Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[Ron Manager]

Whether Remi Garde likes it or not. Whether we like it or not he is in a position where he cannot win. The club hierarchy do not have any intention at all of giving him funds to improve the team. They are probably under orders from the owner who wants desperately to sell. He has at least three players on long contracts he would dearly like out of the club but they will not move while they are on very good money and who can blame them?

None of us would attach an iota of blame on him if he walked tonight. I believe there is going to be a massive bust up involving factions of the clubs personnel before too long. Like him or not you cannot imagine Doug Ellis putting up with a situation like this or any owner other than Lerner.

[CT]

Remi, please, please, please play all the youngsters against Stoke.

Drop the fucking wasters who don't bother with training and try less on a match day.

I don't care how many mistakes they might make, I just want to see a set of players giving their all and showing some passion for our famous shirt.

[mr underhill]

Gabflab for one hasn't always been this way - so what changed and when?

[aj2k77]

MONs way of training changed to Houllier's way and Gabby threw a tantrum then didn't he?

[supertom]

Gabflab for one hasn't always been this way - so what changed and when?

He doesn't like it when he's challenged to prove himself and actually work hard. Houllier did and Gabby didn't like him. Garde is the same. McLeish, Lamberk and Dim all gave him complete freedom to do whatever he wanted without a threat to his starting place.

[Quiet Lion]

Honestly that interview is fucking shocking.

Going down is bad enough, but it is almost easier to take if it was just down to them being shit. Not trying, not being committed to the point where the manager admits it publicly, just makes a shit situation so much worse.

[andyh]

I hope Remi doesn't expose the kids by replacing the wastrels with them.
We are as good as gone anyway, so why put the kids in the firing line?
Let the fucking wastrels who have put us in this position face the music every week from now till the end of the season.....not that they give a shiny shit!

[aj2k77]

I hope Remi doesn't expose the kids by replacing the wastrels with them.
We are as good as gone anyway, so why put the kids in the firing line?
Let the fucking wastrels who have put us in this position face the music every week from now till the end of the season.....not that they give a shiny shit!

Face what music though? The fans aren't baying for blood. The press have already made their minds up that it's the transfer committee and those bloody foreigners fault. I think it's just going to be monotonous defeats until the season ends and then some rats jumping ship in the summer and us getting to hear they're opinions about us for the next year or until we become decent again.

[andyh]

I think the fact they are being made to play is punishment in itself.
The obviously don't want to be out there so fuck em, make em play.
Infact, make them play in their pants!

[Risso]

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He has an impossible task.
His final comment is damning.

The last minute or so of that interview sums up everything that is wrong with the rabble of a squad that we now have. How were we ever allowed to get to this position?

I get that we've got some absolute arseholes in the squad, and that Garde has got an impossible job, but....

Should he really be calling the players out like that?  Is it going to help?  He stops just short of calling Lescott a liar, and then says that if he had options he wouldn't pick half of them, and that they're not showing any fight in training.  Such honesty can be admirable, but I don't think it's going to help him get anything extra out of our squad between now and the end of the season. The players seem to have mostly given up, but that interview for me sounds like Garde has sort of given up himself, in that he knows he won't be here after this season finishes.  I don't know, I'm probably way off line, but to me no matter how bad things get, the manager shouldn't be so brutally honest while there's still a mathematical chance of staying up.

[LeeB]

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He has an impossible task.
His final comment is damning.

The last minute or so of that interview sums up everything that is wrong with the rabble of a squad that we now have. How were we ever allowed to get to this position?

I get that we've got some absolute arseholes in the squad, and that Garde has got an impossible job, but....

Should he really be calling the players out like that?  Is it going to help?  He stops just short of calling Lescott a liar, and then says that if he had options he wouldn't pick half of them, and that they're not showing any fight in training.  Such honesty can be admirable, but I don't think it's going to help him get anything extra out of our squad between now and the end of the season. The players seem to have mostly given up, but that interview for me sounds like Garde has sort of given up himself, in that he knows he won't be here after this season finishes.  I don't know, I'm probably way off line, but to me no matter how bad things get, the manager shouldn't be so brutally honest while there's still a mathematical chance of staying up.

You'd have to then argue that it's never the right thing to do, as any kind of threshold for it being acceptable has surely been smashed by this lot, with our last outing topping the lot.

[E I Adio]

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He has an impossible task.
His final comment is damning.

The last minute or so of that interview sums up everything that is wrong with the rabble of a squad that we now have. How were we ever allowed to get to this position?

I get that we've got some absolute arseholes in the squad, and that Garde has got an impossible job, but....

Should he really be calling the players out like that?  Is it going to help?  He stops just short of calling Lescott a liar, and then says that if he had options he wouldn't pick half of them, and that they're not showing any fight in training.  Such honesty can be admirable, but I don't think it's going to help him get anything extra out of our squad between now and the end of the season. The players seem to have mostly given up, but that interview for me sounds like Garde has sort of given up himself, in that he knows he won't be here after this season finishes.  I don't know, I'm probably way off line, but to me no matter how bad things get, the manager shouldn't be so brutally honest while there's still a mathematical chance of staying up.

I'm not sure that we have anything to lose by the manager giving an honestly held opinion an airing. Garde comes across to me as well educated, sensible, knowledgeable and truthful. If things really are as bad as he indicates in that interview, then I don't blame him for telling it like it is, it's not as if many who saw the Liverpool game would disagree with his conclusions and it's surely preferable to mumbling incoherently into a microphone how well the team had played despite playing appallingly, topped off with "we go again."

[Dante Lavelli]

The platitudes and 'we go again' stance was symptomatic of lambert's attitude at the end.  He was too tired to try and fix the problems - whether that was to challenge the board or change the players.  At least with Garde he appears to be prepared to make himself unpopular in order to permanently change the club.

[eric woolban woolban]

Soon as Flabby leaves the Villa his career will go downhill faster than Eddie the Eagle on speed.

[Villa in Denmark]

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He has an impossible task.
His final comment is damning.

The last minute or so of that interview sums up everything that is wrong with the rabble of a squad that we now have. How were we ever allowed to get to this position?

I get that we've got some absolute arseholes in the squad, and that Garde has got an impossible job, but....

Should he really be calling the players out like that?  Is it going to help?  He stops just short of calling Lescott a liar, and then says that if he had options he wouldn't pick half of them, and that they're not showing any fight in training.  Such honesty can be admirable, but I don't think it's going to help him get anything extra out of our squad between now and the end of the season. The players seem to have mostly given up, but that interview for me sounds like Garde has sort of given up himself, in that he knows he won't be here after this season finishes.  I don't know, I'm probably way off line, but to me no matter how bad things get, the manager shouldn't be so brutally honest while there's still a mathematical chance of staying up.

I'm not sure that we have anything to lose by the manager giving an honestly held opinion an airing. Garde comes across to me as well educated, sensible, knowledgeable and truthful. If things really are as bad as he indicates in that interview, then I don't blame him for telling it like it is, it's not as if many who saw the Liverpool game would disagree with his conclusions and it's surely preferable to mumbling incoherently into a microphone how well the team had played despite playing appallingly, topped off with "we go again."

I think shaming them into some sort of response might just be the last roll of the dice.

Those that are the most obvious candidates to be the cause of the problems are also those most likely to searching for pastures new the second relegation clauses kick in. Garde has effectively just to told the world that 3 or 4 of that squad are utter skuz buckets and should not be touched with a barge poll.  Ergo make yourselves look decent or your fooked because your futures are now tied to ours.