Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[sickbeggar]

I think the problem we'll have next year is what a scrap the championship will be. If you think players like Gil and Veretout are lightweight and need time on the ball to shine in the prem, you ain't seen nothing yet.

We need players who can roll their sleeves up and scrap and then the flair players can shine if they're still here of course.

yep. I like Gil but a championship player he aint

[in exile]

I think the problem we'll have next year is what a scrap the championship will be. If you think players like Gil and Veretout are lightweight and need time on the ball to shine in the prem, you ain't seen nothing yet.

We need players who can roll their sleeves up and scrap and then the flair players can shine if they're still here of course.

It'll be ok because we will have Jack. He's one of our own you know

[supertom]

I think the problem we'll have next year is what a scrap the championship will be. If you think players like Gil and Veretout are lightweight and need time on the ball to shine in the prem, you ain't seen nothing yet.

We need players who can roll their sleeves up and scrap and then the flair players can shine if they're still here of course.

yep. I like Gil but a championship player he aint

He'll be looking for a move anyway. As will Ayew, Veretout etc. We've really, well and truly got to go back to square one I think.

[DaveD]

Paulie

I think you've been a bit generous. If we had six players who really were "good enough", we wouldn't be miles adrift at the bottom of the table.

I would rename your categories to "Could be good enough but haven't proven it in a run of games yet", "Not good enough to stop us getting relegated" and "Not good enough to get us promoted back".

[SoccerHQ]

I think the problem we'll have next year is what a scrap the championship will be. If you think players like Gil and Veretout are lightweight and need time on the ball to shine in the prem, you ain't seen nothing yet.

We need players who can roll their sleeves up and scrap and then the flair players can shine if they're still here of course.

It'll be ok because we will have Jack. He's one of our own you know

In fairness Jack was quality v SHA so he'd be fine at that level. It's our lightweight central midfield players I worry about even if Veretout has improved in recent weeks.

[supertom]

I think the problem we'll have next year is what a scrap the championship will be. If you think players like Gil and Veretout are lightweight and need time on the ball to shine in the prem, you ain't seen nothing yet.

We need players who can roll their sleeves up and scrap and then the flair players can shine if they're still here of course.

It'll be ok because we will have Jack. He's one of our own you know

In fairness Jack was quality v SHA so he'd be fine at that level. It's our lightweight central midfield players I worry about even if Veretout has improved in recent weeks.

I think come May too, Jack will be forgotten about outside of the Villa. I don't see too many knocking down our door to get him. Even if he did want out, he'd probably have little choice but to slog it out for a year with us in the Championship. Although I'd like to give the lad the benefit of doubt that he'd want to stay with his boyhood club and try to help dig them out of the shitpit. He's a misguided lad at times but I don't doubt his love of the Villa.

[SoccerHQ]

I think Grealish needs a chance now to show he's knuckled down. He's not going to keep us up but at least let's see him get a few minutes now.

I still think teams will see an opportunity to get a potentially fantastic player at half price when we go down so there will be interest in him.

[curiousorange]

I wouldn't say I'm looking forward to it, but it would be blissful to see a decent, tricksy Villa side tearing the arse out of the Championship - a side full of young, unheralded acquisitions, youth talent and a sprinkling of battle-hardened experience like Veretout and Ayew. That's what I feel we deserve after the purgatory of the post O'Neill walkout.

But what we deserve and what we get may be two wildly differing things.

[pauliewalnuts]

Paulie

I think you've been a bit generous. If we had six players who really were "good enough", we wouldn't be miles adrift at the bottom of the table.

I would rename your categories to "Could be good enough but haven't proven it in a run of games yet", "Not good enough to stop us getting relegated" and "Not good enough to get us promoted back".

See, to me, having six 'good enough' players is nothing like enough and a big influencing factor as to why we are where we are.

[PeterWithesShin]

Plus of the 6 Paulie listed, only 2 start on a regular basis, so it's not like we have 6 'good enough' players in the 11 every week.

[Steve67]

Oh for a Graham Taylor type revolution when we get relegated. Someone to pull this club up by the bootstraps. No, not Remi Garde. Someone with some bollocks.

[DaveD]

Yeah, I guess it depends on what it's good enough for.

[SoccerHQ]

Sherwood deserves to carry the can for this season purely as he messed up so many winnable games at the start. Not just the infamous Leicester game but we got 1 point out of Sunderland, West Brom, Swansea and Stoke home games. Mind you Garde hasn't exactly done much with his winnable games either even if the performances have been better.

Have to say today's result has the same feel to me that Hull away did last season but only in I think relegation is a foregone conclusion not that we should change the manager.

Remi though has a lot to prove to me he is capable of taking us back up next season and win 20 odd games in the championship. Winning a game or two this season might help a bit.

[PaulWinch again]

Oh for a Graham Taylor type revolution when we get relegated. Someone to pull this club up by the bootstraps. No, not Remi Garde. Someone with some bollocks.

See I think Garde has plenty of bollocks, but needs some time.

[Nelson Lodge]

After reading today's team sheet I thought it was a bit early in his tenure for RG to be writing suicide notes.