This is the season...

[Ad@m]

Long term, Remi Garde may work (if he's given the time and he's good enough) and his record at Lyon is really impressive but it's the wrong man at the wrong time for me.

So who (available) would you have gone for?

What does 'available' even mean?  A club of our stature shouldn't just be fishing around for the unemployed and/or unemployable.  I'd have put a significant amount of effort in to getting Moyes - the club may have done so but we'll never know.

Failing that I'd have spoken to Rodgers.  Given the mess that our club appears to be behind the scenes I'd have even considered the likes of Alan Pardew or Mark Hughes.

As it is we've gone with yet another massive gamble.  If you keep gambling eventually you're going to lose.

[gpbarr]

Long term, Remi Garde may work (if he's given the time and he's good enough) and his record at Lyon is really impressive but it's the wrong man at the wrong time for me.

So who (available) would you have gone for?

What does 'available' even mean?  A club of our stature shouldn't just be fishing around for the unemployed and/or unemployable.  I'd have put a significant amount of effort in to getting Moyes - the club may have done so but we'll never know.

Failing that I'd have spoken to Rodgers.  Given the mess that our club appears to be behind the scenes I'd have even considered the likes of Alan Pardew or Mark Hughes.

As it is we've gone with yet another massive gamble.  If you keep gambling eventually you're going to lose.

Well said. But what is done is done. I am very nervous about this appointment too however its now time to cast that concern aside because there is no other choice now. If we do go down, I hope they will stick with him because else the appointment really will look a shocker.

[CT]

It's nailed on our season.

If Remi can turn this hopeless rabble around and keep us up, we should make statue of him.

[myf]

Long term, Remi Garde may work (if he's given the time and he's good enough) and his record at Lyon is really impressive but it's the wrong man at the wrong time for me.

So who (available) would you have gone for?

What does 'available' even mean?  A club of our stature shouldn't just be fishing around for the unemployed and/or unemployable.  I'd have put a significant amount of effort in to getting Moyes - the club may have done so but we'll never know.

Failing that I'd have spoken to Rodgers.  Given the mess that our club appears to be behind the scenes I'd have even considered the likes of Alan Pardew or Mark Hughes.

As it is we've gone with yet another massive gamble.  If you keep gambling eventually you're going to lose.

Why would Rodgers,  pardew or hughes consider us? We're too much of a risk for them. We're cut adrift at the bottom of the league if you havent noticed

[Ad@m]

Long term, Remi Garde may work (if he's given the time and he's good enough) and his record at Lyon is really impressive but it's the wrong man at the wrong time for me.

So who (available) would you have gone for?

What does 'available' even mean?  A club of our stature shouldn't just be fishing around for the unemployed and/or unemployable.  I'd have put a significant amount of effort in to getting Moyes - the club may have done so but we'll never know.

Failing that I'd have spoken to Rodgers.  Given the mess that our club appears to be behind the scenes I'd have even considered the likes of Alan Pardew or Mark Hughes.

As it is we've gone with yet another massive gamble.  If you keep gambling eventually you're going to lose.

Why would Rodgers,  pardew or hughes consider us? We're too much of a risk for them. We're cut adrift at the bottom of the league if you havent noticed

Behave.  Pardew joined Palace when they were in the relegation zone, Hughes is at Stoke, and Rodgers is out of a job.  I'd say all three would quite happily have taken the £2m a year salary (assuming we still pay the same as TSM got).

[ez]

I'm starting to wonder if we'll win another game this season. Even draws seem out of reach.

[Rudy65]

Long term, Remi Garde may work (if he's given the time and he's good enough) and his record at Lyon is really impressive but it's the wrong man at the wrong time for me.

So who (available) would you have gone for?

What does 'available' even mean?  A club of our stature shouldn't just be fishing around for the unemployed and/or unemployable.  I'd have put a significant amount of effort in to getting Moyes - the club may have done so but we'll never know.

Failing that I'd have spoken to Rodgers.  Given the mess that our club appears to be behind the scenes I'd have even considered the likes of Alan Pardew or Mark Hughes.

As it is we've gone with yet another massive gamble.  If you keep gambling eventually you're going to lose.

You are deluded. Why would Pardew or Hughes come to us when they a doing well at their respective clubs

[curiousorange]

In a perverse way, I'm starting to welcome it. There's no way chancers like Richardson would hang around in the Championship. Fuck it, let's see what an energised and confident Garde team will do.

[ez]

If Remi can save us from where we are now i'll believe in the second coming.

[curiousorange]

If we do stay up from this position, the football will improve too.

[VillaAlways]

If Remi can save us from where we are now i'll believe in the second coming.

This. I just think there is far too much to do for him and I'm really beginning to feel there's a rift in the team especially after KMAcs selection- loves the Villa my arse If he hasn't got his marching orders tomorrow I'll be pissed off.

[Ian.]

Well if it is I still have a feeling from now on we'll actually give it our best shot in staying up.

A bit of coaching, encouragement and players actually getting a chance to play and express themselves we certainly help.

If Garde can implement all that and try and stop the silly mistakes we at least might enjoy some of this season.

It's going to be tough and we might have to rely on results going our way but I'm still cnvinced we have some good players here.

[phantom limb]

I hope we don't go down, but we might have to in order to sort this mess out. Remi has got a hell of a job to do.

[SoccerHQ]

We need 10 wins from 27 games. When you factor in games we're certain to lose or not win it will probably be something like 10. wins from 18 games.

No chance with this squad, can't keep clean sheets or score many goals. Lerner needs to follow his hard hitting statement and back him in January as we need a new centre half and striker as a minimum.

[ciggiesnbeer]

There are no upsides to going down.

The result of relegation will not be getting rid of the over paid crap players and keeping the good ones. It will be the opposite and with less money to spend on transfers to try and fill the holes.