Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[PeterWithesShin]

Ian Wright

“People are saying that Villa will go down and when you look at this, you have to say they are right,” Wright said.

“When you look at Micah Richards for the first goal, he has to do more.

“It’s just slack. He’s the captain - he’s got to make more of an effort. These are the reasons why they’re going down.”

Micah

@IanWright0 I respected you as a player! And your not a bad pundit but talking about me like that isn't on!!

@IanWright0 what has captain got to do with it?

@IanWright0  I can take constructive Criticism but not this!

[DaveD]

I don't believe I've ever used this phrase before, but I agree with Ian Wright.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Richards has had a go on twitter about Wright saying his defending is slack and as captain he should be showing the way.

Why can't you see what Wright is saying ?

[Monty]

The Secret Footballer says the accusation of 'not trying' is by miles the worst insult you can throw at a player. It's better to call him a drug cheat than to accuse him of lacking effort.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

i agree with wright

pity richards doesnt put as much time and effort into his leadership on the pitch or reading "defending made easy for fuckwits"

[tomd2103]

Scott Sinclair is baffling, he actually does nothing on the pitch, so what is the point. It's laziness keep picking these guys on name alone. I can't accept we don't have anything better, because we aren't even trying, he does nothing on the pitch so what is worse than nothing?

We looked better without him against spam and he was brought back in for norwich. Strange

I don't know why we persist in playing Sinclair in a striker role.  He is a wide player and should be playing out there. 

[LukeJames]

I understand the requirement for the wide-players to track-back in support of the full-backs, and agree that this is a weakness of all 3 players in question, but given the players at our disposal surely Garde would be better off not tasking our 2 full-backs with being our main attacking outlets and employing 2 holding midfielders, to allow 3 attacking players less responsibility and to be able to concentrate on actually hurting the opposition? Task them with pressing higher-up the pitch but then concentrate on steadying the defensive shape as it is, and maybe we wont concede so many goals from counter-attacks?

Spot on this is, don't use your left/right backs as your main creative outlets, use them as defenders first and foremost, play Grealish, Gil, Traore further up with a license to create, play Gana and Sanchez as holders, Garde cant be blamed for the shute thats gone on the past few years but he can be blamed for making the same niave mistakes that the others made, yesterday was a Garde fuck up however its sugar coated.

[ozzjim]

Ian Wright is spot on.  We conceded twice from goals scored less than 8 yards out and fairly central to the goal. For both neither of our centre halves are in the postcode of the striker.

[ChicagoLion]

Why hasn't Garde played Richards at Right Back? Why did Garde play Richardson? Why did Garde plat Bacuna in midfield?Why play calamity Clark?
This is why the manager is getting stick, we had to win yesterday and he picked that bunch of crap.
There has been no improvement since Sherwood.

[PeterWithesShin]

As Okore was injured and we know Lescott doesn't have the legs to play 2 games in 3 days, who else should/could we have played at CB other than Richards and Clark?

[olaftab]

It's probable that one of the joining conditions Richards insisting on was that he plays centre back. He clearly fancies himself  as reincarnation of Bobby Moore. More fools us for agreeing to that if that was the case.

[olaftab]

As Okore was injured and we know Lescott doesn't have the legs to play 2 games in 3 days, who else should/could we have played at CB other than Richards and Clark?

You and Mellberg on crutches would have done better yesterday!

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

It's probable that one of the joining conditions Richards insisting on was that he plays centre back. He clearly fancies himself  as reincarnation of Bobby Moore. More fools us for agreeing to that if that was the case.

Which is what I think too olaf.
It doesn't make sense otherwise.

[PeterWithesShin]

As Okore was injured and we know Lescott doesn't have the legs to play 2 games in 3 days, who else should/could we have played at CB other than Richards and Clark?

You and Mellberg on crutches would have done better yesterday!

I wouldn't even be able to manage being one of the crutches these days!

[ChicagoLion]

As Okore was injured and we know Lescott doesn't have the legs to play 2 games in 3 days, who else should/could we have played at CB other than Richards and Clark?

We don't know that Lescott could not play, that is just an assumption, what about Illori Crespo?