Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[alan_clarke]

Gestede is embarrassing. Reminds me of Bowery.

I can kind of see the logic for playing him. He can get goals from nowhere like he did against Liverpool whilst contributing little else. Problem is we only got one cross into him that he could feed of. Since Amavi is injured it makes less sense to go down this route.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I'm beginning to wonder what we've done in appointing Garde. Won't be his fault if we go down but he's done nothing to make me think he's a decent manager. What an absolute fucking shambles that first half was. As bad as anything I've seen for a while. Shit houses, the lot of them.

[Toronto Villa]

And the knives are out......

Are we not allowed to question him?

[Gregorys Boy]

I agree that not playing Kozak is an error, but its not his error alone, Sherwood was guilty of it too.

[CT]

I agree that not playing Kozak is an error, but its not his error alone, Sherwood was guilty of it too.

They both watched the guy every day and decided he isn't worth a place even on the bench of a hopeless team.

I just can't work out what Kozak is doing. Surely he's worth a try ahead of that awful Championship player we bought to replace Tekkers.

[Clark W Griswold]

And the knives are out......

Are we not allowed to question him?

Yes. I think it's early days obviously but the comment was tongue in cheek. I think he picked the 3 up front because they've been the ones scoring this season. Admittedly they still haven't scored many but compared to the other attacking players they have. The problem is that we don't get the ball forward quickly enough, no one is taking the bull by the horns and grabbing the game by the scruff of the neck and we don't get enough players forward when we are on the attack. There should be someone bursting through from midfield to join the attacks but it doesn't happen. The other problem is that the defence is largely a shambles and at this moment in time the fullbacks rarely offer anything useful to add to attacks either. I did think today though that Okore and Lescott didn't look too bad as a pair, so at least that is something.

[onje_villa]

I have to say that despite our predicament and with the possible exception of not picking Kozak, I can't really see any glaring errors Garde has made. Every time he speaks, he speaks well, not in denial like Lambert, not a complete tit like Sherwood.

The teams he picks generally make sense, with the exception of excluding Kozak (which is odd), he is making the calls we as fans were asking for - Westwood of corners, picking the midfield we wanted, making decent substitutions. His handling of Grealish I think most of us agree with?

No, he's not brought about a dramatic increase in results and confidence but that may be just about impossible at this stage. Whatever we decide to do for the rest of this season, I'd very much like to see us continue to develop under Remi. Even if it's for next season. There are glimmers of positivity there. The results are atrocious but I believe we are mainly paying the price of a desperate lack of a goal scorer and a chronic lack of confidence at the back.

Don't forget some of the teams carving up the premier league today have been in the same situation as ourselves, getting battered in the top flight but they had a plan and a philosophy for the club and they stuck to it. We're almost certainly going down following years of bad decisions but let's keep our heads and try and improve in January.

[Hoppo]

We haven't improved 1% under him.
The defence is still a shambles. His assistant looks absolutely clueless.
He still hasn't dropped Guzan.
He still won't unleash Adama.
He still hasn't told Hutton that he isn't Cafu.
He still won't play Kinsella at left back.
He still hasn't realised Bacuna isn't a left back.
He still plays The Pantomime Horse.
The Kozak contract rumour won't go away.
We fell for the bullshit of him being the new Wenger.

[Richard]

I like Garde I can see what he's trying to do and the style of play he wants - just has no quality to work with

[Billy Walker]

Give him a chance.  He's taken over a club that is rock bottom in every sense.

[Legion]

I like Garde I can see what he's trying to do and the style of play he wants - just has no quality to work with

So do I. I just don't see why he perseveres with Gestede.

[PaulWinch again]

I think we looked alright in the second half. I wouldn't start turning on him yet, there are a few things I might change but in general I think he's making decent decisions. Unfortunately he's paying the price for decisions made before he came. There isn't a manager in the world who could get a useful pair of full backs out of Hutton, Richardson and Bacuna. Yes we had Amavi, but there was no contingency for when the inevitable injury happened.

[LeeB]

We haven't improved 1% under him.
The defence is still a shambles. His assistant looks absolutely clueless.
He still hasn't dropped Guzan.
He still won't unleash Adama.
He still hasn't told Hutton that he isn't Cafu.
He still won't play Kinsella at left back.
He still hasn't realised Bacuna isn't a left back.
He still plays The Pantomime Horse.
The Kozak contract rumour won't go away.
We fell for the bullshit of him being the new Wenger.

And he's not British, the bastard.

[Rudy65]

Give him a chance.  He's taken over a club that is rock bottom in every sense.

I will

But getting the players to show some real effort would be a start.

Our academy must be woeful if there is no one to take the place of some of our first teamers

No new manager bounce for us

[ChicagoLion]

So Metersacker, here is your early Christmas present, they are playing Gestede up front.

Garde has achieved fuck all.