Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[adrenachrome]

Speaking of Pat Nevin, I recall that he had a connection with local musicians "We've Got A Fuzzbock and We Are Going to Use It", "The Nightingales" and singing anti-comedian Ted Chippington, featuring on their single "Rocking With Rita" on Vindaloo Records. I think he had a relationship with one of the fuzz boxers.

[Monty]

All of this 'no Premier League experience' guff is really annoying me. Even if we allow that it means anything, Remi has experience of playing in England for three years! And that was back when the English league was an awful lot more different to European leagues than it is now.

Put it this way: if an English manager had played at Roma for three years, and then wanted to manage Fiorentina, would idiots like Merson be saying he has no experience of Italian football? Merson who, by the way, said that Remi had plain never 'worked' in England before, when he'd actually worked with Merson for a year at Arsenal.

Berks, the lot of 'em.

[LeeB]

All of this 'no Premier League experience' guff is really annoying me. Even if we allow that it means anything, Remi has experience of playing in England for three years! And that was back when the English league was an awful lot more different to European leagues than it is now.

Put it this way: if an English manager had played at Roma for three years, and then wanted to manage Fiorentina, would idiots like Merson be saying he has no experience of Italian football? Merson who, by the way, said that Remi had plain never 'worked' in England before, when he'd actually worked with Merson for a year at Arsenal.

Berks, the lot of 'em.

You know you're on the right track when these dickheads disapprove.

[Duncan Shaw]

And they won them.

Anyway, Garde seems to have won the local media over very quickly.

Looking forward to seeing what he puts out on Sunday, some twitter talk that Richards has been at right back in training

The obvious choice...

It is the obvious choice, but I suspect it might lead to Ricahrds throwing his toys out of the pram, as he and Dim Tim were very vocal about him coming here to play at CH in the summer.

[PaulWinch again]

Well if the team needs him at right back then he plays right back. If you're good in two positions you can't kick off if you're asked to play in one of them.

[john e]

Okore is just as mistake prone as any of the others probably more so in fact,
Like the other CB's he does a lot of things well but is always good for a fuck up at any time

Clark is a better player imo

[Monty]

I don't particularly rate him at centre back, to be honest, but I can't quite see why he'd go back to the right, as a) all our other centre backs seem to be either rubbish or made of delicate Chinese porcelain, and b) Hutton's actually been one of our better players. Unless Ilori is going to come in and shock everyone with a performance of genius.

[Clampy]

I like Okore but I'm not sure if he's suited to this league. He'd be better over in Spain or Italy I reckon but it has been a bit stop start for him in fairness.

[Tayls_7]

All of this 'no Premier League experience' guff is really annoying me. Even if we allow that it means anything, Remi has experience of playing in England for three years! And that was back when the English league was an awful lot more different to European leagues than it is now.

Put it this way: if an English manager had played at Roma for three years, and then wanted to manage Fiorentina, would idiots like Merson be saying he has no experience of Italian football? Merson who, by the way, said that Remi had plain never 'worked' in England before, when he'd actually worked with Merson for a year at Arsenal.

Berks, the lot of 'em.

Idiots like Merson? You mean there's more! God in heaven.

[brian green]

One of my sons, I can't recall which one, produced that programme with Merson sitting on a purple sofa in the centre circle at VP. He was not averse to using the club of which he is now so critical to help launch his media career.

[Damo70]

One of my sons, I can't recall which one, produced that programme with Merson sitting on a purple sofa in the centre circle at VP. He was not averse to using the club of which he is now so critical to help launch his media career.

They should have left the sofa in the centre circle for Westwood to sit on for ninety minutes of every home game.

I've read the transcripts of our new manager's press conference and I was impressed. I have allowed myself to become cautiously optimistic.

[PaulWinch again]

I think Okore hasn't been able to fully learn his game due to injuries. If he gets a run of games I think he'd learn to cut out the mistakes. He's potentially a very good player.

[Tayls_7]

One of my sons, I can't recall which one, produced that programme with Merson sitting on a purple sofa in the centre circle at VP. He was not averse to using the club of which he is now so critical to help launch his media career.

They should have left the sofa in the centre circle for Westwood to sit on for ninety minutes of every home game.

I've read the transcripts of our new manager's press conference and I was impressed. I have allowed myself to become cautiously optimistic.

There was talk of Westwood playing with concussion. Would that help or is that bad?
Cautiously optimistic. I love that phrase. It's almost meaningless and effectively covers my entire following of Villa.

[passitsideways]

He also has the "won't shit himself with the ball at his feet" thing going for him.

[Damo70]

One of my sons, I can't recall which one, produced that programme with Merson sitting on a purple sofa in the centre circle at VP. He was not averse to using the club of which he is now so critical to help launch his media career.

They should have left the sofa in the centre circle for Westwood to sit on for ninety minutes of every home game.

I've read the transcripts of our new manager's press conference and I was impressed. I have allowed myself to become cautiously optimistic.

There was talk of Westwood playing with concussion. Would that help or is that bad?
Cautiously optimistic. I love that phrase. It's almost meaningless and effectively covers my entire following of Villa.

I was borderline suicidal so to reach the giddy heights of cautiously optimistic* without the help of alcohol or happy pills is quite an achievement.

*This state of mind does not include tomorrows game.