Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[Mister E]

Merton was a wonderful player but is an awful pundit.  Garde is mensa like compared to him or timmy.  As for experienced premier league Allardyce had taken Sunderland and Moyes wanted to stay in Spain. 

but what about Hislop?

[Irish villain]

What a sad, sad day for all Aston Villa supporters. On 7 points on the 26th of December. We are all sick to death of this crap. Half a decade of relegation scraps. Three seasons in five of not even reaching 40 points.

We have had Houllier, McLeish, Lambert, Sherwood and Garde. We have had different squads of players. We tried young and  hungry, we tried old and experienced and now young, slightly more talented but not quite as hard working. No matter what we do we still stink.

We have something rotten at the club and it has spread throughout the whole place. Blaming the manager is pointless, the problem is much, much deeper. There has been no plan, there has been shocking recruitment and there has been absolutely zero ambition. Since we lost to Fulham in December 2013 it has been clear to me that scraping to 17th is all its about anymore. This is where Randy Lerner's 'custodianship' has brought us and inevitably it is looking as though it is going to bite us on the arse this year.

He has made an absolute balls of it and it is the fans who are left suffering most while everybody else earns a good living out of the mess.

[amfy]

..........and now young, slightly more talented but not quite as hard working. No matter what we do we still stink.

There has definitely been a fair bit of this season where these years have looked half arsed, but I can't actually see any relevance of that comment on today's performance.

[brontebilly]

Garde made a balls of the Sanchez change today, took us until half time to readjust after it. Should be a lesson learned there for him.

Looks like Grealish still has work to do to get back in his plans. Gil was ok but think Grealish has more to offer if his head is right.

Garde looks to have given up on quite a few including Flabby, Insomnia and Kozak.

[Toronto Villa]

How did he make a balls of it? Sanchez was playing well and it was very unfortunate to lose him when he did. Who else should he have replaced him with? What Garde could have done better is ensure the right that was getting exposed was better addressed but that was before Sanchez's injury and only got worse when Gil came on. It was a lot better in the second half.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

far far too negative today

we didnt lose today but draws are not enough

traore on again with 5 mins left whats the fucking point?

[ozzjim]

I thought he made the logical move but Gil took ages to get into the game, which cost us.

In fairness I think he has got us playing well enough now to win subject to 3-4 good january moves

[ozzjim]

far far too negative today

we didnt lose today but draws are not enough

traore on again with 5 mins left whats the fucking point?

But we saw, as soon as they did get him on, we lost shape and possession. Its not that simple.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

I thought he made the logical move but Gil took ages to get into the game, which cost us.

In fairness I think he has got us playing well enough now to win subject to 3-4 good january moves

who is going to want to come? just to hit 38 points we need to win every other game or top 8 form which aint going to happen

prepare to be underwhelmed

[DaveD]

How did he make a balls of it? Sanchez was playing well and it was very unfortunate to lose him when he did. Who else should he have replaced him with? What Garde could have done better is ensure the right that was getting exposed was better addressed but that was before Sanchez's injury and only got worse when Gil came on. It was a lot better in the second half.

I'm not a critic of Garde, but we had four central midfielders in the starting lineup (Westwood, Gana, Sanchez, Veretout) and five wide midfielders on the bench (Sinclair, Richardson, Gil, Grealish, Traore). Pointed it out to my brother before the game started. I've never seen anything like it. Talk about limiting your options.

[Clampy]

far far too negative today

we didnt lose today but draws are not enough

traore on again with 5 mins left whats the fucking point?

I don't think we were negative, we played pretty well but just couldn't get the second goal. He probably should have brought Traore on earlier than he dod though.

[sickbeggar]

I feel sorry for him. He's got 5 months till we're down where realistically all he can do try and restrict the damage till we regroup in the summer and see exactly where he stands in terms of personnel and funds. It's not going to help his reputation one bit but there it is..Even buying players in January will look bad as they won't keep us up even if they're bought for next season

[Ads]

Width wasn't the issue. We slung in over 30 crosses and created three chances that Gestede should have burried.

[DaveD]

I feel sorry for him. He's got 5 months till we're down where realistically all he can do try and restrict the damage till we regroup in the summer and see exactly where he stands in terms of personnel and funds. It's not going to help his reputation one bit but there it is..Even buying players in January will look bad as they won't keep us up even if they're bought for next season

I hope we don't throw money at ageing former Prem stars after a last pay day in January. We're down now, we need to have next season in mind, not spunk yet more money on a desperate, low probability gamble.

[Ads]

We aren't down and I hope Garde is given the money to add some quality, as it will make a huge difference.