Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[oswald funkletrumpet]

"Sting" Jamiroquai..." He probably likes post-Signing On UB40 too.

post signing on?

that really would be too much to bear

please dont make me cry

[brian green]

Nice to know he is a Christian, shows bottle to admit it in this day and age. I don't suppose it says whether he is Catholic or Protestant.  French Protestants are a really lively not like the po faced lot this side of the channel.  When I used to go to the Protestant church in Cannes it was like a party. They had a shit hot organist who could play anything. Hymns were decided by shouts and counter shouts from the body of the congregation.  It was more fun than going to a night club, whatever one of those is.

[TB]

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[ChicagoLion]

Doesn't sound to me like a dude who'd throw it in if we were relegated. Also, a theme of his is that the players must take playing seriously, which you'd think would be a given but it seems not to be. I suspect over time that those who stay in the first XI will have earned it through commitment and loyalty. Great.

Birmingham Mail:

Remi Garde has told Aston Villa's fringe players that turning out for the Under-21s is a treat, likening it to 'a sweet for a child'.

Libor Kozak and Adama Traore were involved in the development squad's 2-2 draw against Blackburn at Villa Park on Monday.

Garde says that footballers should want to play so much that Under-21 duty should be regarded as a perk, not a punishment.

"When you are a football player, even a reserve game is more like a sweet for a child, because it’s a game and you want to play every game," he explained.

"It’s not a punishment. I was at the game at Villa Park, my staff were also there and I will probably watch a lot of reserve games because it will give me a lot of information.

"It gives to players the fitness to be back in the first team because it’s quite different to a training session.

"Even if the reserve games are not the ones you can find in the Premier League. It’s 11 v 11 a big pitch, it’s an important training session for me and not at all a punishment."

Just meaningless Guff, not in a position to talk about first team performances so lets talk about the reserves.

Strange interpretation of the comments.

Oh yeh sorry, it is totally inspirational, i bet Southampton  are scared shitless with comments like "even a reserve game is like sweet for a child" not his fault but crikey

We haven't had a variation on "Oh yes everything's wonderful" as a reply for ages. Thank you.

Not what I said or meant, but you know that.

[brian green]

Thanks TB for that extremely interesting information. I shall be seeing Damon's Norwegian mother in law over Christmas and it will be something we can talk about. If that flags I will take up the tack that swedes used to be called Swedish turnips and a variety of swede is the Mangol or Mangold which is of course a shortened form of Mangolworzel much used in the fens both as cattle food and missiles.

If more conversation is needed, the lady is very bookish and I shall ask if she has read Geoffrey Boycott's autobiography modestly titled Greatest Living Englishman in which he relates as a boy falling off the wash house roof and rupturing his spleen on the handle of his mother's mangle.

Viola as Del Boy would say.

[Axl Rose]

I love Garde. I feel the longer he his here, the better we'll get. It's a massive task for him, but he has my full backing!

[LTA]

Worth a read.

http://www.tsn.ca/to-keep-villa-up-garde-must-use-his-best-regardless-of-nationality-1.403881

[Hillbilly]

Brian Green, wurzel is the German for root. So The Wurzels are The Roots which means Adge Cutler is MC Black Thought. Weird.

[robbo1874]

Looks like we'll be going down this season in all honesty. It will be embarassing and it will be a disaster, but you could argue that we kind of need it to happen so things can re-set themselves. It's been absolute shite since MON flounced out. A season in the 2nd division did wonders for us under Taylor last time around. We got rid of all of the shit, rebuilt, had a largely enjoyable season where we won most of our games and it gave us a good platform to challenge for the title the next couple of seasons.
I'd rather we could just turn things round and stay up and then improve, but it doesn't look like happening unfortunately. The scenario outlined above is the next best option. We can't keep on in this perpetual scraping by season after season. Change has to happen one way or another.

[Archie]

Football has changed, it is not like when we were young that Villa could compete for the League with many  clubs, not only Pool and United but also the likes of Ipswich, Arsenal, Tottenham,  Everton, QPR and others. Nowadays, even if we go down and then come back,  we do not have any chance to return to be a winning team unless we have a new rich owner and probably a new stadium.
This is modern football.....

[Percy McCarthy]

"Sting" Jamiroquai..." He probably likes post-Signing On UB40 too.

post signing on?

that really would be too much to bear

please dont make me cry

It was 'Signing Off'.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Worth a read.

http://www.tsn.ca/to-keep-villa-up-garde-must-use-his-best-regardless-of-nationality-1.403881

Definitely. Cheers.

[Mister E]

Worth a read.

http://www.tsn.ca/to-keep-villa-up-garde-must-use-his-best-regardless-of-nationality-1.403881

There's some good stuff, here, thanks; despite the eulogies for Carragher and Higginbotham 😊

[Ormy Droid]

Worth a read.

http://www.tsn.ca/to-keep-villa-up-garde-must-use-his-best-regardless-of-nationality-1.403881

Definitely worth a read, it's just a shame that all the excellent writing that highlighted the tired well worn cliches of the average UK football pundit (and exposing them for what they're worth), was spoiled by his opening few paragraphs where he makes a sweeping generalisation against the Villa support based on a biased and distorted vox pop of Villa fans' opinions on Garde on SSN. SSN quoted a few loudmouth xenophobes, 'spouting we don't want no foreigner in charge here!', because they believe (probably quite correctly) that it caters to the the prejudices of their viewers. The journalist who wrote this otherwise excellent article, used the same quotes because it suited the tone of his piece, making him just as guilty as the pundits really.

[Holtemeister]

Apart from over playing the distain of villa fans at Gardes appointment a little ... cant disagree with much else in this peice.

Refreshingly accurate especially with regard to Grealish.