Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[KevinGage]

At the moment we are the footballing equivalent of a free hit, and some of that - now- has to be down to Garde.

Swansea were there for the taking today. On their first half showing, any other side in the league (and a fair few in the league below) would have put a couple past them.

[pauliewalnuts]

I don't get the "yeah, the players are shit, but he should be doing better" thing.

Who, for example, is he supposed to play who doesn't get picked at the moment up front?

Gestede is awful. Gabby is fat and shit. So who does he pick instead? Who do we have who could be getting us goals?

And suggesting some embryo from the academy who has never played for the first team as the answer is clutching at straws.

[CT]

Exactly.

Twice this season, Swansea have been pretty poor, average at very best.

...and we've got no points.

[auntiesledd]

I've been behind the guy until recently, but it appears he's given up now - like the majority of the players. Nobody else could survive the chop at VP with his abject record, so I fully expect him to be given his P45 asap (unless he walks).

[myf]

What we really need is an animated passionate manager. One that lets the team know what they should be doing. Someone like this fella.

at least he came in and motivated the squad, got us playing with a bit of fight and saved us. Garde has looked disinterested from the start. We clearly have no leaders on the pitch so a bit of passion from the bench may have helped

[pauliewalnuts]

What we really need is an animated passionate manager. One that lets the team know what they should be doing. Someone like this fella.

at least he came in and motivated the squad, got us playing with a bit of fight and saved us. Garde has looked disinterested from the start. We clearly have no leaders on the pitch so a bit of passion from the bench may have helped

Came in and motivated the squad - for half a dozen matches tops.

[ronshirt]

I thought I detected a bit of five o'clock shadow today. Managerial stubble has over the last couple of seasons usually equalled a lack of toil and a lot of trouble; cf McLeish, Lambert and Sherwood.

[Summers]

A bad workman blames his tools.

Claudio Ranieri doesn't have the best players in the league, but he's going to win it.

[PeterWithesShin]

What we really need is an animated passionate manager. One that lets the team know what they should be doing. Someone like this fella.

at least he came in and motivated the squad, got us playing with a bit of fight and saved us. Garde has looked disinterested from the start. We clearly have no leaders on the pitch so a bit of passion from the bench may have helped

4 points from the 10 games he was in charge this season suggests not. 4 points from 12 games if you include the last 2 of last season.

[Risso]

I don't get the "yeah, the players are shit, but he should be doing better" thing.

Who, for example, is he supposed to play who doesn't get picked at the moment up front?

Gestede is awful. Gabby is fat and shit. So who does he pick instead? Who do we have who could be getting us goals?

And suggesting some embryo from the academy who has never played for the first team as the answer is clutching at straws.

On the other hand, players get castigated for going through the motions and not giving a shit, so why should Garde get a pass for the same? He's just as half arsed and shit as the players.

[PeterWithesShin]

I don't get the "yeah, the players are shit, but he should be doing better" thing.

Who, for example, is he supposed to play who doesn't get picked at the moment up front?

Gestede is awful. Gabby is fat and shit. So who does he pick instead? Who do we have who could be getting us goals?

And suggesting some embryo from the academy who has never played for the first team as the answer is clutching at straws.

I'd definitely be starting one or two kids now. There's nothing left to play for this season, let's see how they cope and who knows, it could be the making of them and it's 1, 2, 3 or whatever signings we don't need to make next season.
And if i'm honest, I reckon our U21 side could have managed 16 points or more by now if we'd played them instead of the first team all season.

[dave shelley]

What we really need is an animated passionate manager. One that lets the team know what they should be doing. Someone like this fella.

at least he came in and motivated the squad, got us playing with a bit of fight and saved us. Garde has looked disinterested from the start. We clearly have no leaders on the pitch so a bit of passion from the bench may have helped

To what end though? He can't score the goals required, he can't defend the goal area as soft goals go in.  Just what do you expect the man to do?  None of us ever see or hear what sort of motivational speech he gives prior to the players taking the field.  They could be as fired up as the Towering Inferno but as is often quoted, time after time, once the players step over that white line, there is nothing the manager can do.  Just maybe, Garde has given as much passion as he has in that pre-match speech and knows that he can do no more.  Who knows?

As for that other prick Sherwood, he'd be better employed at this past weeks Cheltenham festival as a tic-tac man.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Regardless of whether Sherwood or Garde is more shit than another neither are right for us. We are going to have to play manager roulette again this summer.

I didnt want another change, I like Garde but this game has finally flipped me. He has to do better even with these players. Really has to. The fact that he still cannot manage that after all this time just cements that. Decent managers would at least have drilled the players for his style by this point, no matter how bad, he has not even managed that.

[SheffieldVillain]

What we really need is an animated passionate manager. One that lets the team know what they should be doing. Someone like this fella.

at least he came in and motivated the squad, got us playing with a bit of fight and saved us. Garde has looked disinterested from the start. We clearly have no leaders on the pitch so a bit of passion from the bench may have helped

Yes, someone waving their hands around and screaming a lot would really make up for the fact that we haven't got a striker worthy of the description. Of course, Sherwood having Benteke fit and available wasn't a factor at all in why we got a few wins with him last season and were dreadful this.

[andyh]

A bad workman blames his tools.

Claudio Ranieri doesn't have the best players in the league, but he's going to win it.

Actually, this is a brilliant point.
The Leicester team should not be within a million miles of the champions league places, let alone winning the title.
But, there is every chance they will win the league.
Their manager has got an average team playing miles above their ability.

Surely, a decent manager could have gotten our load of shite playing 3 places better than we actually are?
 Just 3 fucking places !