026/04/01/the…

@brianmoore666 @stephenjones9 Maybe just a tad unhinged when it came to England!

To @stephenjones9 - good luck in your retirement my friend. You've been an outstanding writer and leave a similar legacy.

@swspurs @brianmoore666 @stephenjones9 And Marcus Smith

@brianmoore666 @stephenjones9 Got a bee in his bonnet about certain players but very passionate. Hated Stephen Larkham for some odd reason.

@JulesBywaterLee @JMcG90287475 @toadmeister @metoffice But what about all the other sites of junk standard taking temperature readings? No amount of interpolation covers up for junk data which produces junk outputs from models.

@cds4324 @JMcG90287475 @toadmeister @metoffice historic sites that are closed because of building work or unsuitability are retained as virtual sites using interpolation - and they have * to indicate they are estimates interpolation is a sound way to estimate data- it is used for everything from oil reserves to metal testing