Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[Brend'Watkins]

I genuinely think he needs to take the opportunity in this break to improve the overall fitness of the squad.  It was in one paper today that up to this weekend, we had covered the least ground of any top flight team this season.  When you factor in the number of late goals we have conceded then there is obviously an issue.  I think there will be some hard work at Bodymoor Heath over the next couple of weeks.

It was most noticeable with Amavi with 15 minutes remaining. He had very little left in him.  Thankfully we were organized enough to put more bodies down that side when it mattered.

Is it because we were doing so much defending that we ran out of steam?

[mr underhill]

that and lack of fitness maybe, but fuck knows what most of this squad were - or were not - doing from June until now. Seems to me that training generally ay BH has been pretty ineffective for some time. Hopefully Leverene can sort them out. Some of them look 'fagged' out.

[Ron Manager]

What Remi Garde needs is  for Adama to be a factor in his revival. He possibly needs a goalkeeper and a centre forward. Both are at Norwich. Ruddy is commanding and consistent. Cameron Jerome works like trojan by himself. He may not score many goals but he can hold the ball up and lay it off to those who can. A cracking team player.

[MattW]

Just watch the MOTD highlights. Loved the little moment Garde had with himself at the end of the game. A silent double fist clench until Pellegrini came across to shake his hand.

[FranzBiberkopf]

I genuinely think he needs to take the opportunity in this break to improve the overall fitness of the squad. 

You're not going to fix that in two weeks - thats a 6 month job that. 3 month's minimum before you start to see any real improvement.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I genuinely think he needs to take the opportunity in this break to improve the overall fitness of the squad. 

You're not going to fix that in two weeks - thats a 6 month job that. 3 month's minimum before you start to see any real improvement.

Get the fat bastards running up and down the steps of the Holte

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

I genuinely think he needs to take the opportunity in this break to improve the overall fitness of the squad. 

You're not going to fix that in two weeks - thats a 6 month job that. 3 month's minimum before you start to see any real improvement.

Get the fat bastards running up and down the steps of the Holte

Get them to jog over to the Sty and show them what failure looks like.

[Dave]

Cameron Jerome works like trojan by himself. He may not score many goals but he can hold the ball up and lay it off to those who can. A cracking team player.

*alarmed face*

When we bring in a striker, it'll be somebody a lot better than Cameron Jerome.

[kippaxvilla2]

Jerome Cameron sounds a bit more French?

[sc00by555]

I genuinely think he needs to take the opportunity in this break to improve the overall fitness of the squad.  It was in one paper today that up to this weekend, we had covered the least ground of any top flight team this season.  When you factor in the number of late goals we have conceded then there is obviously an issue.  I think there will be some hard work at Bodymoor Heath over the next couple of weeks.

Apparently versus Man City, the workrate has improved already – outrunning them by 1.9km according to this article.

[Percy McCarthy]

I genuinely think he needs to take the opportunity in this break to improve the overall fitness of the squad.  It was in one paper today that up to this weekend, we had covered the least ground of any top flight team this season.  When you factor in the number of late goals we have conceded then there is obviously an issue.  I think there will be some hard work at Bodymoor Heath over the next couple of weeks.

Apparently versus Man City, the workrate has improved already – outrunning them by 1.9km according to this article.

I'm interested in reading that but the link's not working for me.

[onje_villa]

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/12799/10061270/aston-villa-0-0-manchester-city-positive-signs-for-remi-garde

[Percy McCarthy]

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/12799/10061270/aston-villa-0-0-manchester-city-positive-signs-for-remi-garde

Good stuff, thanks.

[aj2k77]

What I liked about his interview is he discussed the team. He talked through how and why he wanted a certain shape to the midfield, how we were attempting to play the game. No sound bites, no excuses, nothing about Remi Garde, he talked about our football team clearly, it's only been a week but I'm 100% certain he will get his message across to the players.

I know we've been saying it for a few years now but if we can just survive this year from the mess we've started next year I know we will kick on under this guy, It might be desperation but I think he's the real deal.

[Dave]

From F365's "Winners & Losers" column:

Remi Garde and another way
 A monumental difference in performance and mood. From the chalk of Tim Sherwood’s white cliffs of Dover to Remi Garde’s French cheese.

If the national stereotypes feel too strong, they are appropriate at least this once. Remi Garde took his first opportunity to bring back Aston Villa’s continental brigade back into the first team, and they performed admirably against the league leaders. Jordan Amavi, Idrissa Gana, Jordan Veretout, Carlos Sanchez, Carles Gil, Jordan Ayew. Even Charles N’Zogbia played a part!

Villa may have offered little in attack, but they survived the Manchester City onslaught. It’s been a long time since Villa’s underbelly was anything other than squidgy soft. A run of seven consecutive Premier League defeats has, finally, come to an end.

This was an instant improvement. Gone was the tactical vacuum of Sherwood’s dice-rolling defence and midfield, replaced by a coherent plan to stop the division’s most potent attacking midfield. How weird that those useless French players Sherwood shunned instantly improved the side in his absence.

It’s not difficult to want Garde to do well, introduced against a backdrop of unfair mistrust. Think I’m overstating that mood? Here’s Charlie Wyett in The Sun on Thursday afternoon: ‘Now, Aston Villa will be joining Sunderland in the Championship after the ridiculous decision to appoint Remi Garde.’ He hadn’t even had a single match in charge.

Villa’s new manager still has an immense task on his hands to keep the club in the Premier League, but let’s not pretend that he isn’t better equipped than his predecessor. Villa Park enjoyed their first evidence of the changing of the Garde.