Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[brian green]

I think Remi is strong enough to handle the relegation it is the humiliation he will struggle with.

[ChicagoLion]

The problem now is the players turning, he has had enough games in thier eyes to have made a difference. Now all is lost he will have a mountain of problems to deal with. He will need Randy to sanction some pretty big transfer losses.
It is imperative that the clear out starts now.

[Pat McMahon]

Senderos looked a better centre back than Richards and Clark.

So did Collins for Wham on Saturday

[old man villa fan]

There are some on here that preferred Pearson or Moyes rather than Garde and after 8 games are ripping into him.  There are some on here that because they cannot get their own way (Villa winning) are ripping into him.

Even though Okore was injured, some are still blaming Garde for making a change.  Lescott was an obvious change before the game as it was only 48 hours after the West Ham match.  Granted I only started watching the game from about 30 minutes in but from that point Bacuna was playing fullback and Richardson in midfield (did it start the other way around?) until Bacuna went off.  Not starting Gestede was his choice (many people have said that he is better coming on as substitute) and the replacement was going with one up top and the extra wide players to try and stop Norwich coming down the wings i.e. bring in Richardson.  It seems as though it doesn't matter how you shuffle the pack, it is still s***.  From the last 20 pages or so, it sounds as though he made half a dozen changes, not four, of which two were enforced by injury.

People go on about a new manager bounce but a dead cat doesn't bounce.  The squad was too weak in key positions at the start of the season, it was not prepared properly and certain players have not lived up to the level people thought they were capable of e.g. Richards, Gestede (there were people on here saying we should buy him before we actually did).  Some people seem to think a new manager can come in, click his fingers and the results will change.  It happened last season because primarily we had Benteke and secondly had a core of players that just about raised their game enough.

Nobody coming in new will save us unless they are given in excess of £50m and that expenditure is out of the question so what is the point of a new manager.  Unless it satisfies some supporters who do not want to give Garde a chance to show that they are wrong and that he is good enough.

If Garde is hounded out without given a chance to weed out the rubbish and bring players in with character and strength in what is looking as though will be a dead end of season, we should all hang our heads in shame as Villa supporters.  Some time we have to stop the merry-go-round and stabilise, even if in the Championship.

[ChicagoLion]

OMV
There are very few calling for his head but there are a lot astonished by the selection on Saturday for a last chance saloon must win game.
He bottled it and is rightly getting criticised for it.

[old man villa fan]

OMV
There are very few calling for his head but there are a lot astonished by the selection on Saturday for a last chance saloon must win game.
He bottled it and is rightly getting criticised for it.

I think some are magnifying the situation though.  To my way of thinking, up until yesterday he had the big man up front option or the formation yesterday.  We are woefully weak in midfield without Sanchez and he went with numbers to try and make up for it.  We have seen what has happened when he has gone for flair.  In my opinion, the only change that I could criticise him for was Richardson because I do not rate him but have we got another wide left midfield player.

[auntiesledd]

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!

Ahhhhhh. What a poor sensitive Lamb.

#pray4mica

#prayforyourgrammartoomicah

'Tis good to see somebody's in the 'Wide Awake Club'.   

#ronglishlives

[achilles]

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?

Exactly, and if that assumption about Lescott is correct why on earth did we sign him as he wouldn't have passed a medical?

[ozzjim]

Plenty of players over 30 are signed that can't play twice in 3 days.

What happened to Garde building his coaching staff up a bit?

[cheltenhamlion]

Lescott hardly trains. One hand picked by Sherwood for their Premier League experience.

[brian green]

In that very telling L'Equipe interview with Remi Garde when he said he arrived at Villa Park in an ambulance, the more the image grows that post Lambert we needed emergency medical attention but got, in the shape of Sherwood a bit of first aid and a slug of whisky.

Respectable relegation with a respected manager last season would have been very bad but preferable to the humiliation and ridicule being heaped on us now.

[ROBBO]

The numbers speak for themselves we have won one game all season and had luck on our side with that,
every week the manager is put in the position that he has to pick players that have proved all season to be incapable of playing at this level, we have had fortune on our side for many seasons now constantly giving the idiots in charge the chance to put things right but fortune eventually turns on the incompetent and our great club has to suffer for it. The constant failures have dulled the senses of the faithful but one day they will turn and it will not be pretty.

[brian green]

ROB so long as those of us who are faithful are faithful to the club the actual personnel are irrelevant.  I shall be a Villa fan if we are playing in Aston Park with Gabby, Bacuna, Richardson and Guzan as goalposts.

[tomd2103]

In that very telling L'Equipe interview with Remi Garde when he said he arrived at Villa Park in an ambulance, the more the image grows that post Lambert we needed emergency medical attention but got, in the shape of Sherwood a bit of first aid and a slug of whisky.

I think it goes further back than that Brian.  After O'Neill left the club needed major surgery, but all that has been applied since are bandages and sticking plasters, none of which have worked.

[brian green]

Yes Tom the metaphor of Villa being sick goes back much further. I just had a picture in my mind of Sherwood giving somebody who had been run over by a bus a good stiff drink and walking away.