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Author Topic: Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa  (Read 942237 times)

Offline David_Nab

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #5085 on: February 25, 2016, 02:13:45 PM »
I think we can all guess who these players are.
I'd bet my house Gabby, Richards, Guzan, Bacuna are involved as the absolute oxygen stealing c***s. And I fucking hate them for it. Disgraceful people.

Bacuna

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villas-leandro-bacuna-hauled-10949598

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #5086 on: February 25, 2016, 02:25:50 PM »
So after listening to Remi's interview where he is saying that certain first team players aren't putting in the effort and commitment this makes interesting watching http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35658357 Daniel Sturridge: 'Biggest disrespect' to question Liverpool commitment. Looking at the Sturridge interview where he looks clearly upset does this mean Remi has lost certain players in the dressing room?
Will have lost them permanently following todays comments?
They think that without any backing in Jan (and Remi's comments regarding the future) that he is a dead man walking and therefore they'll out last him anyway? Would dropping certain players and playing the kids make it worse?

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #5087 on: February 25, 2016, 02:33:33 PM »
I firmly believe that, if Garde was to commit his future to us for next season, fans would support him in dropping those he's referring to and playing whoever shows the desire and passion that we, the manager and the club deserves.  The useless bastards aren't good enough to take the piss out of the club as they are doing right now. 

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #5088 on: February 25, 2016, 02:35:21 PM »
So after listening to Remi's interview where he is saying that certain first team players aren't putting in the effort and commitment this makes interesting watching http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35658357 Daniel Sturridge: 'Biggest disrespect' to question Liverpool commitment. Looking at the Sturridge interview where he looks clearly upset does this mean Remi has lost certain players in the dressing room?
Will have lost them permanently following todays comments?
They think that without any backing in Jan (and Remi's comments regarding the future) that he is a dead man walking and therefore they'll out last him anyway? Would dropping certain players and playing the kids make it worse?
Yes, I think he will have permanently 'lost' players following today's comments.
Mind you,I think he'd lost them before the Liverpool game, following his comments that although we'd previously beaten Norwich, we had been lucky to do so.

The poor little lambs obviously don't like to hear things like this.


Offline Pat McMahon

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #5089 on: February 25, 2016, 02:40:14 PM »
Under O Neill we didn't suffer too much from injuries. We were also a fit side. Now of course we died on our ass in March, because he only used 14-15 players with any regularity, over the course of a season (watch Leicester in March-April) but still, up until the burnout (which even to the fittest bunch of players you could have, would be inevitable the way O Neill ran them), we lasted the distance in games and played at a high tempo.
Since O Neill left we've been cluster-fucked by injuries. We've been hampered with dire fitness in which, throughout the entire seasons, we've been outfought and outrun and outlasted by the vast majority of our opponents. We've spent 5 years playing like the wheezy kid at school who has to take a 10 minute break half way round an 400 metre lap run.

Our fitness levels still aren't good enough. Our injury record is a joke. I've no idea what our fitness team or medical team are doing. Whatever it is, it's not nearly warranting what they're getting paid.

I completely disagree.  We had some fit players (Milner and Young were the main ones but Gabby at that point would run all day as well) but as a squad I don't think we were at all.  We played a sit deep and counter style which is good if you have 2-3 attacking players like that and it masks how unfit the squad is.  John Terry made the state of squad quite clear by outright stating that their plan was to get to an hour safely and then watch us hit a wall.  That happened a fair few times under mon and not always in March.

Did Terry say this after Gabby scored his last minute goal against Chelsea in September 2007 or after our injury time penalty equaliser on Boxing Day a few months later?

I can think of plenty of late goals under MON ( I haven't even whispered the Goodison goal in case Legion is still awake, though strangely my own favourite was Zat Knight's v Arsenal) but very few since. Terry was just being a twat, which is fair enough as you should always stick to your strengths.

Terry was being a twat, he can't help it, but him being a twat and a couple of examples of late goals doesn't stop it from being true that they we often looked shit for the last 15-20 minutes under mon, if we were in the lead you just knew we'd withdraw deeper and deeper and part of that is a lack of fitness.  If we were chasing the game the examples where we did very little to push for a win are far more common than the examples of us pulling it off, the thing is you remember an injury time winner much better than you remember a game that went flat and we we lost/drew with a whimper.

paul_e we may have often looked shit but we also had the habit of scoring a few late goals to win / draw games. Aside from the ones I cited in my last post I remember in the season Terry made his above comment we won both Blues games with relatively late goals (last 10 minutes for sure), Stan grabbed a late (injury time?) equaliser at Palace in the cup, and the only league goal I can remember the Fonz scoring was a later winner on a Sunday night at Portsmouth. I also recall a late equaliser at home to Wolves in an awful game, though for the life of me cant remember who scored it as it was after midnight in old Shanghai town and drink had been taken.

For most of my life we have had an awful habit of conceding late goals but I recall things being better than usual under MON.

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #5090 on: February 25, 2016, 02:47:55 PM »
Probably covered but on the commitment issue, this is from Tom Ross on Twitter:

Tom Ross: "Have you seen a desire from the players to put it right after #LFC?"
Remi Garde: "Not everyday,no." #AVFC

Offline CT Villan

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #5091 on: February 25, 2016, 03:07:08 PM »
The parallels with Houllier's time at the club are shocking...maybe the same 'bad eggs' problem says more about modern-day professional footballers than anything else.

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #5092 on: February 25, 2016, 03:21:42 PM »
This is terrible.I cannot remember in my 58yrs of going down Villa Park a situation such as this. Mr Lerner needs to sort something out.God knows what though.

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #5093 on: February 25, 2016, 03:22:08 PM »
Like most of us I suspect that something happened in the run up to the Valentine's Day massacre.  When we had just started to play a little bit like a team a grenade was tossed into the dressing room.  I can only think that it was the return of Gabby and it being construed by the malingerers as Remi having to cave in and player power ruled once again.  One I feel sorry for is Westwood because he is just not very good, and the same applies to Richardson but Gabby, Guzan, Richards, Lescott and Bacuna are the anti French, anti Garde hard core and probably see another shameful game as a game nearer settling old scores.

When we lost to Norwich I was absolutely convinced Bacuna's trademark grin was nothing to do with nerves and everything to do with not giving a shit whether we won or lost.

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #5094 on: February 25, 2016, 03:29:54 PM »
Like most of us I suspect that something happened in the run up to the Valentine's Day massacre.  When we had just started to play a little bit like a team a grenade was tossed into the dressing room.  I can only think that it was the return of Gabby and it being construed by the malingerers as Remi having to cave in and player power ruled once again.  One I feel sorry for is Westwood because he is just not very good, and the same applies to Richardson but Gabby, Guzan, Richards, Lescott and Bacuna are the anti French, anti Garde hard core and probably see another shameful game as a game nearer settling old scores.

When we lost to Norwich I was absolutely convinced Bacuna's trademark grin was nothing to do with nerves and everything to do with not giving a shit whether we won or lost.
Without doubt, something happened pre Valentines Day and I would love to know what. Completely agree about Westwood, not his fault but I do believe he try's, and spot on about Bacuna.

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #5095 on: February 25, 2016, 03:34:39 PM »
As far as Bacuna goes I don't think consistency is entirely the problem. Yes he is inconsistent and yes him seeming to find something amusing about how shit we are in games is fucking annoying, but most of all he's just a shithouse of a player. He's not good enough for this league.

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #5096 on: February 25, 2016, 03:37:43 PM »
I think we can all guess who these players are.
I'd bet my house Gabby, Richards, Guzan, Bacuna are involved as the absolute oxygen stealing c***s. And I fucking hate them for it. Disgraceful people.

Bacuna

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villas-leandro-bacuna-hauled-10949598

Including a picture of him smiling with Benteke straight after the 6-0. Prick.

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #5097 on: February 25, 2016, 03:45:16 PM »
I firmly believe that, if Garde was to commit his future to us for next season, fans would support him in dropping those he's referring to and playing whoever shows the desire and passion that we, the manager and the club deserves.  The useless bastards aren't good enough to take the piss out of the club as they are doing right now.

There are too many wastrels at the club who have had an easy ride under previous incumbents and have been on easy street for far too long.  If Garde is willing to tackle and eradicate that culture at the club then he deserves the full support of hierarchy and fans alike and should be backed in public.   

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #5098 on: February 25, 2016, 04:02:45 PM »
I think we can all guess who these players are.
I'd bet my house Gabby, Richards, Guzan, Bacuna are involved as the absolute oxygen stealing c***s. And I fucking hate them for it. Disgraceful people.

Bacuna

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villas-leandro-bacuna-hauled-10949598

Including a picture of him smiling with Benteke straight after the 6-0. Prick.

Just not that bright or he  just doesnt give a toss

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #5099 on: February 25, 2016, 04:14:46 PM »
Wow - that's pretty powerful from Garde - what a toxic bunch of w@"Łers we appear to have assembled. I'd love him to be given the mandate to sort it out over the summer but can't help feel he will be off and do a great job for someone else. Worst fear has to be that he ends up at the Bitters to replace Pulis.

Me too, with someone brought in above him to ensure he has the support he needs to imoplement the changes throughout the club.  Someone like Houllier (probably not him given his history with us) would be ideal.   

 


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