Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[clash city rocker]

If there are players in that changing room who are poisoning  the atmosphere it would be lovely for them to be named. I know it will never happen but they get paid obscene amounts of money and players like that just seem like bullies. Well if they are like that let them be known and the bullies can feel the wrath of thousands of fans.

[Clampy]

It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of decent manager's would love the chance of managing this club.

[Dante Lavelli]

If there are players in that changing room who are poisoning  the atmosphere it would be lovely for them to be named. I know it will never happen but they get paid obscene amounts of money and players like that just seem like bullies. Well if they are like that let them be known and the bullies can feel the wrath of thousands of fans.

I agree but the timing needs to be right.  Whilst we cannot salvage this season, 9 games is still a few months and by outing the players then there will be open warfare from that point onwards.  THere'd be a fair amount of collateral damage if he we to do it now, Garde being an obvious potential victim too.

[Malandro]

It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of decent manager's would love the chance of managing this club.

Correct. I hope we give Garde a chance first however.

[sickbeggar]

I'll say it for the 4th or 5th time. Howe would do it given the backing and the guarantees. We're a big club albeit it in pieces, and a manager with ambition at a smaller club a division above us would look at us seriously.

[saunders_heroes]

It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of decent manager's would love the chance of managing this club.

If you provide them a budget worthy of the club that is.

[Clampy]

It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of decent manager's would love the chance of managing this club.

If you provide them a budget worthy of the club that is.

Like MON was.

[aj2k77]

Seems to me that Garde has given up. I think he will be gone when we a finally relegated. God knows why he took the job?

When he took over we were 4 pts behind with the promise of January spending. January came and weren't we 9 pts behind? No spending game over.

The lack of initial impact is what done for us. We should never have been so far behind come January, for that it's partly Garde's fault. But in this whole shit storm of wank his is only a small part to play. Way, way behind that useless fuck Lerner and all the yes men, morons and cronies he's employed the last decade.

A pox on Lerner, his mismanagement and poor attitude towards us has completely broken the club I support. ******.

[OzVilla]

It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of decent manager's would love the chance of managing this club.

That's strange because ever since MON left none have applied. Other than " single candidate Sherwood" its been a hard job to fill quality wise. We've been turned down more times than a Premier Inn duvet.

We are an absolute graveyard for Managerial careers now and everyone knows it.

[Toronto Villa]

Lots of managers will want to come. It's not like we are going to become a non league side next season is it? As utterly shit as it is it's not like we are shutting down shop. There will be an Aston Villa in 2016/17 and it will still be step up for many, many managers.

[dave shelley]

It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of decent manager's would love the chance of managing this club.

Correct. I hope we give Garde a chance first however.

This is the camp I sit in too.  We're all punch drunk at what's happening to our club.  Difference of opinion is human nature but, whilst some of the team selections under Remi Garde have been perplexing to us watchers; I feel he needs the opportunity to build his own team. 

Veretout, Amavi, Ayew, Adama and Okore I'd keep, the rest I'd stick on one of those cars they use at the circus where the door opens and a never ending stream of clowns spill out.  Pity Bingley Hall has gone.

[preston28]

If Garde leaves it will be yet another blind, stupid, short term, blundering lurch into the unknown that have littered the decline of the club over the last six years.

When Garde goes there will be shouts of jubilation from these pages that he has been sent packing.  The engineer has packed his bag and the man with a big hammer and a can of Easy Start has been sent for.  We will have Howe/Rowett/Dych photographed in front of the Holte End holding a scarf over his head, telling us what a big club we are.  He will be hailed as the new Messiah.

Then he will have to deal with an absentee want-out owner, an incompetent CEO, a Chairman who is actually the owner's de facto administrator, a completely demoralised staff, a dressing room like the OK Corral, the loss to better clubs of the few talented players we have, the entrenchment of the rubbish on long contracts and sky high wages, a media pack with a taste for Villa blood, wall to wall piss taking and ridicule from the pundits, season ticket sales falling through the floor and the club's only real asset it's fanbase pig sick and raw from everything it has had to endure.

All that on a budget of peanuts.

Anything less than straight wins from day one and the dead cat bouncing higher than a house and the sniping and manager hating will start up all over again. A death spiral.

Yes granted Brian, that goes without saying. But apart from that, what has Remi Garde ever done for us?

Fine Bordeaux? Flushing toilets ? In a monty Python-esq way!,

[saunders_heroes]

Lots of managers will want to come. It's not like we are going to become a non league side next season is it? As utterly shit as it is it's not like we are shutting down shop. There will be an Aston Villa in 2016/17 and it will still be step up for many, many managers.

If these managers you speak of are anything like the ones we've employed over the last 5 seasons then I don't think the fans will be getting too excited.

[maigrait]

Yes results have been terrible under garde goes without saying. Although he hasnt got any of his own players and was thrust in mid season i will give him leeway in this regard.

Everyone wants a silver bullet and they think its a new manager but as someone else put it we've had a lot of managers over the past few years none seem to have given us success to any great degree. Randolph is the main clown in this. If he cant be bothered why should anyone at his level and down be bothered?

We need a player clearout if thats possible but as potential assets this is highly unlikely. As crap as we think they are no contracts will be cancelled and we will have a lot of the muppets next season.

I can offer no solution to this mess except a glimmer of a new owner but its unlikely to happen unless randolph cuts his asking price significantly.

The only hope is a decent summer transfer window with a new up and coming manager with new ideas. I cant see garde staying or being allowed to stay the axe will fall yet again.


The worst part of it all is when we lose i just have a chuckle and go meh. Thats no way to be. I used to be a miserable bugger for the rest of the day in the past, when we lost. The passion has been drained out of me.

Shocking state of affairs.

[Steve67]

We might have to wait and see what the so called investigation/inquiry brings before we start thinking about attracting another Manager in. We may need to clear the decks first before we even know the shape, structure and spending budget  of the club. Do I trust Garde to take Villa forward? Not from the Championship, no.