Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[Pat McMahon]

Well Remi you can already see that Ayew needs to start.

He at least showed some energy but needs to learn to pass

[curiousorange]

We are possibly the worst side in history when it comes to throw-ins. I get nervous when we have them next to the opponents' corner flag.

[Villa in Denmark]

With KMac leaving all the new signings out, he's done his best to create a divide in the dressing room (if there wasn't one already). Garde's first job is probably going to be to unite the dressing room. Then as Neville and Carragher showed, he's got to organise the defence.

He's got to organise the whole team into not giving away goals at crucial times, which we've all done at many levels....and this is something that has bothered me massively about us for years - we're so naïve in most key areas of the pitch.
I lost count of the number of times tonight (listening on the wireless) when we had a corner, throw in or free kick and then Motson or the other bloke just said "and it's Walker/Dembele/Eriksson coming away with the ball".
WTF happened between us having it and them getting it?
But I see it every game and it does my head in.
Stoke made an art form of throw ins...I wish for the fu*king love of Christ that we did!!!
Every set piece we have seems to be a signal for the opposition to just collect the ball and start an attack!
Remi will change this.
In Remi we trust!


Up Le Villa!

A particularly brutal art form. Sort of like using an arc welder to light a cigarette. Undoubtedly effective, but unnecessarily violent and not too pleasant to watch if you're remotely squeamish.

[Pat McMahon]

Do we know which coaches have joined him yet?

Nope.....Reggie Ray is his assistant.

Ronnie is coming to sort the defence out.

Petrocelli couldn't sort out our defence.

I wonder who else remembers that?

Me. He couldn't finish his house so no chance of rebuilding our defence.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

With KMac leaving all the new signings out, he's done his best to create a divide in the dressing room (if there wasn't one already). Garde's first job is probably going to be to unite the dressing room. Then as Neville and Carragher showed, he's got to organise the defence.

He's got to organise the whole team into not giving away goals at crucial times, which we've all done at many levels....and this is something that has bothered me massively about us for years - we're so naïve in most key areas of the pitch.
I lost count of the number of times tonight (listening on the wireless) when we had a corner, throw in or free kick and then Motson or the other bloke just said "and it's Walker/Dembele/Eriksson coming away with the ball".
WTF happened between us having it and them getting it?
But I see it every game and it does my head in.
Stoke made an art form of throw ins...I wish for the fu*king love of Christ that we did!!!
Every set piece we have seems to be a signal for the opposition to just collect the ball and start an attack!
Remi will change this.
In Remi we trust!


Up Le Villa!

A particularly brutal art form. Sort of like using an arc welder to light a cigarette. Undoubtedly effective, but unnecessarily violent and not too pleasant to watch if you're remotely squeamish.

You need to make the most of what you've got.
Stoke - and many other teams, including The Villa, did.
And so do so many other teams with set-pieces etc.
Over the last few seasons we don't seem to pose a threat from anything!

I couldn't care less, as long as it led to us scoring a goal every now and again when we had the ball in promising situations!
We all cheer when we win a corner but 95% of them are just a pass to the opposition.

What's the French for "arc-welder"?
;-)

[Villa in Denmark]

Do we know which coaches have joined him yet?

Nope.....Reggie Ray is his assistant.

Ronnie is coming to sort the defence out.

Petrocelli couldn't sort out our defence.

I wonder who else remembers that?

Me. He couldn't finish his house so no chance of rebuilding our defence.

I can remember it, but having just checked when it was first shown, I must have caught reruns a few years later.

[Pat McMahon]

Nique leurs mères !

En short, devant Monoprix....

[CT Villan]

Maybe I'm being overly optimistic, or perhaps naive...but I think if Garde is anything close to decent we will survive - it's only 4 points to safety. Not like we're adrift, 10 points away from 17th with 3 games to go (yet).

[Toronto Villa]

Maybe I'm being overly optimistic, or perhaps naive...but I think if Garde is anything close to decent we will survive - it's only 4 points to safety. Not like we're adrift, 10 points away from 17th with 3 games to go (yet).

Correct. You'd think by some of the statements we were miles off everyone else. It's not like Norwich, Bournemouth, Sunderland, Newcastle to name 4 are all going to win out. They will all drop points too, and none of those sides are playing that well. It's not going to be easy and winning just one game would be a start, but there is nothing impossible about the task. We just have to get that win soon, or at least a point so we can create a foundation to build from.

[mr underhill]

if this geezer keeps us afloat this season he's in for manager of the century. Go Remi!

[aev]

We are possibly the worst side in history when it comes to throw-ins. I get nervous when we have them next to the opponents' corner flag.

Our players generally don't ever look for space.

[Dante Lavelli]

Maybe the #Remy thing was a clue to his first signing in January.
Apparently Remi coached Remy in France so they do know each other.

[Chris Smith]

Maybe I'm being overly optimistic, or perhaps naive...but I think if Garde is anything close to decent we will survive - it's only 4 points to safety. Not like we're adrift, 10 points away from 17th with 3 games to go (yet).

Correct. You'd think by some of the statements we were miles off everyone else. It's not like Norwich, Bournemouth, Sunderland, Newcastle to name 4 are all going to win out. They will all drop points too, and none of those sides are playing that well. It's not going to be easy and winning just one game would be a start, but there is nothing impossible about the task. We just have to get that win soon, or at least a point so we can create a foundation to build from.

He is going to need to quickly identify the problems and find a way to address them otherwise the gap will start to stretch. We have fundamental problems in that we regularly concede soft goals, create too few chances ourselves and appear to have few obvious goal scorers in the squad. Of course it not impossible but there is very little leeway.

[SamTheMouse]

We are shit.

Rémi, please make us not shit.

[Jon Crofts]

Hope he's brought some sort of huge turd polishing equipment with him.