Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[Brian Taylor]

Garde Fou e/w Chepstow 1400  and get some return?

[dave.woodhall]

Doesn't sound to me like a dude who'd throw it in if we were relegated. Also, a theme of his is that the players must take playing seriously, which you'd think would be a given but it seems not to be. I suspect over time that those who stay in the first XI will have earned it through commitment and loyalty. Great.

Birmingham Mail:

Remi Garde has told Aston Villa's fringe players that turning out for the Under-21s is a treat, likening it to 'a sweet for a child'.

Libor Kozak and Adama Traore were involved in the development squad's 2-2 draw against Blackburn at Villa Park on Monday.

Garde says that footballers should want to play so much that Under-21 duty should be regarded as a perk, not a punishment.

"When you are a football player, even a reserve game is more like a sweet for a child, because it’s a game and you want to play every game," he explained.

"It’s not a punishment. I was at the game at Villa Park, my staff were also there and I will probably watch a lot of reserve games because it will give me a lot of information.

"It gives to players the fitness to be back in the first team because it’s quite different to a training session.

"Even if the reserve games are not the ones you can find in the Premier League. It’s 11 v 11 a big pitch, it’s an important training session for me and not at all a punishment."

Just meaningless Guff, not in a position to talk about first team performances so lets talk about the reserves.

Strange interpretation of the comments.

Oh yeh sorry, it is totally inspirational, i bet Southampton  are scared shitless with comments like "even a reserve game is like sweet for a child" not his fault but crikey

We haven't had a variation on "Oh yes everything's wonderful" as a reply for ages. Thank you.

Not what I said or meant, but you know that.

It's exactly what you said.

[Bad English]

It was 'Signing Off'.

It was indeed! :-)

[Toronto Villa]

Worth a read.

http://www.tsn.ca/to-keep-villa-up-garde-must-use-his-best-regardless-of-nationality-1.403881

Definitely. Cheers.

Kristian Jack is a football pundit on TSN which is the main sports network in Canada. They are owned by ESPN. Kristian Jack is a Villa fan even though he needs to be neutral on set. I remember when we won 3-2 at Goodison he was practically busting, as we all were. It's a good article, not perfect, but overall quite accurate.

[aev]

Worth a read.

http://www.tsn.ca/to-keep-villa-up-garde-must-use-his-best-regardless-of-nationality-1.403881

Definitely. Cheers.

Kristian Jack is a football pundit on TSN which is the main sports network in Canada. They are owned by ESPN. Kristian Jack is a Villa fan even though he needs to be neutral on set. I remember when we won 3-2 at Goodison he was practically busting, as we all were. It's a good article, not perfect, but overall quite accurate.

The Sam Wallace article mentioned is one of the most unbalanced pieces of rubbish I have read for a long time.

[TB]

Thanks TB for that extremely interesting information. I shall be seeing Damon's Norwegian mother in law over Christmas and it will be something we can talk about. If that flags I will take up the tack that swedes used to be called Swedish turnips and a variety of swede is the Mangol or Mangold which is of course a shortened form of Mangolworzel much used in the fens both as cattle food and missiles.

If more conversation is needed, the lady is very bookish and I shall ask if she has read Geoffrey Boycott's autobiography modestly titled Greatest Living Englishman in which he relates as a boy falling off the wash house roof and rupturing his spleen on the handle of his mother's mangle.

Viola as Del Boy would say.

Well, I really don't know how to respond to that... I wasn't out to lecture or educate, just wanted to convey my joy of discovering a word I didn't know existed in the English language.

AFAIK, the 'mangle' is closely related to the old war-machine mangonel, the origin an old Greek word meaning 'engine'. Not too sure how any any form of Beta vulgaris comes into it.

I won't bother you again.

[Dave]

Thanks TB for that extremely interesting information. I shall be seeing Damon's Norwegian mother in law over Christmas and it will be something we can talk about. If that flags I will take up the tack that swedes used to be called Swedish turnips and a variety of swede is the Mangol or Mangold which is of course a shortened form of Mangolworzel much used in the fens both as cattle food and missiles.

If more conversation is needed, the lady is very bookish and I shall ask if she has read Geoffrey Boycott's autobiography modestly titled Greatest Living Englishman in which he relates as a boy falling off the wash house roof and rupturing his spleen on the handle of his mother's mangle.

Viola as Del Boy would say.

Well, I really don't know how to respond to that... I wasn't out to lecture or educate, just wanted to convey my joy of discovering a word I didn't know existed in the English language.

AFAIK, the 'mangle' is closely related to the old war-machine mangonel, the origin an old Greek word meaning 'engine'. Not too sure how any any form of Beta vulgaris comes into it.

I won't bother you again.

I think you might have read Brian's response as being sarcastic, when I'm absolutely sure that it was anything but.

[Bad English]

What Dave said. No worries.

[ChicagoLion]

Doesn't sound to me like a dude who'd throw it in if we were relegated. Also, a theme of his is that the players must take playing seriously, which you'd think would be a given but it seems not to be. I suspect over time that those who stay in the first XI will have earned it through commitment and loyalty. Great.

Birmingham Mail:

Remi Garde has told Aston Villa's fringe players that turning out for the Under-21s is a treat, likening it to 'a sweet for a child'.

Libor Kozak and Adama Traore were involved in the development squad's 2-2 draw against Blackburn at Villa Park on Monday.

Garde says that footballers should want to play so much that Under-21 duty should be regarded as a perk, not a punishment.

"When you are a football player, even a reserve game is more like a sweet for a child, because it’s a game and you want to play every game," he explained.

"It’s not a punishment. I was at the game at Villa Park, my staff were also there and I will probably watch a lot of reserve games because it will give me a lot of information.

"It gives to players the fitness to be back in the first team because it’s quite different to a training session.

"Even if the reserve games are not the ones you can find in the Premier League. It’s 11 v 11 a big pitch, it’s an important training session for me and not at all a punishment."

Just meaningless Guff, not in a position to talk about first team performances so lets talk about the reserves.

Strange interpretation of the comments.

Oh yeh sorry, it is totally inspirational, i bet Southampton  are scared shitless with comments like "even a reserve game is like sweet for a child" not his fault but crikey
"Oh yes everythings wonderfull"

We haven't had a variation on "Oh yes everything's wonderful" as a reply for ages. Thank you.

Not what I said or meant, but you know that.

It's exactly what you said.

Fixed

[dave.woodhall]

Don't try to be clever.

[TB]

Thanks TB for that extremely interesting information. I shall be seeing Damon's Norwegian mother in law over Christmas and it will be something we can talk about. If that flags I will take up the tack that swedes used to be called Swedish turnips and a variety of swede is the Mangol or Mangold which is of course a shortened form of Mangolworzel much used in the fens both as cattle food and missiles.

If more conversation is needed, the lady is very bookish and I shall ask if she has read Geoffrey Boycott's autobiography modestly titled Greatest Living Englishman in which he relates as a boy falling off the wash house roof and rupturing his spleen on the handle of his mother's mangle.

Viola as Del Boy would say.

Well, I really don't know how to respond to that... I wasn't out to lecture or educate, just wanted to convey my joy of discovering a word I didn't know existed in the English language.

AFAIK, the 'mangle' is closely related to the old war-machine mangonel, the origin an old Greek word meaning 'engine'. Not too sure how any any form of Beta vulgaris comes into it.

I won't bother you again.

I think you might have read Brian's response as being sarcastic, when I'm absolutely sure that it was anything but.

Thank you. I do hope you are correct, as I really do like Brian's posts (in general, that is :-) ). No, I didn't read it as being sarcastic, I read it as being snide.

[PaulWinch again]

We are progressing. I think it's vital Okore players from now on.

[Ian.]

We are progressing. I think it's vital Okore players from now on.

I still want to see Richards at right back if Okore is playing centre, to me it's a complete no brainer.

[Dave]

Thanks TB for that extremely interesting information. I shall be seeing Damon's Norwegian mother in law over Christmas and it will be something we can talk about. If that flags I will take up the tack that swedes used to be called Swedish turnips and a variety of swede is the Mangol or Mangold which is of course a shortened form of Mangolworzel much used in the fens both as cattle food and missiles.

If more conversation is needed, the lady is very bookish and I shall ask if she has read Geoffrey Boycott's autobiography modestly titled Greatest Living Englishman in which he relates as a boy falling off the wash house roof and rupturing his spleen on the handle of his mother's mangle.

Viola as Del Boy would say.

Well, I really don't know how to respond to that... I wasn't out to lecture or educate, just wanted to convey my joy of discovering a word I didn't know existed in the English language.

AFAIK, the 'mangle' is closely related to the old war-machine mangonel, the origin an old Greek word meaning 'engine'. Not too sure how any any form of Beta vulgaris comes into it.

I won't bother you again.

I think you might have read Brian's response as being sarcastic, when I'm absolutely sure that it was anything but.

Thank you. I do hope you are correct, as I really do like Brian's posts (in general, that is :-) ). No, I didn't read it as being sarcastic, I read it as being snide.

Brian's a big fan of the whimsical anecdote, but I'm absolutely positive that he'd not look to be snide toward anybody. I'm absolutely sure he was just joining in your enthusiasm.

And as for not being out to "educate or lecture", I'd hate to think of people seeing that as a bad thing - I learn more stuff from this site than the rest of the Internet combined and there's no way I'd want newer/less frequent posters to think that they shouldn't contribute to that.

[ozzjim]

We are progressing. I think it's vital Okore players from now on.

I still want to see Richards at right back if Okore is playing centre, to me it's a complete no brainer.

Me too. Hutton can switch to left back (lets face it, of all the options, he at least gives his all) for a few weeks, Richards plays right and Lescott and Okore central.

I still think a lot of our problems come from the lack of protection in front of them too though, and Sanchez is just too inconsistent. We need someone like Petrov became sitting there, dictating the play but also reading the danger. Who, how, what though, I am not sure.