Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[brontebilly]

as much as we have little options, starting with Hutton and Cissokho as wingbacks last night was madness, both are very poor players with little or no technical ability. Timmy tried the same formation at home v Stoke but at least changed at half time.

surely if you want to go with wing backs, Richards or Bacuna would be better options on the right anyway with Okore at RCB

it was a pathetic team selection all told

[Toronto Villa]

It was a bit mental, but then almost anything we try turns to shit right now. It's like he's invited Kmac in to help pick the side. If the next side contains no Frenchmen we'll know he's gone completely bonkers.

[ozzjim]

Richards at right back has shown no intention to actually run, so why would he at wing back? Okore can't play twice in 4 days and looked tired at Stoke.

Cissokho was the only option on the left, and even Martiez praised the tactical switch as something they were not expecting, the problem was conceding a pathetic goal in 5 minutes. The 3 centre backs are simply not good enough last night, the only one worth his place is Okore. Hutton has actually at times been our most willing attacking outlet, so I could understand the formation and personnel. I could not understand the midfield though. Bacuna and Westwood are awful much of the time.

[ozzjim]

Oh and there seems to be rumours in France on the back of quotes from Genosio that he will be back at Lyon in the summer anyway.

[Villa in Denmark]

I wonder if his comments about them was because he knows a number of them don't give a fuck and are going through motions, so it was an attempt to get them at least playing for personal pride etc even if they don't give a fuck about the Villa. In his defence I wouldn't want to be in charge of this lot, I can't remember any time where there seem to be so many players at the club with disgraceful attitudes.

I think that was as much about personal pride, as calling them out in public to put pressure on them to start delivering to prove to potential employers next season that they're actually worth a contract, as those kicking up the shit appear to be those who'll be looking to be first out of the emergency exit come  6pm on 15th May.

[brian green]

I agree with that deduction VID.  His take was probably why blight the fledgling careers of young players throwing them into the rabble when the worst offenders really ought to be made aware that their chances of futures with other clubs were going down the plughole with every missed tackle, sloppy pass, shoulder shrug and soft goal conceded.

Unfortunately he did not factor in the stupidity of the malingerers or how embedded they have been allowed to become in the comfort zone.  They have bought into the KMac doctrine of fuck the consequences, this one is for Timmy.

[DB]

I wanted him to stay next season for the Championship but now, not so sure. That said, I don't trust our board to select a new manager to get us back up.

[aj2k77]

and even Martiez praised the tactical switch as something they were not expecting

No one would be expecting Westwood up front either but it doesn't make it a great tactical switch. I don't see what he was trying to do with two fullbacks who can't cross the road.

[Risso]

Richards at right back has shown no intention to actually run, so why would he at wing back? Okore can't play twice in 4 days and looked tired at Stoke.

Cissokho was the only option on the left, and even Martiez praised the tactical switch as something they were not expecting, the problem was conceding a pathetic goal in 5 minutes. The 3 centre backs are simply not good enough last night, the only one worth his place is Okore. Hutton has actually at times been our most willing attacking outlet, so I could understand the formation and personnel. I could not understand the midfield though. Bacuna and Westwood are awful much of the time.

I don't agree with that about Okore.  He'd just played 1 game after a two week break, so had no reason at all to be tired.  He's played 3 games in a week before, and last time he did, he was about our best player in the win over Norwich.  Garde just hasn't got a clue.  Plays Richards, drops Richards, plays him as right back, plays him in the centre.  Garde's just thrashing around wildly picking sides at random, and has given up as much as those he castigates in every interview. 

[supertom]

Richards at right back has shown no intention to actually run, so why would he at wing back? Okore can't play twice in 4 days and looked tired at Stoke.

Cissokho was the only option on the left, and even Martiez praised the tactical switch as something they were not expecting, the problem was conceding a pathetic goal in 5 minutes. The 3 centre backs are simply not good enough last night, the only one worth his place is Okore. Hutton has actually at times been our most willing attacking outlet, so I could understand the formation and personnel. I could not understand the midfield though. Bacuna and Westwood are awful much of the time.

I don't agree with that about Okore.  He'd just played 1 game after a two week break, so had no reason at all to be tired.  He's played 3 games in a week before, and last time he did, he was about our best player in the win over Norwich.  Garde just hasn't got a clue.  Plays Richards, drops Richards, plays him as right back, plays him in the centre.  Garde's just thrashing around wildly picking sides at random, and has given up as much as those he castigates in every interview. 

I'm sensing a degree of petulance from Garde since January closed to be honest. Our brief reasonable run of form seems long ago now and was only a false dawn. To be honest he's been mostly piss poor since he arrived, regardless of the hand he's been dealt. He says the right things, we buy into it, but ultimately he doesn't back those words up in any way, shape or form. He's another Lamberk. He's another Sherwood, only he speaks better English than those two.

Bin him. He's given up the ghost and you cannot openly question your players attitude in public and then go into this clusterfuck limp-dicked and sighing like Garde is. Frankly, whilst it wouldn't be very good long term, I'd take a bit of Pearson's maniacal chest thumping shite about now. And this is football in 2016. There's no such thing as long term as far as managers go. 1-2 years is about it. So what you want in that time is results. We can fool ourselves into thinking we can build something like Swansea or Southampton, but the fact is, those are things you build from the ground up. You rise through the leagues. You struggle a little at first to bed the ideology in. You cannot do that in the top flight. The only way to build something longer term in the Premiership is to consistently plough money in every summer. It's how Chelsea and City win trophies.
We've tried in desperation, whilst in a downward spiral to build a side with a clear footballing ethos, but we've been so pathetically wide of the mark it's untrue. Then we swing wildly between almost every managerial appointment. First things first. Improve results. If that means going ugly to start, then so be it. Pearson's brand of football is Barca-esque compared to the fuck trumpets we've had managing since Houllier was binned.

[LTA]

From the Guardian match report

“I’m not been here for a long time enough to assess the behaviour of everybody,” said Garde, when asked about the Villa supporters’ protest. “I respect the fans because they are totally part of the club but I have to respect as well my position and the people who put me in this position.

“I concentrate my energy on what I am asked to do, which is to try to win games with this squad of players.”

He's not a happy bunny. " the people who put me in this position." Is he referring to the board, the players, or the whole lot of them?

They classic 'blame everyone else" line then?

Sooner we see sense and boot Garde back down the channel tunnel the better.

[AV89]

From the Guardian match report

“I’m not been here for a long time enough to assess the behaviour of everybody,” said Garde, when asked about the Villa supporters’ protest. “I respect the fans because they are totally part of the club but I have to respect as well my position and the people who put me in this position.

“I concentrate my energy on what I am asked to do, which is to try to win games with this squad of players.”

He's not a happy bunny. " the people who put me in this position." Is he referring to the board, the players, or the whole lot of them?

They classic 'blame everyone else" line then?

Sooner we see sense and boot Garde back down the channel tunnel the better.

Anyone chance of a reasonable contribution  rather than a load of hysteria LTA?

[AVH87]

In fairness to LTA he's taken a lot of flack on here for saying Garde out in recent weeks, but I sense others are now leaning towards the same viewpoint (not me at this stage).

[ozzjim]

I would love to see Garde stay and be given the means to completely overhaul the squad this summer, but I don't think he will, so there is little point retaining him.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

I'd like to see Remi Garde patrolling the line with an electric cattle prod; running on the pitch every now and again to give Richards and Lescott a few volts up their lazy, incompetent arses.