Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[Hoppo]

100% agree Chico..

[SamTheMouse]

He's not done a great job so far, but I'd be interested to see what he could do with a group of players who actually wanted to play for him and for the club.

Things were looking vaguely promising before he seemingly got shafted in January.

[Dave]

He's not done a great job so far, but I'd be interested to see what he could do with a group of players who actually wanted to play for him and for the club.

Surely it is part of his remit to motivate the players so they want to play for him and the club?

That's not to say that he's the one to blame for the likes of Richards and Agbonlahor being lazy shitehawks, but I don't believe that it is impossible to make a bunch of professional footballers want to play football.

[aj2k77]

I can't understand why we mostly agree that the team is the worst ever and in my opinion not one of them Premier league class, yet getting rid of RG and appointing someone else will change things??? They are useless and no one will change that simple fact. I fear we are stuck with them too cos who will buy any of them

I can't think of any other manager who would publicly announce that his team isn't the one he would pick if he had the choice. Tell someone they're shit and then expect them to jump through hoops for you? It is a shit team, but I honestly reckon that I could have got more points out of them than Garde has. I could sit in a press conference with a smacked arse for a face, moaning about the hand I've been dealt but I wouldn't expect that to motivate anyone other than the oppoosition

Precisely, if this is all he's going to do then what is the point in him being here? Can anyone see there being a gigantic overhaul of the playing squad in the summer? If there's not going to be then Garde has already shown he can't get a tune from them, they aren't playing for him and has publicly called them shite, so next season will be no better. If there's no plan to remove a huge chunk of the squad then Garde is just a place holder right now because his position is untenable next season.

[Archie]

I can't understand why we mostly agree that the team is the worst ever and in my opinion not one of them Premier league class, yet getting rid of RG and appointing someone else will change things??? They are useless and no one will change that simple fact. I fear we are stuck with them too cos who will buy any of them

Not sure that the players are so bad. Ayew, Guana, Veretout, Amavi, Traorč had a good reputation in their Countries and after all last campaign costed 50 min. £. But they don't work as a team.This is the reason why I am convinced that things could be different with another - and good - manager.

[Phil from the upper holte]

I spoke to my Baggie mate this morning and we had the usual banter then he actually said all joking aside mate your players are a joke. they look uninterested and are clearly not trying, if he can see it then it's obviously more blantat than we feel it is

[ClaretAndBlueBlood]

He did start to get them organised at one point. Was it 8 points from 5 games? So what went wrong after that? Why did we suddenly nose dive again? I really am on the fence here. I wonder if it might be a bit of both? These players aren't up to it, but then, neither is Remi?

I think once it became obvious that the board had given up following the non-event that was the transfer window, the players also subsequently gave up

[Risso]

He seriously needs to stop fucking playing them then.  I'm not advocating pulling the entire first team, but we seem to have a split between players who just aren't very good (Gestede, Westwood, Gana etc) and the absolutely poisonous tossers like Richards, Lescott and Agbonlahor, who also happen to be shit.

This would be the team I'd pick at the moment, with all other things like injuries being equal:

Bunn
Hutton Okore Clark Cissokho
Gil Gana Veretout Sinclair
Ayew Gestede

It probably won't win many matches, but at least it would provide a bit of width and get some balls in for Gestede to get on the end of, with Ayew looking for knocks downs.  Then fill the bench with kids if need be.  Hopefully at least the above would put effort in, and would show the likes of Agbonlahor and Richards that they and their terrible attitudes aren't required any more.

[Allan C]

Thats my point. Look at that team. It makes me want to cry. I fear that team will see us struggling in the championship let alone the premiership. I'm glad that RG called them out too. It's fact and we would all be on his back if he tried to imply that there was hope for this lot. Shockingly poor players in my opinion considering where we were 6 years ago

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

I can imagine someone telling us that they were all "excellent".

[rob_bridge]

As long as we have even a small number of the following players we will struggle

Guzan
Clark
Richards
Richardson
Agbonalhor
Lescott
Hutton
Bacuna
Westwood

All of them need binning. No lets, no give so and so a chance. They either are inadequate, have had too many poor performances in losing team or worse have a poor attitude.

Get any pennies we can and pay off the rest of them.

It doesn't matter who the manager or coach is, they all need to be binned. Little got rid of lots of players in his first 6 months in charge and most of them were miles better than that bunch listed.

[brian green]

If the actual inferiority of the squad were to be tested scientifically you would need a "control" with which to measure it.

I suggest that control is Alan Hutton.  When he first came to us, our last Premiership signing I believe, he was universally regarded as a poor player.  Many in these pages went so far as to say he was among the worst Villa player's they had ever seen.

Now, he is rightly regarded as one of our best players, not skillful or of good technique but an honest tryer who puts in a shift.

He has not changed since he joined us.  He has always been an honest tryer who does his best.  What has changed us that the rest of the squad is so unspeakably bad and idle that Alan Hutton looks good.  That is how bad a group of players Remi Garde has got to pick a team from.

[aj2k77]

As long as we have even a small number of the following players we will struggle

Guzan
Clark
Richards
Richardson
Agbonalhor
Lescott
Hutton
Bacuna
Westwood

All of them need binning. No lets, no give so and so a chance. They either are inadequate, have had too many poor performances in losing team or worse have a poor attitude.

Get any pennies we can and pay off the rest of them.

It doesn't matter who the manager or coach is, they all need to be binned. Little got rid of lots of players in his first 6 months in charge and most of them were miles better than that bunch listed.

That looks the kind of team that moron Mcdonald would pick.

[Olof's Beard]

If the actual inferiority of the squad were to be tested scientifically you would need a "control" with which to measure it.

I suggest that control is Alan Hutton.  When he first came to us, our last Premiership signing I believe, he was universally regarded as a poor player.  Many in these pages went so far as to say he was among the worst Villa player's they had ever seen.

Now, he is rightly regarded as one of our best players, not skillful or of good technique but an honest tryer who puts in a shift.

He has not changed since he joined us.  He has always been an honest tryer who does his best.  What has changed us that the rest of the squad is so unspeakably bad and idle that Alan Hutton looks good.  That is how bad a group of players Remi Garde has got to pick a team from.

As I said to my mate the other day, you always know we are in a really bad run of form when Hutton starts standing out as our man of the match every week. I completely agree that he should be the gauge.

[Jimbo]

The majority of our senior players act irresponsibly, hide, go missing, refuse to be accountable, deflect blame and show zero regard for the club. Remind you of anyone?