Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[supertom]

No way will he sack Garde, not a chance. He gets this season and probably next season to in the Championship.

Conceivably though, very conceivably (sadly) he could probably go this whole season without a single win. In fact I'd put money on that being a hell of a lot more likely than Garde stringing together the 9 wins needed to even have a sniff of surviving before the season ends.

There comes a point where every manager must be accountable for their results. We are down. Totally and utterly but even so, we shouldn't be completely writing off the results. There needs to be some mark of progress leading into the next season. At VP in particular we need to start getting results and at the very least making it a hard place to play.

Garde needs a chance to be able to get the likes of Gabby, Hutton, Clark out of the club.

And you think we'll replace them with PL standard players on similar wages who aren't actually passed it yet?
The cynic in me suggests they'll be replaced with more of the rubbish we've been signing for the last 6 years.

I'm not sure we'll have too many more options than to sign over the hill, or untried lower league/foreigners this window. We're down and any half decent player wouldn't wipe their ass with a villa shirt right now. The chances of finding an elusive goalscorer are probably non-existent.

[PeterWithesShin]

I was very disappointed he didn't make a change at HT today. Far too early to write him off though.

What I would be doing now though if I were manager is just go for it. Can't do any worse than we have been when trying to grind out results, which I can understand him doing, but we're gone now, at least try and give us some excitement, and build some confidence back by winning a few games. I'd rather lost 4-2 going for it than insipid 2-0 defeats like today. And who knows, we may actually win a few 4-2 along the way.

[TonyD]

Wouldn't suprise me if he walked before the end of the season, he looks completely lost and motionless on the touchline.

Quite.  I don't think he will be the guy who turns this shambles around.

[CT]

With all the talk about "player power", do you think these players are busting a gut for their new boss?

If they genuinely did give 100% we could have had half a chance. I don't think they are.

I just wish I could live 4000 miles away and not care like the owner.

[Villafirst]

Garde is useless - he can't motivate or pick the right team. Get rid now and bring in Moyes or Pearson.

I've read two posts today that have made me think of Violet from Just William. They were both by you.

I can think of a term for you....!

But because you don't want to be banned, you're not going to use it.

Apologies for that...bu I just despair at the state of our club

[LTA]

Collymore ripping Garde apart at the moment and rightly so.

Terrible manager.  No passion for the club.  Doesn't sound like he wants to be here.  No tactics.

[supertom]

With all the talk about "player power", do you think these players are busting a gut for their new boss?

If they genuinely did give 100% we could have had half a chance. I don't think they are.

I just wish I could live 4000 miles away and not care like the owner.

There seems little cohesion between the French/Spanish players and the British lot, suggesting divides in the ranks. I would imagine there's a Gabby/Richards camp, and a camp of the foreign imports who came in. We don't play like a team. That's from a variety of reasons but I would imagine that given Sherwoods boys have now been outwardly questionned by Garde, who has re-instated the foreign players, that some of the more established players here aren't really giving their all for Garde.

[tony scott]

We are all really hurting at the moment,  I would have thought Ms Garde could have got us ,at the very least a win be now!  There is positive for me tonight no more desperately hoping for a win that's it, clear the decks put some youth in and rebuild again.  I have a slight concern about Ms Garde the longer we go without a.win surely
Will affect his confidence.

[Taylor]

I was very disappointed he didn't make a change at HT today. Far too early to write him off though.

What I would be doing now though if I were manager is just go for it. Can't do any worse than we have been when trying to grind out results, which I can understand him doing, but we're gone now, at least try and give us some excitement, and build some confidence back by winning a few games. I'd rather lost 4-2 going for it than insipid 2-0
defeats like today. And who knows, we may actually win a few 4-2 along the way.

Yeah. I think everyone has accepted the inevitable. Maybe, just maybe we may start playing with a bit of freedom now. I would love to know what happens in training though to prevent Troure and Grealish getting picked.

[Monty]

The funny thing is I think he has made us better. There have been draws in matches we would've lost beforehand, and the look a lot more coherent passing the ball around. He's also got more out of Ayew and Veretout. It doesn't matter though, because we could be Barcelona in our approach play and we'd still never fucking score.

[KevinGage]

Not his team, not his players and all the rest of it.

But a half decent manager would have got some sort of reaction by now.

Well he has, I suppose.  Just not the reaction we want.

[SoccerHQ]

I didn't see today's game but was just about to read the match report and I couldn't even do that as my eyes were just fixed on the teams.

What an awful team selection, as bad as anything Sherwood ever came up with for a must win game. Not good enough by a long way Remi and seems like the performance corresponded with that.

[pauliewalnuts]

The funny thing is I think he has made us better. There have been draws in matches we would've lost beforehand, and the look a lot more coherent passing the ball around. He's also got more out of Ayew and Veretout. It doesn't matter though, because we could be Barcelona in our approach play and we'd still never fucking score.

I agree with this.

He hasn't improved us as much as he needs to, no, but fuck me, have people forgotten the bit of the season with Sherwood in charge? That's where the damage was done.

Today, though, i do think he should have gone for it sooner.

I didn't think for a minute we'd score right from the moment they got their first goal.

[PaulWinch again]

The funny thing is I think he has made us better. There have been draws in matches we would've lost beforehand, and the look a lot more coherent passing the ball around. He's also got more out of Ayew and Veretout. It doesn't matter though, because we could be Barcelona in our approach play and we'd still never fucking score.

See this is it for me, for most of the games he has been in charge we have been a lot better than we were but individual mistakes kill us. That's either Hutton, Guzan, Clark etc making a hideous defensive error that results in a goal or Gestede missing an absolute sitter that should have been buried. Most of the new player's he's got playing to a good standard, it's the players who have been utter failures at Villa for a number of years that are killing us. We need to completely rebuild, but he deserves much more time than some are apparently prepared to give him. Anyone who thinks this team is a Moyes/Pearson pep talk away from stringing a load of wins together is just not thinking straight.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Of course he's improved us, Sherwood was shit. I still don't think he's up to the job though, this season or next.