Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Don Estelle isn't beyond this board

Don Everall...reasonably local and loads of coaching experience in the lower leagues!

[Matt C]

Monk is wishful thinking. We'd end up with Pearson.

[Bad English]

Remi comes from French football where the manager is involved with the team and does not have to face up to the media and comment on the running of the club

French managers are interviewed just as much, if not more than Premier League managers. There is a programme called the Petit Journal which has a regular slot taking thé piss out of some of the L1 gaffers' interviews. So Garde will be used to speaking to the media.

[pbavfckuwait]

What he has to balance is , will it look worse on his CV going forward to bale out during a season, or will the stain of a relegation darken his prospects more. I feel he may wait till May, but I would not be rushing down the bookies to lay my money on that.

As for the club to come out and say something it is not going to happen and if they did it would not reflect the true state of affairs, we would just be lied to, waffled to whatever, I am not in the know, but I have a horrible gut feeling there is more wrong with AVFC at the moment than even we think.

Who next, I would like to see the guy who went from Brentford to Rangers, is it Wharburton, I mean he is working up at Rangers without a pot to piss in, but again the worry is there and again through lack of football knowledge on the board, the football world is a very small world and I should imagine any up and coming manager knows that we are very toxic at the moment and taking on the task may not be the best career move.

[villabear]

Don Estelle isn't beyond this board

Don Everall...reasonably local and loads of coaching experience in the lower leagues!

Don Amott - King of caravans! 

One for you youngsters there

[Holtemeister]

Don Kiddick ... apparently big in some parts and a destroyer in the box

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Can, potentially, see us becoming a Leeds/Sheff Wed etc. and having a load of managers unable to get us back up.

[PaulWinch again]

The only person in the management structure I want to remain is Remi. I hope he stays, in spite of the rabble he has to manage he's got them looking organised. I think there was a good chance we could have won last night if it wasn't for Ayew's idiocy and the awful officiating. Please stay Remi.

[lovejoy]

To be fair, we've played great in the first 15 minutes of games a lot this season and I don't recollect us turning many of them into wins.

[claret and blue blood]

The only person in the management structure I want to remain is Remi. I hope he stays, in spite of the rabble he has to manage he's got them looking organised. I think there was a good chance we could have won last night if it wasn't for Ayew's idiocy and the awful officiating. Please stay Remi.

d
100% agree, the protests we'd all love to make against Lerner are more than likely futile, whereas we can support Remi to the hilt and make him feel as loved as we possibly can.
His options on the pitch since he came here have been limited to say the least , he has managed to sort out the rotten apples and the effort is there  but the disgraceful dereliction of duty by the twats on the board has left him fighting games with one hand tied behind his back, no-one outplays us, they just have players we can now only dream of signing to nail us with a bit of quality we just don't have.
I think support Remi totally whilst venting our spleen against the board.

[Villa in Denmark]

Don Kiddick ... apparently big in some parts and a destroyer in the box

Don King

Batshit crazy? Check.
Merchandise potential? Check - just think of those Don King wigs we could flog.
Talks a good job? Check.
Only in it for the money? Instant empathy with 50% of the squad. Check.'
Knows nothing about football? Check - Fit right in with the rest of the management structure.

[brian green]

Kong King? (one for our Norwegian posters)

Big.  tick

Hairy   tick

Gets up high   tick

Beats chest  tick

Hates aeroplanes  half a tick (like Bergkamp)

Lusts after cute little squeally blondes in see through dresses.  tick

Strangles snakes. (you know who). tick

Come for peanuts.  2 ticks

[Ron Manager]

Don Estelle isn't beyond this board

Don Everall...reasonably local and loads of coaching experience in the lower leagues!

Don Amott - King of caravans! 

One for you youngsters there

Don Fewtrell. Knows how to deal with unrest and troublemakers in the club  Gets results.

[QuintonVilla]

I like him, I think he is conducting himself very well in such difficult circumstances and wouldn't blame him if he walked away.

His and our trouble is he's trying to get this ragtag bunch of players to play football and they can't do it. We cross the halfway line and literally have no idea what to do. I've seen some having a go at him about last night, granted we were awful after going down to 10 men and didn't get out of our half but what could he have done? These players don't win games with 11v11 so they certainly weren't going to with 10. They just simply weren't good enough to play out and launch any kind of attack. Who did he have to bring on off the bench? Richardson and Sinclair, two of the worst/softest players I've seen wear the shirt. We all knew they would have no impact what so ever last night but as I say he didn't have much choice.

With good players I reckon he'd do a good job because they'd buy into his possession style and have the ability to create chances with how much of the ball they'd have. The game that summed it up for me was Albion away, we controlled that game and whilst we never looked like losing it we also never looked like scoring. We dominated possession but as soon as we got near their area it went to pieces because the players aren't good enough.

All of this though is why I said we shouldn't have gone for Garde, wrong man at the wrong time. We needed someone to come in and galvanise the players and grind out 1-0 wins with ugly, battling football. As much as I don't like him I think Pearson would have given us the best chance of that, he'd have instilled fighting spirit and got poor players over-performing.

[themossman]

But if we had got a Pearson type in, any short term fixes probably would have meant going further back in the long term. As was the case with TS.