Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[olaftab]

I see Remi has a bit of Wenger in him as he didn't see the Gestede hart throw in incident!

[Matt Collins]

I'd feel better if two of the three teams within reach weren't Chelsea and Newcastle. Watford for example are 11 points ahead of us. Even Norwich are 7. I'd fancy one of them to go on a stinker of a run at some point - hopefully it's norwich. Pick up a surprise win at Goodson or beat Watford and I'll start to believe a bit more. the Watford game is going to me massive

[PeterWithesShin]

We now have a 26 game season were we need to get 5 more points than 3 other teams. We don't need to turn into Barcelona, just a solid PL side.

[OCD]

I'd feel better if two of the three teams within reach weren't Chelsea and Newcastle. Watford for example are 11 points ahead of us. Even Norwich are 7. I'd fancy one of them to go on a stinker of a run at some point - hopefully it's norwich. Pick up a surprise win at Goodson or beat Watford and I'll start to believe a bit more. the Watford game is going to me massive

You're right, we should just accept that we'll be down come the end of the season.

[olaftab]

I'd feel better if two of the three teams within reach weren't Chelsea and Newcastle. Watford for example are 11 points ahead of us. Even Norwich are 7. I'd fancy one of them to go on a stinker of a run at some point - hopefully it's norwich. Pick up a surprise win at Goodson or beat Watford and I'll start to believe a bit more. the Watford game is going to me massive

Other teams, other than Chelsea, will come down towards bottom 3. I expect both Watford and Norwich to have  many runs of 6/7 games where they don't win.

[PeterWithesShin]

It took him less than a week to field a side that Sherwood was too fucking stupid to work out would give us the right kind of balance.

[PaulWinch again]

Yep and got a point against the best side in the country. That's pretty remarkable. With more time to work he'll have us winning games.

[Matt Collins]

I agree, I think they both will. Watford, palace and Leicester have all got a lot of breathing space. I think Sunderland may struggle even under allardyce and Bournemouth too. It is doable. But if we don't do it it won't necessarily make garde the wrong choice.

If we get a premier league proven striker in January that would help massively. Or if one of our existing ones steps up a lot. I quite like Ayew but don't think he's the man to play that role.

[PeterWithesShin]

I still believe that at least 3 clubs have worse squads than us, and we no longer have the Sherwood drag factor.

[Somniloquism]

"Some of the players who didn't start today had problems during the week. Nobody will play because he's French or Spanish or British. I saw in training how good or bad they were."

Interesting quote after the match.

[PaulWinch again]

"Some of the players who didn't start today had problems during the week. Nobody will play because he's French or Spanish or British. I saw in training how good or bad they were."

Interesting quote after the match.

Yes that is interesting and good message to the squad.

[Billy Walker]

We wouldn't have got anything out of todays games under Sherwood...to pick the team he did, change the tactics, get us playing football and looking solid against Man City in his first game is excellent work from Garde.

This man will keep us up comfortably.

Hmm. We're five points off safety. It's going to have to be good form - about 1.3 or 1.4 points per game until the end of the season. You generally need ten wins to stay up and we've got one.

That's just about top half form. This isn't a top half squad,  so I still think the odds are against us. It's doable of course. But pretty damn tough.

Fortunately half the league is  composed of squads that aren't "top half" which makes me think we've got a great chance of climbing the table.

[ciggiesnbeer]

I still believe that at least 3 clubs have worse squads than us, and we no longer have the Sherwood drag factor.

Agreed, by a wide margin as well.

The biggest problem we have is those inferior squads have a signficiant points lead on us.

[PeterWithesShin]

All we did was give them a head start to keep it interesting!

[ciggiesnbeer]

Sporting of us!