Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[walsall villain]

Why can't they spell his name right?

that's really horrible

That's simply ridiculous.

"Alright marketing team - ready for the big announcement? Get all the fans involved on social media to welcome the new manager? Everything been checked?"

*sigh*

and now has been picked up in the media - Independent running a story. It's such a stupid, stupid distraction. Did they not have enough time with this?

Minor social media fail. Not even a storm in a teacup.

It was unneccessary, though, and you can bet it'll be picked up all over the place.

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Daily Mail have wasted no time

[Toronto Villa]

Why can't they spell his name right?

that's really horrible

That's simply ridiculous.

"Alright marketing team - ready for the big announcement? Get all the fans involved on social media to welcome the new manager? Everything been checked?"

*sigh*

and now has been picked up in the media - Independent running a story. It's such a stupid, stupid distraction. Did they not have enough time with this?

Minor social media fail. Not even a storm in a teacup.

like I said it is a stupid distraction and completely avoidable. In the grand scheme of everything else we have going on it's not a big deal but it's massively amateurish that on the ONE day they need to get that message right, it is wrong. I don't know if Villa have an in house social media team or if it is outsourced, but either way they had plenty of time to create and proof the message. And it will be picked up by lots of places. The last thing we need as a club is to give others another chance to have a laugh at our expense. As if sitting bottom of the table wasn't enough.

[damon loves JT]

Maybe I'm missing something and it's a big deal.

[QuintonVilla]

Good luck mate, you'll need it.

[TopDeck113]

That's what comes from having too many cognacs at lunchtime.  The brand name gets imprinted on your mind.

[curlytailavfc]

Welcome to the machine

[Villan For Life]

Welcome to the Villa, Remi. Please make us proud.

[Jimbo]

When your organisation is fast gaining a reputation for incompetence, it's a good idea not to help confirm it. Damon's right, on its own a social media misspelling is insignificant, but when almost everything you do is shambolic it gets picked up by the circling vultures.

Still, nobody will worry about it after we've put five past Spurs tonight. Any game that finishes 6-5 will grab all the headlines.

[CJ]

Love that Fiver take a few pages back - especially the bit about how Sherwood used to pick his teams - '... seemed to construct his team line-ups like David Bowie used to write lyrics, writing words down, cutting them up then arranging them in a random order.' Pity his buddies in the media didn't (and largely still don't) recognise his failings, otherwise he may have come under more scrutiny and we'd have got rid earlier. Tall order for Garde to get us out of the mess but I've got more hope than I had a couple of weeks ago

[Dave]

Maybe I'm missing something and it's a big deal.

It's not a big deal at all.

It's just that it's one of those things that (however insignificant it is), is easier to get right than to get wrong so it's a bit annoying that they didn't just do it right.

The fact that Steve McClaren happened to be holding an umbrella while watching England lose didn't really matter either, but it's pretty easy to turn irrelevancies into part of the story.

[JUAN PABLO]

  oopps

[JUAN PABLO]

good to hear a french football expert telling durham what a twat he is basically on talk sport.

[garyshawsknee]

  oopps

Really ?  Which expert ?  Durham is a tool so probably deserved it.

[TopDeck113]

The fact that Steve McClaren happened to be holding an umbrella while watching England lose didn't really matter either, but it's pretty easy to turn irrelevancies into part of the story.

And add to that the fact that now no self-respecting manager will take sensible precautions in a damp climate like England's for fear of ridicule. Annoys the hell out of me when I see yet another Armani suit ruined for want of a brolly or a Pac-a-mac.

[dave.woodhall]

Maybe I'm missing something and it's a big deal.

It's not a big deal to us but you know better than any of us how the smug media twats will seize on it. "Hur Hur thick Brummies can't spell their new manager's name can't get anything right no wonder they're going down"