Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[OzVilla]

If Garde walked away it'd be a nightmare. Sid till the end of the season type situation. No one half decent would touch us with a barge pole.

I'm sure it would be Pearson until the end of the season......
I want Remi to stay and rebuild the whole fucking shambles.

So do I. Pearson isn't half decent in my opinion. He's a very ordinary manager with potentially some mental health issues.

[OzVilla]

If he did walk any interest on here in Gary Rowett?

I think he's done a great job over there and he's a Villa fan 

It turned out well last time we tried that.

What, halcyon days now those were.

Anyway, we should never let that experience bother us if they've someone worthwhile. I don't think he has a contract so Lerner would love that and we'd just have to click our fingers.

[ozzjim]

Pearson is a fruit loop and his son is a nasty piece of work.

[berneboy]

I like Remi and the malaise at this club goes way deeper, I want him to remain in charge.

I definitely do but he needs backing from us fans as well as the club. He's only human and doesn't need to stay.

[berneboy]

Agree with pretty much all of that Kuwait but I do believe Garde's conduct and comments about the players at Wycombe show clearly that he is no coward. I suspect that he has had the same lack of good support and advice from those around him that blighted Lerner's early years.  He has trusted the opinions of those who are supposed to know the players and is now finding that his backroom staff are as bad as his players.

I hope he starts to get some blood on the dressing room floor and be his own man.  Play the untried young players.  Get the crowd back behind the players.  It worked for Joe Mercer.  Let's face it, we have nothing to lose.

I  find myself agreeing with you all the time, Brian
 You must be very intelligent.

[brian green]

I bow to your superior knowledge about who sold Stan Crowther.  I thought it was Mercer under duress. Wasn't there a period when we were bottom if the league that Joe Mercer's services were sought in an advisory capacity prior to him actually becoming manager? 

[Walmley_Villa]

Garde is the new kid on the block and needs the time and backing to rid the club of the past few years of a culture of defeat and piss taking by players and staff. It won't be easy but is the best opportunity we have to eradicate the shit and to refocus and get the foundations right to hopefully comeback.

Unfortunately for Reme with no other visible leaders or figurehead at the club he will get the brunt of stick and frustration from the average Villa fan. Fox and co should be lifting their heads above the parapet to relieve some of the pressure from him.

[Billy Walker]

I like Remi and the malaise at this club goes way deeper, I want him to remain in charge.

I definitely do but he needs backing from us fans as well as the club. He's only human and doesn't need to stay.

He needs backing from the fans AND he needs Lerner/Fox to come out and show leadership by being a focal point for the fans' concerns.  Leaving Garde on his own to face the press and to be the target of four/five years of fan anger is simply not on.  Garde strikes me as as a very shrewd, intelligent guy who, if given time, could breathe life into the Academy and Club.

  This is now totally down to the Boardroom - they have to come out, back their man and then explain what's going on to the supporters.  It will clear the air and help us face the future.  If they bury their heads in the sand, keep a low profile and leave yet another manager hanging out to dry they will have to suffer the consequences of such crass mismanagement.

[ROBBO]

If Garde does walk then it means the wankers on the playing staff  have won, no decent manager would come near us we are that toxic.

[dave.woodhall]

I bow to your superior knowledge about who sold Stan Crowther.  I thought it was Mercer under duress. Wasn't there a period when we were bottom if the league that Joe Mercer's services were sought in an advisory capacity prior to him actually becoming manager? 

I doubt it as he was Sheffield United manager before resigning to take our job.

[brian green]

Yes you are correct as always DW. Stan went in February 58 Joe came in December of 58.  My meetings with Joe were during his time at Coventry and the only topics I recall with clarity are Stan Crowther and Dennis Mortimer.  I expect the phrase "I would not have let him go" came up and time has blurred my memory.

[pbavfckuwait]

At the moment and I really hope I am proved wrong, but he has shown nothing to me that makes me feel like he is the man to grab the club by the scruff of the neck, to admit the players are not doing what he tells them and then pick more or less the same team for the next match major concern, to maybe see their is a dressing room rift and yet not address it, another major concern, to make a group of players who we all know were not very good even worse, to see individual mistakes week after week and yet not seem to improve one area of the team i.e. defence, to play up front a player that is now totally shot and even if not starting, to see this player as an option of the bench and then finally to go ten games without a win, sorry nice man wrong job.

[ChicagoLion]

So we were saving players on Saturday for Tueday, why?
So Garde has bought into the Krulak myth that we can survive.
The clear out and rebuilding should have started but oh no we are saving ourselves for Palace.
Relegation should be a major setback, with this thinking it will be catastrophic.
We are a Zombie, shuffling towards the edge of the cliff.

[dave.woodhall]

Yes you are correct as always DW. Stan went in February 58 Joe came in December of 58.  My meetings with Joe were during his time at Coventry and the only topics I recall with clarity are Stan Crowther and Dennis Mortimer.  I expect the phrase "I would not have let him go" came up and time has blurred my memory.

Mercer resigned as Sheffield United manager but had to then apply in writing for the Villa job. They did things differently in 1958.

[Billy Walker]

Ten games without a win at a club that was struggling to even draw games before he arrived?  If he'd just taken over from LVG at man utd you'd have a point Kuwait, but the context here is very different.  This is a very poor team that is mentally shot.  Garde needs months to fix it.