Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[SoccerHQ]

Not sure where he's getting the unlucky line from unless he's been watching the Leicester game on play back 100 times.

West Brom- deserved defeat.
Liverpool- deserved defeat.
Stoke- Probably should've been a draw but we had one shot on target.
Chelsea- Not too bad but this is the worst Chelsea team in ages.
Swansea- Draw again.

So really since August I can't think of a game bar Leicester we should've won. Hopefully he's a lot more forceful on the players behind closed days as we don't want them bleating the unlucky mantra. They need to be told this is nowhere near good enough for a club of our standing.

[Hopadop]

Once again and finally we've got a manager (slightly) older than me. Welcome mon vieux.

[Hookeysmith]

I like him already.
He is not a dour Scot
He is not an arrogant Cockney Barrow boy.

Given time I think this could be an astute move

[Toronto Villa]

He spoke more sense in that 3 minute YouTube clip than Sherwood did in the last 6 weeks. He's going to be such a welcome change.

[myf]

Looked very cool and considered.  Reassuring.

[Pat McMahon]

It's interesting that he's watched most of our games this season.

So me and Remi have loads in common. Suave sophisticated intelligent blokes who have been watching the Villa all season!

He's bilingual like you as well Aftab.

[Villa in Denmark]

He spoke more sense in that 3 minute YouTube clip than Sherwood did in the last 6 weeks. He's going to be such a welcome change.

I think it's exactly that, that's going to give him a chance of bringing the squad together  and giving us a chance.

Looking back on what's happened since Leicester, before which we'd been OKish without looking great I think Sherwood lost half of the dressing room that night.

My (purely uneducated) guess is that he went in and started tearing a strip off the team for losing a game that they should have won. When 1 or 2 of the more tactically astute players (the imports) point out that he's talking out of his arse and that it was his substitutions that dropped them in it, toys got thrown out of the pram.

Sherwood's means of dealing with this insubordination is to pretty much ostracise the whole group and the dirty war starts, including the French speakers forming their own clique as they're pretty much herded together, along with the whole "I didn't sign them, nothing to do with me gov." defence.

[OCD]

He spoke more sense in that 3 minute YouTube clip than Sherwood did in the last 6 weeks. He's going to be such a welcome change.

I think it's exactly that, that's going to give him a chance of bringing the squad together  and giving us a chance.

Looking back on what's happened since Leicester, before which we'd been OKish without looking great I think Sherwood lost half of the dressing room that night.

My (purely uneducated) guess is that he went in and started tearing a strip off the team for losing a game that they should have won. When 1 or 2 of the more tactically astute players (the imports) point out that he's talking out of his arse and that it was his substitutions that dropped them in it, toys got thrown out of the pram.

Sherwood's means of dealing with this insubordination is to pretty much ostracise the whole group and the dirty war starts, including the French speakers forming their own clique as they're pretty much herded together, along with the whole "I didn't sign them, nothing to do with me gov." defence.

The fact that Sherwood never once publicly took his share of the blame for any mistakes would presumably have lost him respect from the players.

Obviously his comments where he suggested the signings wouldn't have been his choice wouldn't have helped unite the dressing room.

[Walmley_Villa]

Yep, have to agree, comes over as a thinker and very professional. Just what we need. Hope that,we the fans back him and keep patient. That is key.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I loved it when he said that the English-speaking players will need to make an effort by speaking slowly. See, it works both ways Micah you negative twat!

Yup. As I mentioned earlier, he gets the language issue. One of the first things I learned over here was "Fale mais devagar, caralho" which roughly translates as "Speak slower, fuckface".

[chrisw1]

What a load of tripe.  More speculation there than the worst red tops

Edit re the post Leicester dressing room post

[passport1]

What a load of tripe.  More speculation there than the worst red tops

Edit re the post Leicester dressing room post

Well it is an internet fan forum.What did you expect?

[Villa in Denmark]

What a load of tripe.  More speculation there than the worst red tops

Edit re the post Leicester dressing room post

Thanks for your considered and constructive input.

There was a reason why it was prefaced with  (purely uneducated) guess.

If you'd like to offer a counter explanation as to a possible course of events where we went from doing sort of OK to a split dressing room, which Richards has as good as admitted is the case, with Leicester as the obvious fulcrum point, then feel free.

[themossman]

That was tim's inexperience writ large. He thought he was being 'different' and 'calling a spade a spade' and all that bollocks, but there's a reason the best managers take all the pelters when their teams get done over and keep their dirty laundry under wraps.

[Villa in Denmark]

That was tim's inexperience writ large. He thought he was being 'different' and 'calling a spade a spade' and all that bollocks, but there's a reason the best managers take all the pelters when their teams get done over and keep their dirty laundry under wraps.

Even Lambert, McLeish and Houllier managed that.