Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[pauliewalnuts]

2 wins in 16 and only 11 goals. It's not good. I like him but the results have still be shite as have the performances, the dead cat bounce was more of a slightly twitching corpse.

It's alright them all having their own personal wars at the club over what has happened and writing the season off but us fans have another 3 months of this and it's gut wrenching at the moment. I've never felt anywhere near as low about football as I do this season. I hate the game, there's not a single player I feel I can connect to or get behind like a hero.

I agree with aj2k77

I think there is more chance of us playing warsaw the season after next more than restating ourselves as premiership relegation favourites.

I really don't like lerner

Woo hoo, dust off the passports, the only way is up!

From relegation fights
to European nights!

[FranzBiberkopf]

Last season we had Sherwood who could fire the team up a bit but hadn't even got his Cub Scouts coaching badge. This season we've got Garde who knows how football should be played, but whose idea of motivation is to sulk in the corner smoking a Gauloise and tell everybody they're shit.

Agreed.

Garde is just to conservative/risk adverse to cut it. You have to take risks. Some fall; some succeed. Sherwood got lucky (and then found out) but least he was 'brave' enough to get the likes of Grealish in the team. In other words, he took a gamble and gave a kid a chance to impress. Garde hasn't done that at all. Perhaps he hasn't got another Grealish (of last season) on the bench...but if he doesn't try, he'll never know.

[aj2k77]

He's turning in to another waste of time and money now. Anyone can sit there and tell everyone they're shit, do nothing about it and say it isn't my fault. There's no point to this relationship right now.

[Pete3206]

I thought he was a poor appointment at the start, but he's won me over and I believe he should be given time to rebuild the team, albeit with limited money for a promotion push next season. Alas, I think he's already made up his mind to go and he may even walk if we suffer another big beating at home on Tuesday. I wouldn't blame him one bit if he did.

[Clampy]

I feel for the bloke. He's the only manager in recent years who hasn't been able to bring his own players in. Yes, we maybe should have won a few more games than we have and he'll probably admit that himself. The players deserve the majority of the blame though. What do you expect him to say when they throw in a performance like they did against Liverpool? We go again?

[oswald funkletrumpet]

i feel slighty for garde but his snivelling is starting to piss me off and he would be getting what 20k a week so im sure that softens the blow of how shit we are

he has given up, oh the players are shit but ill still pick them and persevere with the same old bollocks that has worked twice in 16 games

time for him to put up or shut up

[ez]

I like his straight talking. Lambert's "I thought we were excellent" really used to grind my gears.

[Bad English]

He really needs to blood the kids as playing the same feaces getting him and us nowhere.

Edited for you sir.


And I agree.

Faeces

Edited for you sir.

As a shithouse thread poster I couldn't let this pass.

[Clampy]

i feel slighty for garde but his snivelling is starting to piss me off and he would be getting what 20k a week so im sure that softens the blow of how shit we are

he has given up, oh the players are shit but ill still pick them and persevere with the same old bollocks that has worked twice in 16 games

time for him to put up or shut up

I thought he might have picked a couple of the younger players yesterday but I can kind of understand why he didn't. Mind you, other than the young kid Davis and Lyden, he probably hasn't got a great deal of choice.

[OzVilla]

I wouldn't be throwing the kids in to this shitstorm. Nothing would give these lazy shysters more pleasure than having Saturdays off to go shopping leaving the kids to play at Stoke. I'd be making them actually earn their money between now and seasons end before fucking all but about 3 or 4 off. 

Did anyone else notice Gabby bottle out of that header in the 2nd half, im sorry but the blokes an absolute tosser.  But incredibly we gave him a long contract and made him Captain.

In the future book "The fall of the Villa empire"  I wonder how prominent Gabby will be in the behind the scenes shenanigans.

[olaftab]

I am beginning to doubt M. Garde. I accept that he came here as a sincere ,methodical football coach who wanted to prove himself before moving on to bigger and better jobs. To me that was good and I wanted him to stay on post relegation and rebuild us into a force again.
However his recent statements baffle me. Why talk about commitment to the media when it's actually his job to motivate and gain commitment?
Why talk about "lack of quality" when you know that you are at the moment limited to this squad and it's his job to work around the lack of quality and devise the tactics that would best suit the players he has?

It now appears to me that he is looking for an exist by means of being sacked after the Club management sorry muppets  become convinced that he is not the man to lead us back into the PL. This way he protects his reputation somewhat and also walks away with his contract settled in full.

[Richard E]

I am beginning to doubt M. Garde. I accept that he came here as a sincere ,methodical football coach who wanted to prove himself before moving on to bigger and better jobs. To me that was good and I wanted him to stay on post relegation and rebuild us into a force again.
However his recent statements baffle me. Why talk about commitment to the media when it's actually his job to motivate and gain commitment?
Why talk about "lack of quality" when you know that you are at the moment limited to this squad and it's his job to work around the lack of quality and devise the tactics that would best suit the players he has?

It now appears to me that he is looking for an exist by means of being sacked after the Club management sorry muppets  become convinced that he is not the man to lead us back into the PL. This way he protects his reputation somewhat and also walks away with his contract settled in full.

I think this is exactly how I am beginning to feel, too.

[Mister E]

The thing that really irks me is that if this were happening to a club like Arsenal or Liverpool, there would be a sense of outrage among the media and sheer fury from the fans. How dare this great institution be wrecked like this? Here it's ridicule, shoulder shrugging and a bit of gallows humour. What will be will be.

Probably because it's been going on for five-six years now.

[Rico]

What the hell was the point in giving Garde the job if the board weren't going to back him in January? They might as well of just stuck with Tim Sherwood for all the good it's done, and at least the club would have been spared the pay-off from Tim's contract.

I don't know if Garde is good or not, but I feel that the gap between AVFC and its fans is growing wider with each day. What we need now is something or someone to unite the club and fans as a whole, something that I feel Sherwood would have been better at than Garde.

We all know that we are as good as relegated, but we need to turn defeat into victory, to rally the fans. After Dunkirk Churchill galvanized the nation into believing that our darkest hour was in fact a great victory - hence the Dunkirk spirit. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that we may have lost the battle, but the war is far from over, and this is the message that the club should be trying to convey instead of the wall of silence from Hollis and Fox and the finger pointing from Garde. ( please forgive the comparison of war to football - just trying to make the point that even in the grimmest of times there can be a flicker of hope.)

I feel that this is where Garde is going wrong. As fans we need some hope, and I would be quite happy never to see most of the current first team never pulling on the famous claret and blue again. Ditch them Remi - they're rubbish! You know it, we know it, they probably know it. They've had two thirds of the season to prove us wrong. They're not good enough and they're not going to become good enough over night. In fact some of them might welcome being taken out of the firing line.

Make a grand gesture! Drop the whole first team! Play the reserves. I actually think it would lift the spirits of the fans and the club. I don't believe that we as fans would criticise them, on the contrary I believe it would raise our spirits and get an atmosphere of positivity going that could unite the club and show the world that we are still alive and not going down with a whimper.

The battle is lost, but the war is far from over!

UTV & VTID

[ROBBO]

For how long before Garde were we saying the squad is better than our position on the table, probably for the last three managers at least.
I think we were deluding ourselves myself probably more than others. We are constantly being beaten by very poor sides without any of the first team looking as though they are better than championship players. Westwood is a prime example, bought up from the lower division but has never looked like a premiership player, we have a squad full of Westwoods.