Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[onje_villa]

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.

Unbelievable!

None of this can be put on Remi. Do you honestly think a young Wenger would have walked into this shit storm and achieved anything more in their first few games? He has inherited a team that has zero confidence, no experience and no apparent goal threat. He has the air of a man who is desperately trying to use his brain to find a way forward for the club, you can see it in his interviews, the man is intelligent, he has class and has an excellent coaching background. Sherwood he aint.

But no manager, Wenger, Ferguson or whoever can turn around a whole team, club and ethos in 5 minutes. He needs real time and patience and importantly we have to back him.

[pauliewalnuts]

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.

Unbelievable!

None of this can be put on Remi. Do you honestly think a young Wenger would have walked into this shit storm and achieved anything more in their first few games? He has inherited a team that has zero confidence, no experience and no apparent goal threat. He has the air of a man who is desperately trying to use his brain to find a way forward for the club, you can see it in his interviews, the man is intelligent, he has class and has an excellent coaching background. Sherwood he aint.

But no manager, Wenger, Ferguson or whoever can turn around a whole team, club and ethos in 5 minutes. He needs real time and patience and importantly we have to back him.

Indeed.

He walked into a club which had taken 4 points or whatever it was from 12 or so games.

There isn't a manager in the world who would have been able to change things that quickly.

He has been here five league games - Everton, Man City, Arsenal, Watford and Southampton.

Only one of those five is not what you'd call a 'tough' fixture.

[Deano's Mullet]

People not doing jobs properly doesn't help. Gestede heading wide/over when it should be bread and butter goal. Rare chance and he fluffs it like that. Same with Sinclair a short while later. We huffed and puffed second half and did the basics that most teams do every week, we just had nothing out of the ordinary apart from the late Adama run by which time it was game over. Lescott is past it, has been for a few years. Hutton is not a bad player, most of last season he was one of our best. LB is a big problem position. Vetetout and Gueye look neat and tidy without being able to do anything else while Sanchez goes from looking world class to conference class in the blink of an eye.

[SheffieldVillain]

He still won't play Kinsella at left back.
He still hasn't realised Bacuna isn't a left back.

Kinsella is a kid whose only first team experience is 3 games at Luton.

And I'm sure he knows Bacuna isn't a left-back. His other options are an untried kid in Kinsella, a rapidly fading centre back in Lescott, a right-back who was a liability today in his proper position in Hutton or Kieran Richardson. Whichever one of those he had picked wouldn't have solved the issue of us not having a decent back-up left back.   

[aev]

I thought Veretout played a couple of lovely slide rule type passes.

The thing that is so depressing is that the few players that we would want to keep next season will be the ones that are off at the end of the season (Gil, Veretout, Traore and Grealish).

[ChicagoLion]

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.

Unbelievable!

None of this can be put on Remi. Do you honestly think a young Wenger would have walked into this shit storm and achieved anything more in their first few games? He has inherited a team that has zero confidence, no experience and no apparent goal threat. He has the air of a man who is desperately trying to use his brain to find a way forward for the club, you can see it in his interviews, the man is intelligent, he has class and has an excellent coaching background. Sherwood he aint.

But no manager, Wenger, Ferguson or whoever can turn around a whole team, club and ethos in 5 minutes. He needs real time and patience and importantly we have to back him.

Indeed.

He walked into a club which had taken 4 points or whatever it was from 12 or so games.

There isn't a manager in the world who would have been able to change things that quickly.

During those Sherwood games we were being told by quite a few on here that it was just a Manager problem, the players are good enough and with a decent Manager it will all come good.

[tomd2103]

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.

Unbelievable!

None of this can be put on Remi. Do you honestly think a young Wenger would have walked into this shit storm and achieved anything more in their first few games? He has inherited a team that has zero confidence, no experience and no apparent goal threat. He has the air of a man who is desperately trying to use his brain to find a way forward for the club, you can see it in his interviews, the man is intelligent, he has class and has an excellent coaching background. Sherwood he aint.

But no manager, Wenger, Ferguson or whoever can turn around a whole team, club and ethos in 5 minutes. He needs real time and patience and importantly we have to back him.

Agree somewhat, but I would have thought he would have made us more organised and defensively more solid.  Had hasn't achieved either yet.

[pauliewalnuts]

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.

Unbelievable!

None of this can be put on Remi. Do you honestly think a young Wenger would have walked into this shit storm and achieved anything more in their first few games? He has inherited a team that has zero confidence, no experience and no apparent goal threat. He has the air of a man who is desperately trying to use his brain to find a way forward for the club, you can see it in his interviews, the man is intelligent, he has class and has an excellent coaching background. Sherwood he aint.

But no manager, Wenger, Ferguson or whoever can turn around a whole team, club and ethos in 5 minutes. He needs real time and patience and importantly we have to back him.

Indeed.

He walked into a club which had taken 4 points or whatever it was from 12 or so games.

There isn't a manager in the world who would have been able to change things that quickly.

During those Sherwood games we were being told by quite a few on here that it was just a Manager problem, the players are good enough and with a decent Manager it will all come good.

I don't think anyone expected it to come good inside five league matches, though. That's the key.

No manager would have walked into this club where we were when we sacked that wideboy arsehole and turned it around just like that.

[PaulWinch again]

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.

Unbelievable!

None of this can be put on Remi. Do you honestly think a young Wenger would have walked into this shit storm and achieved anything more in their first few games? He has inherited a team that has zero confidence, no experience and no apparent goal threat. He has the air of a man who is desperately trying to use his brain to find a way forward for the club, you can see it in his interviews, the man is intelligent, he has class and has an excellent coaching background. Sherwood he aint.

But no manager, Wenger, Ferguson or whoever can turn around a whole team, club and ethos in 5 minutes. He needs real time and patience and importantly we have to back him.

Indeed.

He walked into a club which had taken 4 points or whatever it was from 12 or so games.

There isn't a manager in the world who would have been able to change things that quickly.

He has been here five league games - Everton, Man City, Arsenal, Watford and Southampton.

Only one of those five is not what you'd call a 'tough' fixture.

Indeed I don't lay any blame at Remi's door. I thought we were decent in the second half. The reality is though that we only have about 6 decent players and the drop off in quality after them is absolutely massive. Bacuna and Richardson as your choice a left back would be worrying in League One.

[ChicagoLion]

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.

Unbelievable!

None of this can be put on Remi. Do you honestly think a young Wenger would have walked into this shit storm and achieved anything more in their first few games? He has inherited a team that has zero confidence, no experience and no apparent goal threat. He has the air of a man who is desperately trying to use his brain to find a way forward for the club, you can see it in his interviews, the man is intelligent, he has class and has an excellent coaching background. Sherwood he aint.

But no manager, Wenger, Ferguson or whoever can turn around a whole team, club and ethos in 5 minutes. He needs real time and patience and importantly we have to back him.

Indeed.

He walked into a club which had taken 4 points or whatever it was from 12 or so games.

There isn't a manager in the world who would have been able to change things that quickly.

During those Sherwood games we were being told by quite a few on here that it was just a Manager problem, the players are good enough and with a decent Manager it will all come good.

I don't think anyone expected it to come good inside five league matches, though. That's the key.

No manager would have walked into this club where we were when we sacked that wideboy arsehole and turned it around just like that.

Well something needed to happen and it hasn't, which would suggest that the players are not good enough.

[KevinGage]

I thought BFR was hatstand when he suggested Nigel Pearson back in November.

But he actually looks quite an attractive option now.

[pauliewalnuts]

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.

Unbelievable!

None of this can be put on Remi. Do you honestly think a young Wenger would have walked into this shit storm and achieved anything more in their first few games? He has inherited a team that has zero confidence, no experience and no apparent goal threat. He has the air of a man who is desperately trying to use his brain to find a way forward for the club, you can see it in his interviews, the man is intelligent, he has class and has an excellent coaching background. Sherwood he aint.

But no manager, Wenger, Ferguson or whoever can turn around a whole team, club and ethos in 5 minutes. He needs real time and patience and importantly we have to back him.

Indeed.

He walked into a club which had taken 4 points or whatever it was from 12 or so games.

There isn't a manager in the world who would have been able to change things that quickly.

During those Sherwood games we were being told by quite a few on here that it was just a Manager problem, the players are good enough and with a decent Manager it will all come good.

I don't think anyone expected it to come good inside five league matches, though. That's the key.

No manager would have walked into this club where we were when we sacked that wideboy arsehole and turned it around just like that.

Well something needed to happen and it hasn't, which would suggest that the players are not good enough.

My counter would be that he hasn't had time to make it happen yet.

Yes, we got beaten today, but we also took a point from Man City and a point from Southampton away - not enough to propel us up the table by any means, but two points more than I thought we'd get from those two matches.

If we go down it will not be because we lost today, it'll be because we lost against the sort of teams we play in the next four or five matches. That's where we really need to improve.

[Pete3206]

He must replace Gestede asap

[brian green]

My worry is that there has been no discernable improvement in our performances.  I had hoped that the tiniest green shoots of revival might be beginning to peep through, but if you did not know Sherwood had had the bullet you would never know it from our performances.

Traore on in the 85th minute? Gestede on at all?   Hardly the stuff of massive Gallic intellect.

[PaulWinch again]

My worry is that there has been no discernable improvement in our performances.  I had hoped that the tiniest green shoots of revival might be beginning to peep through, but if you did not know Sherwood had had the bullet you would never know it from our performances.

Traore on in the 85th minute? Gestede on at all?   Hardly the stuff of massive Gallic intellect.

I'd say the second half performance was pretty reasonable against the league leaders.