Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[PaulWinch again]

I like Garde and I think if we stick with him and he wants to stay he'll turn us around in the long term, but it requires proper support from the board and probably being relegated.

[olaftab]

That's pretty good Mr Aftab. I take my hat off to you.

Thank you. It's a very sad state but I wish people wouldn't make up possible saviours just by the fact that they were not on the pitch in any particular defeat. Everyone has had their chance ...oh hang on Kozak is probably the next big hope.

[old man villa fan]

What some are forgetting quickly is the utter shambles Garde walked in on.  Sherwood had left the team in an absolute mess.

In my opinion, what Garde has achieved is putting both Ayew and Veretout (arguably our best two players at the moment) into the team after they had been frozen out.

He is still trying to work out who best to play alongside Ayew and I think with his substitution today, he has worked out that Gestede is not that player.  The problem he has is who is that player, Kozak (who some are saying is not setting the U21's alight and others are saying will cure all ills), a very raw Traore, a half-hearted Gabby or Sinclair.  Not much choice there.

[PaulWinch again]

That's pretty good Mr Aftab. I take my hat off to you.

Thank you. It's a very sad state but I wish people wouldn't make up possible saviours just by the fact that they were not on the pitch in any particular defeat. Everyone has had their chance ...oh hang on Kozak is probably the next big hope.

That may be true, and I support Garde, but the logic for the Adama substitution doesn't stand up. Either he doesn't rate him, so shouldn't bring him on or if he rates him then he needs to give him time to make an impact. Either way five minutes makes no sense.

[olaftab]

I think Garde got his subs wrong today.  He should have sacrificed Sinclair and a midfielder earlier to bring on Gil and Adama.

[PaulWinch again]

I agree. I actually think in a team with many problems our biggest problem is the full backs. They're not good enough defensively and any attacking threat Bacuna possesses is eliminated when he plays on the left. I don't rate Gestede, but with decent full backs I reckon he'd score some goals.

[frank black]

Just like the majority of decisions made by the folks running Villa, Garde was the wrong one.

I have no idea who should would have been the right one, but it obviously wasn't Garde. Not sure he's the one to get us promotion either.

[PaulWinch again]

Just like the majority of decisions made by the folks running Villa, Garde was the wrong one.

I have no idea who should would have been the right one, but it obviously wasn't Garde. Not sure he's the one to get us promotion either.

There is genuinely no way you could possibly know that yet.

[aj2k77]

I think Garde knows it's going to take a miracle for us to stay up, realistically it's not going to happen. He's planning on being here medium term, he said so himself. We won't sack him, more money down the drain. He doesn't deserve to be sacked anyway, he would deserve the chance to truly start rebuilding the playing side. All hinging on if we get sold of the charlatan Lerner and his incompetent cronies are still in control. If they aren't I'd guess the new owners would want their own man.

[frank black]

Just like the majority of decisions made by the folks running Villa, Garde was the wrong one.

I have no idea who should would have been the right one, but it obviously wasn't Garde. Not sure he's the one to get us promotion either.

There is genuinely no way you could possibly know that yet.

I'm afraid this parrot is dead. This is the worst Villa team I've seen in my lifetime (I followed us down in 1987) Garde has not even got an ounce extra out of these players. You would have thought these so called premiership players would have reacted positively to the threat of relegation. Garde is naive if he thinks he can get this team to play two touch passing footy and he is proving to be naive at best.

[PaulWinch again]

Well he's got two points from games I thought we had no chance in, so that's something.

[Villafirst]

Sorry, but Garde in my opinion was the wrong choice. We should go in for Moyes who's available, no brainer really. We need someone to instill fire into these players......Garde doesn't do it. Another wrong choice by the clowns at the top.

[OzVilla]

Garde can do absolutely nothing about this utter shambles that he's inherited.  This squad is fecking awful, have zero confidence and the fight has completely gone from the club.

This is now about making a promotion push next season as viable as possible under the circumstances, if we go down and re-group we can come back stronger (we can hardly be any weaker).

[LeeB]

Graham Taylor had a whole summer, and inferior opposition, and we still struggled at first.

We're probably worse now and than when we went down then.

Garde is coming into two thirds of a squad that are used to losing, and the other quarter finding their feet in a new league playing in a team that gets beat every week.

I don't think we'll see much in the short term, and we will go down, but we will see a fight, too little too late but enough to carry hope for the new season.

I hope to God this is at least the outcome, because despite the lack of immediate impact, I think this man is the man is the one who can change things for the better. There's not much to back it other than the bloke seems to make sense, which sets him apart from many predecessors.

But, if we can somehow win a couple of games this side of new year, I think the chairman owes it to us and himself to front some unbugeted cash to throw around, and try and take advantage of the fact we are a fucking big club and act like it again. Money talks, a few short term guns for hire looking to make their way to the Euros is the route, but I'd to bring in at least six. A blood transfusion.

[OzVilla]

Sorry, but Garde in my opinion was the wrong choice. We should go in for Moyes who's available, no brainer really. We need someone to instill fire into these players......Garde doesn't do it. Another wrong choice by the clowns at the top.

The time for Moyes was when either Lambert or Sherwood was sacked.  It'd be horrendous of us to sack Garde now and another incredulous decision on top of all the others quite frankly.

We wouldn't just be even more of a laughing stock we'd be roundly criticised and with good reason.  We need to stick with him now and prepare for a good go at the Championship next year.