Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[DaveD]

We aren't down and I hope Garde is given the money to add some quality, as it will make a huge difference.

The right sort of quality, yes. The likes of Cashley or Adebayor, no.

But we are down. Eight points and one win in half a season. We are not suddenly going to hit Champions League form and win half our games in the second half.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

We aren't down and I hope Garde is given the money to add some quality, as it will make a huge difference.

The right sort of quality, yes. The likes of Cashley or Adebayor, no.

But we are down. Eight points and one win in half a season. We are not suddenly going to hit Champions League form and win half our games in the second half.

have to agree

what type of players do people think we are going to attract?

42 points from 52 games and all of a sudden we are going to win ten from twenty based on a draw with a shit newcastle side and a point against west ham who have half their team out injured. i think a few people have had too much eggnog.

[brian green]

If we could put away the chances we create these days, survival would be entirely possible.  With a Gary Shaw, a Yorke, JPA or a Deano we would have got five goals today and four against Watford.  We are stuck in the cross fire of missed chances and conceding soft goals.

[sickbeggar]

If we could put away the chances we create these days, survival would be entirely possible.  With a Gary Shaw, a Yorke, JPA or a Deano we would have got five goals today and four against Watford.  We are stuck in the cross fire of missed chances and conceding soft goals.

yep we need a striker. A good one. Get Remy on loan. A least one end of the pitch would be sorted

[Toronto Villa]

I wonder with Chelsea doing so poorly if they would allow Remy to join a fellow relegation threatened side?

[sickbeggar]

I wonder with Chelsea doing so poorly if they would allow Remy to join a fellow relegation threatened side?

well i don''t think they think they will go down. I certainly don't. And i have a feeling they will bring out the big bucks in Jan. Plus if they did think they were in danger, its not going to be us they fear. Remy scoring against the teams above us would suit them

[Villafirst]

Sorry, but Garde isn't right for a relegation scrap. Way too cautious and not positive - Adama being a case in point. Pearson would've been better suited to this situation. Once again the decision makers at the club have got it wrong on the managerial front, which is par for the course; useless the lot of them.

[ozzjim]

Pearson who was in an almost identical situation last season?  We should have win today short of the timing of the injury to Sanchez and poor finishing from Gestede. We made enough chances to win the game. To lament  Garde for making us much more organised and looking like they are a united group and actually fighting the situation is just bonkers. Sure we need to win games but long term I would sooner have Garde than Pearson.

[KevinGage]

A Garde-style appointment would have been ideal after GH. Our stock was still relatively high, and you could give a manager like that two to three seasons to build and really make his mark on the club. The calibre of players open to us would have been better then, too.

Ironically, a McLeish, style appointment (ie, Allardyce or Pulis) was what we needed now. What we have, we hold. Dull, unimaginative, but capable of grinding out the required 9-10 wins over the course of a season.

Back to front thinking from a backward board.

[rob_bridge]

Pearson who was in an almost identical situation last season?  We should have win today short of the timing of the injury to Sanchez and poor finishing from Gestede. We made enough chances to win the game. To lament  Garde for making us much more organised and looking like they are a united group and actually fighting the situation is just bonkers. Sure we need to win games but long term I would sooner have Garde than Pearson.

Agree - plus a combustible nutter like Pearon immediately after Sherwood would be shooting ourselves in both hands - the feet long since having been blown off

[Lastfootstamper]

Width wasn't the issue. We slung in over 30 crosses and created three chances that Gestede should have burried.

True. We look much more solid when we're narrower, more compact, telling today once we lost Sanchez, and I don't think we have a natural wide man available. Gil and Grealish lack the pace to suggest they're gonna outstrip a full-back, too much turn and look inside, and I've seen nowt from Traore to suggest he's got a cross on him.

[dave.woodhall]

Pearson who was in an almost identical situation last season?  We should have win today short of the timing of the injury to Sanchez and poor finishing from Gestede. We made enough chances to win the game. To lament  Garde for making us much more organised and looking like they are a united group and actually fighting the situation is just bonkers. Sure we need to win games but long term I would sooner have Garde than Pearson.

Agree - plus a combustible nutter like Pearon immediately after Sherwood would be shooting ourselves in both hands - the feet long since having been blown off

Was it you I said Garde was four years too late to?

[damon loves JT]

Well, we have to deal with the situation as it is, rather than a hypothetical one. We have had season after season of short term fixes, and here we are.

[joe_c]

What a sad, sad day for all Aston Villa supporters. On 7 points on the 26th of December. We are all sick to death of this crap. Half a decade of relegation scraps. Three seasons in five of not even reaching 40 points.

We have had Houllier, McLeish, Lambert, Sherwood and Garde. We have had different squads of players. We tried young and  hungry, we tried old and experienced and now young, slightly more talented but not quite as hard working. No matter what we do we still stink.

We have something rotten at the club and it has spread throughout the whole place. Blaming the manager is pointless, the problem is much, much deeper. There has been no plan, there has been shocking recruitment and there has been absolutely zero ambition. Since we lost to Fulham in December 2013 it has been clear to me that scraping to 17th is all its about anymore. This is where Randy Lerner's 'custodianship' has brought us and inevitably it is looking as though it is going to bite us on the arse this year.

He has made an absolute balls of it and it is the fans who are left suffering most while everybody else earns a good living out of the mess.

How pissed off were you when we equalised as soon as you pressed the submit button?

[dave.woodhall]

Well, we have to deal with the situation as it is, rather than a hypothetical one. We have had season after season of short term fixes, and here we are.

And therein lies the problem . Five years of not thinking ahead, then when we did think ahead, we didn't notice what was under our nose.