Remi- It has happened.

[tomd2103]

He's one person I no longer want to see at the club in any capacity. Or at least never again an option for first team duties.

I think the whole set up needs looking at.  When a Sporting Director or such person is appointed, I would hope they will review the whole playing structure at the club including the academy.   

[pauliewalnuts]

When Fox, Reilly, Almstadt and Co were appointed I am pretty sure we said the same thing about having a structure.

[Loxton01]

Whilst I do feel for garde he is the wrong manager! We needed a motivator a man manager someone who can get the best out of the players.

Garde for me has failed as we have not got better and the players have given up on his watch! We might of gone down still but I do believe we would of done better with many many more managers.

It's a shame. We seem to have also got worse since Erick black joined as well.

We are down and we need to start a fresh with a new manager new board and fresh ideas

[supertom]

I think it will happen before the end of the season. It just seems pretty clear that Remi won't be here after May. He might as well go now. Hollis at least seems to be pro-active. If he thinks that Remi's given up the ghost he'll probably pull the trigger on him. We'll see more turds being flushed before the season is out I hope.

[Toronto Villa]

When Fox, Reilly, Almstadt and Co were appointed I am pretty sure we said the same thing about having a structure.

Yes, but the one thing everyone pretty much agreed on is that none of them had a football background. Fox got seduced by Sherwood which tells you what you need to know about his football knowledge.

[supertom]

When Fox, Reilly, Almstadt and Co were appointed I am pretty sure we said the same thing about having a structure.

Yes, but the one thing everyone pretty much agreed on is that none of them had a football background. Fox got seduced by Sherwood which tells you what you need to know about his football knowledge.

Fox was also performing a different role than he did at Arsenal. We just seemed to be flinging jobs to people willy nilly without much forethought.
Touch wood the latest appointments will workout as they seem a bit more considered.

[VillaAlways]

We've not had a structure in place at the club, ever in my memory. Doug never really had it, and certainly never under Randy. We have to give this time to work, and while things are shit now they won't always be that way if the process succeeds. There have been other clubs who are in strong positions today that were at one point in worse places than us. It is possible to recover and put this period in our history behind us.

I can't see us on a road to recovery until Lerner is gone. It will only be then that we will be able to put this period of history behind us and start anew. As long as he is ultimately calling the shots, all the changes of personnel at board level will be for nought.

I agree with this until we have an owner who cares what happens to us, I can't see anything changing.

[West Derby Villan]

And we'll be back to McDonald - who should have been sacked after his last effort at acting manager.

Agreed.

AGREED x 2

[Matt C]

Monday lunchtime once his compensation has been sorted tomorrow morning. McDonald & Black until the end of the season.

[mr underhill]

I'd rather have Garde

[preston28]

And we'll be back to McDonald - who should have been sacked after his last effort at acting manager.

Groan. I've just opened the beer at the thought of MacD petulantly picking the team until the end of the season.

Agreed.

AGREED x 2

[Ger Regan]

I'd rather have Garde

Agreed. What's the point in sacking him now if we're going to just put in caretakers til the summer?

[nick harper]

Feel very sorry for Garde. He has called out the players for a lack of fight and commitment which we've all been able to see these last 6 months and then not been given the tools by the club to make the changes he wanted to make.

Worst of all, those spineless players will get a clean slate to hang around for another manager. It will be a lost opportunity as anyone coming in is going to have to assess them all again. I just don't see an immediate bounce back if this happens.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I'd rather have Garde

Agreed. What's the point in sacking him now if we're going to just put in caretakers til the summer?

Much depends if Garde wants to be here next season. If he's already made up his mind and fancies a return to Lyon, there's pretty much no point keeping him here. Better to give the new manager a look at what we have to see who he fancies to keep for next season. Ideally we hit the ground running next season as we won't have the luxury of tinkering with the squad and adding one or two in the summer.

Saying that, I'm completely against mid-season appointments as it restricts the quality of candidate. Of the names mentioned for far, not one interests me. We need to bring somebody in that suits our objectives, promotion and a season of security, not somebody that can get us promoted but completely out of their depth in the PL. I'm sure everybody is bored shitless with relegation fights and the last thing we want is to get promoted and find ourselves exactly where we were 12 months previous.

One thing about Garde is he never managed to get his backroom staff to join us. If he is to stay, we should do everything possible in the summer to get the support he needs. I do wonder how things would have turned out if he'd had a UK assistant manager alongside him from Day 1. Wenger had Pat Rice, Mourinho had Clarke, Benitez had Phil Thompson. Maybe our players wouldn't have been such c**ts if they knew they couldn't get away with their childish games.

[Steve67]

Hopefully, they put Sir Brian in charge with Eric Black until a suitable Manager is appointed.  NOT NIGEL PEARSON!!