Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[aj2k77]

Schmeichel, Huth, Vardy, Drinkwater, Inler

Sorry I don't buy it, if that question had been asked in the summer Cambiasso and Schmeichel would've been mentioned heavily and a few would've included Huth and maybe Albrighton (purely for nostalgia reasons in the main, and I'm saying that as someone who rates him highly and wouldn't have let him go), the 4 players who have made them the team they are are Mahrez, Kante, Drinkwater and Vardy - 3 who'd been shit to average the year before and the 4th looked a lesser signing than both of the central midfielders we signed from France in the summer.

Err ok. He asked a question and I answered it. Huth's been accepted as a very good defender for years, actually I can't be arsed getting in to another squabble.

[paul_e]

Mahrez. And I can say that because I said on here how he impressed me after the cup game last season. Vardy I wouldn't have touched with a barge pole, last season he looked like a shit version of Weimann.

That was about the only good performance Mahrez gave before March last season.

[tomd2103]

You can see why Remi's priority was a keeper, as much as Bunn has calmed things down and done very well , there is no doubt a class keeper would make us even better defensively. Add that to a striker worthy of the name and a midfielder to replace Bacuna/ Sanchez and we would have a real shout , particularly if we'd signed them early in the window and nicked a few more points. Remi has done well with the tools ( no pun intended) at his disposal and it is very frustrating the board hadn't the balls to back him in our hour of need.

Bunn is fine as a second choice keeper playing the odd game here and there.  I just get the feeling the more he plays, the more prone to errors he is going to become.

[peter w]

You can see why Remi's priority was a keeper, as much as Bunn has calmed things down and done very well , there is no doubt a class keeper would make us even better defensively. Add that to a striker worthy of the name and a midfielder to replace Bacuna/ Sanchez and we would have a real shout , particularly if we'd signed them early in the window and nicked a few more points. Remi has done well with the tools ( no pun intended) at his disposal and it is very frustrating the board hadn't the balls to back him in our hour of need.

Bunn is fine as a second choice keeper playing the odd game here and there.  I just get the feeling the more he plays, the more prone to errors he is going to become.

Which I believe was his problem at Norwich. Okay in the odd game but too error prone. We really needed a season from Guzan and he's let us down when he could have made a huge difference in our obvious short comings this season.

[PeterWithesShin]

Just checked my posts and it was the league game at VP last season when I mentioned Mahrez.

[Steve67]

I see Neil Moxley is sticking the boot in again in his rag. Telling Hollis to strip it down and start again, including getting rid of Remi, O'Reilly, Fox. No mention of who would replace Remi by the way. Wank article which doesn't put any shit in the direction of Hollis for not backing Garde in the window.

[PeterWithesShin]

As most won't look in the NFL thread, Super Bowl coverage is ruined as that pubeheaded Judas has appeared as a guest.

[paul_e]

I see Neil Moxley is sticking the boot in again in his rag. Telling Hollis to strip it down and start again, including getting rid of Remi, O'Reilly, Fox. No mention of who would replace Remi by the way. Wank article which doesn't put any shit in the direction of Hollis for not backing Garde in the window.

To be fair the article is absolutely full of shit but making Hollis be the figure of blame for us not signing anyone in the window is something that would fit in and make it even worse.  There's a whole bunch of reasons for us not making any signings and appointing Hollis is possibly on that list somewhere but it's a long way from the top.

In no particular order:

-Defeats to Sunderland and Norwich leaving us looking dead and buried
-Change of manager coming a few weeks too late so with fitness as the prime concern Garde only really started to identify a 'best 11' around Christmas which left little time for scouting
-Funds weren't agreed before the window opened, there had to be a meeting in America a third of the way through
-The FA fucked us over with the one player that was ready to sign
-The other key player we'd identified left it until the last day or 2 to decide to go elsewhere leaving us with little time to arrange another option - this follows on from the first issue
-A right back we wanted on loan fucked us about and told us to wait until the end of the window so he could see if he had better offers - this follows on from the first issue
-MAYBE the funds available were changed in light of the high chance of relegation (maybe because we know there was £5-6m available because we'd agreed to spend that so there was more than the nothing we spent)

The only one of those that Hollis can be held accountable for is the very last one and that's the one with the least genuine evidence for it.  Again, because some will take it this way, this isn't me defending the board, I hold them fully culpable for 2 of the certainties I have in that list and then have Sherwood and Garde sharing another and the FA having 1, the last 2, as mentioned are about the players but came about because of our league position/status.

[Villa in Denmark]

As most won't look in the NFL thread, Super Bowl coverage is ruined as that pubeheaded Judas has appeared as a guest.

Not over here he's not.😁

[ozzjim]

Apparently he is a big Peyton Manning fan. Reading about Peyton Manning that is not something to be overly proud of.

[eamonn]

Did Randy teach O'Neil about NFL?

[Risso]

Look @ Leicester now...........Its 75/80% his team they have carried on from where they left off last season with a couple of notable tweaks i.e
Kante,etc

Or you could look at it another way, and say that Pearson could only get that team scraping an escape from relegation, whereas Ranieri has them top of the league.

So who's the better manager?

It's like film directors... The great ones can become shit and the rubbish ones can become great. On a different note, are there any players in the Leicester team you would have had in the Villa 1st 11 in August?

And who would have wanted Ranieri after his Greek results?

[oldhill_avfc]

You can see why Remi's priority was a keeper, as much as Bunn has calmed things down and done very well , there is no doubt a class keeper would make us even better defensively. Add that to a striker worthy of the name and a midfielder to replace Bacuna/ Sanchez and we would have a real shout , particularly if we'd signed them early in the window and nicked a few more points. Remi has done well with the tools ( no pun intended) at his disposal and it is very frustrating the board hadn't the balls to back him in our hour of need.

Bunn is fine as a second choice keeper playing the odd game here and there.  I just get the feeling the more he plays, the more prone to errors he is going to become.

[oldhill_avfc]

You can see why Remi's priority was a keeper, as much as Bunn has calmed things down and done very well , there is no doubt a class keeper would make us even better defensively. Add that to a striker worthy of the name and a midfielder to replace Bacuna/ Sanchez and we would have a real shout , particularly if we'd signed them early in the window and nicked a few more points. Remi has done well with the tools ( no pun intended) at his disposal and it is very frustrating the board hadn't the balls to back him in our hour of need.

Bunn is fine as a second choice keeper playing the odd game here and there.  I just get the feeling the more he plays, the more prone to errors he is going to become.

Agreed.  He got away with a couple of major errors against Norwich.  His luck won't last and he will cost us. 

For all his lack of confidence, Guzan is the better keeper and should play.

[ozzjim]

Guzan 2012-2015 is a better keeper. Guzan 2015-16 is quite clearly not. He has cost us dearly this season. Bunn has more clean sheets in 7 games than Guzan all season, and while there are mitigating factors, it would be silly to change it. His biggest issue is when to come or not for a long ish ball into the box. The headed goal against West Ham and one off the line in the second half against Norwich showed that. In a similar way to Given, he is too small really to be a top keeper and does not back himself particularly off his line so is in a kind of no-mans land at times.