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Hello, welcome back to 1874.

I am your host, Dan Bardell.

It's time for a full-time show, Aston Villa 2, Brighton 2, a very, very frustrating evening at Villa Park.

I felt apologies, I'm not very well.

I'm on my own because it's New Year's Eve and everyone is doing other things,

which is absolutely fine.

But I will say quickly, thank you to Luke Roper, for continuing to sponsor us.

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then use the code TV v20 and you'll get 20% off everything that they have on sale. Right. Yeah. I don't even know

where to start really. It felt like it was a good going for the neutral. I think a lot of stuff

happened in that game. There's quite a lot to unpack and I will try and unpack it as best as I

can on my own. As I'm keen to get shows out still over and not be available to do it with me, but just wanted to come on and give some

of my thoughts on last night.

And I think frustration is the word of the day, really.

To get off to a bad start in a game again after what happened in the Newcastle game

in terms of conceding early, I think I saw that's 11 times now this season that an opponent has scored with their

first shot on target against Vitterin.

The teams are scoring with their first attack now against us.

I think it's clear that we've got problems defensively.

I think we were never solid and, you know, we didn't keep many clean sheets last season,

but we'd score more goals and we just felt a little bit more

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