Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[Billy Walker]

That breathtakingly, shockingly bad decision to not back the new manager in the January window caps off the five years of crass, cack-handed Lerner austerity quite nicely.  Words still fail me.  Anger, frustration, despair, I can no longer capture the feelings that I have. You think Lerner (and it must be Lerner who sets the tone and has the final say) reaches an impossible to beat low when it comes to incompetence and flaky thinking and then he goes and simply trumps it a couple of months later.  Remi has been absolutely stitched up like a kipper and I would love him to walk now with his head held high - he does not deserve to go into the history books as the man who took us down.  Walk away Remi.

[pauliewalnuts]

Pearson to me is everything we got from Sherwood. He comes in, acts the big I am and has loads of brainless football hacks thinking he's got some magical dressing room elixir, when in actual fact all he does is recognise which are his best players and plays them. It's when form dips these kind of chancers get found out.

If there's any money being doled out for a rebuilding job, I'd line up Moyes in a heartbeat and give it to him. Nothing against Garde, but most of the players we saw tonight will still be forming part of our team next season and quite frankly, they hate each other.

Honestly, I thought I'd seen the full extent of stupidity from Lerner and his brainless cronies up until this season, but I now wouldn't put it past him to go that one step further and hire an out and out mentalist Sleaford Mod tribute act like Pearson.

He really is that stupid, and the people he employs are even more stupid.

[kippaxvilla2]

Well that's it for me.  I think he needs to go now.  It's a difficult decision but my reasons are:

1.  Quite clear these absolute Tossers are not playing for him. 
2. We know we are going down so spend the last ten games with an experienced manager in charge to assess the squad and we might even get a bit of momentum.
3. We need Graham Taylor Mark II it involves root and branch surgery and to me he doesn't fill me with confidence to deliver that.

I maintain he could be a very decent manager in time but just not now, not under these circumstances.  This is the footballing equivalent of saying to Remi 'it's not you its me.'

[curiousorange]

He will. A rebuilding job is too expensive, and he'll have seen a measured, calm man in Garde and assumed it was due to personal failure.

[pauliewalnuts]

1.  Quite clear these absolute Tossers are not playing for him. 

These ****** aren't going to play for anyone.

And if they really won't play for him, then they are the main problem at the club, and it is they who need to be moved on.

[Risso]

I couldn't have anything to do with a team managed by Pearson.  He'd probably improve results, but that would be too high a price to pay to have our club associated with him in any way.

[Walmley_Villa]

I can't see how he can rebuild. We will be stuck with the majority of these players as nobody will buy them and the accountants won't write them off. Things could get a lot worse before they potentially get better.
He will walk.

[LeeB]

I couldn't have anything to do with a team managed by Pearson.  He'd probably improve results, but that would be too high a price to pay to have our club associated with him in any way.

Have we not suffered enough?

[curiousorange]

I've honestly never seen such a gulf between coach and players, apart from maybe Leeds United and Brian Clough. It'd be quite amusing, were it not happening to us.

[Risso]

1.  Quite clear these absolute Tossers are not playing for him. 

These c***s aren't going to play for anyone.

And if they really won't play for him, then they are the main problem at the club, and it is they who need to be moved on.

I 95% agree, but one thing I've learned over the years is that telling somebody they're shit in whatever walk of life you happen to be in, is a sure fire way to make them perform even more badly.

[ozzjim]

I couldn't have anything to do with a team managed by Pearson.  He'd probably improve results, but that would be too high a price to pay to have our club associated with him in any way.

Likewise.

I just couldn't do it.

[curiousorange]

I can't see how he can rebuild. We will be stuck with the majority of these players as nobody will buy them and the accountants won't write them off. Things could get a lot worse before they potentially get better.

Imagine sacking most of a team. I can't think of any situation where that's happened. The easiest thing from an owner point of view is get rid of the manager and let somebody else have a crack at the mess.

[Steve67]

Bacuna Westwood Richards Agbonlahor. Garde lets himself down, almost weakens his argument for clemency by constantly playing these players. Dealt a shit hand? Yes, sure. Not properly supported? Yup. But, I would expect more integrity, fight, better motivation and professional pride from them all.

After watching the second goal at Stoke and seeing the lack of effort from Bacuna, yet he still gets picked, Garde is also at fault in some way too.

[curiousorange]

The troubling aspect of replacing Garde with say, Moyes, is to ask what he could do with these players? In his times, Garde must have tried everything: bollockings, befriending, cajoling, injecting confidence...at a push, it's worked somewhat with Veretout and Ayew. But all of a sudden, a Scotsman will draw blood from a stone where a Frenchman couldn't? That squad is toxic, and it'll be a few years and a few managers before it's properly cleansed.

[pauliewalnuts]

Why is Moyes going to come here in the Championship? I appreciate he's had a couple of duff appointments, but his stock is better than taking over a fucking express train heading towards a cliff.