Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[themossman]

We are a basket case club living under a gypsy curse and may never win again. Who do people think is going to sign up for this shit storm who is a better bet than garde?

[Damo70]

...and the solution is...?

Neil Warnock, Barry Fry, John Beck or Joe Kinnear. Someone mad enough to take the job and entertaining enough to to distract us from the inevitable.

[john e]

There is a scene in the Pinnochio film in which the puppet-who-would-be-boy joins a mob throwing bricks through church windows.  That is how being a Villa fan makes me feel at the moment.

and that bit where everyone starts turning into donkeys

[ozzjim]

He looked like he had completely lost patience today, especially with the comment about they have instruction and did not carry them out, coupled with you can't keep blaming confidence at some point quality has to come through. He was spot on.

[Bully2345]

I'm not going to turn on Garde. I think he was a good appointment and I think it took a couple of weeks for him to realise quite what he'd walked into.

He has to be backed to weed out the bad eggs in that squad. There are so many that it hurts and unfortunately, some of these charlatans have five year contracts.  I genuinely think he looks at that changing room and wonders who on earth handed contracts to Agbonlahor, Gestede, Bacuna, Lescott, Richards ..... I'm already bored of listing them.

The season has gone. We know where we'll be playing next season. I'll have another look at that squad on 1st February and hopefully Rémi will have managed to get rid of at least two or three of the charlatans and started to bring a couple in to begin to change the dynamic of the team. The reality is that this isn't a game of FIFA where you press a button and the player is gone. Anyone hoping for ten players out and ten players in will be sadly disappointed come February.

[Jockey Randall]

There's so many issues it's unreal. A large majority of the players are out of their depth, there's very little leadership on the pitch, they look like they all believe each other are out of their depth which then leads to the amount of surrendering we've seen all season, we lack goalscorers, the defenders lack contentration, the list is endless. It's because of all this I still can't make my mind up on Garde because that's a horrendous shit storm that would have got the better of the majority of managers.

You'd have to hope some players like Sinclair and Gestede find their level and shine again in the Championship because I'm struggling to see Lerner and co sanctioning a mass clear out unless it's to replace the out going players with even worse players.

[PaulWinch again]

He looked like he had completely lost patience today, especially with the comment about they have instruction and did not carry them out, coupled with you can't keep blaming confidence at some point quality has to come through. He was spot on.

After today Bacuna, Gestede and Westwood just shouldn't ever be near the team again.

[PaulWinch again]

Oh and Richardson.

[CT]

He looked like he had completely lost patience today, especially with the comment about they have instruction and did not carry them out, coupled with you can't keep blaming confidence at some point quality has to come through. He was spot on.

After today Bacuna, Gestede and Westwood just shouldn't ever be near the team again.

100% this for me too.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

He looked like he had completely lost patience today, especially with the comment about they have instruction and did not carry them out, coupled with you can't keep blaming confidence at some point quality has to come through. He was spot on.

After today Bacuna, Gestede and Westwood just shouldn't ever be near the team again.

100% this for me too.

and me

i would play with 8 men

[SamTheMouse]

On principle, I never judge managers definitively until they've had at least one summer transfer window to at least start shaping the squad in their own image.

Unless he exhibits signs of being an utter moron, I'd stick with him next season, because it's only then that we'll have some inkling of his true managerial ability.

[andyh]

He looked like he had completely lost patience today, especially with the comment about they have instruction and did not carry them out, coupled with you can't keep blaming confidence at some point quality has to come through. He was spot on.

After today Bacuna, Gestede and Westwood just shouldn't ever be near the team again.

I agree.
But how many time over the last couple of years has that been said about Westwood and Bacuna (and Richardson).

[dave shelley]

Bacuna and Richardson are the type of players I would normally expect to turn up at St. Andrews.

[LukeJames]

The line about them no following instructions is the worrying part, Sherwood came oit with something similar and I pit it down to him passing the buck but it turns out he must have had a point... That is unnaceptable.

[Risso]

I think he is potentially a very good manager.

I've sen nothing whatsover from him so far to suggest that, even allowing for how poor our squad is.