daz316

Guzan Bacuna gabby three losers left from last year who are shown up now as losers and will continue to cost us.won't go anywhere with these guys still starting for us

He's still learning too, some OTT criticism as per.

Traoré for Gabby was my ininital thought too, very surprised Gabby played 90 minutes, should really score that 1 on 1 and then lettin git hit his standing foot when trying to cross left footed was a very bad look indeed.

Sherwood I think will work this out, he can't be blamed for the combination of Bacuna and Guzan giving away the corner and the Amavi deciding to beat his man with zero cover behind him. We will improve and I think Sherwood has put some good players together that need some time to gel properly.

Patience.

Patience? Have a look at our next few games right up until October and tell me how many points you honestly see us getting. No time to learn on the job time to.open the relegation thread for me

Anyone seem him this half? Or is he just creating space for others with his clever runs.....

Really needs to be releasing the ball quicker

A player that has featured in every pre-season game and every league game so far and that's been made club Captain by the current manager gets picked to start and clearly it's a conspiracy, it must be in his contract, there must be some sort of dark secret or murky dealings. This thread makes me laugh.

Too bloody right there must be !

Free kick,minute to go. Chance to launch it in for gestede and Richards. Nope gabby takes a quick free kick

Out by easter you reconsidering the fact there may be a conspiracy here yet?

Gestede won a header and looked round like where's gabby gone the man is ruining the whole team

He is showing that natural ability superbly here doug

Let's see shall we I'm usually right with this type of stuff. Look past the oh he must be injured stuff. Stop taking everything at face value

It was 7 years ago almost to the day (Aug 17th) when he scored the striker's hat trick(left-foot, right-foot, header) against Man City. What a player you thought. Only managed 8 more for the season(goal numbers include all comps). Had has best season after that with 16 goals.

Then the last 5 seasons read:

5, 6, 12, 4, 6

You can say what you like about managers, injuries etc but those numbers are are just not good enough. 6.6 goals/season in all comps the last 5 from one of your main strikers.

It's his general attitude for the last few seasons, the way he carries himself like it's just a job and he's going through the motions. I went off him seasons ago and the odd game where he turns up and wins a game has worn off. It's like battered wife syndrome.

How many games has he actually played as striker in those seasons you've mentioned? If I recall correctly, we've pretty much always gone one up top in the Bent/Benteke years and Gabby has played wide.

6/7 a season seems like a decent return from a winger who plays the odd game up top. Unlike a lot of strikers, he's never padded his figures with penalties either.

There is a reason he hasn't been played as a striker though,,see his Bournemouth performance.

Here here; the whole played as a wide man theory is more than a little tiresome now. IMO he's simply no better when played down the middle.

Dougs stance on this reassures me that my opinion of gabby is right....he is terrible

May as well sell. Really don't think he's in the plans which is shocking. Happy to be proved wrong but if he starts more than a league cup game and maybe 2 leagle games I'll be surprised. Crazy waste of talent. The fact that gabby has a guaranteed starting spot every week only makes things worse.thought big ray would have changed that

Do not want him here. How he is fit to wear the shirt is beyond me. Never will be a villa great in my eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k46ejvF2BFE

Always been proper shite. I swear this Gabby hate NEVER ceases to amaze me, even if he doesn't live up to what I would only refer to as fairweather fans hype. I will never get the over the top venom towards him! Ridiculous! "Never been a premier league player" along with a whole lot of other tripe I have repeatedley read on here. some of you could spare me the stress and go and do some research on his prior Villa career before chatting absolute bull. ONCE again, the irony of how majority of the time he has been "shite" so has the team, or he was being played as a winger!

YEAH! Go do some research......on YouTube which we all used to decide tonev was class. I've been to every game the man is clueless and holding us back, end of

Hmmm little worried about their early season form here

We love an evening announcement... It's happening...

Like Amavi and Veretout which we were panicking about too!

Hmmm nope no announcement this evening either? I see we are hoping now it's all some sort of tactic to hype the game tomorrow. Strange if it's all been done you'd think they'd just announce it, can still have him walk on the pitch at half time.all very worrying really very wobble wobble

Oh dear still nothing I see. A few people suffering from premature excitement ?

Who knows. If you day it often enough you'll be right at least once.

You'd love that wouldn't you?

Sorry can you explain the post I can't understand it

Oh dear still nothing I see. A few people suffering from premature excitement ?

round and around and around we go

What happened to the tweet like daz confidence and giddy excitement. Still no announcement I see....

Fk off west ham!

Hmmmm still no actual news interesting. Not even general talk on twitter about this one now. Strange

Apparently Liverpool comin back in for him after we tried to sort it quickly. Being used a bit?

Cannot see this one happening at all

Really annoyed at this not sure why. Everyone else is strengthening around us. Gonna be hard to even be to Midlands club again this year

Gabby did absolutely nothing during pre season and this game, and for anyone who says he creates space for others please pinpoint one moment during pre season or yesterday where his so called movement did that. That's a cop out,easy to say but with no substance at all.

Would I habe had kozac, who scored three goals got an assist in pre season and tracked back to? You bet I would,there's no doubt at all

When the new signings were coming in I was feeling very optimistic but after seeing wba close to signing rondon and signing gnabry is put me in a bad mood for some reason. Then looking at our likely team minus gestede and veretout and it looks really weak. We were all saying how anonymous Sinclair was during ore season until the forest game and I don't think kozac will cut it tomorrow up front. Even with gestede and veretout I've started to think we'll struggle. Please let me be wrong