Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[ChicagoLion]

He bottled it today.

[tomd2103]

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.

Bournemouth didn't win the league playing like that last season.

Yeah, I'm not surf the Championship is the physical battlefield it I'd often portrayed as.  Look at one of the players in that division over the past couple of seasons - Will Hughes - hardly a giant.  I think the one thing that is really effective in the Championship is pace in attacking areas, so I think that is something we need to consider.

[Des Little]

Has Garde got the bollocks for the Championship? Genuine question. He doesn't give me the impression he's got what it takes to revolutionise the lot. If we aren't careful it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

[Ads]

Garde's job is the hstorical equivolent of being made top head shred of the German army. In May 1945.

[VinnieChase84]

He bottled it today.

Thought the same. Post match saying we didn't create anything, no shit when you leave Gill, Grealish and Adama on the bench 🙈

[SoccerHQ]

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.

Bournemouth didn't win the league playing like that last season.

They still had tough guys at the back like Steve Cook and Elphick to give them that solid base. Norwich and Watford certainly did go up that way anyway.

I just have visions of us going to likes of Rotherham and Huddersfield, playing a midfield trio of Gil-Westwood and Veretout and then scratching our heads as to why we can't even win those games as they endlessly backheel the ball and then go missing when the hard tackles come in.

[Rudy65]

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.

Said the same to my son. Today was awful. 87-88 was very exciting and hope we can repeat next season

[Rudy65]

RG has shown only a marginal improvement in our play since he arrived. No new manager bounce. Today was awful as was his selection. Not convinced but give him a couple of transfer windows and lets then see what happens.

He seems to have more brain cells than our three managers put together.

[brian green]

I have been placing bets for seventy years since I could write out a betting slip.  I would bet any amount of money demanded that if we had played Adama Traore wide and Libor Kozak lumbering on to his passes in the box from the start of the season we would not be staring at certain relegation. We have a shit defence a paperweight midfield and nobody to shoot at goal. The easiest of those three to fix is to get a player into the team who can work the penalty box.

[Clampy]

I have been placing bets for seventy years since I could write out a betting slip.  I would bet any amount of money demanded that if we had played Adama Traore wide and Libor Kozak lumbering on to his passes in the box from the start of the season we would not be staring at certain relegation. We have a shit defence a paperweight midfield and nobody to shoot at goal. The easiest of those three to fix is to get a player into the team who can work the penalty box.

Agree entirely about Kozak. Look at Benteke's goal last week against Leicester and that's what players like Kozak do very well.

[ChicagoLion]

I have been placing bets for seventy years since I could write out a betting slip.  I would bet any amount of money demanded that if we had played Adama Traore wide and Libor Kozak lumbering on to his passes in the box from the start of the season we would not be staring at certain relegation. We have a shit defence a paperweight midfield and nobody to shoot at goal. The easiest of those three to fix is to get a player into the team who can work the penalty box.

Agree entirely about Kozak. Look at Benteke's goal last week against Leicester and that's what players like Kozak do very well.

Then please someone explain why he has not been played?

[ozzjim]

The Kozak omission is a mystery, but at the same time I have not seen anything from the creative "trio" to suggest they would be the answer. Gestede has missed 7 or 8 very decent chances that Kozak may well have buried, so there has to be decent reason for him being left out all the time.

Beyond Veretout though, our central midfielders have been awful. Gana started well and has been consistently poor since, while Westwood isn't strong enough. If we could get Toulalan and Inler in that would be a huge upgrade.

[Ad@m]

I have been placing bets for seventy years since I could write out a betting slip.  I would bet any amount of money demanded that if we had played Adama Traore wide and Libor Kozak lumbering on to his passes in the box from the start of the season we would not be staring at certain relegation. We have a shit defence a paperweight midfield and nobody to shoot at goal. The easiest of those three to fix is to get a player into the team who can work the penalty box.

Agree entirely about Kozak. Look at Benteke's goal last week against Leicester and that's what players like Kozak do very well.

Then please someone explain why he has not been played?

Because he's not as good as Benteke?  In fact, given three managers have decided not to play him now maybe he's just not very good at all?  13 league goals in 87 games across 5 seasons in Italy would suggest he's hardly the answer to our goalscoring issues.  Even Gabby's got a better record than that.

[Clampy]

I have been placing bets for seventy years since I could write out a betting slip.  I would bet any amount of money demanded that if we had played Adama Traore wide and Libor Kozak lumbering on to his passes in the box from the start of the season we would not be staring at certain relegation. We have a shit defence a paperweight midfield and nobody to shoot at goal. The easiest of those three to fix is to get a player into the team who can work the penalty box.

Agree entirely about Kozak. Look at Benteke's goal last week against Leicester and that's what players like Kozak do very well.

Then please someone explain why he has not been played?

Because he's not as good as Benteke?  In fact, given three managers have decided not to play him now maybe he's just not very good at all?  13 league goals in 87 games across 5 seasons in Italy would suggest he's hardly the answer to our goalscoring issues.  Even Gabby's got a better record than that.

In fairness they only seemed to play him in the europa league and I think he either finished their top goalscorer or the tournaments top goalscorer whilst he was there, I forget which.

[olaftab]

I think Remi rested  some key players today to ensure they are fresh for the Wycombe game. He clearly sees winning the FA cup as his only hope of replacing Wenger.