Quote from: Toronto Villa on November 03, 2015, 01:26:18 AMQuote from: CT Villan on November 03, 2015, 01:20:01 AMMaybe 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.
Quote from: CT Villan on November 03, 2015, 01:20:01 AMMaybe 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.
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).
I wonder if he's waking up this morning thinking "oh fuck, what have I done"?
I was comparing the reaction of Sherwood in the stands, Sherwood jumping round like a lunatic punching the air whereas Garde sat there calm, measured and appeared to be taking everything in.I am hopeful that we have a really intelligent manager on our hands.
Quote from: VillaAlways on November 03, 2015, 07:54:00 AMI was comparing the reaction of Sherwood in the stands, Sherwood jumping round like a lunatic punching the air whereas Garde sat there calm, measured and appeared to be taking everything in.I am hopeful that we have a really intelligent manager on our hands.He looked scared shitless, a rabbit in the headlights comes to mindHis facial expression looked like he was in the dock and had been sent down for life
I agree with Brian. Sunday is like a free pass - if he gets a half decent performance out of us (by paradoxically having us play decently for both halves), he'll get as long a honeymoon period from the fans as he needs.
In actual fact Remi Garde is personally in an excellent position. As my son posted yesterday there is only a modest amount of improvement needed to yield concrete benefits. In addition he is in no way to blame for the state we find ourselves in. If we go down it will be the mass of points thrown away in August, September and October. Perversely McDonald did him a big favour by showing the extent of the dressing room division and being French he can address that malaise instantly. I could not imagine an incoming Fat Sam or Tony Pulis building any kind of bridge with the new players.If we are to survive we must get the best out of Gana, Vertout, Amavi, Ayew, Gestede, Ilori, Traore and resurrect the careers of (whisper it) N'Zogbia, Kozak, GG, Baker, Bennett and all the binned off players.Fan expectations are zero. Remi Garde can only improve his reputation with us.