Jareth

Geordies will not be cool with remi's impact on us. Matter of time till we are fighting them for 17th.

Loved remi's double mini fist pump at the whistle then the snap back to his poker face. Poker face? At this minute i would poke his face.

Citeh are confused, we should have handed them the game already.

Doesn't matter - the rubber snakes will be raining down on the dugout - they MUST be thrown.

Crikey. It is a novelty that we are this far behind this early - which is what makes this season interesting. We will either blitz it with Garde or our squad will be shown up to be expensive failures. I have a good feeling about Remi, but we shall have to see. (Good feeling = think he is a good manager, not I have a remi for him or a garde-on.) OK I do.

Might have less points but right now I'd be more concerned supporting Sunderland and Bournemouth. Remi will have the dream start, get us 3 points then everything will suddenly look different. And then I will retire my crack pipe.

I think if we set ourselves up right, stick to our game plan, and all work together, we can make Delph cry.

Doesn't really matter if Garde keeps us up or not, what matters is that he turns us into a team with an identity. Even if we go down, which is quite possible, if Garde can get us playing, we have more than enough resources to come back up. Even without Garde we could buy our way out of the championship, Randy would have no choice but to make that happen.

Best thing about this game will be the abuse Delph gets.

Sorry, but what does that actually mean? Better stats relating to what? For what period of time? In which leagues? Gana has been here for about 5 minutes so hasn't generated much by way of stats for us. Delph's better..... at detaching his jaw in order to swallow entire ostrich eggs.

I would like a boss like Garde. Actually I want him to be my dad.

At least 5 changes needed from last game. Think Citeh will take their eye off the ball, until we score and then they will flick the switch and wipe us out. If only we had a generous sheik as an owner, we could buy their success too.

Going on a few recent comments, If Remi keeps us up, I think there will be a long line of grateful Villa fans keen to get behind him.

This just isn't true. Our average in recent years has been as close as dammit to a point a game, which has been just about good enough to avoid relegation. It clearly wouldn't be this season. We will have to play considerably better than we have at any point since the end of 2010/11, barring that brief spell under Lambert, and what's more, we'll have to keep that up throughout the season. We don't have the luxury of long runs of losses any more. People are looking at the tale and feeling positive because we're 'only' 4 points away from safety, but that's 2 games. It also doesn't look as bad as it could do because most of our rivals lost last weekend. We play City this weekend - more or less a guaranteed defeat - and we can't simply assume that all of our rivals will lose again. It'll soon be 5,6,7,8 points behind until we start winning, regularly and often. I think our chances are no better than one in three at this point. I think others have put it better than me. Relegation form is averaging a point a game, would see us in the low thirties, notch a couple of wins/draws on top of that and we will get to safety. Though I agree, won't be fun to watch mind.

Whatever anyone thinks of our current predicament - at least we are not managed by Schteve Mclaren.

Can see him using Westwood a lot.

KM screwed up royally last night. It felt like he hated being in charge and was so out of touch that he thought he'd better choose a team that Sherwood would have picked - Sherwood who was just sacked for picking poor teams. I don't blame KM for not wanting to be in charge, he was probably the only option to cover while Garde was negotiating - but thank fook it was only for one premier league game.

I wonder who his captain will be. As he was Wenger's bridge with the squad at Arsenal, then who in the current team is he going to select to do similar? Now that I look at it, Richards was like Sherwood, heart on sleeve, emotional. Can't see him keeping it long term. Maybe Westwood?

Ayew I think typifies what we should expect from our summer signings given time. A reason to be optimistic. This guy is great, he's up to speed, is shining in a team that has been disabled by its management, and doesn't sulk when not getting picked to start matches. He's a pro.

What will help this team is not a massive overhaul of players, but a manager who knows which players to use, and where. Oh and a game plan. Oh and some sensible subs. Oh and some experience managing a top flight team.

I heard KM on the radio saying we need something like Champions League form in order to stay up - which is not actually true. We need only just over a point per game from now on in, to finish on approx 35 points which has meant relegation for the last few years. Achieve marginally better than that and we are safe. I think the guy cannot handle the pressure and along with his old mucker Sherwood as leaders of a team, all they have done is transmit stress and panic to their players and made some awful selections. All Garde need do is not be as terrible - no wonder he fancied the job.

Remi has every chance of keeping us up. Have read pundits who know him say that he brings calmness to a squad - which is what we really need. There looks to be some serious discontent in the squad, which a stress-head like Sherwood has probably amplified ten fold - KM has not helped either.

To get relegated we need to maintain relegation form from now until the end of the season. Simply lift it a notch and we will be safe. We aren't playing our best 11 and being found out, we actually have a lot more to give. I do not believe that Garde will do any worse or even equal to Sherwood given the resources he will have at his disposal.

Has to be gone now. Worst thing is he hasn't even tried to impress the new boss - speaks volumes about his comfort zone. I think he is too thick to realiise and when it is all taken away from him it probably won't even click then.

It's all about Remi now. We may have the least points but we are just as bad as Sunderland and Newcastle, and Bournemouth. What we need is a cool head and I think we will get that from Garde, who plays our best 11. For whatever reason, Sherwood and now KM have gone out of their way to sabotage the team this season - it can't just be inept, I think they have had an agenda. We just need improvement and we will be fine - I think this is do-able.